Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – When asked for comments on rampant violence by the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI), the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) secretary general Ekm

The group calling for an end to the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front said on Sunday that it was preparing a series of programs to further its cause.

Jakarta – Administrative Reforms Ministry is drafting a policy to require all civil servants to register their wealth statements with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – The leadership of the House of Representatives said on Monday that suspicions of irregular transactions stemming from reports by the anti-mo

Rangga Prakoso – Tobacco control activists are continuing their long-running campaign against legislators accused of dropping a key clause from the 2009 Health Bill, demanding that a ha

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Orangutans in Kutai National Park in East Kalimantan face a bleak future unless urgent measures are taken to stop wildlife poachi

Jakarta – Ahead of the United Development Party's (PPP) national meeting, party chairman Suryadharma Ali has called on cadres to improve the party's image to win the hearts of the peopl

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – With many politicians implicated in corruption scandals, political parties are using the issue to pressurize rivals in order to secure their political agenda

Ezra Sihite – Legislators deliberating a bill to regulate mass organizations said over the weekend that foreign nongovernmental organizations would also be subject to the new legislatio

Dessy Sagita – Calls to ban liquor sales in Indonesia may hurt the nation's tourism industry, an official at the Home Affairs Ministry said on Saturday, commenting on the draft bill pro

Agus Triyono – The government's $91 million purchase of a new presidential jet has not flown smoothly with a coalition of NGOs, who on Sunday criticized the president and legislature fo

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Jakarta – United Development Party chairman Suryadharma Ali invited all Islamic parties to join his party, excluding, however, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and National Mandate Pa

The Jakarta Police on Friday denied stalling in bringing to court several cases of alleged sexual assault by a renowned traditional healer.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police will summon Hasan bin Ja'afar Assegaf, a influential cleric who is accused of sexually abusing some his boy students.

Jakarta – A notorious cleric, identified as Habib H, who has been reported for alleged sexual abuse, failed to answer the National Child Protection Commission's (KPAI) summons to explai

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The plot thickens in the saga of the leadership of the Democratic Party with an aide to party chairman Anas Urbaningrum claiming that two major political parties contributed funds to he

Yuli Krisna & Ulma Haryanto, Cianjur, West Java – A mob of about 50 people attacked and vandalized a mosque on Friday that was being used by the beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect.

SP/Robertus Wardi – The antigraft agency has kept a recording of an incriminating BlackBerry Messenger conversation between Democratic Party lawmaker Angelina Sondakh and corruption con

Bayu Marhaenjati – Jakarta Police named three members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) as suspects on Friday for vandalizing the Home Affairs Ministry during a demonstration last mo

Jakarta – The East Java chapter of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)'s youth wings GP Ansor and Banser urged the government to suspend or even disband all mass organizations that often use violence.

Jakarta – Muhammadiyah Youth chairman Saleh Daulay said that in its actions the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) had acted beyond law enforcers, especially the police.

Novianti Setuningsih – Lawmaker Mahyuddin N.S.

Bagus BT Saragih and Agnes Winarti, Jakarta/Denpasar – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been infuriated by the widening rifts in the leadership of the Democratic Party that he fou

Padang – State Prosecutor Zulkardiman demanded that two alleged striptease dancers, SS and NA, receive 18 months in prison on Thursday.

Jakarta – The government says it wants to help more people join the ranks of the nation's 90 million street vendors in order to promote public welfare and economic development.

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Mary Anugrah Rasita – The deaths of at least 44 people in a series of accidents involving buses this year has prompted commuters, operators and analysts to call for a complete rethink o

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – While protests demanding the disbandment of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) have been flaring in other cities, about 200 other people claiming to be

Jakarta – Islam Defenders Front (FPI) spokesman Munarman has pointed the finger at the Democratic Party as being behind the recent anti-FPI rally in Jakarta, saying that it tried to div

Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI), a hardliner group that has been under the spotlight recently as its violent image has begun to receive pushback from other community groups, h

Ezra Sihite & Hangga Brata – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi asked the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front not to rush to open branches in Central Kalimantan following protests fr

Razali Ritonga, Jakarta – The labor protests over minimum wage demands that recently occurred in some parts of Indonesia should have been anticipated by the government.

Ulma Haryanto – The slew of clashes between communities and police officers and the apparent increase in public distrust in the law enforcement body are signs of a systemic problem in t

Anita Rachman – As they commemorated their day on Wednesday, Indonesian domestic workers said they only wanted two things: for the domestic workers protection bill to be deliberated thi

Ismira Lutfia – Interreligious strife is just media hype, rights abuses in Papua don't go unpunished and the current anticorruption drive is the most aggressive in the country's history

Jakarta – Democratic Party chief patron Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was reportedly "greatly angered" by a plan formulated by his party's board to assign troubled cadre Angelina Sondakh to

Arientha Primanita – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi said on Wednesday that the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front is one violation away from having its license suspended.

The money laundering charges slapped on Monday by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Muhammad Nazaruddin, fondly known as Nazar, a former House member and Democratic Party t

Agus Triyono – The Supreme Court's decision to scrap eight points from the code of ethics for judges has prompted civil society groups to file a formal complaint against the five justic

Jakarta – Jakarta residents who use public transportation account for only 11 percent of the total population due to poor management and safety, said Tulus Abadi from the Indonesian Con

Jakarta/Brussels – Despite years of investment in community policing, the Indonesian police remain deeply distrusted by the people they are supposed to serve.

An Islam-based political party has proposed a new draft bill to ban alcohol sales in Indonesia.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Journalists Association believes that one of its members has been murdered despite the initial police investigation suggesting that he died in a traf

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Artist Bramantyo Prijosusilo's planned street performance that criticizes rampant violence was forcefully aborted after he himself experienced it for real

Ezra Sihite – Pressure is mounting on the government to disband mass organizations known to have used violent tactics to achieve their goals, following a series of attacks by those grou

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, is often held up as a shining example of how democracy can gel with moderate Islam.

Ezra Sihite – In a sign of more strained ties between lawmakers and antigraft investigators, Corruption Eradication Commission chairman Abraham Samad said he would not attend hearings w

Agus Triyono – Disappointed with the president's vague pledges to "resolve" the plight of GKI Yasmin church, the nation's main Christian organizations have taken the matter to the Const