A budget watchdog is urging the House of Representatives to scrap its budget for trips abroad.

Members of Germany's Indonesian student association ridiculed House lawmakers visiting Berlin on Monday, calling the politicians "country bumpkins" and the trip a waste of state funds.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The proposed sexy-outfit ban might be a tactic from the House of Representatives' secretariat general to force a new plan: a uniform project.

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives seems to be shooting itself in the foot with a ban on skimpy clothes, as the unit in charge of formulating the

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Ezra Sihite – It's not corruption or fuel prices that has some lawmakers concerned these days – it's cleavage and short skirts.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Households Affairs Committee (BURT) has issued a regulation banning staff from wearing revealing attire at work.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – A transparency activist group has accused a House of Representatives deputy speaker of shamelessness over his reintroduction of a monthly ho

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Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' ethics council has decided to retain Democratic Party lawmaker M. Nasir, whose brother M.

Ezra Sihite – The House of Representatives (DPR) budget committee approved a Rp 500 billion ($500 million) budget on Monday for maintenance of parliament buildings this year.

Ezra Sihite – The fallout from Muhammad Nasir's controversial late-night visit to his brother in prison continued to grow on Tuesday, with the Democratic Party lawmaker being questioned

Bagus BT Saragih – Members of the House of Representatives are proving their supervisory worth to the public, only this time, their focus is on snacks.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – Following public outrage over a string of questionable spending decisions by the House of Representatives, the House Honor Council has propo

Legislators involved in common-law marriages will not be disciplined by the House of Representatives (DPR) unless they fail to make good on promises to their wives, officials said on Th

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – With several renovation projects in progress, the House of Representatives (DPR) has built a comfortable nest for the legislators.

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Finger-pointing in the wake of a number of spending scandals continued in the embattled House of Representatives on Thursday, with two polit

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite a government-imposed moratorium, the House of Representatives proposed the creation of 20 new regional administration units on Tuesday.

Ezra Sihite & Agus Triyono – Although the House of Representatives has been coming under intense public criticism over several construction projects or plans deemed wasteful and too

Ezra Sihite – House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso asked the media on Tuesday to back of criticizing the legislature in the wake of a series of budget scandals, sa

Rizky Amelia – The fallout from a $2.2 million meeting room renovation project at the House of Representatives continued on Sunday as antigraft groups demanded it put down the hammers a

Taslim Chaniago, a member of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee, has tendered his resignation from the committee following the widely criticized renovation of a House meetin

Agus Triyono – Indonesia's much criticized House of Representatives is in the firing line again for its spending habits, this time a Rp 20.4 billion ($2.2 million) bill for relocating a

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indonesia's controversial speaker of the House of Representatives, Marzuki Alie, has blamed the media for giving the House a bad name.

Ezra Sihite – Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) has been urged to pull the plug on a scheme to renovate toilets in the Nusantara 1 building, which houses the offices of the pol

Agus Triyono – A legal and policy watchdog has said that 2011 marked a low point in productivity for the House of Representatives as the body passed just 21 out of 93 pieces of legislat

Agus Triyono – Indonesian politicians have been blasted for wasting almost Rp 85 billion on "insignificant activities," including ceremonies and official visits in 2011.

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – House of Representatives speaker Marzuki Alie defended the Rp 48 billion ($5.3 million) the government had allotted for leaders of the House

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Legislators agreed on Friday to drop a key bill on labor from their list of priority legislation to be deliberated next year, but opted to include a much-awai

Ezra Sihite – A hearing on the contentious new policy to deny sentence cuts to corruption convicts turned ugly on Wednesday with a legislator losing his temper at Justice Minister Amir

Ezra Sihite – The proposed fingerprinting system intended to more accurately gauge attendance at official meetings was again criticized during a plenary session on Tuesday where only 30

Jakarta – At least four groups of House of Representatives (DPR) members are traveling abroad this month for what they claim are "comparative studies".

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives was back in session on Monday, kind of.

Camelia Pasandaran – An Indonesian politician has responded to allegations that poor quality laws passed by lawmakers were due to corruption and vested interests by admitting the claims

Anita Rachman – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie has found himself in a familiar position, back on the defensive over the extravagance of legislators.

Jakarta – Twelve legislators from the House of Representatives' security commission will travel abroad despite criticism over ineffectiveness and lack of empathy for destitute compatrio

Jakarta – Leaders of the House of Representatives have pledged to start its future plenary sessions on schedule even if the sessions fail to meet quorum, as a response to lawmakers' lac

Rizky Amelia – Earlier this month President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono "declared war" on excessive state spending, but a budget watchdog said on Sunday that the State Palace was one of th

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – After seven years in power, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono still has much work to do in law enforcement and economic development.

Another survey, this time by the Indonesian Voice Network (JCI), concluded that the public approval rating of the performance of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono dropped to 53.2 perce

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – It took Rp 40 billion (US$4.52 million) of the state budget, a major property eviction and protests from millions of citizens to make lawmakers surrender t

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The much-criticized House of Representatives has finally bowed to public pressure to suspend the Rp 1.3 trillion new House building construction project, a

The Cabinet

Ina Parlina and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Near absolute loyalty to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may have been what saved at least three highly controversial ministers from getti

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has grabbed more power and control of state assets by appointing his close aides to key ministerial posts during the Cabin

Public Housing Minister Djan Faridz

Arientha Primanita, Anita Rachman & Camelia Pasandaran – A chorus of disappointed sighs greeted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's announcement of his reshuffled cabinet lineup on