Following a string of sexual assaults committed on lone women traveling aboard or waiting for angkot public minivans in the capital, Jakarta Police are advising that women carry protect

Anita Rachman – A ministerial decree to support a court ruling limiting the use of outsourcing is on its way, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said on Monday.

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Police violence in Papua and attacks on religious minorities got a lot worse in 2011.

Conn Hallinan – Why is the New York Times concealing the key role that the United States played in the 1965 coup in Indonesia that ended up killing somewhere between 500,000 and 1 milli

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Vento Saudale & Agus Triyono – The president is being challenged to uphold both his obligation as the head of state and his personal promise to resolve the

Vincent Lingga – For such an important policy reform that has been on and off the national agenda since late 2007, the debates on the need to limit subsidized-fuel sales that dominated

Jakarta – Although the state no longer put up legal and institutional barriers to entry for Indonesians of Chinese descent to fully take part in public life, many are reluctant to open

Vento Saudale – Hundreds of people from various radical groups launched a search on Sunday to find the location of the Yasmin church congregation's service and prevent them from worship

Marcel Thee – For too many years, local comics have sacrificed their pride and even their bodies for laughs.

A community in eastern Indonesia has placed 1,000 pink adenium flowers outside the local parliament, police station and courtroom, not to say thanks, but to send a message: leave our ki

Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Protesters demanded on Friday a permanent end to gold prospecting activities in Bima district, but confusion still reigns over who actually has the

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Activists were pessimistic that the government plan to allocate 45 percent of forests in Kalimantan as "the lungs of the world" would work, as mining act

Ulma Haryanto & Rahmat – Yet another minor is being tried for a petty crime, this time in South Sulawesi, prompting activists to highlight the urgency of passing the Juvenile Court

Jakarta – Cornered by thousands of workers who oppose a lawsuit filed to revoke recently approved minimum wage increases, Indonesian business associations have played their trump card,

Arientha Primanita & Ulma Haryanto – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono hit back on Friday at activists criticizing Indonesia's human rights record, saying recent violence could not

Jakarta – Members of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) reportedly clashed again with rivals from Pemuda Pancasila (PP) on Friday, this time purportedly over the protection of a durian

The much-anticipated trial of former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin has taken a new twist that may complicate the case after a key witness unveiled the role of powerful

Multa Fidrus and Fadli, Tangerang/Batam – In the latest of a series of rallies to demand better pay, tens of thousands of workers in Bekasi and Tangerang blocked roads connecting neighb

Cikarang, West Java – Thousands of workers took to the streets again on Thursday after it became apparent that the Indonesian Employers Association would not withdraw its lawsuit agains

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Ismira Lutfia, Ivan Dasa Saputra & Ezra Sihite – A revision of Indonesia's Labor Law that paves the way for outsourced workers to have equal benefits with per

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Padang – A 30 year-old civil servant in the Dharmasraya regency of West Sumatra, identified as Alexander, was arrested Friday for blasphemy after creating a Facebo

Camelia Pasandaran – Police on Friday confirmed that they had charged a man with blasphemy after he was reported by the Indonesia Council of Ulema.

Dessy Sagita – A high-profile member of Indonesia's large transgender community has registered to become a member of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas-Ham).

Bayu Marhaenjati – Three people who were questioned by police for stoning the Home Affairs Ministry building last week are not Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) members, police said on Frid

Megawati Wijaya, Jakarta – Draft legislation to redenominate Indonesia's currency is expected to gain momentum this year as lawmakers and monetary authorities push to drop the last thre

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – After ripping into the Defense Ministry over a plan to buy secondhand combat tanks, the House of Representatives now finds itself fending off criticism that i

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Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The South Tapanuli Police in North Sumatra detained 40 people on Thursday for an alleged crime linked to a land dispute.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – With the House of Representatives recently drawing public ire for a number of questionable big-ticket renovations, a budget watchdog is now accusing the State

Ratih Hardjono, Jakarta – With so much political jockeying going on among the elites in Jakarta ahead of the 2014 presidential election, the fact that 67 million first-time voters acros

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Finger-pointing in the wake of a number of spending scandals continued in the embattled House of Representatives on Thursday, with two polit

Camelia Pasandaran – An Indonesian civil servant who posted "God does not exist" on his Facebook page has been taken into police custody for his own protection after he was badly beaten

Ade Mardiyati – Finishing work may please most Jakartans, but for women burning the midnight oil it's just the start of an uncomfortable and often dangerous journey.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Infrastructure development in Indonesia remains inefficient despite a significant increase in government spending on development projects over the last

Ulma Haryanto & Ronna Nirmala – The National Commission of Human Rights said on Thursday that it would reopen its investigation into the Mesuji case following new evidence of gross

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Anugrah Rasita – Indonesian companies said on Thursday that they now had no choice but to brace themselves for higher labor costs in the wake of the Constit

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Millions of contract-based and outsourced workers will regain their rights, including monthly salaries, allowances, severance pay and social security benef

Three men standing trial for their roles in a deadly attack on the Tiaka oil field in Morowali district, Central Sulawesi, last August were on Wednesday sentenced to five months in pris

Farouk Armaz – Police on Wednesday said that four military officers had been named as suspects in connection with an overloaded boat carrying asylum seekers that sank off the coast of E

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Sinta Nuriyah, the widow of former president and religious pluralism icon Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid, lambasted President Susilo Bamb

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) said that it would not be making quick decisions on whether to deploy its personnel to join the nation's fight against terrorism.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government said on Tuesday that more than 1.7 million child laborers, mostly female, are still being exploited in horrendous working conditions in the

Jakarta – After the Home Ministry recently urged regions to revise their alcohol bylaws, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has turned the tables and requested that the minister evaluat

Jakarta – Indonesian Police Watch (IPW) believes that the police recruitment and education system are to blame for the numerous cases of police brutality carried out against civilians.

Michelle Natalie, Makassar – A South Sulawesi man is facing five years in prison for the theft of ground pepper, despite one assertion that the victim has no interest in seeing the elde

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has denied allegations that the government is was not taking the GKI Yasmin Church issue seriously after a joint m

Sampang, East Java – Despite being assured of their safety by police and the local administration, Shiites living in two villages in Sampang, East Java, say they still face threats and