Debnath Guharoy, Roy Morgan – Asked who they would vote for if an election was held today, eligible voters from across the country continued their drift away from the coalition.

A graphic video showing the last hours of a rare Sumatran tiger as it writhes in a trap in Indonesia exposes the gruesome toll of rampant rainforest clearing, Greenpeace activists said

An Indonesian lawmaker reiterated his position on Tuesday that Greenpeace should be expelled from the country if an investigation finds the environmental group is trying to "ruin our so

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia may fail to achieve balanced population growth by 2015 without intensifying the family planning campaign to curb men's refusals to use contrace

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Jakarta – A wedding was aborted in Banten province after it was discovered that the groom was a woman, Indonesian media reported on Tuesday.

Ulma Haryanto – Corruption Eradication Commission spokesman Johan Budi said the antigraft body would not ignore allegations leveled against one of its deputy chairmen by graft suspect a

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Sentul, West Java – The Democratic Party wound up its national coordination meeting here on Sunday leaving its leadership unchanged in the wake of recent troub

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party says it will tap into the booming popularity of social networking sites in the country to carry it to victory in the 2014 elections.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A preponderance of procurement-related graft cases should prompt the government and the House of Representatives to accelerate the drafting of a bill on procureme

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The repressive methods applied in Indonesia' fight against terrorism, particularly those reportedly being applied by the police's anti-terror special deta

S.K. Zainuddin – In the fight against poverty, the yardstick used to measure progress has long been statistics.

Jakarta – A group of NGOs have called on lawmakers to include principles of food sovereignty in their draft revision to the 1996 Food Law to protect local farmers.

Dion Bisara – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono vowed on Monday to boost spending on infrastructure next year at the cost of subsidy cuts on programs including fuel and electricity to

Donny Syofyan, Padang – Democratic Party executives are supposed to question themselves over the party's politicians getting entangled in corruption.

Matthew Lee, Associated Press, Nusa Dua – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging Indonesia to promote democracy in Myanmar and countries in the Middle East and North Afr

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday urged Indonesia to cut tariffs, saying trade between the two countries lagged behind others in Southeast Asia.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Sentul – There have been few signs of concrete action by Democratic Party politicians during their two-day working meeting to repair the party's image that has been

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Indonesian children voiced their health concerns by urging the government to increase cigarette prices and intensify anti-tobacco and anti-alcohol campaigns.

Lisa Siregar – Dewi Triana found herself sitting cross-legged in a small room listening to sermons denouncing Indonesia and exhorting her to help make the country an Islamic state.

Nivell Rayda – Its controversial leader, Abu Bakar Bashir, has been locked up inside a heavily fortified detention facility in Jakarta, but hard-line group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid seems

Anita Rachman – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie was expected to read out a brief end-of-year report before the close of the plenary session on Friday – marking the end of

Ismira Lutfia – Activists have welcomed a new policy that may allow the direct hiring of Indonesian migrant workers by prospective Malaysian employers, but they insist the mechanism mus

Arientha Primanita & Febriamy Hutapea – Just as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono broke his silence on the Muhammad Nazaruddin case on Friday and urged the rogue former Democratic

Once renowned for its pristine beaches, Untung Jawa Island, just an hour's boat ride from Jakarta, is now known as "trash island." With hundreds of tons of styrofoam, plastic and the oc

Jakarta – Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) from Indonesia representative Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin said Islamic radicalis

Ronna Nirmala – Around 5,000 people rallied in front of the House of Representatives on Friday to demand lawmakers ratify pass the much-discussed and delayed social security bill.

Dion Bisara – The House of Representatives approved on Friday a hefty 35 percent increase in fuel subsidies amid speculation that the government was planning to raise subsidized fuel pr

Stephanie Riady – This past May the national education minister proudly announced a staggering 99.2 percent passing rate for students taking the national exam.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Indonesia looks set to overtake Thailand as home to the largest automotive industry in Southeast Asia on the back of its rising middle class, an automotive indus

Jakarta – The Indonesian military continues to misunderstand the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), with the result that Indonesia still has not ratified the intern

Ulma Haryanto – The head of the workers' union at a Converse factory in Sukabumi, West Java, dismissed on Wednesday a recent report by The Associated Press alleging rampant rights viola

Kupang – Nine soldiers tried for beating to death Charles Mali, 17, a detainee at the Military Batallion 744 headquarters in Atambua, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), were all sentenced to les

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Jakarta – East Kalimantan Prosecutors Office head Faried Harianto said on Thursday that petty corruption is acceptable and should not be investigated.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Democratic Party executives must follow through President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's vow to clean up his party by imposing strict sanctions to all corrupt an

Lauren Zumbach – Human Rights Watch has called on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to focus on military abuses, freedom of expression and religious minorities' rights during her vi

Kinanti Pinta Karana – Tifatul Sembiring, the minister of communications and information technology, has been acknowledged as Indonesia's most famous politician by a Web site that gauge

Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has accused politicians, community leaders and local governments of being in thrall to the tobacco industry to perpetuate the industry's i

Dessy Sagita – As someone living with HIV, Chacha said he was concerned by reports suggesting his much-needed antiretroviral medication may soon be harder to come by.

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has called on the Law and Human Rights Minister to eliminate the death penalty provision in the anti-corru

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A lawmaker said that the government should improve how it monitors foreigners' activities in Indonesia to prevent espionage.

Ulma Haryanto – In a rare display of unity, top law enforcement officials on Tuesday agreed to give better protection to whistle-blowers, recognizing them as an integral part of the cou

Jakarta – A survey conducted by the human rights watchdog Imparsial found that there is a widespread public perception that the police frequently use torture as a weapon against suspect

Anita Rachman – The Judicial Commission could soon have the authority to demand the tapping of the phones of errant judges after the House of Representatives voiced its approval of the

As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travelled to Bali, the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) urged her to condition US security assistance to Indonesia on real imp

This is an important opportunity for Clinton to speak publicly about the need for genuine military reform. – Elaine Pearson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch

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Ulma Haryanto – Indonesian Antigraft officials revealed on Tuesday that they were working with the Finance Ministry to attempt to recover Rp 1.6 trillion ($187 million) owed in unpaid t