Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Government officials are accustomed to gift giving and will not easily give it up, the Corruption Eradication…

Palu – Fish catches in the Palu Gulf had dropped dramatically during the past two years because of sand dredging in the area,…

Hasrul, Kendari – Daeng Embang stared in despair at his dying orchard when a team of government officials and environmental activists stopped by…

Bandung – West Java Governor Danny Setiawan rejected on Thursday workers' demand for a repeal of the governor's decree on the minimum…

Yogyakarta – Twenty-one percent out of a total of 2.5 million people in Yogyakarta are effectively unemployed, the province's Manpower…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – A government-sanctioned joint team announced its official report on alleged Buyat Bay pollution here on Wednesday,…

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief General Endriartono Sutarto has said that the TNI is ready to be placed under the ministry…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The government must give authority to the General Elections Commission (KPU) in local elections to prevent the…

There's high drama in Bali at the annual conference of the powerful political party Golkar. Indonesian police have confirmed they're investigating…

Muhammad Nafik, Jakarta – Although it is emerging as the world's largest Muslim democracy, the country still has a long way to go until it plays a…

Born of a long, bloody revolution which taxed immeasurable sacrifice, it is no wonder that the words "war" and "struggle" are etched into the…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court annulled on Wednesday Electricity Law No. 20/2002, ruling that it was against the…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Thousands of West Java factory workers, grouped under the National Workers Union (SPN), staged a five hour protest on…

Indonesian prosecutors' bid to link a radical Muslim cleric to bomb attacks suffered another setback when a key witness withdrew a confession…

Kornelius Purba and M. Taufiqurrahman, Nusa Dua/Bali – This week's Golkar Party congress will feature rich, deceptive and powerful people bidding…

James Rose – Indonesian and international groups have called for a halt to BP's Tangguh liquefied natural gas project in Indonesia in a letter to…

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Billions of rupiah in change from traffic fines remain idle at a state bank, as most people have been reluctant to go to…

Jakarta - Suciwati, the wife of the late Munir, is to seek international support. She will be forced to do this if an Indonesian…

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – At least 2,500 families will lose their homes next year when the city administration launches a massive eviction…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Attorney General Abdul Rachman Saleh says Indonesia will continue to impose the death penalty for certain…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is considering modifying the prerogatives granted to party leader…

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – Enraged by the latest attacks on churches in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Christian leaders demanded here on Tuesday that the…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja and Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The government has finalized a draft presidential regulation to transfer control of the…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Ministry of Defense is looking into the procurement of 100 Scorpion light tanks from a leading British arms company…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesia is planning mandatory military service for its citizens in a bid to beef up the country's defence forces.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The oldest daughter of former Indonesian president Soeharto is being investigated for corruption after revelations that…

Shawn Donnan – Indonesian human rights activist Munir had plenty of powerful enemies. As an outspoken critic of the former Suharto regime and…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Marking International Human Rights Day, the National Commission on Human Rights recommended on Friday that President…

Jakarta – Police broke up a fine arts fair in Surakarta, Central Java, on Friday, as students and activists staged protests around the country to…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Relatives and close friends of the late rights campaigner Munir have established a new award called the Munir Courage…

Slamet Susanto and Tarko Sudiarno, Yogyakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on the nation to avoid drugs, free sex and smoking…

Most residents say the Jakarta Police are unable to deal with crime and traffic in the capital. In conjunction with the Jakarta Police's 55th…

Eva C. Komandjaja, Jakarta – Police managed to recover only Rp 139.7 billion out of Rp 8 trillion (US$889 million) lost to corruption over the…

John Aglionby in Jakarta, Rob Evans, David Pallister and David Leigh – Anti-corruption investigators in Indonesia launched an inquiry yesterday…

The House of Representatives and political parties have been labelled the most corrupt institutions in Indonesia by an international…

Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is upbeat on this country's economy, saying it could expand even more than predicted, due mostly…

Urip Hudiono and Zakki P. Hakim, Jakarta – Apparently irritated by recent reports highlighting the grotesque corruption within the directorates…

A thief who cries thief, or maling teriak maling, is a famous old Indonesian expression that has come back into vogue with the dawn of the…

Tangerang – Thousands of workers held a rally at the Banten gubernatorial office in Serang on Friday, arguing that the Rp 693,500 (…

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – A theater performance in the city during the weekend pulls in a packed house, but this is no usual theater audience.…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The Golkar Party held a one-day meeting here on Friday, with several of its local leaders proposing that the party's…

Scholars have warned the public that they should not anchor much hope on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration, as from the outset…

Patrick Guntensperger, Jakarta – Never before in Indonesia's long history has a leader's mandate come at so pivotal a time. Susilo Bambang…

CAAT warmly welcomes the decision by Mr Justice Park to allow the Guardian access to the court file of the case Chan U Seek vs Alvis Vehicles…

Kurniawan Hari and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – House of Representatives legislators urged the government to take the suspicious death of…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Uncooperative lawmakers and law enforcers remain a persistent hurdle that the National Commission on Human Rights has to…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Lampung's Golkar Party secretary Oktaviano was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison and fined Rp 200…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – A middle-ranking Navy officer, who shot dead four Army soldiers here in August and left another one critically wounded,…

Jakarta – Indonesia's military, which is undergoing phased reforms intended to bring it under civilian control, may soon lose all its major…

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Commemorating International Human Rights Day, on Friday December 10 students and activists in Yogyakarta, Central…