Jakarta – Greenpeace activists from Indonesia will file a report with police against PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) for illegally clearing forest in a peatland area in Cape Kampa

Farouk Arnaz, Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Nivell Rayda – The Attorney General Office and the National Police appeared set to defy public opinion and that of a presidential fact-findin

Nivell Rayda – Public pressure has been building for the Corruption Eradication Commission to take over police investigations into the collapse and bailout of PT Bank Century.

Hera Diani – The heat was excruciating as the first batch of hajj pilgrims entered the transit dormitory in East Jakarta a day before their flight to Saudi Arabia on Oct. 23.

Jakarta – The number of voters represented by the nine political parties that obtained seats in the national House of Representatives (DPR) following the 2009 legislative elections is l

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Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – An education official testified Tuesday that he had asked the family of slain journalist Anak Agung Bagus Narendra Prabangsa to pull a story over which the

Nivell Rayda – Several lawyers visited the Corruption Eradication Commission headquarters on Friday, urging it to take over the ongoing police investigation into businessman Anggodo Wid

Fidelis E Satriastanti & Budi Otmansyah – Eleven foreign nationals will be deported and 21 Indonesians have been charged by police following a Greenpeace action at a large pulp and

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Jakarta – Hundreds of people who called themselves The People's Movement for Education, Politics, Law, and Human Rights (Gempita), Friday afternoon, gathered outside the Corruption Erad

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) is to set up two new military commands in West Kalimantan and West Papua provinces in an apparent bid to revitalize its much-criticized territori

National Police are now not alone in facing the wrath of Indonesian Facebook users.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Seventy-three legislators from seven parties in the House of Representatives have signed a petition requesting the establishment of an inquiry committee

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – A former investigation director from the Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) revealed flaws with the antigraft body during a hearing with the fact-finding

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Padang – About 2,000 traders at the Pasar Raya traditional market in Padang, West Sumatra, rallied Wednesday outside the city's legislative council building, prote

Dicky Christanto and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Reeling from a body blow delivered by a former police chief's testimony in antigraft official Antasari Azhar's trial, police made p

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A law expert and former counselor for the Constitutional Court (MK), Irmanputra Sidin said the replacing of all the police officers guarding the court W

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Defense Ministry on Wednesday criticized a statement by activists and the Press Council calling for a rethinking of the State Secrecy Bill, saying that no

Dessy Sagita – The 2009 Law on Narcotics is too repressive and contains articles that could potentially violate human rights, the National AIDS Commission said on Wednesday.

Julia Zappei, Putrajaya – Indonesia's leader requested swift justice Thursday for maids allegedly abused while on the job in Malaysia – charges that have strained normally amicable rela

Emmy Fitri – Nine years ago, long before Al Gore warned the world about the "Inconvenient Truth" of global warming, Edy Hamdan and fellow fishermen in Krui, West Lampung, had already ac

Heru Andriyanto – The claim by a police officer that he had been forced to testify against former antigraft commission head Antasari Azhar could add fuel to the growing public opinion t

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Muninggar Saraswati – Snowballing public support for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in its conflict with the National Police and the Attorney

Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Nivell Rayda – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will risk "tarnishing his credibility" if he allows the National Police and the Attorney General's Office

Multa Fidrus – An ongoing project to reclaim land from Lake Rawa Kayu Antap in Rempoa subdistrict, East Ciputat district, South Tangerang, by a housing developer has sparked protests fr

A lawmaker on the House of Representatives Commission III who demanded the Attorney General's Office immediately resolve his case on Wednesday got his wish – sort of.

Kinanti Pinta Karana – Claims of a police plot by Sr. Comr.

The National Police had a lot to explain after a co-defendant in the murder case of businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, former South Jakarta Police Chief Sr. Comr.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Transparency International Indonesia on Wednesday slammed all the major political parties for refusing to divulge how they financed their campaigns for this y

Jakarta – Twenty employees of a company distributing fashion accessories will file charges against their employer after he allegedly abused and took them hostage, their lawyer said Tues

Jakarta – Environmental experts say the country is not a carbon emitter, countering a report sponsored by the World Bank and Britain's development arm that ranked the country the world'

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Activists are warning against air pollution in Indonesian cities which they said had reached alarming levels.

It's all getting a bit out of hand. As the world's third-largest democracy, Indonesia's legal system seems to have taken on a Wild West character.

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Driven by an increase in consumer spending, the country's economic growth accelerated faster in the third quarter after losing speed for more than a year on

Dian Ariffahmi, Yessar Rossendar & Teguh Prasetyo – Foreign manufacturers are joining the growing list of industries unhappy with Jakarta's ongoing blackouts, saying frequent work s

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Rounds of blackouts have hit numerous manufacturers operating in Greater Jakarta, with garment producers already incurring penalties due to delayed deliverie

Ade Mardiyati – Augustin Sibarani, born in 1925 in Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra, had a reputation for being the most brilliant cartoonist in the country in his day.

Ismira Lutfia – Some 406 migrant workers were repatriated from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, with most complaining that they had not been paid by their employers.

April Aswadi & Febriamy Hutapea – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday swore in the new heads of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force with the new commander of the Indonesia

Semarang – Thousands of workers took to the streets of Central Java's capital on Tuesday to protest a Rp 50,000 difference in the proposed minimum monthly wage.

Jakarta – The South Kalimantan chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has proposed an edict banning the use of loudspeakers if they are considered to be disturbing other people,

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is facing mounting pressure, including from Indonesians abroad, to combat rampant mafia practices in the country's legal institutions.

Media experts on Monday said the international coverage of the conflict involving the nation's antigraft and law enforcement agencies showed that the rest of the world saw the issue as

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police claims to be in possession of solid evidence of bribery and abuse of power against two antigraft deputies, including videos from closed-circuit televi

Nivell Rayda & April Aswadi – The fact-finding team appointed to review the National Police's handling of two suspended members of the country's antigraft commission confirmed on Mo

Erwida Maulia and Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The presidential fact-finding team has said police do not have enough evidence to charge the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leader

Nurfika Osman – A seminar tasked with advising policy makers on domestic violence has stressed the need for victims to be given easier access to justice.

Erwida Maulia and Novan Iman Santosa, Jakarta – There is speculation at the medium-term reasons motivating a "sudden unexpected" move by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to install n

While the numbers of Facebook fans getting behind a page supporting anticorruption deputies Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto is rising, three groups supporting the National Polic