Nivell Rayda – A group of about 10 detainees in a cramped cell at a Depok police station jostled to be first in line when guards brought around their lunch rations.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Drug trafficking has surged in Indonesia, say authorities, who are cracking down on more smugglers, dealers and producers than ever before.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – As the House of Representatives faces a volley lawsuits over its plans to build an office tower, some lawmakers have launched a petition to scrap the project.

Jakarta – It would be better if the deliberations on the Draft Law on Land Acquisition for Development be delayed while legal uncertainty over the control of land by communities remains

Jakarta – The Islamic-based United Development Party (PPP) reiterated on Saturday its "official" rejection of the presence of Islamic minority sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah in Indonesia, saying

Heru Andriyanto – Attorney General Basrief Arief says the jobs of prosecutors in all Indonesian courts should be centralized by his office, under his leadership, specifically the antigr

Indonesia Corruption Watch on Friday demanded an investigation into allegations that the Ministry of Religious Affairs inflated hajj fees during the tenure of former minister Maftuh Bas

The Religious Affairs Ministry has ordered a large Buddhist statue in North Sumatra to be taken down after it raised the ire of Muslims in the area.

Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP), once the sole Islamic party in the country, is in talks with the Crescent Star Party (PBB) about forming an alliance that would enable them

Jakarta – The Public Interest Research and Advocacy Center said Wednesday that a recent study indicated that most aid management bodies lacked accountability.

Femi Adi & Agus Suhana – Pakistan's arrest two days ago of a suspect in the October 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia, may shed light on terrorist networks in the region, according t

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Mafia Taskforce says it found indications of widespread corruption in the country's land management sector and urged the government to focus on refor

Anita Rachman – The House of Representatives and the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights agreed on Thursday to introduce drastic rule changes relating to residential and work permits f

Ismira Lutfia – Investigative journalism is on the decline in Indonesia, media activists have warned, despite an abundance of issues that require more in-depth coverage.

Omar Pidani, Jakarta – Timber smuggling from Indonesian forests along the Kalimantan-Malaysia border has long become a "pain in the neck" for the country.

Muhammad As'ad, Surabaya – Many people, from civil society activists to pedicab drivers, are debating whether it is necessary for the House of the Representatives (DPR) to build a fancy

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Zely Ariane, in Jakarta – International Women's Day is still much less known among Indonesian women than May Day is among Indonesian workers.

James Balowski, Jakarta – The gruesome murder of three members of the Ahmadiyah religious sect by an Islamist mob has left Indonesia's image of pluralism and religious tolerance in tatt

Ulma Nurriva – The alleged beating death of a politician, allegedly at the hands of Citibank debt collectors, has sparked a debate on whether the use of outsourced debt collectors, who

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Jakarta – The Central Information Commission (KIP) said Wednesday it was high time for state institutions to comply with an information law requiring them to have an impeded information

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Law and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar withdrew proposed amendments to the 2001 Anticorruption Law after previously defending a draft that critics have sai

Nurfika Osman – Activists have drawn up a set of guidelines meant to ensure people with disabilities are not shut out of future elections.

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta – According to the World Bank, the nation's middle class grew by 61.73 percent to 131 million people in 2010, up from 81 million in 2003.

Anita Rachman – Embattled House Speaker Marzuki Alie lashed out at critics on Wednesday, saying opposition to a controversial office tower project he had approved was only meant to sull

Jakarta – Prosecutors at the Semarang District Court are charging Syihabuddin, a defendant in the Temanggung riots case, of provoking people into engaging in last month's riots that dam

Ismira Lutfia – The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on Wednesday assured the public that it would not wiretap conversations taking place on social networking sites

Semarang, Central Java – Twenty five men implicated in the highly publicized burning of churches in Temanggung, West Java, in early February made their first appearance in the Semarang

Arya Dipa and Panca Nugraha, Mataram – West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan says he wants the police to investigate the attack of a house owned by an 80-year-old Ahmadiyah follower in Tasi

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – The Indonesia Ahmadiyah Congregation has issued an urgent request to West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan to revoke a recent decree issued to ban activities of the A

Officials on Thursday gave mixed reports on whether the Indonesian Government understood that the man arrested in Pakistan was actually suspected terrorist Umar Patek.

Sebastian Abbot and Niniek Karmini, Islamabad – The main Indonesian suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people was shot and wounded by security forces who arrested him in

Olivia Rondonuwu – Indonesian militants are using parcel bombs and targeting minorities to try to push an Islamist agenda on the government and they could launch further small attacks,

Ulma Haryanto & Eras Poke – As the drama continues over a recent display of supposed arrogance by a lawmaker involved in an argument over an airplane seat, flight experts have point

Netherlands officials have announced plans to immortalize assassinated Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib by naming a street in The Hague after him.

Jakarta – Should the saga of the country's soccer association be turned into a film, it would be easy to frame the figure of chairman Nurdin Halid as the villain.

Bangkalan, Madura, Bangkalan – Bangkalan Legislative Council in East Java has urged all schools in the regency to oblige their female students to wear Islamic head scarves when they are

Tan Ee Lyn & Fitri Wulandari – Indonesia wants the private sector to build more hospitals and reserve a quarter of the available beds for the poor, as it increases spending on free

Camelia Pasandaran & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Angered by some lawmakers' refusal to give the State Intelligence Agency powers to arrest terror suspects, Defense Minister Purnomo Y

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – With Tuesday's passage of the House of Representatives' new code of ethics, lawmakers are no longer allowed to visit brothels and casinos,

Aubrey Belford – It was a cloak-and-dagger moment in Indonesia's culture war between peddlers of titillation and Islamist conservatives.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government defended on Monday its planned revisions to the 2001 Anticorruption Law, which critics have said would only weaken the fight against corruption.

Rizal Ramli, Jakarta – Recent revelations from WikiLeaks documents, stating that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his family were involved in corruption are, frankly, not a big su

Jakarta – As our intelligence community is struggling hard to improve itself and provide early and accurate information to the country's top decision makers in the wake of several incid

This is the second of two reports about internal rifts besetting the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).

Dion Bisara & Mohammad Al Azhari – While the government expects the economy to grow 6.6 percent next year, worries about rising oil and food prices eating away at consumers' purchas

Anita Rachman – The government announced on Monday that it was drafting a new bill on juvenile offenders that would offer minors better protection from discrimination and physical abuse

Farouk Arnaz & Anita Rachman – After first having publicly denounced Prosperous Justice Party officials for allegedly embezzling campaign funds, ousted party co-founder Yusuf Supend