Jakarta – A non-governmental organization (NGO) urged the government on Monday not to issue a regulation allowing for a direct…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – With the walls around the alleged massive corruption in the General Elections Commission (KPU) starting to crack wider…

Jakarta – Several Islamic organizations, led by well-known vigilante group the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), have reported popular rock band Dewa…

Jakarta – Indonesia's military named as its spokesman a general indicted by UN prosecutors for alleged war crimes during East Timor's break from…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – As the government tries to draw up an inventory of the myriad business interests of the Indonesian Military (TNI) as part…

Police on Sunday attempted to stop reporters from covering protests held in conjunction with the arrival of Asian-African leaders in…

Ahmad Alheid, Menado – Dozens of students from a number of organisations in the North Sulawesi city of Menado held a demonstration opposing the…

Bill Guerinl, Jakarta – Indonesia is one of the most resource-rich countries in the world, with coal, gold, bauxite, nickel, copper, silver, tin…

Leony Aurora, Jakarta – The legal battle over a ruling by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) on the sale of two tankers by…

M. Azis Tunny, Ambon – Ambon police officers stormed the Pattimura University campus and attacked students there on Wednesday after a minor…

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Dozens of students from the Indonesian Youth Front for Struggle (Front Perjuangan Pemuda Indonesia, FPPI) held an…

Indra Shalihinl, Jakarta – Don't try to hold a demonstration during the Asia Africa Conference because Jakarta must look beautiful. And because…

Anyone planning to exercise their democratic rights by staging rallies along Jakarta's main roads during the Asian-African Summit…

Rita A. Widiadana, Tanjung Benoa, Bali – While Indonesia was listed this year by Transparency International as the sixth most corrupt country in…

Jakarta – Human rights activists who's names have been proposed by a number of non-government organisations (NGOs) to sit on the Commission of…

I Wayan Juniartha, Denpasar – The All-Bali Theater Festival at the island's arts center in late April promises to provoke thought on the roles…

Jakarta – After eight years in the garment industry, Supena is savvy enough to know that one must keep abreast of the latest trends to stay in…

Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) is hindering the investigation into the murder of rights activist Munir, and the President and the…

Dian Intannia, Jakarta – Around 30 student activists, rural workers and urban-poor activists from the United People's Alliance (Aliansi Rakyat…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Environmentalists testified on Tuesday before the Constitutional Court about the devastating effects of open-pit mining in…

Max Lane, Sydney – Indonesian left-wing publisher Joesoef Isak attended the Third Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference (APISC) in…

Indonesia's ex-dictator Suharto, who has escaped trial on massive graft charges because he was deemed too ill to follow proceedings,…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – More than three million school-aged children in the country work in numerous sectors to help support their family.…

Riyadi Suparno, Tanjung Benoa (Bali) – Australian and Indonesian businesspeople are of the view that investment opportunities in Indonesia are…

James Crafti, Canberra – "Over the years our relations have experienced many twists and turns, highs and lows ... Prime Minister Howard and I are…

Jakarta – Activists have called on the government to reconsider its plan to construct a nuclear power plant given the possible hazardous effects…

Samarinda (East Kalimantan) – The East Kalimantan Manpower Office estimated that some 5,000 timber workers in the province would lose…

Astrid Felicia Lim, Jakarta – The People's Representative Assembly (DPR) is disappointed over the military's domination of Echelon I level…

Indonesian authorities have given the go ahead to build the country's first nuclear power plant on the densely-populated island of Java with the…

Paris – The immediate nutritional needs of areas in Aceh hit by the December tsunami have been met, but more than a third of children under the…

M. Azis Tunny and Yemris Fointuna, Wawasa/Kupang – Hunger and malaria have claimed 22 lives in Wawasa hamlet in Amarsekaru village, Gorom island…

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – Is the government so strapped for cash that it failed to pay Pertamina Rp 23 trillion (US$2.42 billion) in fuel…

Tens of thousands of Muslim Indonesians held a peaceful anti-Israel protest and rallied outside the US embassy in what police said appeared to be…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – After seven hours of questioning, four foreigners participating in a trauma counseling workshop in Medan will soon be…

Jakarta – The City Police said that protest demonstrations by students or community groups may be as harmful as terror bombings to the…

[The first court hearing of a class action by representatives of millions of victims of 1965 took place in a Jakarta district court on 13 April.…

Muhammad Nafik and Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid looks set to retain power as chief patron of the…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono vowed on Friday to raise the wages of civil servants and military and police…

Tony Hotland and Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – The decision to pay bribe money to an audit office official was a collective decision made by top…

Hera Diani, Jakarta – Muslim clerics continue to be one of the major stumbling blocks in gender equality in Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Minister of Defense Juwono Sudarsono wanted civilians, not military officers, to produce defense policies that would help…

The illegal logging trade in Indonesia is estimated to be costing the government about four billion Australian dollars a year in lost tax revenues…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday a major reshuffle that has seen Indonesian Military (TNI) spokesman Maj.…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – The Indonesian military (TNI) will not seek financial compensation in return for the relinquishment of its businesses…

Jakarta - Indonesian non-government human rights organizations have asked the government to cooperate with the United Nations' Commission of…

Jakarta – Patience, they say, is a virtue. And that's probably more true for former members (and their families) of the outlawed Indonesian…

Jakarta – The Army has started its investigation into officers allegedly involved in illegal logging in Papua province.

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Puji Santoso, Rokan Hilir – Protesters vandalized and set on fire three government cars on Tuesday evening during a violent protest to demand that…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – The government is now in the process of quantifying all enterprises belonging the…

[Excerpt from report by Indonesian newspaper Media Indonesia web site on 14 April.]

Jakarta – KSAD (Chief of Army Staff) Lt-Gen Djoko…