Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Dessy Sagita – For many, the rejection by indigenous Dayak tribesmen in Central Kalimantan of the presence of the Islamic Defenders Front is understandabl

Ulma Haryanto – After more than a year of being banned from praying inside their own church by Bogor administration and local militant groups, members of the embattled GKI Yasmin church

Jakarta – Dozens of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), Sukabumi branch members rallied at Sukabumi City Square on Sunday to protest the celebration of Valentine's Day that falls on Feb.

Endy M. Bayuni – In any democracy, a political party is a public institution.

Ismira Lutfia – The Defense Ministry is touting a pending bill on national security as a key part of the solution to the spate of violent land disputes that has erupted across the count

Media rights group Reporters Without Borders called on Indonesian authorities Saturday to put extra efforts into ensuring press freedom after a series of media freedom violations in the

Dessy Sagita – The bravery displayed by the indigenous Dayak group from Central Kalimantan in standing up to the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in its province should be appreciated and

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Hundreds of protesters from the local community in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, staged a protest on Saturday at the Tjilik Riwut airport to block the arrival

Shirley Wibisono – Automakers from Japan to India are eyeing a bonanza in Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy where a newly wealthy middle class are splashing out on cars like n

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Ezra Sihite – The brother of high-profile graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin has offered a variety of excuses after his late-night visit to the suspect's jail cell earlier this week was

Anita Rachman – Yuliana can't remember the last time she had a proper sit-down meal during her lunch break at the North Jakarta garment factory where she works.

Vento Saudale – The chief of Bogor's public order agency says he has been named a police suspect for blocking people from praying outside the illegally sealed GKI Yasmin church last Oct

Tangerang – Hundreds of residents of a Chinese-Indonesian community popularly known as Cina Benteng (Chinese of the Fort) living in Sewan Tongyan area in Neglasari subdistrict, sTangera

The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) stayed away from Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, on Saturday after hearing that locals had rejected their visit and were searching planes that landed

Ridwan Max Sijabat – House of Representatives lawmakers have agreed to let political party leaders decide some of the most crucial issues surrounding pending revisions to the law on leg

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) has rejected a request by civil activists for a review of the 2009 National Heroes Law, saying that articles in the law do not contravene the Con

Natasua Christy Wahyuni, Farouk Arnaz & Rizky Amelia – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday reminded the media of its responsibility to safeguard the integrity of journali

Legislators involved in common-law marriages will not be disciplined by the House of Representatives (DPR) unless they fail to make good on promises to their wives, officials said on Th

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Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Labor issues including disputes over minimum wages are not the main issue affecting Indonesian businesses, with political instability, poor governance an

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – Following public outrage over a string of questionable spending decisions by the House of Representatives, the House Honor Council has propo

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – Nazril "Ariel" Irham, the lead singer of the band Peterpan who was jailed for distributing pornography following a controversial sex video scandal, is participati

Rizky Amelia & Ulma Haryanto – After the Constitutional Court called it unconstitutional to put a travel ban on suspects during the early stages of investigation, the nation's antig

Testriono – The GKI Yasmin congregation in Bogor has been prohibited by the local administration from holding services in its church for years.

Rizky Amelia & Ezra Sihite – Graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin, who has lobbed corruption allegations at a string of high-profile officials, has been receiving late-night visitors a

Bagus BT Saragih and Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – For politician and former lawyer Amir Syamsuddin, the job of weeding out corrupt politicians in the ruling Democratic Party turned out t

A new television series set to air across Indonesia this month will be an alternative to the common drama found in the average Sinetron, promoters are promising.

Police said on Wednesday that they were still investigating TV celebrities and models Luna Maya and Cut Tari for sex tapes allegedly featuring them with rock star Nazril "Ariel" Irham.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin congregation's long fight for their right to pray in their church went back to square one on Wednesday when th

Mohd Adhe Bhakti – Three Islamic terrorists were each sentenced to between seven and nine years in prison on Wednesday for their roles in the suicide bombing of a West Java mosque last

Peace Brigades International (PBI) has closed its current phase of operations in Indonesia as a result of a series of challenges and constraints during the past year that have severely

Ulma Haryanto – The court case of Muhammad Nazaruddin and the slowly unfolding web of graft that has resulted from it have brought a specific type of corruption into focus: that involvi

The arrest on Wednesday of Ber-naldi Kadir Djemat, who reported TV-actor-turned-politician Zumi Zola to the police on Jan.

Sumenep, East Java – A lone protester let loose more than 100 poisonous snakes in the Sumenep District Court to vent his anger after judges rejected his claim that he was the rightful o

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – There is a growing feeling among some activists and politicians that members of the antigraft body are spending too much time mingling with lawmakers, threate

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission on Thursday slammed the blocking of its Web site by some Indonesian Internet providers for having "pornographic elements."

Batam – Hundreds of workers at PT Varta Microbattery Indonesia (VMI) in Batam, Riau Islands, went on strike on Wednesday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Islamist parties demanded on Wednesday that the government ignore a Supreme Court ruling to unseal the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor, forcing the legislature to

Rahmat – Around 500 protesters burned down buildings and other facilities belonging to Vale Indonesia in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, on Monday in another violent dispute between local r

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – After pulling the plug on more than a million online porn sites, Indonesia's Communications Minister, Tifatul Sembiring, has now set his sights on Twitter.

Rizky Amelia – Former Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari wrote off at least Rp 6.8 billion ($760,000) in alleged embezzlement under her watch as "small" and "trifling," after her quest

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January's labor unrest that culminated in the paralyzing of economic activities in the industrial estates of Bekasi, West Java, took many by surprise as it marked the awakening of the l

Outgoing Democratic Party deputy secretary general Angelina Sondakh has accepted the party's decision to suspend her and says she is ready to be detained after anticorruption authoritie

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – It appears that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has grown to be such a fearsome outfit that corrupt officials have become very careful in running thei

This is not the first time that attempts to organize and educate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies have been met with state censorship.

Dion Bisara – The economy grew 6.5 percent last year, its biggest expansion since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, as domestic consumption helped shield the country from the global e

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is looking to delay the deliberation of the controversial national security bill following public rejection due to claims that