Esther Samboh, Jakarta – There is mounting concern that the Financial Services Authority (OJK) will be unable to provide better and more reliable supervision as most of the 21 candidate

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The country's counterterrorism agency has detected continuing activity by terrorist organizations despite the fact that many terrorist suspects have either

Rabby Pramudatama – A coalition of education watchdogs and university students is campaigning to reject a new law on higher education that is slated for endorsement by the House of Repr

In Indonesia, a diagnosis of leprosy can cut patients off from family, employment, public services, even marriage and places of worship, health officials say.

A leading environmental group has called on the government to be transparent about policy changes after the Tripa peat forest in Aceh was scrapped from a protected area.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – To help cushion the impact of the fuel price and electricity tariff increases expected in April and May respectively, Manpower and Transmigration Minister

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Thousands of protesters are occupying Polonia International Airport in Medan, North Sumatra, as part of a rally against the proposed fuel price hike.

Jakarta – The preliminary campaign for the Jakarta governor election organized by the Hidayat Nur Wahid-Didik Rachbini ticket is threatening to turn sour as local residents are beginnin

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – An expert and a lawmaker have questioned the Bureaucratic Reform Ministry's plan to dismiss civil servants who fail the competency test by granting them earl

Bagus BT Saragih, Hong Kong – About 40 people claiming to be Indonesian workers staged a protest near the Shangri-La hotel in Hong Kong where President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was stay

Arientha Primanita, Dessy Sagita & Ivan Dasa Saputra – A week before a likely increase in the price of fuel, customers at markets are already complaining of rising costs for basic g

Jakarta – The Indonesian Police Watch says the Indonesian Military (TNI) must first secure approval from the House of Representatives before deploying troops to help the police handle r

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has announced its intention to join protestors rallying against fuel price increases on March 27.

Dwi Atmanta – The countdown for the Jakarta gubernatorial election has begun, although the provincial poll commission has yet to declare eligible tickets for the race.

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Novianti Setuningsih – During interrogation by the Corruption Eradication Commission on Thursday, a deputy chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, Tamsil Linrung, adm

Made Arya Kencana & Fitri, Denpasar/Mataram – It was an unusual sight for anywhere in Indonesia: Muslim men arriving for Friday prayers in an atmosphere of complete silence, without

Slamet Susanto and Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Yogyakarta/Surakarta – At least two regions, one in Yogyakarta and the other in Central Java, have rejected the government's plan to distribut

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – With just a week to go until April 1, the chance of the government's proposed fuel price hike being approved by the legislature is slimmer t

Ismira Lutfia, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Agus Triyono & Ezra Sihite – The government has denied using military force to contain recent protests against a fuel price hike, saying tro

Ezra Sihite & Agus Triyono – The House of Representatives elected late on Thursday the seven members of the General Elections Commission, even as civil society groups continued to q

Jakarta – Administrative Reforms Minister Azwar Abubakar says he wants regional governments to stop making misleading comments about providing people with a so-called free education.

Ismira Lutfia – Analysts have encouraged a greater role for the military in peacetime and community-building activities as a way of developing a national sense of responsibility through

Zakir Hussain – The Indonesian military's shopping list in recent months has included Sukhoi fighter jets and Leopard main battle tanks, but what the country's defense officials are mos

Agus Triyono – A recent surge in reports of children being abducted directly reflects the police's lack of seriousness in dealing with the issue, a leading child protection advocate con

Novan Iman Santosa, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel have not yet been deployed to help reinforce police numbers in handling potential mass rallies protesting the planned f

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – The bombmaker Umar Patek, who faces the death penalty for his role in the deadly Bali bombings, was a minor player who had qualms about the attack, his tria

Marni Cordell – Australia plays a key role in training and funding elite Indonesian counter-terror unit Detachment 88 – but wants to distance itself from the unit's violent reputation,

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – House of Representative's budgetary body deputy head Olly Dondokambey claims that his office is clear of any involvement with the bribery case related to the fund

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Iman Mahditama, Jakarta – Thousands of workers and university students from all over Greater Jakarta staged a huge rally in the city on Wednesday to protest the g

Lutfi Rakhmawati and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – With stiff competition expected to characterize the upcoming Jakarta gubernatorial election, political parties may attempt to use cand

Thousands of Indonesians protested across the country Wednesday against a proposed fuel hike, with violence which broke out in one city injuring a policeman, police said.

Bayu Marhaenjati & Antara – Indonesian Labor unions on Wednesday threatened to paralyze the economy if the government carried out its plan to cut fuel subsidies, as protests against

Jakarta – House Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso says that the alleged split within the leadership of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), reported in recent weeks, is nothing

Olivia Rondonuwu & Stuart Grudgings, Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur – A foiled plot by suspected Islamic militants to attack and bomb targets in Bali, including a bar popular with tourists, m

Jakarta – The Makassar Police say they will track down the people who looted and set fire to a truck during a protest against the government's impending fuel price hike on Wednesday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – Three parties have expressed support for the government's decision to impose stricter requirements for corruptors applying to have their pri

Ezra Sihite – Indonesia became the eighth Asean country to ratify the group's counterterrorism convention after the House of Representatives adopted it into law on Tuesday.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Low investment in infrastructure development has left many Indonesians with no access to potable water and basic sanitation, and the problem is particula

Foreign investors are bemoaning a new law in Indonesia that strips them of control over mining assets, the latest in a rash of regulations that reflect what they see as growing "resourc

Jakarta Police have dispatched 14,000 personnel to secure protests by labor unions rejecting fuel price hikes in Central Jakarta, including in front of the Presidential Palace, on Wedne

Arientha Primanita – The Yudhoyono administration has denied rumors it bribed university rectors to curb student protests against the government's plan to raise the price of subsidized

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A coalition of human rights groups has filed a report with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), alleging that there had been a markup in the government pu

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Popularity and competence alone were apparently not enough to assure hopefuls of securing their golden tickets for the upcoming Jakarta governor election.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Police say they will pursue President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's allegation that a group will try to topple him in a coup before 2014, but others have dismiss

Rizky Amelia – Former lawmaker Darsup Yusuf, who was convicted and sentenced for accepting bribes, said on Monday that he thought he had received a Rp 500 million ($55,000) traveler's c

Jakarta – The country's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), says it has thrown its weight behind a new outfit set up to counter the onslaught of firebrand organizations l

Severianus Endi, Pontianak – Situation in Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan province, has returned to normal the weekend after the city was hit by a brief but serious bout of te

Armando Siahaan – From the corruption saga implicating Democratic Party politicos to the plan to cut fuel subsidies, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is facing a public relations cris