Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A survey institute has predicted only 60 percent of Medan's almost 2 million eligible voters will turn out for the mayoral elections on May 12.

Sukoharjo – People's Consultative Assembly Speaker Taufik Kiemas visited firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir at the latter's Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Ngruki, Sukoharj

Erwida Maulia and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The historic freedom of information law comes into force today with most state institutions, mired in a decades-long culture of secrec

Enraged members of the militant Islamic Defenders Front raided a human rights workshop for ladyboys in Depok on Friday in the mistaken belief there was a lingerie contest taking place.

Ronna Nirmala – In the latest outburst by the Islamic Defenders Front, dozens of hard-liners charged into a civil rights training session for transsexuals held by the National Commissio

Adisti Dini Indreswari, Jakarta – Temporary workers at Jakarta International Container Terminal at Tanjung Priok Seaport rallied outside their office in demand for permanent status in w

The number of women leaving Indonesia, legally or illegally, has been steadily climbing over the past decade, according to the National Authority for the Placement and Protection of Ind

Barbara Surk – Reforms undertaken by governments in the Middle East to protect domestic workers, including from Indonesia, from abuse are insufficient to shield women working as house m

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Nivell Rayda, Armando Siahaan & Irvan Tisnabudi – Defying critics who were already furious that antigraft investigators might question him in his own offic

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Muslim intellectuals are urging lawmakers at the House of Representatives to take steps to revise the controversial 1965 Blasphemy Law.

Heru Andriyanto – It would seem obvious that if you need to lie low, you shouldn't go around loudly complaining – something a former official in the eastern province of Maluku failed to

Fifty people from the Anti-Corruption Youth Action Committee, or Kapak, held a rally in front of the Finance Ministry on Jalan Wahidin, Central Jakarta on Thursday.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Various stakeholders have started a round of finger pointing at teachers and students to say who's to blame for the rising number of high school students fail

Zaky Pawas – The Indonesian Red Cross has exonerated the police of any inhumane treatment of residents in the April 14 Tanjung Priok riots, saying the authorities' conduct was by the bo

Ulma Haryanto – A top government official has condoned the mob attack on a Christian-affiliated building site near Bogor, even as a church council called it symptomatic of the weak law

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The formation of new regions in Indonesia is growing at an alarming rate, with a new region created every 15 days, Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi said Wednesday.

Ulma Haryanto – A class-action suit against the Tangerang administration is in order, academics at the University of Indonesia said on Thursday, over attempts to evict forcibly at least

Camelia Pasandaran – The Constitutional Court has dealt a blow to legislators seeking a judicial review of a law to make it easier for them to begin impeachment proceedings against the

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The election of Miranda Swaray Goeltom as central bank senior deputy governor in 2004 was the "result of a conspiracy" between bankers and businesspeop

Armando Siahaan, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Nivell Rayda – Even as it rolled out its monitoring team on the Bank Century bailout probe, the House of Representatives remained split o

Yessar Rosendar – Faced with declining national oil production and fierce opposition, the government has ditched a controversial proposal to limit the expenses that oil companies can su

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Ulma Haryanto – At least 60 workers have been put out of work after Islamic militants mistakenly attacked what they believed was the construction site of a new church.

Sunanda Creagh – When President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono formed a special taskforce to root out graft in the judiciary, many hoped a House of Representatives commission tasked with over

Jakarta – Legislators' support for Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) legislator Misbakhun, who is being held by National Police on suspicion of forgery related to a Bank Century loan, has

Nurfika Osman – A Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration fact-finding team on Tuesday said the firm at the center of a labor riot in Batam last week was riddled with problems.

Nurfika Osman – Incidents of physical, sexual and psychological violence against Indonesian migrant workers abroad continue as the government abjectly fails at protecting its citizens o

Mohammad Yazid, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) ruled Monday to uphold the 45-year-old Blasphemy Law after a judicial review request was filed last October by human rights group

Arti Ekawati & Nivell Rayda – Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan on Wednesday tried to distance his ministry from the rash of illegal logging cases and the so-called logging mafia, sa

Fidelis E Satriastanti – The illegal logging cases in Riau in 2008 are an indicator of widespread forestry-related crimes in a country where for years an estimated four of five trees we

Ivansyah, Jakarta – Residents around a coal power plant in Cirebon, West Java attacked and damaged facilities of the plant in protest over sediments formed at the delta of Warudur River

Muhammad Nafik – The Constitutional Court has upheld the controversial Blasphemy Law, turning down a request for it to review the 45-year old law.

Arientha Primanita – City councilors on Wednesday admonished the Jakarta administration for the drop in passing rates for the national exam this year, adding pressure to overhaul its ed

Putri Prameshwari & Emmy Fitri – Despite government claims that the lower number of students passing the national examinations this year was due to tighter supervision that made che

A mysterious amnesia-like illness afflicting key corruption witness Nunun Nurbaeti Daradjatun appears to be catching.

Nivell Rayda – A new prison wing built for some of Indonesia's most despised criminals – people convicted of corruption – will be officially opened by Justice and Human Rights Minister

Rizal Sukma, Jakarta – Within two weeks, two riots – the worst since the 1998 unrests – occurred in Indonesia.

Kinanti Pinta Karana – The director of the documentary "Cowboys in Paradise," an already hugely controversial look at the gigolo lifestyles of Bali's "Kuta Cowboys," has already begun t

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Jakarta – The National Police accused on Monday a legislator who called for an investigation into 2008's Bank Century bailout of falsifying a Bank Century letter of credit worth US$22.5

Security forces launched an immediate crackdown targeting "tanned and muscular" men at Kuta's Bali beach on Monday, just hours after the Jakarta Globe Web site ran a story about a new f

Women from around the world have been drawn to Bali's sandy beaches, verdant rice fields and Hindu culture.

Batam, Riau Islands – A legislator said wide gaps in both salaries and work benefits provided by PT.

Veronika Kusumaryanti, Jakarta – Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, is well-known for its moderate brand of Islam.

Jakarta – In response to an Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) report to the Judiciary Mafia Taskforce on forestry-related crimes, police said Friday that they stopped the investigation i

Jakarta – Maj. Gen. Aslizar Tanjung replaced Rear Marshall Sagom Tamboen as spokesman of the Indonesian Military (TNI) on Friday.

After questioning three police officers and naming them graft suspects, the National Police will question two prosecutors in connection with an alleged case broker scandal involving for

Farouk Arnaz, Ismira Lutfia & Nivell Rayda – About 5,000 workers at a dry dock company on Batam Island rioted on Thursday, attacking their company's executives and foreign staff, mo

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Experts have argued that certain exemptions contained within the new freedom of information law, particularly those on state defense and strategies, will hin

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A petition to get the House of Representatives to push ahead with the use of its so called right to express an opinion, the first step to impeaching the vice