Dessy Sagita & Fitri – Workers used nationwide rallies marking Labor Day on Tuesday to call on the government to push for a full investigation into the recent shooting deaths of thr

Surabaya – Around 500 residents from Banjarasri village and surrounding villages in Tanggulangin district in Sidoarjo, East Java, rallied Wednesday against Lapindo Brantas Inc.'s plan t

Jakarta – The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) says that the number of unemployed Indonesians increases by 1.3 million every year due to the gap between available job

Camelia Pasandaran – Bogor's embattled GKI Yasmin church can reopen, as long as a mosque is built next door, Bogor mayor Diani Budiarto said in a letter to the Presidential Advisory Boa

Rangga D.

The EU-Indonesia dialogue should be more than token statements on human rights, but should discuss concrete measures to address rising religious intolerance and restraints on free ex

Indonesia has made great strides in recent years in consolidating a stable, democratic government with a strong civil society and independent media, but serious human rights concerns re

Dion Bisara & Muhamad Al Azhari – With tens of thousands of workers across the country set use May Day protests today to demand better wages, business leaders and economists say any

Ezra Sihite, Rizky Amelia & Natasia Christy Wahyuni – Lawmakers, including some from the ruling Democratic Party, welcomed the antigraft agency's offer on Tuesday to enlist graft su

Joanna M. Foster – Indonesia ranks right behind the United States and China in the lineup of the world's top 10 greenhouse gas emitters.

Dewi Kurniawati – After spending 18 years as a staunch labor activist, including three years in prison, Dita Indah Sari shocked many in 2010 when she decided to join the Manpower and Tr

Bagus BT Saragih and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Despite the potential for a substantial loss of tax income, the government says it will implement a policy to exempt workers with a

A budget watchdog is urging the House of Representatives to scrap its budget for trips abroad.

Farouk Arnaz – An internal trial for nine Gorontalo Police officers involved in the shooting of military personnel that left one of the latter dead has delivered seemingly mild sentence

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) says that large-scale and mid-scale manufacturing industry's production growth increased by 4.88 percent in the firs

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party has started a program to recruit and give political training to celebrities so they can run for office in the 2014 elections.

Jakarta – May Day protesters briefly stopped their 100,000-people march, from the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle to the Bung Karno stadium, at the Constitutional Court, in order to voic

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Thousands of students and workers in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta commemorated International Labour Day or May Day on Tuesday May 1.

Faishol, Surabaya – Thousands of workers from various parts of East Java poured into the grounds of the State Grahadi Building in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya.

Angling Adhitya Purbaya, Semarang – Commemorating May Day, thousands of workers from the Workers Challenge Movement (Gerbang) held a protest action at the Central Java governors' office

Jakarta – As many as 100,000 workers from an alliance of trade unions held May Day action in front of the State Palace in Central Jakarta on Tuesday May 1 demanding welfare for the work

Baban Gandapurnama, Bandung – Thousands of workers and other groups, which took to the streets to commemorate International Labour Day or May Day at the Gedung Sate governor's office in

Taufan Mustafa, Banda Aceh – A demonstration commemorating International Labour Day in the Achenese provincial capital of Banda Aceh on Tuesday May 1 began with a convoy from the Raya B

Chazizah Gusnita, Jakarta - May 1 is not just for celebrating International Labour Day.

Elin Yunita Kristanti, Banjir Ambarita (Papua) – Hundreds of Morning Star flags of various sizes were flown when thousands of Papuans held a protest action to demand national independen

Ismoko Widjaya, Harry Ondo Saragih, Medan – Around 2000 workers blockaded a road directly in front of the Polonia Airport in the North Sumatra provincial capital of Medan on the afterno

Adan Bakar, Lampung – A May Day action in the South Sumatra city of Lampung ended in chaos on Tuesday after scores of protesters were involved in a clash with public order agency office

Denpasar – Scores of workers in the Balinese provincial capital of Denpasar from the Unity for a People's Independent Nation (Perkasa) demanded that the Bali provincial government immed

Margareth S.

As more than 160,000 workers held rallies across the country to mark May Day on Tuesday, an economist said the government had its own work to do in improving the welfare of laborers.

UA: 121/12 Index: ASA 21/018/2012 Indonesia Date: 30 April 2012

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Four people were injured on Saturday, two of them critically, during the latest in a long line of clashes between farmers and security officers employed by oil

The place of the rebellious Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) in the ruling coalition again appears secure, despite weeks of discontent from members of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's

Rizky Amelia – Malaysian police have brutally shot Indonesian citizens at least three times in recent years, a nongovernmental group said over the weekend.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro & Bayu Marhaenjati – A recent ruling in favor of workers in a labor dispute is expected to boost Tuesday's planned massive May Day rallies as police and milita

Jakarta – Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh welcomed foreign universities to operate in Indonesia, as long as their executives were willing to collaborate with domestic higher

Jakarta – Democratic Party lawmaker Angelina Sondakh is reportedly getting in touch with her religious roots since being incarcerated in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) dete

Ezra Sihite – The arrest of Angelina Sondakh should enable the Corruption Eradication Commission to charge more lawmakers and ministers from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democra

Ezra Sihite – Two groups on Sunday criticized the privatization of clean water in the capital, and received the support of a candidate for the city's governorship.

Michael Victor Sianipar – Efforts by the government to insert itself more prominently into religious matters, coupled with its unclear stance on the role of religion in the state, will

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – Nine Mobile Brigade (Brimob) officers with the Gorontalo Police were named suspects in a shooting incident involving members of Brimob and th

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – Primary forest cover in East Kalimantan has been depleted from 19 million hectares in the 1960s to just 4 million hectares today due to legislatio

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) will issue a regulation limiting ownership in local banks next month before proceeding with a formal review of planned acquisitions of Indon

Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The East Java provincial administration may go ahead with its plan to issue a bylaw on the spread of religion regarded as capable o

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's intention to apologize to families and victims of past human rights abuses and draft a mechanism for compensation falls short of the expec

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Several victims and their families are skeptical about President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's plan to apologize for previous human rights abuses.

Jakarta – Vice President Boediono has criticized the volume of loudspeakers that are used to broadcast the call for Muslim prayers – popularly known as adzan.

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Akhirul Anwar/JIBI, Jogja – Scores of people from the United People's Committee (KBR) held an action in front of the Beringharjo Market on Jl.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) arrested Democratic Party lawmaker Angelina Sondakh on Friday in connection with multiple corruption cases surrounding construction projects.