Jakarta – National Defense Forces (TNI) Commander Admiral Agus Suhartono said Indonesia's military remains constantly aware of the possibility of a military embargo being imposed on the

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite a government-imposed moratorium, the House of Representatives proposed the creation of 20 new regional administration units on Tuesday.

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police on Tuesday defended officers who had received money from plantation companies in Sumatra, saying the payments had not affected their neutrality.

Rights activist Usman Hamid has blamed Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for the apparent upsurge in violence by police.

Jakarta – Afandi Saleh has been waiting for justice for 33 years after his release from Buru Island in 1979, where he was held for a decade without a trial for a crime he said he did no

Agus Triyono – An investigation has concluded that former President Suharto was the figure most responsible for human rights abuses during the mass killings of 1965-6, the National Comm

Bambang Muryanto – A workers' meeting in Yogyakarta has called on the government to adopt international regulations to ensure the welfare and protection for workers in the tourism indus

Marcel Thee – At first glance, Karl Karnadi may look like any other 20-something trying to find his place in the world.

Rahmat – The head of a provincial branch of the Islamic Defenders Front and two other members of the hard-line group were sentenced to jail on Tuesday for smashing up restaurants that o

Nurmulia Rekso Purnomo, Jakarta – Victims of human rights violations held a protest action on Tuesday January 17 demanding that the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) immedia

Jakarta – Several members of the Dayak community came to the House of Representatives on Monday to tell lawmakers that their land has been taken by private companies and threatened to t

Jakarta – City Police will issue a final summons for the grandson of former president Soeharto, Ari Haryo Wibowo Hardjojudanto, popularly known as Ari Sigit, over his alleged involvemen

Ezra Sihite – House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso asked the media on Tuesday to back of criticizing the legislature in the wake of a series of budget scandals, sa

Ezra Sihite & Agus Triyono – Although the House of Representatives has been coming under intense public criticism over several construction projects or plans deemed wasteful and too

Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from illegally riding the roofs of trains – hosing down the scofflaws with red

Jakarta – Despite condemning shopping malls as a source of consumerism, Governor Fauzi Bowo said everybody should be grateful for their existence because they have provided a lot of job

Jakarta – When Brad (not his real name), a 33-year-old American citizen, landed a job in Jakarta, he was warned by his colleagues that he might have to deal with the country's infamous

Novan Iman Santosa and Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesia will start modernizing its military hardware after a decade of internal reform riding on the back of an improving economy, Defens

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – West Java's upcoming gubernatorial race is starting to heat up, as a major party announced on Monday six hopefuls for the election, slated for February 2012.

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – Eradicating the practice of pasung, or shackling the mentally ill, in Central Java is ambitious, but can be done, according to a top official.

Dofa Fasila & Dessy Sagita – Health authorities have revealed a startling 31 percent leap in the number of recorded HIV/AIDS cases in Jakarta in 2011, which they attributed to great

Jakarta – The Indonesian Kalimantan Rattan Association (ARKI) says thousands of farmers in Central Kalimantan have now become jobless thanks to the recent rattan export ban.

Francezka Nangoy – Indonesia could achieve another rating upgrade if it can tackle problems with infrastructure, crack down on rampant corruption and prepare measures to mitigate extern

Aidi Yursal & Dessy Sagita, Medan – Calls for an Aceh-style crackdown on the punk community have spread to neighboring North Sumatra, but authorities in Medan are taking a more tole

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Adang Daradjatun, a Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) lawmaker and former National Police deputy chief, claims he had never known of his wife Nunun Nurbaeti's involv

Mindo Rosalina "Rosa" Manulang, a convict in a high-profile bribery case, testified on Monday that Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng and his brother Zulkarnain "Choel" accepte

Jakarta – Scores of victims of the 1965-66 affair protested at the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) office in Jakarta today.

Medan – The police forcefully dispersed a massive rally by public minivan drivers in Medan, North Sumatra, on Monday as it was held without a permit.

Rizky Amelia – The fallout from a $2.2 million meeting room renovation project at the House of Representatives continued on Sunday as antigraft groups demanded it put down the hammers a

Niniek Karmini, Rawagede, West Java – Relatives of men executed by Dutch troops in this tiny Indonesian village fought for six decades to get compensation that was supposed to heal woun

Bayu Marhaenjati – At night, cleared of smog and congestion, Jakarta's flyovers transform themselves into dating hotspots where young couples can park their motorbikes and flirt or enjo

Apriadi Gunawan and Jon Afrizal, Medan/Jambi – Calls for settlement to land disputes across the county had hardly died down when two groups of residents were reportedly involved in a de

Ezra Sihite – The National Police racked up more reports of human rights violations during 2011 than any other government institution or private company, a watchdog said on Monday.

Cikarang, Bekasi – Labor unions have canceled the massive protest scheduled for today after an agreement was reached late on Sunday night with the employers association.

Mainstream Islamic leaders in Yogyakarta are claiming the right to oversee the activities of Ahmadiyah groups after local adherents of the sect were threatened by an angry mob on Friday

Ade Mardiyati – As a Jakarta resident, I often have the feeling that our public spaces are accident scenes waiting to happen. I never know what to expect next.

Taslim Chaniago, a member of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee, has tendered his resignation from the committee following the widely criticized renovation of a House meetin

Ismira Lutfia & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Labor unions in greater Jakarta will stage a major rally in East Bekasi, Karawang and Cikarang today to press on their demand for a minimum 1

Dwi Atmanta – Thousands of protesters, reportedly from various regions across the archipelago, rallied outside the State Palace on Thursday in another push for long-awaited agrarian ref

Vento Saudale & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Two legislators who joined the beleaguered GKI Yasmin congregation for Sunday services in Bogor got a firsthand view of the animosity dire

Armando Siahaan – If law enforcers would go after high-level corruption the same way they handled the kid who stole a pair of sandals from a police officer, just imagine how clean this

Tom Allard – On a Thursday morning last year, Sapari, a cemetery caretaker in Bonasari in East Java, made a disturbing discovery.

Ronna Nirmala – The Jakarta Police said on Friday that they had questioned three witnesses about an attack on the Home Affairs Ministry by hard-line Islamic groups.

Anita Rachman – Despite mounting calls for an agrarian reform law, especially after the recent spate of violence over land disputes, the House of Representatives appears adamant that it

Dwi Lusiana, Malang, East Java – A Malang man who says he was attacked by two people in military and police uniforms near a hotel where President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was staying on

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Multa Fidrus, Bandung/Tangerang – A number of regional administrations are insisting on keeping bylaws that ban the distribution of liquor despite the government's

Cilacap, Central Java – Judges at the Cilacap District Court sentenced a former warden of Nusakambangan penitentiary on Thursday to 13 years in prison.

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) will begin deliberations over a draft of the national security law despite strong objections from civil society activists

After days of negotiations, the local administration and police in Sampang, East Java, convinced 300 Shiite Muslim refugees to return to their homes on Thursday afternoon.