Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Articles stipulating that intelligence bodies must obtain permission from a district court chief to intercept communications have been dropped in the most re

Jakarta – Indonesia will delay the implementation of a regulation on industrial forests that would have allowed planters, especially those growing palm oil, to cultivate areas reserved

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – It was a bright sunny day when HM Soleh, a social studies teacher, inspected several classrooms to see if everything was OK.

Michael Vatikiotis – A suicide bomber attacks a church in Solo, a homemade bomb is found near another church in Ambon, more bombs are hurled at police posts in South Sulawesi and two me

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The presidential advisory council has warned the President to be more careful in disbursing social funding to the provinces as the money has allegedly been used t

Bagus BT Saragih – The nation's human rights body says the police are to blame for its failure to complete an examination of the murder case that convicted former antigraft czar Antasar

Ismira Lutfia & Arientha Primanita – The death of orangutans as a result of human encroachment into their habitats in Kalimantan amounts to nothing less than genocide, a group advoc

Ezra Sihite – The Indonesian government on Tuesday blamed a lack of legal parking spaces in New York City for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets its diplomat

Hasyim Widhiarto, Singapore – The Singaporean government on Wednesday said it regarded its current extradition treaty with Indonesia, signed in 2007, as final, despite difficulties the

Tumbang Saan, Central Kalimantan – In this village near the heart of Borneo's great, dissolving rainforest, Udatn is regarded as a man of deep spiritual knowledge.

Gary LaMoshi, Bali – Indonesia was shocked and shamed on Sunday when a suicide bomber struck a Christian church in Solo, killing at least one congregant and injuring at least 27 others.

Jakarta – The government will introduce a 12-year compulsory basic education program for all children next year, an official says.

Anita Rachman & Dessy Sagita – In the latest twist in a tiff between the House of Representatives' Budget Committee and the Corruption Eradication Commission, the antigraft body has

Ezra Sihite, Camelia Pasandaran, Dessy Sagita & Arientha Primanita – Police acknowledged on Wednesday that they had received advance warning of an attack against the Central Java ch

Ezra Sihite & Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia police have revealed that they had installed additional security in anticipation of a terrorist attack on the Bethel Injil Sepenuh (GBIS

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Ezra Sihite & Rizky Amelia – Still offended over its questioning by investigators from the antigraft agency, the House of Representatives Budget Committee said on Tuesday that it wo

Hangga Brata – The head of the country's largest Islamic organization paid a visit on Tuesday to the Solo church targeted by a suicide bomber, in a show of solidarity with the injured.

There was nothing sophisticated about the suicide bombing at an Indonesian church Sunday – using homemade explosives packed with nails, nuts and bolts, the bomber killed only himself.

The government has blocked access to about 300 Web sites that could inspire acts of terrorism, the minister of communication and information technology said on Monday.

Farouk Arnaz – Achmad Yosepa Hayat and Muhammad Syarif were truly friends in life or death.

Given the rising number of female employees in their reproductive years, the health ministry has urged employers to accommodate breastfeeding for mothers in workplaces, to ensure optima

Nearly 40 percent of Indonesian teenagers have had sex and almost half of them do not use contraception with new partners, a new international survey has found.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Following last week's rejection of a government proposal on the state intelligence bill by three political parties, human rights activists voiced similar c

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Five new political parties that have completed the administrative requirements are gearing up to face the government's fact-checking process on the parties'

Jakarta – A corruption watchdog is urging the nation's antigraft agency to investigate corruption allegations against the forestry industry in Kalimatan, which the group says cost the s

Jakarta – A recent survey conducted by Plan Indonesia shows that 33.5 percent of children aged between 13 and 18 years of age were forced into marriage, with girls having to bear the vi

Agus Triyono & Camelia Pasandaran – The Indonesian government has been accused of "lying" about what it knew before Indonesian migrant worker Ruyati binti Satubi was beheaded by aut

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Defying requests from lawmakers to be shielded from graft probes, the antigraft body will continue to question leaders of the House of Representatives' b

Desy Nurhayati, Denpasar – Environmental activists and university students held a mass prayer and art performance on Saturday to mark National Farmers Day, in protest over what they cal

Anita Rachman – "What is an ombudsman?" By now, Budi Santoso is used to hearing that question when friends ask about his work as a senior official with the Indonesian Ombudsman's office

Farouk Arnaz – Police believe that Achmad Yosepa Hayat, a possible suspect in Sunday's suicide bombing at a church in Solo, is a member of the hard-line group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid fou

Ezra Sihite, Farouk Arnaz, Hangga Brata, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – A politician has criticized Indonesia's intelligence agency's for failing to prevent a suicide bo

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – Facing heavy criticism for failing to anticipate Sunday's suicide bombing in Solo, State Intelligence Agency chief Sutanto has asked the p

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Theresia Sufa, Bogor – Members of the Taman Yasmin Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) congregation clashed with officers from the Bogor Public Order office who prohibited them from condu

Bengkulu – The Bengkulu chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) rejected a recent government ruling to classify oil palm as a forestry plant as it would expand plant

Is Indonesia headed for another round of deadly sectarian violence?

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – In the wake of Sunday's bomb attack in Solo, the House of Representatives is saying that it is optimistic that a controversial and much-de

Farouk Arnaz – Another homemade bomb was found in front of a church in Ambon on Monday, one day after a deadly blast in Solo and following two earlier explosions in the Maluku capital.

Dessy Sagita, Farouk Arnaz & Ronna Nirmala – Sunday's suicide bombing at a Protestant church, the first major terror attack in Solo, has exposed the city to scrutiny for its role as

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Apriadi Gunawan and Panca Nugraha, Medan/Mataram – In conjunction with the commemoration of National Farmers Day, about 1,000 farmers and university students staged two separate rallies

Two days before a suicide attack struck a church in Solo, a priest and a human rights activist warned of a shadowy campaign to exacerbate interreligious tension between Christians and M

A suicide bomber attacked a packed Indonesian church on Sunday killing at least one person, wounding several others and sending terrified worshippers rushing out into the streets.

The local leader of prominent Muslim youth group says he will send members to protect houses of worship following the suicide bombing that killed one and injured eight in a church in Su

Farouk Arnaz – The suicide bombing that killed at least one person and injured 20 at a church in Solo on Sunday may be linked to the recent sectarian violence that broke out in Ambon on

Bandung – The West Java Pentecost Church Association has accused the Bandung and Sumedang administrations of failing to empower local Christians in conducting religious activities in th

Jakarta – Hundreds of farmers from the Indonesian Farmers Union (SPI) rallied in front of the State Palace on Saturday in observance of National Farmers Day.

Muhammad Ikhwan, Jakarta – Indonesia will commemorate the 51st National Farmers' Day on Sept. 24.