Three teenage Christian girls were beheaded and a fourth was seriously wounded in a savage attack yesterday by unidentified assailants in the…

Rip Hudiono, Jakarta – All ended well for the government's proposed 2006 state budget, with the House of Representatives passing the budget draft…

Eva C. Komandjaja, Jakarta – Police said on Friday they had named eight followers of a little-known religious sect in Central Sulawesi as suspects…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was criticized on Friday for showing lack of commitment in pushing through the…

Jakarta – After one year in power, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his economics team have so far failed to live up to expectations, with…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – The fishing village of Kuala Penet, situated at the estuary of Way Kambas National Park in Lampung, might be…

Jakarta – The number of mentally ill people in Jakarta has risen dramatically over the past month, so much so that four government…

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Though there has been no singularly mind-boggling achievement in his first year in office, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's bold…

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – Increasing the allocation in the state budget for the Office of the State Minister of Environment would not help…

Indonesian police say a shadowy sect known as Mahdi is becoming a threat to national security after three officers died in a bloody clash. But…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Ministry of Defense says it will ban servicemen from being involved in the management of businesses owned by the…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may be leading the nationwide fight against corruption but a survey reveals that more people now…

Somewhere in the dark a child cries, someone dies and humanity hides.

These prophetic words perfectly capture the contradictions that…

Jakarta – A plan to revive a community-based intelligence system run by the Indonesian army as an anti-terrorism measure threatens to harm…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – House of Representatives lawmakers have warned that the government's plan to revive the military's territorial…

Fadli, Batam – Some 90 percent of a total of 221,163 electronics factory workers surveyed in Batam are contract workers; a situation that makes…

The government has yet to approve a formal resumption of counter-terrorism training and exercises between Australian troops and Indonesia's…

James Balowski, Jakarta – Attending a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Indonesian military (TNI) on October 5, just days after the…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The controversial decision to provide a new additional monthly allowance for members of the House of Representatives…

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – Fallout from the October 1 Bali bombings put a damper on the local Hindu Galungan and Kuningan holidays celebrating the…

Jakarta – A clash between police and machete-wielding members of a shadowy Islamic sect on Indonesia's eastern Sulawesi island has killed four…

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – If President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's favorite soap opera show is "Judgement Day is Nigh", what is former President…

Jakarta – Over 70,000 workers have been laid off in Indonesia since the government hiked fuel prices on Oct. 1, local media reported…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Several factions in the House of Representatives have urged the government to review its fuel price hike policy,…

Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – It was billed as a way to cushion the blow for Indonesia's poorest of the poor. But efforts to compensate 15.5 million…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The House of Representatives may claim it empathized with people who are facing increased economic hardship as…

In Indonesia calls for greater government supervision of Islamic schools have been rejected by the country's leading Muslim groups. Vice President…

Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Tension heightened in the Central Java town of Surakarta as hundreds of supporters of the Indonesian Democratic Party…

Jakarta – The move by the House of Representatives to provide a new monthly allowance of Rp 10 million (about US$1,000) for fellow lawmakers drew…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The Democrat Party and the Golkar Party, both main supporters of President Susilo…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government's intention of introducing draconian legislation to fight terrorism appears likely to face a long hard…

Jakarta – Lawmakers have turned a cold shoulder to the Constitutional Court's ruling that obliges the government to increase the education budget…

Tangerang – Dozens of disadvantaged people in Kronjo subdistrict, Tangerang regency, ran amok on Friday morning, demanding that they…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – After the government raised fuel prices early this month, Bandung textile businessman Satya Natapura could only pray…

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – As demand for firewood increases following the 200 percent price hike on kerosene, hundreds of low-income…

Jakarta – Murdered rights campaigner Munir had requested stomach medication from the Garuda crew prior to takeoff at Changi airport, and began to…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Karen P. Hughes, a leading US image builder and deputy to US secretary of state Condoleeza Rice, told students here on…

Blontank Poer, Sukoharjo – Police officers declared the leader of a Muslim militant group a suspect on Thursday, three days after he led a mob…

Fabio Scarpello, Jakarta – Indonesia's renewed "war on terror" in the wake of the latest round of bombings on Bali could pave the way for renewed…

Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said that terrorism must be handled with stern measures. According to Kalla, all…

Jakarta – Maj. Gen. Herry Tjahyana, the Udayana IX Military chief, has said that the bombings in Kuta and Jimbaran on October 1, were due to the…

Jakarta - The first anniversary of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla (SBY-JK) on Thursday October 20 was…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla denied reports that the government would restrict the activities of Islamic boarding…

Jakarta – The United States administration has supported the Indonesian government's plan to establish a tougher antiterror body and…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Large-scale raids to find those responsible for the latest Bali bombings have caused unease among some sections of the…

Jakarta – Fifteen US senators from the Republican and Democrat Parties have written to Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Fahmi Idris this…

Jakarta – The economic hardship faced by businesses, in particular due to the recent fuel prices hike, may result in up to 1 million workers…

Surabaya – Four students suffered light injuries after a clash with the police during the latest protests in Surabaya on Thursday as…

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, will monitor Islamic boarding schools as part of its effort to fight militant violence and…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Despite a number of decisions that many consider burdensome to the public during his first year in office, President…