Bagus BT Saragih and Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie called on legislators to reject their newly completed official residences because of the p

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – A coalition of religious figures has vowed to remain critical of the government's failings, following a meeting on Monday night with President Susilo Bambang

Peter Alford, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has issued a flurry of directives dealing with Indonesia's most troublesome corruption cases, as he tries to take charge of an

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Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has lashed out at the light sentence the South Jakarta District Court handed down to former taxman Gayus Tambunan, saying it woul

Anita Rachman & Camelia Pasandaran – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi has painted a bleak picture of the country's regional heads, saying too many have been implicated in graft s

Elisabeth Oktofani & Anita Rachman – Female legislators and regional heads are failing to use their positions to promote gender equality, a women's rights activist said on Tuesday.

Amir Tejo & Candra Malik, Surabaya – A congress of the Ansor Youth Movement, which is linked to the country's largest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama, on Monday elected a new

Rinaldi Ridwan, Jakarta – Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring's plan to ban BlackBerry service in Indonesia unless it filters pornographic content is a

A credit rating upgrade to one step below investment grade for Indonesia by Moody's Investors Service was overdue given the persistent improvement of the country's economy in the past f

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Dessy Sagita – The military says it wants to serve as a model of discipline and good conduct for the country and its battered legal system.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Golkar legislator Bambang Susatyo has urged a member of the presidentially appointed Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force to reconsider his position

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – The critically-endangered Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) population in Way Kambas National Park (TNWK) has declined past recent estimates as

Nurfika Osman – Religious freedom advocates have expressed disappointment with the government over its failure to stand up to hard-line Islamic groups that have unlawfully persecuted me

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – The forestry minister on Monday warned some logging companies that they needed to stop harvesting trees from natural woodlands immediately.

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Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Despite a recent report identifying Indonesia as the only truly free country in Southeast Asia, the country's Asean human rights commissioner said weak law enfo

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – A hard-line Islamic group is set to file a class-action lawsuit against the Bogor administration for its failure to rescind the Indonesian Christian Church

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The government kicked off its process to qualify political parties looking to contest the 2014 polls, while smaller parties requested more time pending a jud

Vento Saudale & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Angered over the dismal conditions of the nation's pockmarked roadways and the attendant traffic snarls and safety hazards they create, residen

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Two political parties loyal to Indonesia's ruling party on Sunday said they would continue to stand by the Democrats, effectively making it almost impossible fo

Elisabeth Oktofani – The government moratorium on sending Indonesian domestic migrant workers to Malaysia has worsened the unemployment situation in the country, as alternative jobs hav

Arientha Primanita – Indonesia Corruption Watch called in a news conference for a thorough audit of the much-maligned Indonesian Football Association's (PSSI) finances, which the group

Jakarta – Seventeen of 33 governors in the country have been named graft suspects, Minister of Home Affairs Gamawan Fauzi revealed Monday.

Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia – Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring is holding firm to his Jan.

Indonesia – Six poor farmers remained in hospital on Sunday after they were allegedly shot by members if the National Police's notorious Mobile Brigade (Brimob) in Jambi province on Sat

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – The importance of electing a new leader for Ansor, the youth wing of the Nahdlatul Ulama, the country's largest Islamic organization, looks set to be overshadowed

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – An unfavorable performance review of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Cabinet led many to believe the President would carry out a comprehensive reshuffle of h

Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – An Indonesian ID card, like any other around the world, tells who you are, but here it also identifies what you believe in, which can be a source of trouble if

Ulma Haryanto – The Supreme Court's decision to reject Bogor officials' request to uphold a controversial revocation of a building permit for a Christian group there has been greeted wi

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In a decision that not only upholds the Constitution but also sends a strong message to all Indonesians, the Supreme Court has struck down the Bogor administration's request to uphold t

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Amid political bickering in the House of Representatives over a plan to impeach the vice president, the nation's antigraft chief said politics was undermining the

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The House of Representatives set up a working committee to investigate the case of Gayus H.

Ulma Haryanto – The Supreme Court has rejected the Bogor City administration's request to uphold the revocation of the Indonesian Christian Church's (GKI Yasmin) building permit in Bogo

Ronna Nirmala, Indonesia – Like father, like son could not be more appropriate to describe how children of some convicted terrorists dream to follow in their footsteps and one day becom

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Women teachers have a lower success rate compared to their male counterparts since housechores hold them back from attaining minimum degree required for certifi

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) issued a ruling Wednesday that will make it easier for lawmakers to impeach a president.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police said they were not yet capable of solving the violent cases involving an alleged assault on Tama S.

Armando Siahaan & Anita Rachman – A court ruling that set a lower quorum requirement for the House of Representatives to launch an impeachment inquest could tip the balance of power

Nurfika Osman – The notion that Islam relegates women to the background and discourages them from participating in public life is a narrow-minded one, scholars said at a discussion on T

Armando Siahaan & Anita Rachman – Critics have lashed out at two top ministers for "overreacting" to accusations that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration had lied to

Mohd Adhe Bhakti – A suspected militant on trial for taking part in a paramilitary training camp in Aceh told the court on Thursday that firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir donated $25,00

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Police and Islamic hard-liners on Thursday disbanded a discussion on religious tolerance in Surabaya, said members of a humanitarian watchdog who were in attendanc

Heru Andriyanto – Lawyers for Nazril Irham on Thursday slammed the prosecution for demanding the pop star serve five years in jail for distributing pornographic videos on the Internet d

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – The rising number of extractive-based activities has escalated natural-based conflicts and environmental damages across Indonesia, NGOs reported.

Rahmat, Makassar – A clash erupted on Thursday between thousands of students and the National Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) in part of a land dispute that has raged for years in the

Jakarta – The World Bank expects Indonesia's economy to expand 6.2 percent in 2011, less than the official government estimate of 6.4 percent.

Oktovianus Pogau – It's been almost 10 years since the 2001 Law on Special Autonomy in Papua came into being.

Local military chiefs in two regencies in East Java set an unwanted political precedent last week by heavily – and effectively – demanding two local TV stations cancel the scheduled bro