Jakarta – Seven ad hoc corruption judges complained that the Supreme Court had not paid their salaries and housing allowance for two months.

Jakarta – The government should be more serious about controlling the rising rate of inflation.

Jakarta – Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the National Police for "tolerating" hate crimes in South Sulawesi during the attack on an Ahmadiyah congregation recently.

Mahfiroh, Jakarta – Women's activists including the Women's Legal Aid Foundation (LBH APIK) and the Free Women National Network (JRPM) are supporting television host Luna Maya as a vict

Nurfika Osman – Embattled celebrity Luna Maya went to the country's top rights body on Friday for help in what is becoming an increasingly bitter battle with the justice system.

Gillian Terzis, Tokyo – Social stigma, cash-strapped NGOs, and moralising politicians are stopping Indonesia taking necessary action to prevent an epidemic.

Nurfika Osman & AFP – Environmentalists have demanded that the government crack down on mining and plantation firms operating illegally in the country, following a startling officia

Heru Andriyanto & NYT – The National Police have named him as the figurehead of an Al Qaeda-style terrorist network in Aceh and prosecutors accused him of mobilizing people to condu

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar, Bali – After three decades of unchallenged rule, the president clings to power amid massive street protests calling for his resignation and reform.

Peter Alford – Inflation topped 7 per cent in Indonesia last month, its highest level in 22 months.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Alliance of Religious People's Harmony in West Java objected to Tuesday's mobilization of Sirnamiskin Muslim boarding school (pesantren) students against the co

Indonesia admitted on Tuesday that hundreds of mine and plantation companies are operating illegally in Central Kalimantan, and promised to beef up law enforcement to protect forests an

Arientha Primanita & Obey Wibinnov Sianipar – Hipolitus is worried about his job, and for good reason: He's working on borrowed time.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Respected Corruption Eradication Commission officials Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M.

Camelia Pasandaran – Seemingly unfazed by implied political threats, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) continued detaining former lawmakers in connection with the Rp 24 billio

AHRC-STM-023-2011 - Joint Statement by the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) in Indonesia and the Asian Human Rights Commission.

Ismira Lutfia – Migrant Care says it has raised almost Rp 100 million ($11,000) in less than a month to help repatriate hundreds of Indonesian migrant workers languishing under a bridge

Nick Chatterjee – A booming economy, falling debt and market-friendly reforms could see Indonesia secure an investment grade credit rating as early as this year, putting it on a par wit

Max Lane – In hindsight, there was a great deal of beauty in the scene.

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – South Sulawesi Police used force to evacuate around 40 Ahmadiyah followers from their mosque on Jl.

Yuli Krisna & Kinanti Pinta Karana – Few, if any, seem to have been pleased by Monday's verdict that found pop star Nazril "Ariel" Irham guilty of "giving other people the opportuni

Indonesia Corruption Watch has asked the Corruption Eradication Commission to refuse to attend any hearings at the House of Representatives without the presence of its deputies, Bibit S

State Secretary Sudi Silalahi on Tuesday slammed lawmakers for wrongly interpreting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's statement about his salary and for starting the 'Coins for Presi

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Nurfika Osman – A medical expert has warned that many Indonesian doctors may be putting major pharmaceutical companies ahead of their patients' well-being when it comes to prescribing d

Heru Andriyanto & Yuli Krisna – Moments before stepping into the courtroom on Monday, Nazril "Ariel" Irham expressed hope that he would walk out a free man.

Al Araf, Jakarta – The Jayapura Military Court sentenced three Army soldiers to between eight and 10 months of imprisonment for their role in the torture of civilians in Puncak Jaya, Pa

Farouk Arnaz – National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said on Monday that they will speed up the investigation of celebrities Luna Maya and Cut Tari.

An Indonesian pop star who rocked the nation when sex tapes he made with celebrity girlfriends appeared online has been sentenced to 3-and-a-half years in jail.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists find that the one-stop service for issuing a business license, imposed to prevent red tape, still leaves opportunities for corruption.

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Political corruption is reaching alarming new levels, depriving people of better social welfare and jeopardizing the country's democra

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Prolonged bad weather in Jakarta and its surrounding areas has increased the threat of poverty for fishermen in Banten.

Irawaty Wardhany, Jakarta – The city government is defending its environmental record following a report from the central government that named Jakarta the city with worst environmental

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Two state-owned contractors responsible for renovating legislators' homes may have pocketed 80 percent of the project fund, thus leading to substandard constr

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) announced plans to look into the trial process of former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief and murder convict

Dina Indrasafitri/Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Former vice president and Golkar Party elder Jusuf Kalla called on the 19 politicians arrested in a bribery case surrounding a 2004 central bank

Jakarta – Thousands of honoree staff of state schools staged a demonstration in front of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Monday, causing traffic jams in the area.

Alex Walls – Many Muslim women have suffered in silence through years of repression and discrimination in school, at work and at home.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The top antigraft body will not bow to pressure from angry politicians whose colleagues were detained for allegedly receiving bribes in the 2004 election of

Alex Walls – "Do you sell child pornography?" I ask the bewildered sales girl at the DVD store politely.

Rahmat, Makassar – Dozens of protesters from the Islamic Defenders Front surrounded an Ahmadiyah center in Makassar on Friday, demanding that the sect disband.

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Sleman – The first year and 100 days of the second term of the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice President Boediono was marked by a student protest in

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – Anticorruption activists did the only thing they could on Friday in response to the release of Artalyta "Ayin" Suryani from prison: Raising their voices by pr

Heru Andriyanto – Artalyta Suryani, the wealthy Indonesian businesswoman convicted of bribing a prosecutor and later busted enjoying spa treatments in prison, is now a free woman.

Camelia Pasandaran – In a sign that one of the country's most anticipated corruption trials will begin soon, 19 suspects in the Rp 24 billion ($2.7 million) bribery scandal surrounding

Medan, North Sumatra – Students grouped under the North Sumatra Students Strategic Assessment Institute collected coins amounting to Rp 221,650 from three spots in Medan on Friday to be

Yogyakarta – Scores of demonstrators from the Student Struggle Center for National Liberation (Pembebasan) held an action in front of the Gajah Mada University traffic circle on Friday