Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has dismissed and demoted 24 prosecutors and 94 others were punished for abusing their authority, lack of discipline or other violations.

Dessy Sagita – The mother of a teacher at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia who was burned to death two years ago after he was accused of impregnating a female student is still se

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The bill on intelligence currently deliberated within the House of Representatives is flawed because it focuses more on the State Intelligence Body (BIN)

Indra Harsaputra, Pamekasan – The Pamekasan District Court sentenced a woman to time served on Monday. Her crime was stealing a used sarong valued at Rp 3,000 (35 US cents).

Less than two weeks before the fasting month of Ramadan begins, locals in Pamekasan district, East Java, are being encouraged to dress "properly" to respect the holy month, including wh

Chrestella Tan – The Bogor administration has been given 60 days to reopen the embattled GKI Yasmin Church, after a government oversight body declared the mayor guilty of "maladministra

Hangga Brata, Karanganyar, Central Java – The second of two Islamic schools mired in controversy for refusing to carry out mandatory flag-raising ceremonies that they deemed idolatrous

Dessy Sagita – A global human rights group criticized Jakarta police for its failure to investigate the attack on a human rights training session for a group of transvestites in Depok,

Ulma Haryanto – Members of radical Muslim group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid say they took offense at being labeled terrorists following a weekend incident in which residents of an East Java

Police found more than two dozen home-made bombs in eastern Indonesia following an explosion last week inside an Islamic boarding school suspected of being a bomb factory, a spokesman s

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta – A long-running tax saga is keeping this summer's Hollywood blockbusters out of Indonesian cinemas and drawing new negative attention to the country's often dy

As the country's largest Islamic organization celebrated its 85th anniversary on Sunday, religious and national leaders vowed to tackle the rising tide of Islamic radicalization and to

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Sixteen political parties in Aceh, two of them local parties, have called for the rescheduling of the gubernatorial election and have threatened a boycot

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Corruption fugitive Muhammad Nazaruddin has been fired from the Democratic Party.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The main obstacle to the immediate passage of a long-awaited bill on social security is the government's reluctance to relinquish control of four lucrative st

Zaky Pawas & Chrestella Tan – Parts of Jakarta resembled an urban battlefield over the weekend, with by far the worst outbreak of street brawling yet and damage caused across the ci

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – It is common knowledge that poor performance has been the major hindrance of government administration in Indonesia.

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Dion Bisara & Francezka Nangoy – The government's plan to ban the export of raw minerals under a deadline three years from now may be feasible and could even create jobs once smelte

Jakarta – Following the lead of the former head, other executives of the West Java chapter of the National Democrat (Nasdem) renounced their membership of the organization due to its tr

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Ismira Lutfia – Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring denied on Friday that he had called for government control over social media sites, saying his remarks a day earlier had been m

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A security guard, sitting and smoking at the reception of Building C at the Agriculture Ministry complex, answered, "Fifth floor", when asked about the locat

Bruce Gale – An elderly man was left literally rolling in pain outside the emergency room of the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM) in Central Jakarta in mid-May after being den

As if to mock the fruitless efforts to bring former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin to justice, an NGO is offering a Rp 100 million (US$11,700) bounty for anyone who can

An Indonesian volcano has erupted, spewing rocks, lava and ash hundreds of metres into the air, an official says, three days after its alert status was raised to the highest level.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – Youth organizations and labor unions appealed to the House of Representatives on Thursday to ensure the immediate passage of the controver

Jakarta – The government should revise the 2004 Migrant Worker Law to better protect Indonesians working overseas amid rising concerns for their safety, experts say.

Jakarta – Several non-governmental organizations grouped under the People's Coalition for Police Reform rallied in front of the National Police headquarters on Friday, demanding a full

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Jakarta – Amid public pressure to enact the Social Insurers bill (BPJS), the government says the nation lacks the infrastructure to implement universal healthcare.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – More people were implicated in graft allegations on Wednesday after the first hearing of the Southeast Asian Games bribery scandal trial at the Corruption Court i

Dessy Sagita – Almost 100 members of a Jakarta-based vigilante organization staged a noisy rally outside the Indonesian headquarters of Greenpeace, labeling the international environmen

Niniek Karmini and Stephen Wright, Sukabumi, Indonesia – Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and

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Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tifatul Sembiring said that the Indonesian government was obligated to serve as a gatekeeper for the Internet, including social med

Jakarta/Brussels – Indonesia should put the passage of a controversial intelligence bill on hold until there is a more comprehensive assessment of its security needs, according to a new

Disgraced Prosperous Justice Party lawmaker Muhammad Misbakhun was spotted enjoying a day out of prison at a mall in South Jakarta on Wednesday.

Jakarta – Small political parties met the leaders of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, demanding major political parties keep the legislative threshold at 2.5 percent.

Among the many reforms Indonesia instituted after 1998, the resolution to downsize a bloated bureaucracy and make government more efficient stands out as one of the most significant.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Election Law will see major changes after a legislative committee, established to probe alleged election fraud in the 2009 polls, found that many alleged

Further information on UA: 212/11 Index: ASA 21/019/2011 Indonesia Date: 11 July 2011 Date: 14 January 2011

Ref: TG ASA 21/2011.029. Index: ASA 21/020/2011

Bandung – Thousands of workers staged a rally in Bandung on Tuesday in protest of a city administration policy that they feared would trigger mass layoffs.

Palu – The Labor Affairs Agency has criticized local companies of being reluctant to register their employees as members of Jamsostek, the national social and work insurance program.

Jakarta – A group of environmental NGOs say they will ask the State Administrative Court in Jakarta to overturn the government's decision to permit PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (NNT) to con

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The United Development Party announced a novel, if not desperate, plan to rejuvenate its thinning ranks on Wednesday – recruit former members who have jumped

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Sidoarjo, East Java – Hundreds of mudflow disaster victims from Mindi village in Sidoarjo, East Java, staged a rally on Tuesday, by blocking highways and dismantli