Pangeran Siahaan – As you line up at the cashier at the supermarket, take a look at the shelf on your side, which is likely to contain an array of candies and chocolate bars.

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Imparsial, a Human Rights watchdog, has objected to the planned involvement of Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel in anticipating nationwide rallies opposi

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Didit Sidarta – Indonesia's National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) defended Sunday's deadly raid of two suspected terrorist hideouts in Bali, explaining

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Arientha Primanita – Civil society groups on Monday castigated the government over its plan to raise the fuel price next month, accusing officials of usin

Farouk Arnaz – A man who was declared a suspect for firing at a church in Indramayu with a rifle was taught to hate Christians by his family, police said.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Several government officials convicted of graft remain free despite their jail sentences, raising concerns that they could evade justice by traveling oversea

Anita Rachman & Arientha Primanita – A high-ranking member of Indonesia's highest Islamic authority has urged Muslims not to attend Lady Gaga's upcoming concert in Jakarta, declarin

Tito Summa Siahaan & Francezka Nangoy – Shares of Mustika Ratu, a cosmetic and herbal medicine maker, were heavily traded in February, which was unusual for the company given there

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The country's largest opposition party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), is set to mobilize movements and conduct any form of possible me

Dessy Sagita – A survey conducted by the Health Department suggests that among high-risk populations, women are more likely to use condoms during sex than men, which has made them signi

A survey of animal markets in Java and Bali has found that the illegal trade in protected birds is not only continuing unchecked, but is picking up speed.

Jakarta – Indonesian gay-rights promoter Dede Oetomo and transgendered campaigner Yulianus "Mami Yuli" Rettoblaut are still in the running for the commissioner post at the National Comm

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Tomi Sujatmiko, Yogya – Scores of housewives from the Political Union of the Poor (Persatuan Politik Rakyat Miskin, PPRM) demonstrated against the government's proposed fuel (BBM) price

The National Police has sent four companies, or about 560 security officers, to reinforce security in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, where tension over the presence of the hard-line Islami

Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – No matter how hard the government has tried to eradicate pornography, the reality is that its trade in the capital continues to thrive.

Ezra Sihite – Top Indonesian politicians Prabowo Subianto and Megawati Soekarnoputri have agreed to back the mayor of the Central Java town of Solo, Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi,

Jakarta – Dozens of supporters of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) almost came to blows with a group of students in Pontianak, West Kalimantan over a banner rejecting the establishment o

Rizky Amelia – After firing three investigators for their alleged close ties to graft suspects, top officials at the nation's antigraft body are denying speculation that their organizat

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – As many as 1.6 million of Berau's 1.9 million hectares of forest has been damaged, including protected-forest areas, according to

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James Balowski, Jakarta – Commemorating International Women's Day, activists and workers took to the streets across Indonesia on March 8 to demand equality and an end of sexual violence

Ismira Lutfia – The increasing concentration of Indonesian media in the hands of just a dozen holding companies poses a threat to people's right to information that is free of political

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – With support from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the United Development Party (PPP), the Indonesian Democratic

Zaky Pawas, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Vento Saudale & Natasia Christy Wahyuni – Police Mobile Brigade officers broke into an office of a student organization early on Thursday, beat

Hundreds of indigenous Dayak youths rallied in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on Thursday to protest the police's removal of their banners calling for the disbanding of a hard-line Islamic

Aloysius Unditu – Indonesia's rupiah and bond markets remained under selling pressure this week as investors dumped local high-yield assets ahead of next month's scheduled subsidized fu

Tito Summa Siahaan & Grace Dwitiya Amianti – The central bank introduced a regulation on Friday aimed at preventing potentially dangerous bubbles by encouraging prudent banking prac

Anita Rachman – The media have historically been some of the most tenacious advocates of workers' rights, yet in one of the ironies of an increasingly independent and privatized nationa

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Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Rights watchdogs say that the Indonesian government used a broker to buy Sukhoi fighter jets from Russia, despite claims to the contrary from the Russian Em

Ezra Sihite & Dessy Sagita – A barrage of criticism and scorn continue to assail the president's recent establishment of an anti-pornography task force, with many saying on Wednesda

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Public order officers arrested several punks on Tuesday who were deemed to be causing a nuisance to citizens at several locations.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Indonesia-Singapore bilateral meeting on Tuesday included the signing of agreements at the ministerial level, but one of the Indonesian ministers said he

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – While the prolonged deliberation of the bill on Yogyakarta's special status (RUUK) at the House of Representatives is expected to come to an end by the mi

Ezra Sihite – A photograph of three Cabinet ministers posing with a group of miniskirt-clad caddies at an East Jakarta golf course sparked public outrage after being splashed across the

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association (ICMI) to help ensure that the upcoming 2014 elections are condu

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia could fail its Millenium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015, due to the slow progress in improving the

Jakarta – Dudhie Makmun Murod and Udju Juhaeri, former House members from Commission IX overseeing finance in 1999-2004, testified at Jakarta Corruption court on Wednesday that they had

Hangga Brata, Klaten, Central Java – Andreas Guntur, the leader of Amanat Keagungan Ilahi, a spiritual group which draws upon certain verses of the Koran, was sentenced to a four-year j

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Dessy Sagita – Most Indonesians may be employed in the agricultural sector, but dwindling investment in the field and lack of government attention has led to a food crisis and widesprea

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Samarinda, East Kalimantan – Land issues and mine permits are threatening to scuttle a government plan to turn East Kalimantan into a center for national food

Arienta Primanita, Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has formed a task force to implement the country's controversial Anti-Pornography Law, prompting

Tri Listiyarini & Tito Summa Siahaan – Commuters will abandon their private cars and public transportation in favor of motorcylces once the government increases the price of subsidi

Jakarta – The government is set to create anti-pornography task forces at provincial and regency levels as an extension to the new anti-porn task force which was recently formed by Pres

Rizky Amelia – A second consecutive witness called by graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin has implicated Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum in wrongdoing, as the defendant continu

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The nation's poverty rate may spike above the government's 2012 target due to the government's planned subsidized fuel-price increase, which may result

Anita Rachman & Farouk Arnaz – In the run-up to the government's planned fuel price hike, the police are intensifying raids against hoarders, and three key labor organizations are w

Ismira Lutfia – Official discrimination against women is on the rise, particularly at the local government level, according to a survey released by the National Commission on Violence A