It doesn't get any lower than this. Or does it?

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The on-again, off-again electricity rate hike for next year is officially off, with the House of Representatives voting on Tuesday to

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – A court in Jakarta on Tuesday sentenced the father-in-law of Noordin M Top to five years in prison for harboring the slain terrorist mastermind and helping hi

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Outgoing National Police Chief Gen.

Anita Rachman & Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Having failed abjectly to meet its initial target of passing 70 bills into law this year, the House of Representatives has set itself what

Neil Chatterjee, Jakarta – Indonesia is selling cars faster than it is building roads, increasing gridlock in cities and doing its efforts to attract foreign investment no favors.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – A lawmaker from the House of Representatives was booed by fellow legislators on Tuesday for calling on the House leadership to seriously evaluate deeply unpopul

Cameron Bates, Ulma Haryanto & Kinanti Pinta Karana, Jakarta – Jakarta Globe readers and Facebook and Twitter followers have shared their stories from Monday, when heavy rains broug

Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – In what is becoming an increasingly nightmarish routine, Jakarta was once again crippled as a torrential rainstorm pounded the city on Monday afternoon.

Arientha Primanita, Ulma Haryanto & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Blame it on the rain?

Yanto Soegiarto & Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta – Monday night's flooding and subsequent citywide traffic jam was a preview of Jakarta's future if no significant changes are done, busi

Tarko Sudiarno, Mount Merapi, Indonesia – Indonesia ordered thousands of people to evacuate from around Mount Merapi on Monday as it raised the alert for its most active volcano to red,

Made Arya Kencaya, Denpasar – Hundreds of employees of state-owned Telekomunikasi Indonesia rallied on Monday in front of the Bali Regional House of Representatives.

Slamet Susanto, Bantul – Cigarette producer partners (MPS) are earning less than the Rp 1.5 million (US$150) a month they received four years ago producing hand-rolled cigarettes for a

Tim Hannigan – The Jakarta Globe might be Indonesia's newest English language newspaper, but which was its first?

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is continuing to ignore the tide of public opinion firmly against taxpayer-funded overseas trips for legislators, confirming on Mon

Ismira Lutfia, Nurfika Osman & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jakarta – Activists expressed hope on Sunday that the advertising restrictions on tobacco and formula milk that they had long

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) says that former dictator Soeharto deserves to be named a national hero.

Jakarta – Activists and agrarian experts agreed on Sunday that the government's effort to distribute hundreds of hectares of land to farmers was still far from a "genuine land reform pr

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Featuring a foreign porn star in a local horror movie was tantamount to "poking fun" at the country's antipornography campaign, Communications and Information T

Incidents of church attacks and religious violence are spreading throughout Java, outside of traditional "hot spots" such as Greater Jakarta and West Java, activists said on Sunday.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Antigraft commissioner Bibit Samad Rianto, facing the threat of a criminal trial for bribery, insists the case against him is fabricated and blames the Attorn

Washington – The United States on Friday praised Indonesia as upfront in its investigation of torture of Papuan detainees and said it would not affect a resumption of military ties.

Nivell Rayda & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Ignatius Haryanto, the author of a number of books on press freedom, knows that a police investigation has concluded there was no foul play i

Ismira Lutfia & AFP, Jakarta – Some Papuan activists have called on foreign governments to cease cooperation with the Indonesian military as evidence of torture has come to light, b

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – As eight lawmakers flew to Greece on Saturday to study ethics, the public is left asking: If overwhelming opposition can't stop legislators from jett

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission must look into apparent fraud involved in the renovation of lawmakers' residences, a watchdog said on Sunday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – In the six years that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been in power, he has increasingly failed to make good on his pled

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Suharto may be on the verge of being named a national hero, but a survey released on the 1,000th day since his death suggests that most Indonesians far prefer

Soekarno-Hatta Airport police dispersed on Saturday dozens of students grouped under the People's Alliance against Legislators' Overseas Outing who rallied to protest House of Represent

Jakarta – Member groups of the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations expressed their deep concern on Friday over the continued persecution of Erwin Arnada, the former ch

Torture has no place in a modern, civilized society. Period.

Jakarta – In an evaluation of the first year's performance of the National Education Ministry, a coalition of activists said it had failed to deal with key problems.

Jakarta – Victims of disasters, vulnerable groups in society, still receive inadequate public services during the times of crises, although a law on public service passed last year prom

Candra Malik, Karanganyar – A series of events to mark the 1,000th day since the death of former President Suharto reached its climax on Friday amid a growing debate on whether to name

Adianto P.

Arientha Primanita, Bilhuda Haryanto & Aidi Yursal, Jakarta – Buddhists are the latest minority religious group to feel the heat, being at the center of a festering row over a large

Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – The police defended their decision to fire on protesters on Wednesday, saying the demonstration was illegal.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The controversial new National Police chief, Comr. Gen. Timur Pradopo, said on Friday that his first job would be to gain the public's trust.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Allegations that prosecutors leaked sentencing documents during Gayus Tambunan's first trial indicates that the judicial mafia was behind the controversial ac

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Indonesia's burgeoning class of middlemen, ranging from lowly ticket scalpers to the big-game judicial mafia, has welcomed another rapacious entry to its r

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – To millions, Suharto, the military strongman who ruled Indonesia for 32 years, was a tyrant, a thief and a murderer.

Adianto P.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government has a constitutional obligation to protect Ahmadiyah and other minority religious groups and must take action against violence directed agai

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Indonesia's press freedom ranking slipped this year to 117th from 100th place last year, according to a survey by Paris-based civil society group Reporters W

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Anti-graft activists filed an information dispute case with the Central Information Commission (KIP) on Thursday against the National Police in connection wi

Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party claims massive corruption charges laid against controversial party lawmaker Muhammad Misbakhun were fabricated.

Jakarta – Global environmental pressure group Greenpeace said on Thursday that its Rainbow Warrior flagship had been denied access to Indonesian waters to load supplies.

People are mostly unsatisfied with the President's performance during the first year of his second term in office, says a poll.

Jakarta – Protesters from Jakarta to Makasssar took to the streets Wednesday to mark the end the first year of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second term in office.