Heru Andriyanto – High-profile terror defendant Abu Bakar Bashir was interrogated by the court on Monday over his role in the training of militants in Aceh.

Arientha Primanita – According to analysts commenting on a new poll, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's strategy of prioritizing his political image at the expense of decisive action

Anita Rachman – Corruption watchdogs have stepped up their attacks on the controversial legislative building project after reports linking a graft suspect to a private company bidding o

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Three new political parties officially registered themselves on Monday to participate in the 2014 legislative and presidential polls, an official said.

Millions of Christians across the country marked Easter Sunday in peace, blending celebrations for the resurrection of Jesus with unique local traditions.

Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman – Indonesia Corruption Watch has urged the House of Representatives to drop plans to amend the Corruption Eradication Commission Law, insisting the revi

Jakarta – Conflicts between the Indonesian military (TNI) and the people shows that internal reform within military as an institution is not fully complete.

Candra Malik, Kebumen – A leading human rights body accused the military on Sunday of firing live ammunition at farmers during a clash earlier this month in Kebumen, Central Java.

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia says it will resume sending migrant workers to Malaysia after it implemented a ban in June 2009 because of a spate of shocking abuse cases and the general

Agus Maryono, Cilacap – Local policies related to the authority over forestry management on the island of Nusakambangan have been blamed for damage to thousands of hectares of forest ar

Mataram – At least 50 workers rallied at Mataram Prosecutor's Office to demand justice following the alleged beating of a colleague by a village official.

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – The Bandung High Court has rejected the appeal filed by Peterpan frontman Nazril Irham against his conviction on pornography charges, a judge said on Monday.

Hendra A Setyawan, Jakarta – The discourse on the simplification of political parties such as by increasing the parliamentary threshold (the minimum number of votes required to obtain a

Farouk Arnaz – Pepi Fernando, the alleged mastermind, financier and bomb-maker behind the Good Friday bomb plot and book-bomb campaign, was a former member of the extremist Indonesian I

Vice president Boediono said Indonesia should not depend on the low cost of labor to attract investment.

Arientha Primanita – The government has completed its revisions to a law that Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi says will detail new arrangements for mass organizations.

Heru Andriyanto – The Supreme Court has questioned a female judge for allegedly instigating a protest movement on Facebook to demand a pay rise and better facilities for judges, bringin

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The intense criticism over lawmakers' overseas study trips is not a message that people want the jaunts stopped, but that they want a greater say in their pla

Nivell Rayda – Ever since Muchdi Purwoprandjono announced in February that he was abandoning the nationalist Great Indonesia Movement Party he helped create for the Islam-based United D

Medan – The backing of gambling by military and police personnel has been increasing over the years, according to a police officer.

Jakarta – To commemorate Kartini Day this year, a coalition of women's rights activists under the Indonesian Women Front demanded the government prioritize the provision of adequate soc

Farouk Arnaz – A lucky turn of events appeared to have led police to the timely discovery of the plan to blow up a church and weapons warehouse in Serpong, Tangerang.

Malang, East Java – Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) chairman Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq has said recent problems that have hit his party were contrived by other parties as a test.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia's grand experiment with participatory government is stumbling badly amid rampant corruption. The problem, critics argue, is too much democracy.

Jakarta – A series of amendments to the Constitution have expanded the authority of the legislative body while undermining the prominence of other governing powers, experts say.

Jakarta – Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, son of the late president Soeharto, has cofounded the National Republic mass organization, or Nasrep, another of its founders has said.

Khairul Saleh and Oyos Saroso H.N., Palembang/Lampung – A clash between employees of a plantation firm and local residents in South Sumatra left seven people dead on Thursday.

The son of the late President Suharto was not physically present at Friday's debut of the party, but a photograph of him in sunglasses and a baseball cap was ubiquitous on the walls alo

Niniek Karmini, Cirebon, Indonesia – Muhammad Syarif was by all accounts a hothead: He smashed up shops that sold liquor, argued about religion, kicked people he deemed lazy.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Activists have called for the Army to pull out hundreds of soldiers who are guarding a disputed plot of land in the Urutsewu area of Kebumen district, where a

Farouk Arnaz – The plotters of a foiled Easter church bombing in Indonesia planned to film the attack and could be behind other atrocities, police said Friday, with the nation on its hi

Fitri R., Mataram – Hundreds of vendors and fishermen destroyed stalls and storage boxes at a market in Mataram, Lombok, on Friday to protest an influx of fish from outside the area tha

Olivia Rondonuwu – For anyone interested in the state of democracy in Indonesia, a look at recent headlines is instructive: a lawmaker caught watching porn in the legislature, 15 politi

Jakarta – Female activists from the Indonesia Women's Front plan to march for women's rights on Kartini Day in Jakarta on Thursday.

Femi Adi – Indonesia's government must adopt new strategies to target terrorist acts carried out by individuals after authorities dismantled or disrupted larger organizations, the Inter

Jakarta – As terrorists in the country shift from forming larger to smaller groups, the police's early terror-plot detection ability becomes more challenging, experts say.

Ulma Haryanto – It's all a matter of politics, corruption watchdogs say, when figuring out why efforts to eradicate corruption over the past decade seem to have done very little.

Johannes Nugroho – Today marks the 132nd anniversary of the birth of Raden Ajeng Kartini, Indonesia's most celebrated feminist.

Hans David Tampubolon and Nani Afrida – Amid irregularities in the police investigation of the death of a Citibank client while talking to bank debt collectors, the local unit of US ban

Amid growing radicalism in Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has reportedly supported the People's Consultative Assembly's call to extend the teaching of national ideology a

Medan – National exams held at senior high schools in Medan have been marred by cheating involving the schools and students, an NGO says.

Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Ministry has called on regions to adopt an official standardized exam for Islamic studies in schools.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – The suicide bombing in a mosque last week was only the latest terrorist attack in West Java, where minority sects and churches have also been hit by a recent wav

Dessy Sagita – The Health Ministry said on Wednesday that it was preparing programs to fight increasing cases of overnutrition among Indonesian children.

Jakarta – An independent legal system and strong mass organizations could prevent Indonesia's oligarchy from dominating politics, an American democratic activist says.

Candra Malik & Antara – The country's leading rights body said on Wednesday that it had sent investigators to Central Java to probe a bloody weekend clash between soldiers and farme

Ulma Haryanto – A watchdog on agrarian-related conflict has said it had recorded 106 land disputes across the nation in the whole of last year.

Fitri – Hundreds of residents marched toward the Batu Layar subdistrict office in West Nusa Tenggara on Wednesday to demand that officials immediately cancel plans to split their villag

Jakarta – A spokesman for the Indonesian Military (TNI) confirmed on Wednesday that three TNI members were involved in the alleged torture and murder of a debt collector in Jakarta on M

Hans David Tampubolon and Nani Afrida – It has been more than three weeks since the death of National Unity Party (PBB) secretary-general Irzen Octa, 50.