Surabaya – Hundreds of workers from Surabaya, Sidoarjo, Pasuruan, Mojokerto and Kediri staged a rally Thursday against 10 companies in East Java that recently sacked thousands of worker

Jakarta – A majority of people want President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to prioritize competence and personality over political and ethnic background when selecting personnel for his new

Febriamy Hutapea & Ismira Lutfia – With less than a week to go before lawmakers endorse it, the controversial film bill is coming under a hail of media criticism in a last attempt t

Febriamy Hutapea – Indonesia's press and broadcasting community on Friday slammed the new film bill, which is due to be endorsed next week, saying that it was too authoritarian and will

Patrick Guntensperger, Jakarta – If the purpose of the recent terrorist attacks in Indonesia was to undermine democracy and rattle investor confidence, the July bombings of the luxury J

Agus Maryono, Purbalingga, Central Java – Hundreds of teachers from various schools across the Central Java town of Purbalingga rallied outside the regent's office Friday to protest ove

Yogyakarta – Scores of protesters from the National Student League for Democracy-Politics of the Poor (LMND-PRM) held a protest action at the Gajah Mada University traffic circle on Fri

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Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – An Indonesian banking scandal set to rival those of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis threatens to undermine the final days of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's

Camelia Pasandaran & Anita Rachman – The government found itself in Constitutional Court on Thursday defending its education autonomy law against nine citizens who want it annulled

Irwin Fedriansyah, Cikangkareng – Rescuers dug through rocks and debris with their bare hands Thursday in search of dozens of villagers believed buried in a landslide triggered by a str

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – The Islamist mastermind allegedly behind deadly July suicide bombings in Jakarta is likely hiding out on Indonesia's main island of Java, a top anti-terrorism

Ismira Lutfia – What better symbols to present to Muslim-dominated television audiences in this holy month of Ramadan than Arabic cultural icons such as camels and deserts?

Jakarta – The recent bombings in Jakarta should be a wake-up call for Islamic organizations and clerics to promote noble Islamic values in order to prevent the rapid spread of terrorism

Camelia Pasandaran – The General Elections Commission officially announced the results of the April 9 legislative elections on Wednesday, with House Speaker Agung Laksono of the Golkar

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Senior legislator Theo L Sambuaga has denied suggestions the House of Representatives is secretly working with Indonesia's Ministry of Defense to delay passag

Jakarta – A survey by Indo Barometer says that the people want President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to embrace all political parties in the next cabinet.

It is difficult not to be suspicious of the latest political maneuvers made by the heirs of the late former president Soeharto.

Heru Andriyanto – In the face of numerous unresolved human rights violations, the government has no justification to delay ratifying an international convention on protection from enfor

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia is considering tough new anti-terror legislation that would enable detention without charge for up to two years and prosecution of radical preac

Dicky Christanto and Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Human rights defenders strongly rejected a proposal to extend the detention of alleged terrorists to two years without charges.

Nivell Rayda – The country's most prominent antigraft watchdog warned on Wednesday that there were at least two provisions in the latest draft of the Anti-Corruption Court bill that cou

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) is calling for the President to establish an ad-hoc human rights court to hear human rights abuse cases fr

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Medan District Court sentenced Tuesday a student, a becak (pedicab) driver and a lecturer to prison for their involvement in violent protest that led to the

Rachmadin Ismail, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) visited the Directorate General of Human Rights at the Department of Justice and Human R

Rachmadin Ismail, Jakarta – There has been no significant change in the handling of cases of missing person or human rights violations since President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been

Kartika Inggas, Bangkok – Lubna Ahmed Al Hussein is not a household name in Indonesia.

Max Lane, Jakarta – Watching Jusuf Isak's body wrapped in white linen being passed down to his sons, standing deep in the grave dug in Java's rich, red muddy soil, was like watching lif

Febriamy Hutapea – Never mind differences over culture, Malaysia has at least one thing that the Indonesian government wants to "copy" – its tough antiterror law.

Sam King – The National Network for Women's Liberation (Jaringan Nasional Perempuan Mahardika – JNPM) is an Indonesian women's liberation organisation consisting of local women's commi

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Irresponsibility on the part of PT Lapindo Brantas may again cause more misery for the people of Sidoarjo.

Max Lane – On August 6, Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra, Indonesia's greatest dramatist and most influential poet, died in Jakarta, aged 74.

After a mass hacking attack on more than 120 Malaysian Web sites, dozens of students ambushed the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta on Tuesday and pelted it with rotten eggs.

Jakarta – The Indonesia Military (TNI) says the export of weaponry to the Philippines has been done in accordance with procedural administrative requirements.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government would be accused of abusing human rights if it endorsed a tougher antiterrorism law giving the power for police to detain a terrorist suspect f

The chief editor of a media group that runs a hardline Islamic Web site said on Monday that the site would reopen after being brought down by excessive visitors following a police raid

Camelia Pasandaran – The potential power of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party-led coalition in the House of Representatives could pose a threat to democracy, the Ind

A suspect wanted in connection with hotel suicide bombings in the Indonesian capital infiltrated the national airline in a plot to carry out a "bigger attack," the police chief said Mon

Ismira Lutfia – A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. Nor, apparently, should a prudent television station broadcast the word "goat."

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Jakarta – State Secretary Hatta Radjasa said Saturday the whereabouts of a 1966 document that marked a transfer of power from founding president Sukarno to Army general Soeharto remain

Kafil Yamin – Since the beginning of last year, the heads of no fewer than 29 provincial, district and municipal administrations have been arrested on corruption charges, with 19 being

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – In 2004, the Home Ministry announced to the public that Indonesia would give each citizen a Single Identity Number (SIN) for use in various administrative sys

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Arientha Primanita – Jakarta residents who haven't made the adjustment already had better learn to live with the annual floods because the problem will continue to exist for the foresee

Bogor – Bogor Police took 30 unmarried couples from several hotels in Parung, Bogor, on Friday evening and brought them to police headquarters for questioning.

Indah Setiawati – Loopholes in the process of making an identity card (KTP) in the city and its surrounding areas means many people can get, and indeed do have multiple KTPs.

Ismira Lutfia – In an effort to scoop audience ratings during the holy month, broadcasters have been serving up a banquet of Islamic-oriented shows for Muslim viewers, ranging from tele