Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia – Press organizations on Sunday denounced calls for the government to regulate or ban racy entertainment news programs, saying such a move smacked of c

Around 40 people staged a lively protest outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on Monday, 28 December.

Surabaya – Mudflow victims in Sidoarjo, East Java, have criticized the developer building their houses in Renojoyo village, which they claimed were of low quality and unfit to live in,

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – The Reform Era that began in 1998 not only resulted in the changing face of government and society, but also swept in fresh air and fresh voices in literature.

Farouk Arnaz – It had been almost four years since a major terror attack hit Indonesia. Maybe we were feeling too secure from bombers.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Assistant attorney general for special crimes Marwan Effendy says the Attorney General's Office has this year recovered Rp 4.8 trillion (US$500 billion) in s

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has hit back at members of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party who criticized its "sellout" stance in the handling of the Ban

Ari Sharp – The death of a Tamil man who had been aboard a boat moored at Merak in Indonesia has prompted renewed calls for Australia to help strike a deal to resettle the 246 people on

Indonesian authorities have been accused of assaulting a number of Sri Lankans who are aboard a boat in Indonesia's Merak port.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – The authorities need to pay more attention to the safety of Christian worshipers living on the outskirts of Jakarta, a religious expert says.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – As anti-corruption rallies swept Indonesia's main cities this month, the two villains in the protesters' sights were readily identifiable.

Disciplinary action against police officers involved in abuse of power and other crimes often falls far short of the general public's sense of justice.

Heru Andriyanto – Viciously criticized for his office's inept, and at times controversial, handling of some of the country's biggest criminal cases, Attorney General Hendarman Supandji

Ismira Lutfia - A new information technology crimes bill looks set to spark intense public debate next year given its high priority on the House of Representative's 2010 National Legisl

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – As former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid, one of the founders of the National Awakening Party, lay in hospital on Friday, an internal conflict within th

Dessy Sagita – Nadia, who went by the name Agus before having gender reassignment surgery, filed a court petition and won her fight for legal recognition as a woman.

Camelia Pasandaran – Amid tight security, Christmas was marked peacefully with religious services and family parties in Jakarta and the rest of the world's largest Muslim-majority count

Erwida Maulia and Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The majority of House of Representatives members have yet to submit their wealth reports to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) befo

Adam Gartrell – One of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have spent the past 11 weeks refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia has died after allegedly being denied medical help

Indonesia's antiterror police say the father-in-law of slain Malaysian terror leader Noordin Mohammed Top was arrested Thursday in West Java.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Foreign businesses have demanded transparency in the House of Representative's inquiry into the Bank Century bailout and fear it may create political uncerta

Jakarta – Indonesia's foreign direct investment is set to rebound 15 percent in 2010 on a global economic recovery after dropping 28 percent this year to just below $10 billion, the sta

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-178-2009

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"The tragic death of a young Tamil man on board the refugee boat at Merak was completely avoidable," said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.

Australian citizens and community workers are deeply concerned for the welfare of 246 asylum seekers on board the boat at Merak's shores in Indonesia.

Jakarta – Indonesia needs more dedicated midwives to help reach maternal and infant mortality targets set by the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, a meeting h

Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection attributed the increasing number of crimes committed by children to trauma related to human rights abuses.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar has admitted the need to revise "sensitive" article on defamation in the 2008 Information and Electronic Trans

Ismira Lutfia – Shame, poverty and distance hamper a mother's relationship with her children when she is in prison, a study has found.

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – The reform movement has been gathering pace for the past 11 years but justice and prosperity have not trickled down to the people because the movement has

Ashlee Betteridge – This year in Indonesia has been rather eventful, with terror bombings, terror raids, legislative and presidential elections, two major earthquakes and a raging corru

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – While currently drafting a government regulation on lawful interception, the Information and Communications Ministry has been included on a list of institutio

Famous American politician Henry Adam's observation "practical politics consists of ignoring facts" aptly describes the mindset of most members of the House of Representatives' special

Arientha Primanita – Jakarta's gleaming skyscrapers and bustling malls are hiding a legion of unhappy residents, a researcher said on Tuesday, citing the results of a recently conducted

Jakarta – Lita (not her real name), 26, never imagined she would be forced to remove her clothes in a locked hotel room to serve a high-paying customer shortly after her arrival in Kuch

Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Adrian Wibisono – Indonesian Vice President Boediono, addressing a roomful of lawmakers on Tuesday, defended the central bank's decision in 2008 to bailout

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission will summon 62 judges, out of the country's total 6,300, for questioning in connection with "problem" rulings handed down in court.

Nivell Rayda – The proposed regulation restricting the bugging of telephone lines through the establishment of an agency to clear all wiretaps would practically guarantee immunity for m

Nivell Rayda – This year will go down as one of the darkest for the country's antigraft fighters, as witnessed by several attempts to undermine the powerful Corruption Eradication Commi

Heru Andriyanto – The South Jakarta District Court on Monday threw out a pretrial motion filed by a group of lawyers who challenged the decision to drop criminal charges against two ant

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Terrorist cells across the country are still actively recruiting members and planning future attacks, the elite counterterrorism squad said Monday, despite t

Usman Hamid, Jakarta – Final days of each year are always the best opportunity to reflect on what happened during the year in order to predict or project the future.

Suherdjoko and Dicky Christanto, Semarang, Jakarta – Experts on Sunday called for the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to build a stricter internal monitoring system following its plan t

Nurfika Osman – Despite the introduction of new legislation eight years ago, working mothers still face barriers in attempting to juggle the pressures of work and the challenges of rais

Umi Kulsum and Ignatius Kristanto – Two months have passed, but like an engine, they have also yet to "warm up".

University students burned a Democratic Party flag during a demonstration protesting the Bank Century case in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on Monday.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta – The struggle for human rights is universal, unrestricted and equal, whatever the person's tribe, religion or race.

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – Amid a slew of reports of civilians being abused by the police, experts say the Jakarta Police should implement human rights standards in their work procedur

Indonesia's two largest Muslim organizations criticized over the weekend at the country's feeble attempts to eradicate corruption, specifically singling out the failure of President Sus

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Calls to suspend Vice President Boediono and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati were malicious attempts to oust the two professionals from their posts, pol