Arientha Primanita – The millions of people who ride the city's troubled busway system are not a happy bunch, the Indonesian Consumer Protection Foundation has found in a recent survey.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Legislators from the oversight commission for home affairs have called into doubt the president's claim that the creation of new administrative regions was a

Camelia Pasandaran, Dion Bisara, Arti Ekawati & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Smarting from a barrage of criticism from businesses and industries, the government on Wednesday acknowledged

Arientha Primanita & Ulma Haryanto – The Three-kilogram gas cylinders may be subsidized, but for West Jakarta resident Rahmono, 50, they are little more than cheap time bombs.

Usman Hamid, a coordinator from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, or Kontras, and activists from other non-governmental organizations met with National Police

Putri Prameshwari – The number of Indonesians working illegally in Malaysia could spiral out of control after a long-awaited agreement on workers' protection was indefinitely delayed ag

Armando Siahaan – The Golkar Party has protested key points in a money-laundering bill that would have granted unprecedented powers to the agency in charge of flagging violations, warni

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police should no longer tolerate religious hard-liners such as the Islamic Defenders Front, which are using violence and intimidation under the guise of piet

Dessy Sagita – The country's highest Islamic authority is refusing to take the blame for issuing an incorrect edict in March, which stipulated that worshipers had to face westward in or

Pontianak, West Kalimantan – The number of Chinese Muslims in Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta, Surabaya and Semarang, has experienced rapid growth, a Chinese Muslim leader said.

The national congress of the Indonesian Farmers Association on Tuesday night reelected incumbent chairman Prabowo Subianto by acclamation for the 2010-15 period.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Golkar stalwart Priyo Budi Santoso's call for a cabinet reshuffle was rebuffed by other lawmakers from the ruling coalition as political grandstanding on Tues

About one hundred lawyers from the Indonesian Advocate Association, or KAI, held a demonstration at the Supreme Court building on Wednesday.

Ulma Haryanto & Made Arya Kencana – The recent cases of low-income women selling their babies in order to pay for their medical bills highlights the need for a comprehensive nationa

Jakarta – According to the National Commission for AIDS (Komnas-AIDS), "good" housewives make up 59.9 percent of women living with HIV in Indonesia.

Farouk Arnaz & Ismira Lutfia – Under mounting public pressure to quickly solve the violent attack on an antigraft activist last week, the National Police on Monday promised rights a

Nivell Rayda – The Anti-Corruption Court on Tuesday ordered the National Police to disclose wiretapped recordings between a Corruption Eradication Commission official and a suspected ca

Nivell Rayda – Muchtar Pakpahan, who as a union organizer was jailed by former strongman Suharto's regime, has won the most public support for his bid to chair the country's top anticor

Arti Ekawati – Manufacturers are up in arms over the recent electricity rate hikes, with some saying their rates have doubled and accusing the Energy Ministry and state utility PT Perus

Johannes Nugroho – The government is moving steadily toward a sizeable reduction in fuel subsidies, arguing that budgetary discipline mandates it.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Young revelers weren't the only ones struggling to drag themselves out of bed the morning after the late-night World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlan

Zaky Pawas & Ulma Haryanto – In the latest attack on the rights of minority religions, hundreds of public order officers in Bogor on Monday demolished the foundations for a planned

Embattled Minister of Justice and Human Rights Patrialis Akbar has jumped to the defense of his colleagues pictured nodding off during a briefing at the State Palace and blamed the medi

Armando Siahaan, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Antara – Long forgotten as a political vehicle until it resurfaced behind Prabowo Sugianto in his failed bid for the presidency last year

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – The usually sedate national congress of the Indonesian Farmers Association has suddenly become a who's who of political heavyweights thanks to a string of

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Rheza Andhika Pamungkas, Jakarta – Around 80 workers from the Indonesian Labour Movement Union (PPBI) held a demonstration today demanding the cancellation of basic electricity rate (TD

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Residents of Sebalang village, Lampung, have urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to immediately name suspects in what they allege to be a

Nivell Rayda – Badly beaten antigraft activist Tama Satrya Langkun on Sunday highlighted inconsistencies in the sudden reappearance of a key witness to his attack.

Gerhard Hoffstaedter – Indonesia has recently been in the thrall of its first celebrity sex-tape scandal.

Jakarta – Several regions have objected to proposals that public order officers be allowed to carry guns, even if they only contain blank rounds.

Constitutional Court Chairman Mahfud MD says the attack on Indonesian Corruption Watch activist Tama Satya Langkun was the manifestation of resistance to the national antigraft drive.

One of the daughters of deceased dictator Suharto, Siti Hediati Hariyadi, says she is running for the leadership of the Association of Indonesian Farmers to help her realize her father'

Ulma Haryanto – A law allowing road tolls to rise every two years is unfair, transportation activists said on Sunday as the government raised the tolls on two major roads.

Indonesian statesman and Muslim cleric Dr. Idham Chalid passed away on Sunday at his home at the Darul Ma'arif education complex in Cipete, South Jakarta.

Nurfika Osman – Two mothers who were left no option but to sell their newborns to pay hospital bills could have avoided their plight had they been informed they qualified for insurance

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Farouk Arnaz – Indonesian celebrities Luna Maya and Cut Tari have been named suspects for their alleged starring roles in the Peterporn sex tapes scandal, National Police said on Friday

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The police have been challenged to prove their claim that its officers were not involved in Thursday's assault on an antigraft activist who reported the susp

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – A quarter of 45 ministries and state institutions have been given "red marks" for failure to implement dozens of national development priority programs in the f

Camelia Pasandaran & Dessy Sagita – Thursday's brutal attack on an antigraft campaigner has sparked more public outrage, coming hot on the heels of an attempted firebombing on Tempo

Jakarta – Zulfika Rochmah stood shyly in front of the crowd, trying to explain why school was so important to her.

Nivell Rayda & Dessy Sagita – Indonesia Corruption Watch investigator Tama Satrya Langkun, who was badly beaten by group of men Thursday morning, said he saw the attack as a threat,

Sunanda Creagh – A review of Indonesia's strict labor laws could be completed in one or two years, an official from the Manpower Ministry said on Thursday, longer than hoped for by inve

Putri Prameshwari – Amid endless pressure from activists for the government to formulate a law to protect the rights of domestic workers in Indonesia, the Ministry of Manpower and Trans

Slamet Susanto and Sri Wahyuni, Jakarta – Sirajuddin Syamsuddin, known widely as Din Syamsuddin, vowed to maintain neutrality in practical politics on Wednesday afternoon after being of

Explosive gifts of three Molotov cocktails were thrown at 3 a.m. Tuesday at the office of Tempo magazine in Central Jakarta, immediately leading to condemnation all around.

Ismira Lutfia – Tempo magazine and the National Police have agreed to settle their rift amicably, although the magazine has stood by its use of what police say was an offensive caricatu

Anita Rachman – Aisyiyah, the women's wing of Muhammadiyah, the country's second-largest Islamic organization, has backed a controversial government plan to restrict access to pornograp

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is coming under increasing pressure to form an independent team to investigate allegations of implausibly large bank accou