Dofa Fasila – A planned week-long strike by workers across the capital was averted after the Jakarta wage council approved a more substantial provincial minimum wage rise for next year.

Agus Triyono & Dessy Sagita – Antigraft activists have urged lawmakers to drop a prosecutor and a retired policeman from the list of leadership candidates for the Corruption Eradica

Theresia Sufa, Bogor, West Java – Two groups engaged in a scuffle on Sunday, hurling verbal abuse at each other in defending their position over whether the Bogor municipal administrati

Camelia Pasandaran – Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa will likely be declared the presidential candidate for the National Mandate Party, a senior member of the party s

Bastiaan Scherpen – After a brief controversy, a ruthless former governor-general of the Dutch East India Company is back on his pedestal in his Holland birthplace.

Daniel Flitton and Tom Allard, Nusa Dua, Indonesia – Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono quizzed Julia Gillard and Barack Obama over the new American "base" in northern Austr

Vento Saudale & Ronna Nirmala, Bogor – The conflict over the GKI Yasmin church has dragged on for so long that West Bogor residents have formed a group and taken to the streets to u

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Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration denies any religious predilection in sealing off an Ahmadiyah mosque in East Jakarta this week.

Karlis Salna – Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pointed to the growing strategic significance of Australia's relationship with Indonesia as she prepares for a meeting with President Sus

Jakarta – As the Indonesian government looks set to lift a moratorium on sending migrant workers to Malaysia, workers' advocate group Migrant Care is wondering whether the two countries

Dofa Fasila – The Jakarta Administration announced on Friday that the provincial minimum wage would be raised next year by about 16 percent, setting the stage for a strike by workers ho

Jakarta – Jakarta's penitentiaries are not conducive for rehabilitation, as life inside is all but ruled by money, activists said.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Local tea farmers asked the government on Friday to regulate tea imports, which have reportedly begun to pressure the domestic market.

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Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The North Sumatra Police have acknowledged that gambling remains rife in various regions across the province due to the protection afforded to gambling practice

Gede Suardana, Denpasar – A protest action against the 19th ASEAN Summit in Balinese provincial capital of Denpasar on Friday November 18 was marred by a scuffle between police and demo

Anita Rachman – With jockeying for the 2014 legislative and presidential elections already under way, legislators are making the case for campaign advertising to be regulated to allow e

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Amid the alarming trend of media moguls wading into politics, the nation's lawmakers are planning to devise regulations to prevent media abuse during electio

Jakarta – The Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI) chief M.

Bruce Gale – It was a Saturday morning and five-year-old Fitria Judin was playing with her two older sisters outside their house on a plantation in Bengkulu's Kepahiang regency.

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief Busyro Muqoddas says the government should not appoint political party members as ministers because this inevitably leads to corr

Jakarta – East Jakarta officials sealed off a mosque belonging to a group of Ahmadiyah followers in Duren Sawit on Thursday, saying that the place of worship violated zoning regulations

Elaine Pearson – "Now we are vilified," an Ahmadiyah imam told me last week at a mosque outside Jakarta that is threatened with closure.

Jakarta – Residents of Sritanjung village in Mesuji regency, Bandar Lampung, have urged the government to revoke the land use certificate (HGU) of a crude palm plantation company operat

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Police in North Sumatra have uncovered a same-sex marriage in Toba Samosir regency, after the "bridegroom" turned out to be a woman.

Ezra Sihite – Indonesian House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie has reacted with anger – but little substance – to comments by Constitutional Court chief Mahfud M.D.

Bagus BT Saragih – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Busyro Muqoddas is facing backlash for sharp remarks directed at lawmakers over the last few months, which may make i

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office announced on Tuesday night that it had named suspects in a corruption case implicating former Democratic Party treasurer and la

Vento Saudale, Bogor – It's been almost a year since he was found guilty of falsifying signatures in a case that led to the troubles of the embattled GKI Yasmin Church, but local reside

Jakarta – The government is planning to dissolve 10 national commissions, the duties of which have been overlapping with other state institutions.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Harifin Andi Tumpa has told Bogor's controversial mayor Diani Budiarto to stop making excuses and implement a ruling to lift a ban on the GKI Yasmin church.

Bandung – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) urged West Java Police on Wednesday to release four individuals detained for protesting against plans for an iron mine in Cile

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged United States President Barack Obama to tackle Indonesia's leaders during his visit this week on issues including outbreaks of mob violence against

Ismira Lutfia – Attorney General Basrief Arief admitted on Tuesday that a lack of political will was hindering the processing of cases involving human rights violations.

Hundreds of members of the Islamic hard-line group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia demonstrated against the imminent arrival in Bali of US President Barack Obama at the Hotel Indonesia traffic

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Leaked and confidential state documents have unveiled that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may have been involved in the controversial bailout of Bank Cen

A United States government commission has called on US President Barack Obama to speak out against Indonesia's growing religious intolerance when he meets President Susilo Bambang Yudho

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Jakarta – As many as 400 Newmont Nusa Tenggara's workers on Wednesday conducted a strike demanding the company clarify over-time payments.

Jakarta – A former prisoner of Salemba penitentiary in Central Jakarta, Syarifudin S.

Indonesian police have questioned a researcher who uncovered the alleged torture and killing of orangutans in a palm oil plantation area in East Kalimantan.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Rizky Amelia & Ezra Sihite – A Prosperous Justice Party lawmaker said on Monday that the corruption case against former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad

Ulma Haryanto – More than 30 people claiming to be from the notorious Islamic Defenders Front besieged an Ahmadiyah mosque in the Jatibening area of Bekasi on Monday, demanding it be se

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives was back in session on Monday, kind of.

Ulma Haryanto – A draft bill on religious harmony being prepared at the House of Representatives is likely to promote intolerance rather than counter it, a human rights watchdog said on

Jakarta – Vigilante groups in Bekasi, West Java, issued a threatening warning to the local Ahmadiyah community on Monday, claiming that the followers of the Islamic sect had not abided

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has completed a draft of the so-called religious tolerance bill, which observers claim would threaten the very essence of pluralism a

Camelia Pasandaran – An Indonesian politician has responded to allegations that poor quality laws passed by lawmakers were due to corruption and vested interests by admitting the claims

Jakarta – The GKI Yasmin church congregation, which has been deprived of its place of worship after its church was sealed off, says it is seeking protection from the Nahdlatul Ulama Exe