Nivell Rayda & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – After weeks of uncertainty, the Corruption Eradication Commission is officially without a leader after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on

Ulma Haryanto – Four jaipong dancers took to the stage in Central Jakarta on Sunday morning to show off a traditional dance they say is in peril because of a law that could restrict suc

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According to senior Indonesian officials and police and details from government files, the US-backed Indonesian armed forces (TNI), now due for fresh American aid, assassinated a series

Camelia Pasandaran – The likelihood of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle joining President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party-led coalition is increasing every day, D

Aidi Yursal, Medan – In a massive rally to defend the rights of Palestinians, thousands of supporters of the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) protested here on Sunday, calli

Anita Rachman – Comr. Gen.

Farouk Arnaz – A day after one of its former senior officials accused three high-ranking officers of accepting as much as Rp 25 billion ($2.75 million) in bribes, the National Police on

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The choice made by a group of alleged terrorists to center its training operations in the jungles of Aceh province was hopeful at best, a sociologist say

Putri Prameshwari – The country has reduced its slum population by at least half in the last two decades, the fastest among Southeast Asian countries, according to a United Nations repo

It's Thursday afternoon, March 18, and dozens of family members of victims of human rights violations are holding another "Kamisan" (Thursday Action), a silent protest in which they hol

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Two more experts recommended Friday that the controversial 1965 Blasphemy Law be revised as critics warned of civil conflict if the law was changed.

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Hans David Tampobolon, Jakarta – Two political foes – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle – may be growing closer since

[Note: This article was written before United States President Barack Obama's visit to Indonesia was postponed until June.]

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) warned Thursday that direct elections across the region would be prone to corruption and reminded candidates vying f

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The United States has once again put Indonesia into its Priority Watch List of countries with rampant copyright infringement, despite claims by the governmen

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) is calling on the United States not to cooperate with or provide military assistance to the Indonesian gov

US President Barack Obama on Thursday postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia until June as he attempts to push his historic health care reform bill through Congress.

Investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn reveals US-backed Indonesian armed forces carried out a series of assassinations of civilian activists in late 2009.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – During interrogation, a recently arrested terrorism suspect said his group was aiming to build an Islamic country through military force, National Police spo

Ivansyah, Jakarta – Executives of the State oil and gas company Pertamina in its facility in Balongan, West Java met protesting workers on Friday (19/3) after three days of protests to

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has dropped graft charges against three officials from the Indonesian Embassy in Thailand and announced it had closed the

Farouk Arnaz & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Police on Thursday rejected claims by Comr. Gen.

Nivell Rayda – Thirty-nine former and current members of the House of Representatives were formally accused in court on Thursday of taking billions of rupiah in bribes in connection wit

The parents of a six-month-old baby who died after she was allegedly denied treatment by Tangerang's Sari Asih Hospital are planning to take legal action.

Ulma Haryanto – The Constitutional Court on Thursday put an end to the long and bitter dispute between the nation's two election oversight bodies, granting the Election Supervisory Boar

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Sunanda Creagh – Some things in the Central Jakarta district of Matraman have barely changed since the late 1960s, when US President Barack Obama lived and played there.

Ulma Haryanto – Two laws that give the Attorney General's Office power to ban books should be reviewed, a lawyer representing the Islamic Students Association told the Constitutional Co

John McBeth – It is only when United States Ambassador to Indonesia Cameron Hume orders a cone of silence over the issue that you get a full appreciation of what is at stake as the US g

Jakarta – Activists are calling on all household workers to stop working and march in the streets during the nationwide strike called for May 1-3 to push for the formulation and passage

Ed Davies and Olivia Rondonuwu, Jakarta – Indonesia has won praise for cracking down on Islamist militants behind a string of deadly attacks and at the core of the fight have been the h

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court must be firm on members of hard-line Islamic groups who intimidated petitioners of the blasphemy law judicial review by issuing threats and shouting r

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Despite the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) efforts to punish graft suspects, law enforcement officials are still not upholding justice agains

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Corruption Eradication Commission took immediate fire on Wednesday after it announced it was halting an investigation of three former H

Febriamy Hutapea – The Prosperous Justice Party, which broke ranks with the Democratic Party-led coalition during the legislative probe into the bailout of Bank Century, is accusing the

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Former members of House of Representatives' inquiry team on Bank Century bailout have lambasted the antigraft body for not taking the results of their invest

Officials, analysts and economists who have held fast and predicted that Indonesia's economy is destined for great things in 2010 were rewarded with a slew of good news on Wednesday, in

Febriamy Hutapea – The Prosperous Justice Party on Wednesday urged the government not to use the highly publicized discovery of a nest of terrorists operating in Aceh to disturb the pub

Farouk Arnaz & Dessy Sagita – An anti-tobacco group on Thursday reported a current lawmaker and two former legislators to the National Police, accusing them of eliminating a clause

Arti Ekawati& Reva Sasistiya – After having already opened up protected forests for development, the government is now moving to allow the drilling of geothermal wells in conservati

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – In a show of defiance, the Corruption Eradication Commission on Monday upped the ante in the ongoing standoff with the House of Representatives over the Bank C

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Still smarting over the perceived treachery of its coalition partners in the Bank Century bailout investigation, the ruling Democratic Party vowed on Wednesday

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Democratic Party has been working behind the scenes to see if its governing coalition can be salvaged to ensure a workable partnership between President Su

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – National Police Chief Gen.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – With tigers living in ever-closer proximity to humans due to the continued destruction of their forest habitat, the number of reported attacks involving the big

US President Barack Obama must be welcomed as a guest during his much-anticipated state visit next week, say moderate Indonesian Islamic groups, including Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiy

Heru Andriyanto – The attorney general's plans to challenge the Supreme Court's acquittal of retired Army Gen.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite claims from the Armed Forces that the United States would soon lift its ban on full military cooperation with Indonesia, a senior White House official