Bruce Gale – "I just mixed up all the ingredients at random.

Hundreds of demonstrators in Ambon, Maluku, came close to blows with members of the provincial legislature on Thursday.

Jakarta/Mataram – After a series of deadly incidents and demonstrations across the country, which mostly pitted locals against mining and plantation firms backed by the police and milit

Jakarta – The embattled GKI Taman Yasmin church in Bogor, south of Jakarta, claimed on Thursday that its parishioners had experienced escalating intimidation and threats from detractors

Jakarta – Experts have made a dire prediction that unless President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) gets his act together by becoming more decisive, things will only get worse as forces

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A Malang man allegedly bashed by two officers in military and police uniforms near a hotel where President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was staying on Wednesday night has been arrested.

Keyko Ranti Ramadhani – Women's rights activists have criticized the action of police officers in Tangerang who scolded two girls for wearing shorts prior to a football match.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung, West Java – The Bandung municipal administration has said that it will stick to its alcohol bylaw and continue to carry out inspections on roadside stores and

Bayu Marhaenjati & Keyko Ranti Ramadhani – The Indonesian Association of Employers agreed on Wednesday to meet with protesting workers to try to settle a dispute over a recent incre

Ulma Haryanto – Thousands of workers from a Nike plant in Serang, Banten, are due to receive nearly $1 million for forced overtime without payment in a move apparently unprecedented in

Ezra Sihite & Bayu Marhaenjati – A large rally against the abuse of landowners' rights outside the House of Representatives building in Jakarta turned rowdy on Thursday when the cro

Panca Nugraha, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Around 150 university students, activists and farmers grouped under the People's Coalition of West Nusa Tenggara staged a rally on Thursday

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Six-year-old Selvia Rahmawati appeared undaunted walking between cars and motorcycles at an intersection in Karet Bivak, Tanah Abang in Central Jakarta.

Tangerang Police are defending their actions after a photograph emerged of officers reprimanding what appear to be underaged girls for wearing shorts.

Anita Rachman – With several rape and sexual assault cases dominating the news recently, a crucial question has so far been given little attention: Is media coverage of the cases proper

Ronna Nirmala – A former director general at the Social Affairs Ministry was sentenced to 17 months in prison on Thursday for his role in the flawed procurement of sewing machines and i

Agus Triyono, Ronna Nirmala & Ezra Sihite – Relatives of high-profile graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin allegedly threatened to kill key witness Mindo Rosalina Manulang in an attemp

Ulma Haryanto – The West Sumatra Commission on Human Rights has found irregularities in the police's account of the deaths of two young brothers who died while in custody in the provinc

Endy Bayuni – For years now, Indonesia has been basking in its status as the world's third-largest democracy after India and the United States.

Arientha Primanita & Camelia Pasandaran – The government signaled on Thursday that it may finally act against the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front after a mob of its members stoned

Arientha Primanita, Camelia Pasandaran & Carla Isati Octama – Members of Indonesia's hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) stoned the Ministry of Home Affairs in Central Jakarta o

Camelia Pasandaran – The Indonesian government signaled that it may finally act against the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) after a mob stoned the Home Affairs Ministry in a sho

Camelia Pasandaran – In the long-running battle for churches to open houses of worship, some are asking whether a solution will ever come.

Rendi A.

Jakarta – The head of the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) political division, Puan Maharani, leads thousands of party members and sympathizers in commemorating the party'

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – On a breezy, cloudy Tuesday afternoon, 45-year-old Yahya Hasan was trying to comfort his wife, Purwati, 47, who lay weak beside him under a makeshift tent er

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Thousands of people occupied the governor's office in Medan on Tuesday, prompting an end to administrative activities and throwing city thoroughfares into total

Jakarta – A team of relatives, historians and forensic scientists are pressing ahead with their efforts to carry out DNA tests on remains excavated in an East Java village three years

Ronna Nirmala – The regulation used by the police to justify violence against protesters, which has led to a string of deaths and other abuses of power in the past few weeks, was design

Camelia Pasandaran & Carla Isati – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi has hit out at the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) for "spreading lies" in the wake of the government's deci

Dessy Sagita & Ezra Sihite – Indonesia's Home Affairs Ministry on Tuesday denied reports that it has canceled nine bylaws regulating the trade of alcohol after questions from politi

A contentious battle between Nike and laborers at a factory in Serang, Banten, was settled on Wednesday with $1 million in unpaid overtime being awarded to some 4,500 workers there.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Most formal sector can expect bigger paychecks by early February, after the government approved a 9 percent minimum wage increase for workers in every prov

Keyko Ranti Ramadhani – A massive wildcat strike involving thousands of workers in Bekasi on outskirts of Jakarta on Wednesday will disrupt the investment climate and business in West J

Multa Fidrus, Jakarta – Traffic was fouled for four hours and for up to 15 kilometers around Serang as thousands of workers blocked the toll road between Tangerang and Merak on Tuesday,

Agus Triyono – The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the not guilty verdict against inactive Bengkulu Governor Agusrin Maryono Najamuddin and sentenced him to four years in prison for

Agus Triyono – Indonesia's much criticized House of Representatives is in the firing line again for its spending habits, this time a Rp 20.4 billion ($2.2 million) bill for relocating a

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Yuli Krisna, Bandung – Bandung Mayor Dada Rosada brought Rp 2.45 billion ($267,000) to the West Java Prosecutor's Office in compensation as authorities investigated allegations of embez

Rizky Amelia – The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights plans to build a Rp 70 billion ($7.7 million) special detention facility for suspects investigated by the Corruption Eradication

Calvin Michel Sidjaja – 2011 was not a good year for human rights in Indonesia.

That the lack of proper policing continues to be the biggest concern among the Indonesian people is instructive of how far the country has come over the last decade.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – Golkar Party lawmaker Melchias Markus Mekeng is facing a possible investigation after he was identified by graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin

Indonesia sold dollar-denominated 30-year bonds for the first time in four years on Monday, after receiving more than double the amount offered, reflecting growing confidence in the cou

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Lawmakers used a House of Representatives plenary on Monday to call for a special meeting with the government to discuss the issue of the GKI Yasmin church in

Camelia Pasandaran – With the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor still forced to hold services outdoors despite a favorable Supreme Court ruling, a church in Bekasi has been waiting since 2010

As in the past, the House of Representatives marked the first day of its first legislative session in 2012 with a high-sounding pledge on Monday.

Tangerang – The South Tangerang Branch of the Indonesia Ulema Council spoke out on Tuesday against a move by health authorities to distribute free condoms to sex workers to help halt th

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indonesia's controversial speaker of the House of Representatives, Marzuki Alie, has blamed the media for giving the House a bad name.