Camelia Pasandaran& Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta – Government officials on Thursday said more compensation was needed to pay for the Timor Sea oil spill, because the coastal resi

Ismira Lutfia – The recent passage of a bill aimed to protect US citizens from libel lawsuits in foreign countries has once again put the spotlight on Indonesia's defamation laws, with

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – Hundreds of people blockaded the road connecting Gowa regency and Makassar on Thursday in a bid to foil a planned inauguration ceremony of re

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Renewed notions of relocating the nation's capital from the chaos of Jakarta may have merits, but the difficulties of implementing such a plan would likely do

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Disappointed at the slow pace of regional development, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday vowed to make amends by disciplining regional leaders

Donny Syofyan, Padang – During his visit to Indonesia, US Secretary of Defense Robert M.

Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – A student on Thursday reported police officers to the National Commission on Human Rights for a hit-and-run that happened at a street protest more than two years a

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Session-skipping lawmakers on Wednesday reacted with anger to the House of Representatives secretariat's move to reveal their poo

Jakarta – The capital city has entered an "age of extremity" where some families spend billions of rupiah to bury relatives in luxury graves, and others struggle to find the few thousan

Kuningan, West Java – Violent scenes erupted in Kuningan, West Java, early on Wednesday morning when police and local government security officers attempted to seal a mosque belonging t

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission said on Wednesday that a planned joint investigation with the House into bribery allegations surrounding a high-level centr

Jakarta – Millions of households in Indonesia depend heavily on the services of domestic workers, such as nannies and housemaids, who are practically in charge of doing most basic house

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Fourteen years after "Black Saturday" on July 27, 1996, when several democratic activists were killed and hundreds more arrested under then president Soehart

Nivell Rayda & Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch have reacted strongly to reports that police in Bengkulu Province sexually harassed and physically abused 50 villagers in

Nurfika Osman, Indonesia – Rolling out laws based on Islamic values would address the "degradation of morality among Indonesia's students," a leader of the country's highest Islamic aut

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Indonesia – Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro denied on Tuesday that the US government had negotiated with Indonesia over the removal of members of the Army

Jakarta – The International Crisis Group (ICG) warned on Monday of possible dangers of military involvement in the newly established National Anti-Terror Agency (BNPT).

In a widely anticipated move, the US government eventually lifted the 13-year-old ban on Indonesian Army's Special Forces' (Kopassus) participation in any joint Indonesia-US military ac

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The opposition juggernaut Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has become the latest party after Golkar to caution against the rising prom

Dessy Sagita – The government's focus on treating illnesses rather that preventing them by promoting healthy lifestyles is costing the country valuable time and money, according to an e

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Monday passed a revision of the 2002 Clemency Law, which will allow a greater role for the government, shorten the appeals proce

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Indonesia's territorial sovereignty could be under threat, following a recent ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which found that Kosovo's u

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Overlapping policies blamed for severely hurting competitiveness will remain effective until the end of 2011 unless annulled by a proposed revision to the

Jakarta Police have launched an investigation after a video emerged of a police car striking a student protester and sending him flying before speeding off – not because of the actions

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Apparently alarmed by the public's heavy criticism of their tendency to skip meetings at the House of Representatives, lawmakers

Armando Siahaan – Legislators at the House of Representatives are overpaid for essentially doing nothing, a budgetary watchdog says.

Jakarta – The trend of employing violent means to suppress the religious freedom of minority groups is escalating, with local governments acting as the greatest violator, a report shows

Ulma Haryanto, Indonesia – The first seven months of the year has seen a surge in attacks on Christian groups, according to the Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy.

Stephanie Riady, Jakarta – The elderly widow of one of Indonesia's independence heroes has won a battle of David and Goliath proportions against state pawnshop company PT Perum Pegadaia

Nurfika Osman & Lisa Siregar – The country's highest Islamic authority declared infotainment as forbidden to Muslims in one of seven fatwa, or religious edicts, issued on Tuesday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government has done virtually nothing to bring to justice those who 14 years ago launched a violent attack on pro-democracy activists that precipitated th

Kinanti Pinta Karana & Nivell Rayda, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – The head of Kompas newspaper's Kalimantan bureau, Muhammad Syaifullah, was found dead at his house in Balikpapan,

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta - The families of people allegedly killed by the Army's Kopassus special forces plan to march on the US Embassy in Jakarta on Tuesday to demand answers for why the

Zack Petersen – Putri Kanesia, a lawyer at Kontras, may not be at today's protest of renewed ties between the US military and the Kopassus special forces unit, which has been accused of

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The nation's witness protection agency has begun assigning security guards and legal assistance to antigraft activist Tama Satrya Langkun, who was brutally assau

Indonesian journalists covering green issues are "frequently threatened or bribed," Reporters Without Borders warned two months before the suspicious death of environmental journalist M

Jakarta – Investment in Indonesia, including from both foreign and domestic investors, rose 40 percent in the second quarter of 2010 from the same period a year ago, said the country's

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Docking legislators' salaries would be a far more effective way of tackling rising absenteeism at the House of Representatives than installing fingerprint scann

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The tardy selection processes of public officials in several crucial state commissions and agencies are, according to a group of NGOs, proof of the gov

Camelia Pasandaran & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The nation's highest authority on Islamic law is expected to use its national congress this week to issue several new fatwas, including

Jakarta – Indonesian human rights activists on Monday urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to investigate attacks on Christian churches, which they say have increased in the last tw

Jakarta – The new National Antiterror Agency (BNPT) has united Indonesia's antiterror agencies under one authority, shifting the weight to include other institutions besides the Nationa

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – A presidential decree to establish a counterterrorism agency could do more harm than good, human rights group Imparsial warned on Monday.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Democrat legislator Benny K Harman has accused the House of Representatives of meddling in the criminal investigation of the Bank Century bailout.

Jakarta – Indonesia will make food security its top priority as the country speeds up progress toward reducing hunger and poverty as part of its commitment to meeting the Millennium Dev

Farouk Arnaz & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Members of a labor union at state electricity utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara have filed a criminal complaint against the company's boar

Kinanti Pinta Karana, Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists said that they are planning to investigate the death of Kompas journalist Muhammad Syaifullah depending on the au

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – In the eyes of the public, the charges leveled against Corruption Eradication Commission deputies Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M Hamzah last year in a scandal

Debnath Guharoy, Jakarta – The army is in the barracks. The press is free. The constitution is alive.