Bambang Nurbianto and Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Thousands of more families will soon be left homeless as the Jakarta Administration is…

Slamet Susanto & Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Yogyakarta/Jakarta – A number of people were injured during a clash between police and about 200…

Jakarta – A group of Indonesian Muslims, handpicked by the US Embassy here for their moderate views, told an expert panel from Washington in plain…

A'an Suryana, Jakarta – Frustrated with the protracted economic crises, stalled reforms and poor law enforcement, the general public are now more…

ID Nugroho and Ainur R. Sophiaan, Surabaya – As many as 4,000 workers of giant household equipment producer PT Maspion in the East Java town of…

Two extraordinary reports appeared in this newspaper, on its National page last week. The first contained a strong warning coming from respected…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – A historian demanded on Monday that the government revise the historical accounts on the September 30, 1965 coup…

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – University communities throughout the country, particularly those in Java, have committed themselves to a…

Jakarta – Money sent by Al-Qaeda to support the families of suspects arrested over the Bali bombings was used to finance the August 5 attack on…

Jakarta – The Ministry of Finance is currently drafting a new bill on the accountancy profession, which will replace the existing outdated law…

Cohabitation, oral sex and homosexual sex will soon become crimes in Indonesia if the justice ministry has its way, a ministry spokesman said.…

Bali – An Indonesian court on the resort island of Bali sentenced two men on Monday to 12 and 15 years in jail for their part in last year's…

Tiarma Siboro and Indra Harsaputra, Jakarta/Surabaya – Former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid is facing an uphill challenge in his bid to…

Jakarta – Only 20 percent of the some 450,000 daily commuter train passengers in the Greater Jakarta area buy tickets while the rest either bribe…

Jakarta – Indonesian business confidence rose in the June and July period for the first time since September last year, in the belief that the…

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – About 150 members of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) raided a number of nightspots in Cilincing area, Muara…

Jakarta – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu said on Sunday that the Army had long detected foreign parties' involvement in a…

Lie Hua, Jakarta – September 30, 1965, is a black day in the history of modern Indonesia. The assassination of seven generals in the wee hours of…

Mark Forbes, Canberra – Despite the Bali and Marriott Hotel bombings and rising anti-Western sentiment in the world's most populous Muslim nation…

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Police released on Friday another four people reportedly linked to terrorist activities, deeming their accounts during…

Dikhy Sasra, Jakarta – Around 100 people from the group Solidarity for Aceh and Papua protested rejecting militarism at the offices of the United…

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has allocated more than 12 seats in provincial and regency/municipality…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Several Jemaah Islamiah members detained by Indonesian police said an extremist splinter faction of the group is responsible…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The Golkar Party would take advantage of widespread disappointment with the so-called reform parties to woo…

Zakki Hakim and Rendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has found 58 cases of irregularities in six Jakarta…

Luh Putu, Trisna Wahyuni and Damar Harsanto – Mataram/Jakarta Three police officers have been detained in connection with the death of a student…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – House of Representatives' Speaker Akbar Tandjung defended on Friday the water resources bill…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has set up a team to investigate a string of evictions in the city,…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Two conflicting camps at the municipal branch of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) in the…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Akbar Tandjung blamed fellow lawmakers on Friday for the legislative body's…

Blontank Poer, Jakarta – Some people may have taken Shakespeare's "What's in a name?" to heart and decided they needed more weight to their names…

Security experts say the regional terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiah still poses a significant threat, despite the arrest of around 200 men…

Marian Wilkinson, Washington – Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri has called on the West to re-examine its strategy in the war on…

Malang – During its presence in Indonesia, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) formed a "mafia" intent on choking and ruining the nation…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, New York – President Megawati Soekarnoputri says foreigners have been helping rebels in troubled provinces Papua and…

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – Experts and human rights activists have expressed doubts over the effectiveness of the planned Truth and…

Jakarta – Indonesian police are hunting down a group of suspected terrorists who are prepared at "any time" to use car bombs and suicide attacks,…

Robert Go, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri's complaint this week that the job of running Indonesia gives her headaches has made…

Sutarto urged politicians on Friday not to invite the military back into politics and suggested that the institution stay neutral in…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – A team from the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said here on Friday it had verified reports of human…

Bambang Nurbianto and Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – Most of the evicted people who had been living on disputed land at Kampung Baru, Cengkareng Timur, in…

Ainur R. Sophiaan and ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Hundreds of students and religious activists staged separate rallies in the nation's second largest…

Jakarta – Dozens of evicted local people who had been living on disputed land at Kampung Baru, Cengkareng Timur in West Jakarta, filed a complaint…

A'an Suryana, Jakarta – Minister of Justice and Human Rights Yusril Ihza Mahendra said on Thursday the change in the visa policy was prompted by…

Jakarta – A labor observer warned the government of an emerging crisis from after some sort of tacit permission was granted to three…

Scott B MacDonald – In early August, the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta was bombed. The bomber was an Islamic radical who drove a van into the front…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – National Intelligence Agency (BIN) director A.M. Hendropriyono demanded on Thursday that the deliberation of the much-…

Jakarta – The national intelligence agency admitted on Thursday that it had supplied information and other important data for the police in the…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Despite considerable public opposition, the House of Representatives began on Thursday to…

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – Muslim extremists have been convicted of the bombings that left 202 dead in Bali last October and which devastated…