Carlos Roy Fajarta Barus & Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – Some 200 people claiming to be residents of Pinangsia in North Jakarta protested in front of the governor's residence on Tuesday nigh

Jakarta – A number of NGOs and families of victims of gross human rights violations have criticized the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), which is supporting and promoting the estab

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), a human rights NGO, has lambasted the government's recent decision to opt for a non-judicial mechanism to resolve pas

Linda Yulisman and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Nearly 50,000 factory workers have been dismissed in recent weeks as the country's economic slowdown has begun to pinch the country's labor intensive

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court issued a ruling on Tuesday that threatens to nullify all graft cases prosecuted by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) since the ant

Haeril Halim, National – The House of Representatives' Commission III overseeing legal affairs has lashed out at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for failing to prosecute former vice pre

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The newly established committee tasked with selecting commissioners for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) pledged on Monday to run a transparent process to single o

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police said Monday it would coordinate with the Navy's Military Police (POMAL) to prosecute a Navy officer allegedly behind the killing of environmental activist Jopi Teguh Le

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has urged the National Police and its personnel to carry out a comprehensive and in-depth investigation into the murde

Jakarta – The Indonesian military is taking on more roles in civilian life, a think-tank warned Monday, almost two decades after the armed forces' wings were clipped following the downfall of autho

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Jakarta – Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said the government disbursed Rp 3.8 trillion, or one-fifth of the total of Rp 20.7 trillion in village funds last month, due to administrative glitc

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia's counter-terrorism unit Densus 88 arrested six terrorist suspects for their alleged involvement in a shootout in Poso's Gayatri village, Central Sulawesi, on Sund

Environmental activist Jopi Peranginangin has died after being stabbed during an altercation outside a nightclub in Kemang, South Jakarta, early on Saturday.

Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – The two feuding factions of the Golkar Party – Indonesia's oldest political party – have agreed to set aside their differences in order to select candidates for upco

Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi, Jakarta – Nearly two decades after Indonesia's military was squeezed out of civilian affairs with the downfall of strongman leader Suharto, President Joko Widodo is

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Ayu, a 26-year-old activist in an institution representing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, never thought that breaking up with her boyfriend afte

Jordan Humphreys – While regional governments responded to Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees by closing borders, working people showed that there is hope amid the horror.

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – An Australian law firm is preparing a class action on behalf of Indonesian fishermen and seaweed farmers who say their livelihoods were devastated by one of Australia's w

Jakarta – Representatives from churches in Papua say the central government has not done enough to protect the rights of indigenous people there, despite President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's recent vis

Indonesia will have the fastest growing defense budget in Asia Pacific over the next five years, according to a report by global analysis firm IHS.

Kennial Caroline Laia & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Human rights activists on Friday lambasted Attorney General H.M.

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has offered a permanent solution for all unresolved human rights abuses through reconciliation.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration has decided to establish a non-judicial mechanism to resolve past human rights abuses in the absence of solid ground on w

Jakarta – The Ombudsman has found that national exams administered for both junior and senior high school students in April and early May were plagued by problems, including one affecting the newly

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Abdullah Hehamahua, a former adviser for the Corruption Eradication Commission, has received intense criticism for making sexist remarks about the anti-graft body's all-fem

Ina Parlina and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's decision to select nine female experts for the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) commissioners selection team has wo

For an administration that has been vociferous on following through with the letter of the law, the government of President Joko Widodo has shown a callous and wanton disregard for human rights.

Gianrigo Marletta, Geulumpang – Muchtar Ali began weeping when he saw the desperate, starving Rohingya on the overcrowded boat off the coast of Indonesia.

Ezra Sihite, Novianti Setuningsih & Erwin Sihombing, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo announced nine new members of the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, selection committee on Thursday

Budi Hernawan – Many of us were surprised but pleased when Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced early this month that the decades-long restriction on foreign journalists in Papua would be lif

Makassar – Students of Muhammadiyah University were involved in a clash with police officers after a rally to commemorate National Awakening Day at their campus on Jl.

Jakarta – The Washington-based World Bank has pledged up to $12 billion in new financing to Indonesia over the next three to five years, to support the nation speeding up infrastructure development

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – The government's newly unveiled 2016 economic growth target has raised eyebrows, with economists describing it as being too ambitious.

Jakarta – More than 1,000 students from various organizations staged separate protests in front of the State Palace in Central Jakarta on Thursday.

Jakarta – The chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization, Said Aqil Siradj, has said that Indonesia was founded on values of peace and tolerance, and not exclusivel

Yustinus Paat & Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – Activists have called for transparency and public scrutiny to play a part in the selection process of members of a committee responsible for the appoint

Jewel Topsfield, James Massola, David Wroe – The Indonesian government has rebuked Australia for refusing to resettle any of the thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi asylum seekers at the centre o

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Defying public criticism over its poor legislative performance, the House of Representatives officially announced on Wednesday plans to construct new buildings at the Se

Jakarta – Indonesian People's United Resistance (PPRI) spokesperson Surya Anta believes that the administration of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is one that relies on the interests of the politica

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The word spread via text message.

Langsa, Aceh – From rescuing migrants at sea to donating all they can, residents of Indonesia's Islamic Aceh province are warmly welcoming hundreds of desperate fellow Muslims who have fled their h

Jakarta – The majority of the public is satisfied with the implementation of democracy in the country after 17 years of the reform movement, but is dissatisfied with the performance of some democra

Jakarta – Scores of demonstrators from the Indonesian People's United Resistance (PPRI) demonstrated in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Wednesday May 20 calling on President

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – In another blow to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the National Police announced Tuesday they had dropped their investigation into an allegation that deputy pol

Bagus BT Saragih and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A court decision on Monday brought the settlement of months-long infighting within the Golkar Party back to square one, risking both conflicting camps no

Cillian Nolan and Sidney Jones, IPAC – Indonesia's Papua, covering its two easternmost provinces, simmers with the highest levels of deadly violence – inter-ethnic, electoral, land-related and dome

Cillian Nolan, Jakarta – In his fourth visit to Papua in just over a year, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo last weekend told Papuans that he wanted to "turn over a new page" in their relations with

Haeril Halim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – After making several moves that have been criticized for confining the authority of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the government is again unde