Heru Andriyanto – Activists on Tuesday said the Attorney General's Office should now have enough ammunition to launch further legal action against former top intelligence official Muchd

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Jayapura Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr.

Banjir Ambarita – The family of a female detainee who was forced to perform oral sex on three officers at the Jayapura Police's detention center has reported the case to the National Co

Nivell Rayda – Security analysts warned on Wednesday of growing alliances between hard-line Muslim groups and fundamentalists with close ties to terrorist cells, as the nation is grippe

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives deputy speaker implicated in the country's latest sex video scandal claims it is a ploy to undermine his party ahead of the 2014

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Elisabeth Oktofani & Antara – The Indonesian film industry appeared lukewarm to the government's plan to allocate a special budget to subsidize the production of films that "instill

Zoe Kenny – The story of women in Indonesia is inseparable from the development of the Indonesian nation itself.

Jakarta – Twenty percent of District III of Kerinci Seblat National Park in Bengkulu and South Sumatra has been destroyed by farming and the local administration's construction projects

Rendi A. Witular – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono launched on Feb. 22 a blueprint for the nation's economic development for the next 14 years.

Makassar – An Ahmadiyah community in Sigi, Central Sulawesi, says the local House of Representatives (DPRD) was discriminating against them by demanding they stop using a house in the a

Jakarta – A decree regulating restrictions on Ahmadiyah activities issued by the East Java governor is against the Constitution and harms the nation's value of pluralism, noted lawyer T

Camelia Pasandaran – The central government on Tuesday supported moves by the East Java governor to ban Ahmadiyah in the province.

Jakarta – Of 524 local administration heads across the country, there are 160 who are undergoing legal processes, an official says.

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police announced on Tuesday that they will set up a new unit to deal with riots and violent clashes.

The Indonesian government is planning to allocate a special budget to subsidize the production of films that "instill love to the nation, raise patriotism and national defense."

Farouk Arnaz – Police investigating the deadly attack on members of the Ahmadiyah community in Cikeusik, Banten, have made another two arrests, taking the total number of suspects to 12

Suciwati, the wife of murdered human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, is planning to issue a case review request to the Supreme Court on her civil case against PT Garuda Indonesia, th

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Groups condemned bans issued by local administrations on the followers of Ahmadiyah following a fatal mob attack in Cikeusik village, Banten.

Nivell Rayda – When Gatot received a call on his cellphone from the hospital where his wife was being treated, he naturally assumed it would be about her condition.

Nivell Rayda – The roads of Cipacing in West Java are lined with small shops selling air guns.

Jakarta – The splinter group of the Association of Indonesian Farmers (HKTI) filed on Saturday a report to the Jakarta Police against the organization's original group chairman, Prabowo

The government has targeted $80 billion in foreign and domestic investment in the manufacturing sector in the next five years, Antara reported, citing an Industry Ministry official.

With four more small parties set to join the Great Indonesia Movement Party and the ruling coalition warming to it, party chairman Prabowo Subianto's road to the presidency in 2014 is l

Heru Andriyanto – Less than two weeks after declaring the arrest of a Tangerang prosecutor a clear case of entrapment, the Attorney General's Office has backed off from its comments, sa

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – For several days, hundreds of frustrated truck drivers have had to eat and sleep on the road to the port city of Merak, Banten.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Amid the unfortunate recent outbreak of what is now called "mob justice", groups are pushing legislators to issue a new law to define such violence and disorder c

Taufik Darusman – Didik Setyo Handono, a judge at the South Jakarta District Court, deserves a medal: He is the first judge to apply the legal principle of reverse burden of proof since

Keith Loveard – The government is finding out the real cost of a free press: Nobody's reputation is safe, particularly if a media owner decides to take sides politically.

Francezka Nangoy – State power utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara plans to cut industrial electricity rates for late-night use, it said on Sunday, but the plan does not sit well with som

Geradi Yudhistira, Jakarta – The government has responded to the impending food crisis by developing a food estate in the Papua regency of Merauke (MIFEE).

Jakarta – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is calling for Muslims to take part in a long march in Jakarta on March 1 to demand disbanding of Islamic minority sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah.

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Panca Nugraha, Bandung/Mataram – An alliance of Muslim hard-liners once again called for Ahmadiyah disbandment in Bandung on Friday and threatened anarchic movement

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – Senior Democratic Party officials on Friday urged their two biggest partners to leave Indonesia's ruling coalition because they no longer

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – After its failed push for a special inquiry into corruption in the tax office, the Golkar Party has come up with a new issue: the leadersh

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has declared itself ready to become an inclusive political party and embrace all groups of society, a party executive say

Jakarta – Local administrations are preventing community forestry projects from being enacted and are instead awarding access to forests to businesses, a study reveals.

Bandar Lampung – A new satellite image shows that about 96 percent of total mangrove forests in Lampung have disappeared, a mangrove conservation working group from Lampung Province say

Hamish McDonald – With popular uprisings turfing out rulers in Tunisia, Egypt and perhaps elsewhere in the Arab world, a lot of analysts have focused on fears of "contagion" in other re

Fitri, Eras Poke, Heru Andriyanto & Antara – Regional chiefs in some Indonesian provinces are moving ahead with plans to either ban completely or restrict the activities of Ahmadiya

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The fallout from a proposed tax graft inquiry has triggered a change in the nation's political landscape, with the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam's derogatory attacks on religious leaders and media outlets were aimed at diverting the public's attention from the nation's real

Vento Saudale & Ulma Haryanto – Ahmad Nuryamin, an Ahmadi accused of wounding a 15-year-old boy, told the Cibinong District Court on Thursday that he had panicked and "accidentally"

Jakarta – Anti-Ahmadiyah protesters planned to move their demonstration to the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) headquarters after demonstrating in front of the Hotel Indon

West Jakarta Mayor Burhanuddin has called for premarital sex between teenagers in big cities to be combated by building more mosques and educating youths on matters of religion and mora

Elaine Pearson – Last July, violence erupted when municipal police and hundreds of people organized by militant Islamist groups tried to break into an Ahmadiyah mosque in Manis Lor vill

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Bekasi District Court sentenced the suspended leader of the Bekasi branch of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), Raya Murhali Barda, to five-and-a-half

Jakarta – The National Police expressed Thursday its joy in welcoming back their former chief detective, who is currently undergoing a trial for alleged graft, Comr.

Ismira Lutfia – The Press Council is appealing to media companies to better champion the safety of their journalists covering risky beats in the wake of what it deemed was injustice in