Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Former National Police chief detective and major judicial mafia whistleblower Comr. Gen.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Families of victims of past human rights violations on Wednesday sought the assistance of the country's largest Islamic organization in pressuring the governm

Anita Rachman – Din Syamsuddin has been re-elected chairman of the nation's second largest Islamic organization, Muhammadiyah, for another five years.

Police are continuing to flip-flop over the Peterporn scandal, reversing an earlier position that eight people had been arrested for uploading the pornographic videos featuring Indonesi

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie has called on officials to refrain from using police motorcades while the vast majority of commuters are immerse

Palembang, South Sumatra – An attack Sunday night on the Muaraenim police station by members of the military was due to a misunderstanding, South Sumatra Police chief Insp. Gen.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – An authority to adjudicate constitutional complaints will open the Constitutional Court's door for those wanting to contest rights-breaching regulation

Armando Siahaan – Attempts by smaller parties to form confederations in an effort to consolidate power ahead of the 2014 general elections could be quashed by the larger parties that do

Hasyim Widhiarto and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Unidentified assailants attacked the head-quarters of Tempo magazine early Tuesday in an incident widely believed to be linked to the pu

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Aubrey Belford – The environmental group Greenpeace has accused one of the world's largest pulp, paper and palm oil companies of aggressively clearing Indonesian rain forests and throwi

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – Fifteen Greenpeace members were detained for questioning after police dispersed their campaign in Cirebon, West Java, on the grounds that the event had been held

Tari Rusbianti, Shafiq Pontoh and Sarah Reiter – You may be surprised to find that Indonesia recently became the number one user of Facebook throughout the Asia Pacific.

Condemnation of the Molotov bomb attack on the editorial offices of Tempo magazine in Central Jakarta has been swift.

Dessy Sagita – A complete lack of faith in the health care system and threadbare promotions of the country's hospitals that offer international-standard treatment are pushing thousands

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – National Police spokesman Insp. Gen.

Abe Silangit, Ismira Lutfia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday stepped into the fray between the police and Tempo magazine, ordering the Natio

Achmad Sukarsono – Indonesia's Islamic jihadi movement, which drove deadly attacks in the country with the world's largest Muslim population since the 2002 Bali bombings, has been left

The father of militant Islam in Indonesia, Abu Bakar Bashir, is back under a police microscope for his alleged support of terrorist activity, a security analyst said Tuesday.

Anita Rachman – Muhammadiyah, the country's second-biggest Islamic organization, says it will remain involved in politics as long as public aspirations require a voice.

Anita Rachman – The executive board of Muhammadiyah must take into account the aspirations of its female members, the former general chairman of the Muslim organization, Sjafii Ma'arif,

Despite monumental concerns about the lack of professionalism of Indonesia's Public Order Agency, Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi has signed a ministerial decree allowing the contro

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police recently commemorated its 64th anniversary amid controversies and criticism from the public over many issues, including a lack of transpa

Ismira Lutfia - A rights activist on Sunday criticized the National Police for missing the point when they filed a criminal complaint against Tempo magazine over a cover caricature of a

Jakarta – The National Police Chief Gen.

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – To quell public confusion on the state of Indonesia's military relations with the US, the Defense Ministry confirmed that the world's largest weapons-maker h

Sara Schonhardt, Semarang, Java – A pitched argument is unfolding between convicted terrorists and high-level criminals detained in a prison in Central Java, where police have been raid

James Van Zorge – Is Indonesia's democracy and long tradition of secularism under threat from an onslaught of Islamic fundamentalism?

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A number of politicians have pounced on Golkar Party Chairman Aburizal Bakrie's comments that when it came to Indonesian politics it was best for party members to think like rats.

Jakarta – The National Mandate Party (PAN) and the Golkar Party are encouraging smaller parties to join with them so that they can lobby the senate to increase the electoral threshold f

Not many people can claim that they were literally part of history.

The Committee of Action and Solidarity for Munir, or Kasum, and the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, or Kontras, said they were "troubled" by news that Muchdi Pur

Jakarta – Muslim group the Islam Defender Front (FPI) has admitted the role of local military in its raid on a health bill familiarization program in the East Java town of Banyuwangi la

Niniek Karmini – A banner with a picture of a young, bespectacled Christian man is draped in front of a mosque, a fiery noose around his neck and the words, "This man deserves the death

Nivell Rayda – The Corruption Eradication Commission is struggling to find indications of graft linked to accounts holding Rp 95 billion ($10.5 million) allegedly belonging to a Nationa

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Sitting on a red plastic chair at a small, green Betawi People Communication Forum (Forkabi) guard post on Jl.

Nurfika Osman – The National Commission on Violence Against Women has said that the Anti-Pornography Law was not properly able to combat the problem because the issue is not only a lega

Ahmad Pathoni – Twenty-five teenagers were crammed in a 20-square-meter cell in the main prison in the Indonesian city of Bogor.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Voters would be better served by smaller political parties joining together to form confederations rather than agreeing to be merged into larger parties, a po

Erwida Maulia and Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A specter is haunting Indonesia – the specter of communism.

Jakarta – A new study by the National Consumer Protection Agency (BPKN) says massive safety flaws are to blame for a spate of almost 100 gas explosions in households.

Armando Siahaan – Continuing its effort to court smaller parties, Golkar on Thursday signaled the possibility of a partnership with the Reform Star Party, while at the same time reitera

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Prominent Muslim organization Muhammadiyah has been told to stay alert to attempts by "Islamic purification" and transnational movements to infiltrate its ranks

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police officially filed a criminal report with their own detectives Thursday alleging the cover illustration on this week's Tempo magazine const

Pandaya, Jakarta – The police's threat to sue Tempo magazine over its piggy bank cover is both amusing and intimidating at the same time, although it's possible that they are only sound

Farouk Arnaz & Nivell Rayda – The chief of the National Police, an institution constantly battered by criticism, showed his candid side by offering an apology on Thursday for "weakn

The National Nuclear Power Agency has conceded defeat in its controversial attempts to construct a nuclear power plant on the Muria Peninsula in Central Java by 2016, saying opposition

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The imposition of sharia-based bylaws is a political maneuver designed by aspiring regional heads who want to garner votes, politicians from the countr