Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Major political parties are taking advantage of their position at the House of Representatives to draft laws that would limit the participation of new and sma

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The National Police will send officers to Surabaya, East Java, to hunt down the mystery man who allegedly worked as a go-between for rogue tax official Gayus Tam

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police have been changing their tune on opening their investigation of the Gayus Tambunan case, while the antigraft body is observing as a passi

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) urged the Forestry Ministry to close 17 loopholes in its regulatory set-up to anticipate further abuse of forestry licenses and illegal loggi

Arientha Primanita, Nivell Rayda & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – A group of about 50 people, dressed in white robes and wielding weapons, attempted to attack an Ahmadiyah mosque in South Ja

Arientha Primanita – Following howls of protest from consumers and vendors alike, the Jakarta administration distanced itself on Friday from a plan to impose a 10 percent tax on food st

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The Australian and US governments have urged Indonesia to bring to justice soldiers who tortured two Papuan men in May, in a case that has emerged as a key test of

Jakarta – The Supreme Court and the Attorney General's Office (AGO) should administer better information systems to disclose online statistics of cases they handle to pave the way for j

Camelia Pasandaran, Bandung – Many of the nation's governors have agreed that the people shouldn't get the chance to vote them into – or out of – office, saying regional legislators sho

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar, Bali – An Indonesian tax official who claims he helped some of Indonesia's most powerful companies reduce their tax bills through millions of dollars in bribes p

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The government has blamed the increase in HIV/AIDS infections across the country partly on reticence about condom use that is the norm here.

Erwida Maulia and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Jakarta – In the name of democracy, the government is pushing for direct elections of the Yogyakarta governor, disregarding grievances among those de

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – A Bandung professor garnered the most votes on Thursday as the House of Representatives selected seven hopefuls, dubbed "the best of the worst," to sit on the J

Jakarta – The National Police on Thursday began reconstructing the flow of illicit money going to Gayus Tambunan, in a move that could lead police to naming businessmen who bribed the r

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon, West Java – Fishermen and conservationists have expressed outrage at the widespread damage to ecosystems on the northern coast of Cirebon, blaming the damage on i

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Just weeks ahead of its first anniversary, the Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force is facing mounting calls for disbandment amid criticism that it has done

Jakarta – Thousands of workers in and around an industrial estate in East Jakarta went on a daylong strike on Friday over the new monthly minimum wage announced for the capital.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – As talk of a possible cabinet shake-up continues, there are now calls from the House of Representatives for the president to replace members of his s

Jakarta – In the latest example of religious intolerance in Indonesia, a group of unknown people attacked an Ahmadiyah mosque in South Jakarta early on Friday morning.

Camelia Pasandaran & Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday that although progress had been made in the fight against corruption, it was not en

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia's antiterror police detachment is coordinating with its Malaysian counterparts on the recent capture in Johor of an Indonesian militant suspected of pl

Rahmat, Makassar – Dozens of panicked transvestites were sent fleeing for safety after Indonesia's militant Islamic Defenders Front raided a drag-queen contest to mark World AIDS Day on

Imung Yuniardi and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Semarang/Bandung - A number of HIV/AIDS activists boycotted on Wednesday the commemoration of the World AIDS Day on Dec.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – House of Representatives leaders on Wednesday defended what critics said was a half-baked revamp of the body's widely derided Ethics Council, saying that factio

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Francezka Nangoy, Jakarta – Businesses gave a thumbs down to the plan to cut fuel subsidies revealed on Thursday, with most warning that a ban on cheap gas

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Analysts and government officials on Thursday accused the environmental group Greenpeace of fabricating its data on environmental

Kupang – Thousands of Indonesian migrant workers from East Nusa Tenggara have fallen victim to human trafficking practices given the fact that they were recruited through illegal proced

Candra Malik, Yogyakarta – In their own unique way, the people of Yogyakarta, an ancient Javanese cultural hub, expressed on Tuesday their resistance to the government's efforts to requ

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Female sex workers are often blamed for the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but in reality many of them become champions of safe sex by encouraging patrons to use condoms, s

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Scores of Jakarta's youth have adopted a more liberal view of pre-marital sex, confirming findings by the National Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) that t

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Sex education will be "integrated" into Indonesian classrooms for the first time as the nation faces up to an increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases in the country

Rita A. Widiadana – It has been almost 10 years since the Indonesian government imposed Law no.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Two years after the Freedom of Information Law was passed, the vast majority of state institutions have still not complied by making their budget imp

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The task of helping migrant workers who suffered abuse at the hands of their employers does not end after they've been brought back home, women's rights activis

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The Press Council on Wednesday said it could not find evidence that bourse journalists had blackmailed Krakatau Steel in exchange for shares, but they did find

Jakarta – Anyone who wishes to submit information about corruption allegations to Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission can now do it discreetly using the antigraft agency's new

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Freed from the threat of volcanic eruptions, Merapi's refugees must now face the ordeal of rebuilding their lives.

Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Authorities in West Lombok district have formed a special team to supervise and relocate members of the Ahmadiyah sect, an official said on Wednesda

Jakarta – Habib Umar Salim, the head of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front advisory council defined the criteria for pornography while organizing a protest against the arrival in Jak

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Lawyers for former Peterpan vocalist Nazril "Ariel" Irham have asked the Bandung District Court to drop all the charges against him and his music editor, Rez

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – A promised shake-up of the House of Representatives' beleaguered Ethics Council was unveiled on Monday, but the only significant change was the withdrawal of it

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A survey published Monday has confirmed a widely held assumption that religious intolerance is rising in the Greater Jakarta region.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The social security programs for workers need to be overhauled to provide social protection to the majority of people as well as to speed up economic devel

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) plans to investigate the disbursements of general and special allocation funds by local government administrations, following repor

Jakarta – A study by the Indonesian Legal Roundtable has found that less than half of the candidates proposed to form the Judicial Commission (KY) were unqualified.

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Women are not only more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection, they also face greater risks of violence and discrimination when they become infected by the deadly vi

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – You know things are really bad when the military is called in, and that is exactly what the Jakarta administration did Monday when it established a new

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – While students of Islamic universities in Indonesia are embracing liberalism, their counterparts in science schools feel apparently more appeal to fundamentalis

Jakarta – House Commission V overseeing public housing would issue a formal reprimand to legislators who neglected Indonesian domestic workers in Dubai International Airport, should any

Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Members of the Ahmadiyah sect reported an attack on their homes in Gegerung village to the West Lombok Police on Saturday.