Yogyakarta – Activists from the Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan, formerly LMND-PRD) opposing planned increases to the basic electricity rate (TDL) next July

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The Indonesian and US governments signed a defense agreement last Thursday that may help mend bilateral ties after a US military embargo but excluded specifi

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairmen Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M.

Panca Nugraha and Yemris Fointuna, Mataram/Kupang – A rally to protest the result of the Bima regency election on Monday ended in a brawl between protesters and police in which 12 peopl

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A new government agency expected to take a more comprehensive approach to eradicating terrorism will be officially established in July, an official said, ami

Peter Gelling, Jakarta – Indonesia's Constitutional Court held dozens of hearings and heard testimonies from more than 50 religious experts of all stripes during its six month review of

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Democratic Party leaders have shrugged off criticism as they appointed Edhie "Ibas" Baskoro Yudhoyono as secretary-general of the country's largest part

Jakarta – Indonesia's communications minister said Wednesday a celebrity sex video scandal showed the Internet was a threat to the nation and vowed to issue a decree to curb its use.

Nurfika Osman – Almost half of Indonesian overseas workers – or three million people – are victims of human trafficking, according to an annual report released on Tuesday by the US Stat

Jakarta – Indonesia is progressing on its gender development, but not fast enough, a minister said Monday.

Jakarta – Chairman of the National Commission of Human Rights Ifdhal Kasim said Wednesday that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) should not have the right to ban books on the basis of

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Incompetence and a lack of independence at every level of several election bodies has led to polling violence, says a watchdog group.

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite weeks of controversy that seemed to kill off the idea, the Golkar Party's proposal to provide billions of rupiah in pork barrel fu

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Democratic Party is considering recruiting two prominent human rights activists, Usman Hamid and Rachland Nashidik, to sit on its national leadership boar

Armando Siahaan – The country's various Islam-based political parties must consolidate their splintered ideologies and find a strong figurehead if they are to bounce back from their poo

Nivell Rayda – Lawyers, including some who have made a name representing corruption suspects, accounted for almost a third of the applicants to head the powerful Corruption Eradication

Jakarta – The government does not feel that it needs to get concerned about military cooperation with the United States, including over assurances about continued restoration of joint t

The deputy chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission, Chandra M Hamzah, denied knowing businessman Anggodo Widjojo, as well as receiving anything from him.

Ulma Haryanto – Humala Tambunan was feeling ambitious on Monday morning.

Australia's government says it's seeking more information about claims of poor conditions and ill treatment of asylum seekers – including the use of a stun gun – at Indonesia's Tanjung

Jakarta – Indonesian teen heart-throb Nazril Ariel and his model girlfriend Luna Maya expressed shock Monday over an X-rated video that has appeared on the Internet apparently showing t

For discussing surgery on female organs, allowing a racy performance by dangdut singers and promoting an aphrodisiac, a number of broadcast stations were reprimanded for violating gover

Jakarta – Some asylum seekers in an Indonesian detention center are on a hunger strike, saying immigration officials use stun guns and threaten to kill them.

Jakarta – Indonesia's political parties and legislators have not strongly supported women in politics, despite a law that requires that women comprise 30 percent of all candidates, say

Jakarta – The widespread use of political image projection, including in the recent elections of regional heads, is further driving up the cost of competing in elections.

Ismira Lutfia – Domestic workers' advocates have lashed out at the House of Representatives for bumping a bill on protecting their rights from the list of priority legislation for delib

Jakarta – Dozens of activists from various cities staged a rally at the Proklamasi Monument in Central Jakarta on Saturday to oppose a government plan to build nuclear power plants.

Irvan Tisnabudi & Muhamad Al Azhari – The finance minister and experts are pressuring lawmakers to deliberate the latest draft of a bill on protocols for handling a financial crisis

Arientha Primanita – The Jakarta administration's insistence on continuing with its reclamation project off its northern coast is an insult to the nation's highest court, legal and nong

Nivell Rayda – Several activist groups on Sunday urged the Anti-Corruption Court to summon 11 people to testify in a bid to unravel the alleged attempt to frame two deputies from the Co

Farouk Arnaz – An Islamic organization said on Sunday it would file a complaint against the antiterror police at the National Commission on Human Rights this week over the police's fata

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesians grappled with their first-ever celebrity sex-tape scandal, casting aside social taboos as they swarmed around office computers and mobile phones to

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Major political parties called on the House of Representatives on Friday to accelerate revision of the regional administration law, make local elections le

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Detained former National Police chief detective Comr. Gen.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The law championing access to public information was implemented a month ago is almost impossible to enforce because the government has not made available mu

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – About 200 activists of Islamic groups rallied outside the National Police Headquarters in South Jakarta on Friday, demanding dissolution of the counterterror

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Migrant Care is one of the NGOs providing legal advocacy for troubled migrant workers.

A Balinese teenager caught in the act of intercourse with a cow passed out on Friday when he was forced to marry the animal in a ceremony witnessed by hundreds of curious onlookers.

Camelia Pasandaran & Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office on Thursday announced that it would mount an extraordinary challenge to a High Court ruling that overturned its

Farouk Arnaz – Members of the hard-line Islamic People's Forum (FUI) on Friday accused the National Police of planning to fabricate terrorism charges against cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

Joe Cochrane – Could it be that the country's most popular model/presenter/actress was in a racy homemade sex tape with her pop-star boyfriend?

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – An internet porn scandal involving a starlet who once interviewed Hillary Clinton on live television, another celebrity with links to Australia and the ma

Anita Rachman – The government body tasked with supervising elections warned on Friday of more riots during the "peak season" for local elections from June to July.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission II on home affairs and regional autonomy has called for revision of the law on election administration after finding 30 out of 45 elec

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) charted out Thursday a rosy outlook for Indonesia's economy for the rest of this year with an estimated growth of 6 perce

Anita Rachman & Armando Siahaan – The Golkar Party has no plans to leave the ruling coalition led by the Democratic Party, it said on Thursday.

M Zaid Wahyudi – The growing number of ordinary people's votes that are needlessly lost is a direct consequence of the application of an increasingly higher parliamentary threshold.

Camelia Pasandaran & Anita Rachman – Just a day after rumors began spreading that the Golkar Party was considering pulling out from the ruling coalition, President Susilo Bambang Yu