Jakarta – The National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is urging the government to provide better protection to people living with mental illness following the lynching of two

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – When Wina decided to shed her jilbab, the headscarf symbolizing, for most people, a woman's commitment to Islam, her husband commented, "It's up to you, but

Jakarta – Indonesia has made significant strides to empower women recently – but activists say progress is hampered by weak enforcement and religious conservatism.

Jakarta – Religious radicalism in schools lives, despite efforts by the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to reverse the trend.

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Pandaya, Jakarta – The generous presidential pardon and remissions granted to graft convicts has strengthened Indonesia's status as a haven for corruption and eroded public trust in Pre

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The country's big political parties should provide proof that their push for an increased legislative threshold is not part of a sinister ploy to cro

Eny Wulandari, Jakarta – The value of major manufactured exports jumped dramatically in the first half of the year, and the full-year totals could equal those seen in 2008, before the g

Jakarta – Around one hundred people rallied in front of the Malaysian Embassy at Jalan Rasuna Said on Thursday.

Jakarta – Indonesian Lawmakers have been forced to deny rumors reported by a number of media organizations that legislators have been paid a total of Rp 5 billion ($550,000) to undermin

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) slammed lawmakers on Wednesday for refusing an article in the money laundering bill aimed to give more authority to the Corruption Eradication

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) launched Wednesday a whistle-blower system allowing civil servants to report gratuities to their institutions and the KPK.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan's move to spend more than Rp 1 billion (US$111,420) from the local budget on personalized stamps and Idul Fitri cards has d

Sara Webb, Jonggol, Indonesia – A mere pinprick on the map of Java, Jonggol's cluster of tiny red-roofed houses set among banana groves and shimmering waterlogged rice fields may in yea

Telly Nathalia & Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Islamic militants based in Indonesia's Aceh province worked with a fugitive suspected of planning the Bali bombings in an effort to unite

Putri Prameshwari, Jakarta – The head of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front says he has ordered his members to find Erwin Arnada, the former editor of the Indonesian edition of Playb

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The South Jakarta Prosecutors' Office said Wednesday it would immediately detain the former chief editor of the now-defunct Playboy Indonesia magazine, Erwin

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle hopes to tap into the country's substantial and often politically apathetic youth to win more votes in th

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie visited a number of Islamic boarding schools in East Java on Thursday and played down the provincial legislative council's plan to set up

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – West Java is among the provinces that worries critics regarding several religiously related regulations – but concerns over the economy and diversity has led

Jakarta – A survey jointly conducted by the National Nuclear Agency (Batan) and the University of Indonesia's School of Social and Political Sciences found that 57.6 percent of responde

Indonesia is the worst country in Asia when it comes to protecting intellectual property rights, according to a survey of expatriate businessmen.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – House legislators and population experts are questioning the accuracy of the nation's recent head count, agreeing that the BPS failed to clear implemen

Liwa (Lampung) – Unchecked hunting is feared to wipe out the deer population in Liwa regency within the next 10 years, residents and government officials said Monday.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Pressure continued to mount on Indonesia's ailing National Police chief on Tuesday after a case was filed against him by a lawyer for allegedly "telling a pub

Lisa Siregar – On a Sunday at about 10 p.m., a group of women wearing jilbabs are gathered in one corner of Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta after tarawih, a series of nightly prayers during

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Jockeying for the 2014 presidential election has begun in earnest with a respected scholar and former candidate touting Hatta Raj

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Former National Mandate Party chairman Soetrisno Bachir has announced his resignation from the party he once led.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) said in Papua on Saturday that the police must thoroughly investigate the death of Merauke TV journalist Ard

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta – The Rote Ndao district administration in East Nusa Tenggara will seek Rp 7 trillion ($780 million) in compensation for last year's Montara oil spill in

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Three people were detained by the police for throwing human feces into the Malaysian Embassy on Monday.

Anita Rachman & Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Lawmakers are expected to discuss banning prisoners convicted of corruption from receiving sentence cuts or presidential pardons, or tighteni

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has taken his ministers to task for doing exactly what critics have frequently accused him of: staying silent on pressin

Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – No remorse crossed the faces of three terrorists on Monday as they told a court how terror defendant Eko Budi Wardoyo had explained jihad for them and described

Jakarta – Activists and community figures voiced concern Sunday on corruption in the National Police, and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's silence.

Ismira Lutfia & Made Arya Kencana, Jakarta – The death on Saturday of journalist Ridwan Salamun during a clash between villagers in Tual, Maluku, was met by demonstrations and calls

Armando Siahaan & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Although the suggestion that the Constitution be amended to allow President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to have another term was soundly reje

M. Azis Tunny, Ambon – SUN-TV journalist Ridwan Salamun was killed on Saturday while covering a communal clash between villagers from Banda Ely and Fiditan in Tual, Maluku.

Farouk Arnaz – The government is not serious enough in its attempt to bring to justice those behind the death of Munir Said Thalib, critics said ahead of the sixth anniversary of the mu

Arghea Desafti Hapsari – Human rights and labor activists on Friday called on the government to take immediate action to assist 345 convicted Indonesians facing the death sentence in ne

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Just a day after receiving a sentence reduction, Aulia Pohan, the father-in-law of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's eldest son

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Antigraft activists have slammed the remission system for corruption convicts following the release of high-profile embezzler Aulia Pohan on Friday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The ruling Democratic Party has called for premarital sex counseling for young couples in a bid to stem infidelity and eventually achieve the UN-mandated Mill

Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama, the country's biggest Islamic organization with as many as 30 million members, has drawn a mostly negative response from rel

Ridwan Max Sijabat – Indonesia seems far removed from Afghanistan, where the Taliban recently stoned to death a couple that had eloped after a long hiatus in applying the sharia punishm

Jakarta – The draft law on land acquisition soon to be submitted to the House of Representatives will ensure fair compensation to residents displaced by public infrastructure projects,

Irwan Firdaus, Jakarta – As the train rattled into Indonesia's capital, 19-year-old Wiwit Wahyuningsih leaned back in a soft, pink-cushioned seat in a carriage newly designated exclusiv

Jakarta – Legal experts agree that Indonesia needs to overhaul its legal system, including restructuring judicial institutions and reapportioning work between courts.

David Fogarty, Jakarta – As part of $1 billion deal with Norway to fight carbon emissions through a partial deforestation ban, Indonesia plans to initially protect less than half its re

Jakarta – Indonesia's biggest palm oil producer on Friday rejected fresh allegations of illegal forest clearing after foreign auditors suggested it had misrepresented the findings of an