Kate Lamb – Travellers in Indonesia struggling with the usual rough landings and delayed flights now have a new cause for concern: was the pilot smoking crystal meth before take-off?

Hasyim Widhiarto – Since the reform era began in 1998, the union movement has been primarily driven by activists who were unemployed or had no affiliations to employers.

Ezra Sihite, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Rangga Prakoso – The Democratic Party will continue to decline in popularity unless President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono removes those who are

Hasyim Widhiarto and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The string of workers' rallies that has severely disturbed businesses recently, particularly in the industrial estates of Bekasi in We

Agus Triyono – The Central Jakarta District Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by domestic workers' rights activists against the government for failing to protect the country's maids

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Arientha Primanita – The State Secretary acknowledged on Monday that the government had indeed allocated two different budgets for a planned presidential

Arientha Primanita & Anita Rachman – After blocking access to almost one million pornographic Web sites, the Communication and Information Technology Ministry is now targeting anony

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry claims it has blocked nearly 1 million sites that carry pornographic content.

Jakarta – Leading gay activist and sociologist Dede Oetomo might be the first known homosexual person to lead the National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) if he makes the leade

Salim Osman – After surviving a mob attack over a Facebook posting, 31-year-old Indonesian civil servant Alexander Aan was taken into custody by the West Sumatra police for his own safe

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono does not have the authority to step into a protracted dispute between Christian worshippers and Muslim hard-liners over a church in Bogor, h

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Long considered as a bastion in the country's judicial system, the Supreme Court (MA) these days is plagued with money politics ahead of the selection of its chie

Ulma Haryanto – Despite international and domestic appeals to the government to bring to justice those responsible for the killing of Ahmadiyah followers in Cikeusik, Banten province, t

Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – Almost a year after its inauguration, the city's first bike lane has again become a parking space for cars.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A recent survey revealed that a majority of the public believes that Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum was involved in the Southeast Asian Games bri

Having a lavish lifestyle is not a crime, but if police officers indulge in such a way of life when the police force is under fire for its poor service, excessive use of force and alleg

Yohan Wahyu – Most of the recent social upheavals have been triggered by a decline in public trust in the state.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Japanese and South Korean emissaries along with a representative of the Taiwan administration have filed complaints to the Indonesian government over its han

Agus Triyono – The burden of making facilitation payments and paying bribes to government institutions is one reason businesses might have trouble paying higher minimum wages, according

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Rapists, killers and other criminals can run as legislative candidates in general elections as a committee in the House of Representatives (DPR) has agreed t

Bramantyo Prijosusilo – One year ago today, Indonesia hit the headlines with the murder of three members of the Islamic Ahmadiyah sect, by a mob over a thousand strong in a small town n

Agus Maryono, Banyumas – At least five mothers have reportedly died due to maternity complications over the last month in Banyumas, Central Java, allegedly due to poverty.

Ezra Sihite & Anita Rachman – Voters are abandoning Indonesia's ruling Democratic Party amid a string of corruption scandals enveloping its senior figures, with a new survey of publ

Indonesia detained on Saturday 96 asylum seekers who had attempted to reach Australia, half of whom were rounded up after their boat capsized in western Java waters, police said.

Agus Triyono – Activists are questioning the lack of response from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to a letter sent by international human rights organizations about the government's

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Sunday called on Indonesian Muslims to follow the Prophet Muhammad's example in living in a religiously diverse society and in overcoming differenc

Angela Dewan – For years big-name manufacturers including Honda, Samsung and Nike have quietly harvested profits from factories in Indonesia, where wages are even lower than in China or

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A human rights watchdog has slammed the government for not taking human rights cases in the country seriously.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A group of judges, prosecutors, academics and experts are banding together to fight what one member called "poor law enforcement, from head to toe" in Indone

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Political observers have warned that Democrat Party chief patron Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's initiative to publicly explain issues surrounding the party in re

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Jakarta – Fifteen members of the Pedestrians' Coalition (Koalisi Pejalan Kaki) on Friday blocked motorcyclists from riding on sidewalks in front of the Hotel Pullman Jakarta, near the H

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – A young woman, carrying her infant son in a sling around her neck, stands in the shadows of a decaying concrete pylon, her hand extended in the hope that a

Farouk Arnaz & Ulma Haryanto – The National Police said on Friday that it would investigate an incident on Thursday in which officers shot and wounded six farmers in the latest in a

Ulma Haryanto – Relatives of two teenage boys who died in police custody in West Sumatra said on Thursday that they would not be satisfied until the police took full responsibility for

Rizky Amelia – Notorious Indonesian corruption suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin has demanded Anas Urbaningrum admit to his alleged involvement in a high-level graft scandal – or else.

The decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the conviction of 54-year Rasmiah for petty theft prompted a chorus of condemnation on the state of our judicial system.

Zubaidah Nazeer – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono weighed in on Thursday on ongoing opposition to planned arms purchases, saying it lagged behind its neighbors in military equipment

Tangerang – The Greater Tangerang Workers Alliance will set up posts where employees can report if their companies are not obeying a gubernatorial decree on Banten's new minimum wage.

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition for Workers' Rights (KMSHB) has condemned Jakarta Military Commander Major General TNI Waris for being arrogant, anti-democratic and provocative.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police will not hesitate to arrest workers who blockade toll roads as part of expected labor union strikes, National Police chief Gen.

Zubaidah Nazeer – Indonesia's trade minister has called for the country's labor laws to be reformed, saying that increasingly aggressive unions and mass protests are posing a major stum

Ulma Haryanto – Five farmers in North Sumatra suffered gunshot wounds on Thursday in the latest clash in a land dispute involving farmers, a palm oil company and police.

Hundreds of people from the Suku Tanjung indigenous group hurled rocks at the office of the district head in Agam, West Sumatra, on Thursday to protest the lack of resolution to a long-

East Java Deputy Governor Saifullah Yusuf vowed on Thursday to close down all red-light districts in the province but warned it could only be done in steps.

Jakarta – National Commission of Human Rights (Komnas HAM) selection committee chief Jimly Asshiddiqie says selectors would have no problem in accepting homosexual or transgender candid

Palu – A police station in Morowali regency, Central Sulawesi, became the target of stoning and Molotov cocktails by residents, in an attack allegedly linked to last year's deadly incid

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Ten out of 13 defendants associated with Muhammad Syarief, the suicide bomber who attacked a mosque at a police compound in Cirebon on April 15, 2011, were sen

Bagus BT Saragih and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Once again the voice of the many outdid the few, regardless how diligent the latter may have been.

Ismira Lutfia – Electoral laws must be amended to guarantee that people with disabilities are able to run for public office and vote freely, officials said on Wednesday.