Jakarta – An "unknown group" has purchased the entire print run of Indonesian Infotainment tabloid C&R featuring a cover story about rape allegations centering on a Indonesian legis

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Amidst public condemnation, two commissions from the House of Representatives remain unmoved to conduct study trips abroad despite of the fact that two

Armando Siahaan & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – As the country faces two devastating natural disasters, lawmakers have decided to postpone – but not cancel – the trips abroad that have f

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – A lawmaker from the House of Representatives was booed by fellow legislators on Tuesday for calling on the House leadership to seriously evaluate deeply unpopul

Anita Rachman & Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Having failed abjectly to meet its initial target of passing 70 bills into law this year, the House of Representatives has set itself what

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is continuing to ignore the tide of public opinion firmly against taxpayer-funded overseas trips for legislators, confirming on Mon

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – As eight lawmakers flew to Greece on Saturday to study ethics, the public is left asking: If overwhelming opposition can't stop legislators from jett

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle on Wednesday lambasted the House of Representatives' decision to continue with the much-criticized plan t

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Tuesday said it would not seek funds for so-called aspiration houses and would instead focus on a new office tower fo

Anita Rachman – Apparently undeterred by harsh public criticism of lawmakers' frivolous overseas visits, the House Ethics Council is planning a trip to Greece, to learn about legislativ

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – After grilling Cabinet ministers and putting Vice President Boediono in the hot seat in plenary sessions, legislators are concluding they can push the Jakarta

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – The nation's oft-maligned regional legislature is trying to claw its way back from obscurity through the revision of a law governing lawmaking bodies, due to

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Lawmakers have denied they are insensitive to the dire plight of flood victims in West Papua by pressing ahead with a study trip to the United States.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Lawmakers defended their meager output at the House of Representatives this year, after being criticized for passing only eight bills out of the targeted 70.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – In a surprising but likely welcome turn of events, the House leadership announced on Thursday that the construction of the controversial new building

Nivell Rayda & Armando Siahaan – Antigraft activists on Thursday demanded that the House of Representatives put a stop to overseas comparative studies, suggesting that the visits we

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – An "F." That, according to a respected Indonesian nongovernmental organization, is the report card for the country's heavily criticized House of Representatives

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Firman Soebagyo, the deputy chairman of House Commission IV on agriculture, said on Friday that lawmakers had submitted two reports on agriculture study trips t

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – The deputy chairman of the House of Representatives' Ethics Council says he has no problem with legislators shopping or visiting tourism sites on the governme

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Legislator Didi Irawadi from the Democratic Party says that some of his colleagues, who recently went to London in England for a field trip, would spend

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – So what did lawmakers learn on their study trips to South Africa and the Netherlands?

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Despite mounting criticism, the House of Representatives' Commission III is sticking with its decision to send legislators to Britain and Canada for a compara

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Indonesia's legislators may be among the worst performing in Asia in terms of passing laws promptly, but nobody can accuse them of not going the extra mile whe

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Amid mounting criticism over lawmakers wasting money on lavish overseas trips, the National Mandate Party on Friday suggested a comprehensive review

Jakarta – House of Representatives leaders have defended a system of sending lawmakers overseas on comparative study visits, shrugging off criticism the trips are unnecessary and costly

Jakarta – The anti-graft commission should keep an eye out for legislators insisting on the construction of an expensive new parliamentary building, the plans for which are suspected to

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – The House of Representatives ethics council said on Wednesday that it would look into 43 reports of ethical misconduct by lawmakers – including an allegation

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Insinuations of corruption are being floated after a House of Representatives Secretariat member said the design of the controversial new legislative building

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Opposition is growing from within the House of Representatives about the controversial plan to build a lavish new office building for lawmakers, but

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – A survey released on Wednesday by a political research institution confirmed what many already believe to be true: that the public sees current lawmakers as h

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Two surveys have shown that the public largely agrees with the view of the major political parties that a reduced number of factions in the House of Represent

Jakarta – The development of a recreational center within a new parliamentary building, the construction of which is due to begin in October, was never decided on by any House of Repres

Jakarta – A heavily criticized and costly new office building for Indonesian lawmakers will feature a swimming pool, gym and spa facilities, the head architect confirmed on Tuesday.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Monday celebrated its 65th anniversary with a muted response to mounting public criticisms of its recent performance.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Legislators have seemingly turned a deaf ear to the recent furor over their poor attendance at House of Representatives hearings by failing spectacularly to sho

Bagus BT Saragih – It's quality, not quantity, as the saying goes. But when it comes to the parliament's lawmaking function, it has received poor grades in both.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – It seems no on has a kind word for the House these days.

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – With the debate over a proposal to double the legislative threshold intensifying, discussion is also heating up over whether the move would improve the legisl

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is setting legislation targets and will enforce attendance in a bid to deal with legislators' perceived laziness.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Despite a spate of recent criticism over lack of action in the House of Representatives, a House budget committee on Monday pro

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Lawmakers facing intense public criticism over their truancy have set a new target to pass 16 bills by the end of the year, but

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Ethics Council must censure legislators who have protested against a plan to publish a list of truant individuals, a th

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Ethics Council has said that it will scrutinize lawmakers' attendance at all meetings, not just plenary sessions.

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Session-skipping lawmakers on Wednesday reacted with anger to the House of Representatives secretariat's move to reveal their poo

Armando Siahaan – Legislators at the House of Representatives are overpaid for essentially doing nothing, a budgetary watchdog says.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Apparently alarmed by the public's heavy criticism of their tendency to skip meetings at the House of Representatives, lawmakers

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Docking legislators' salaries would be a far more effective way of tackling rising absenteeism at the House of Representatives than installing fingerprint scann

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Legislators should be ashamed of their poor attendance record at plenary sessions, and must strive to live up to their billing as

Camelia Pasandaran – Despite its protests to the contrary, the House of Representatives does not appear overly concerned about passing legislation, the Indonesian Budget Center said on

Armando Siahaan – Whether it's because of negligence or a malicious intent to hide something, the failure of more than a hundred lawmakers to comply with the law and submit their person