Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Indonesia's press freedom ranking slipped this year to 117th from 100th place last year, according to a survey by Paris-based civil society group Reporters W

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The thorny question of censorship has kept the Attorney General's Office busy in the past year.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – In a move condemned by critics as totalitarian, the government announced plans to bar the sales of certain books, just days after the Constitutional Co

Jakarta – The Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Elsam) called on the government Thursday to immediately take measures to implement the Constitutional Court's ruling, which res

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Gone are the days when authors in the country had to live in fear of seeing their books outlawed by the government, thanks to a watershed court ruling

Camelia Pasandaran, Heru Andriyanto & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – In a landmark verdict, the Constitutional Court on Wednesday struck out a law that gave the Attorney General's Office

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Supreme Court have found in favor of Indonesian mother-of-two Prita Mulyasari, striking out a lower court ruling that she pay Omni International Hospital

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A media watchdog has urged the House of Representatives to repeal a law giving the government absolute power to ban certain books, saying it curtails

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Indonesia observes the anniversary of the death of seven generals in the 1965 abortive coup, that led to a pogrom against hundreds of thousands of alle

Jakarta – The House of Representatives urged the government on Tuesday to establish information commission offices across Indonesia in efforts to preserve national unity.

Khairul Saleh and Nethy Darma Somba, Palembang/Jayapura – Investigations into the recent deaths of two journalists in separate locations have revealed no signs of foul play as many had

Candra Malik, Surakarta – The Karanganyar military district chief has been removed from his post the day after he sought out a reporter whom he allegedly kidnapped, beat up and threaten

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Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A court ruling against the former chief editor of Playboy Indonesia, Erwin Arnada, sets a bad precedent, threatening the freedom of the press, the Pres

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) said in Papua on Saturday that the police must thoroughly investigate the death of Merauke TV journalist Ard

Ismira Lutfia & Made Arya Kencana, Jakarta – The death on Saturday of journalist Ridwan Salamun during a clash between villagers in Tual, Maluku, was met by demonstrations and calls

M. Azis Tunny, Ambon – SUN-TV journalist Ridwan Salamun was killed on Saturday while covering a communal clash between villagers from Banda Ely and Fiditan in Tual, Maluku.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A report released Wednesday said hostile mass organizations were the leading enemy of press freedom and documented threats and violence directed at jou

The death of a local journalist has increased concerns about a giant food estate launched today in Merauke, Southeastern Papua by Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture.

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – The police have named the head of a community health center in North Rahong district in Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara, a suspect allegedly responsible

Nethy Dharma Somba and Yemris Fointuna, Jayapura, Kupang – Papuan journalists called on police Tuesday to thoroughly investigate acts of intimidation and violence against them, believed

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Tensions are high ahead of the Merauke regional election in Papua province, with the police currently investigating the death of a TV journalist and death

Banjir Ambarita, Ismira Lutfia & Antara, Merauke, Papua – Police in Merauke, Papua, have tightened security for a journalist who received a death threat just a day after another rep

New York – An Indonesian search team this morning recovered the body of reporter Ardiansyah Matra'is in a river in the small town of Merauke, on the southern tip of Papua province, acco

Banjir Ambarita, Papua – The body of Ardiansyah Matra'is, a journalist for Merauke TV, was found in the Gudang Arang River in Merauke, Papua, on Friday morning, two days after he had be

Jakarta – A second journalist death reported today (30/7) four days after a senior journalist with Indonesia's major paper Kompas found dead at the beginning of the week, which sparked

Ismira Lutfia – The recent passage of a bill aimed to protect US citizens from libel lawsuits in foreign countries has once again put the spotlight on Indonesia's defamation laws, with

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A planned dialogue between the central government and Papua to seek a comprehensive settlement to long-standing problems is in limbo because both sides sti

Kinanti Pinta Karana, Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists said that they are planning to investigate the death of Kompas journalist Muhammad Syaifullah depending on the au

Kinanti Pinta Karana & Nivell Rayda, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – The head of Kompas newspaper's Kalimantan bureau, Muhammad Syaifullah, was found dead at his house in Balikpapan,

Indonesian journalists covering green issues are "frequently threatened or bribed," Reporters Without Borders warned two months before the suspicious death of environmental journalist M

Nivell Rayda & Dessy Sagita – Indonesia Corruption Watch investigator Tama Satrya Langkun, who was badly beaten by group of men Thursday morning, said he saw the attack as a threat,

Ismira Lutfia – Tempo magazine and the National Police have agreed to settle their rift amicably, although the magazine has stood by its use of what police say was an offensive caricatu

Hasyim Widhiarto and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Unidentified assailants attacked the head-quarters of Tempo magazine early Tuesday in an incident widely believed to be linked to the pu

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – National Police spokesman Insp. Gen.

Condemnation of the Molotov bomb attack on the editorial offices of Tempo magazine in Central Jakarta has been swift.

Ismira Lutfia - A rights activist on Sunday criticized the National Police for missing the point when they filed a criminal complaint against Tempo magazine over a cover caricature of a

Jakarta – The National Police Chief Gen.

Tempo magazine appears to have thumbed its nose at threats of legal action from the National Police.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police officially filed a criminal report with their own detectives Thursday alleging the cover illustration on this week's Tempo magazine const

Elisabeth Oktofani, Yogyakarta – The media wield enormous influence in informing public opinion, and in Indonesia this power has often been used to discriminate against marginalized soc

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police have taken offense at the cartoon piggy banks depicted on the cover of Tempo magazine's latest issue, and are threatening to sue the news

Jakarta – The National Police said it is planning to file lawsuits over Tempo magazine's latest edition, which featured a cover story on the enormous wealth of several senior police off

Jakarta Globe – The news magazine that police allegedly did not want people to see hit newsstands in Jakarta on Tuesday, a day after mystery men reportedly purchased 30,000 copies of th

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – It was still 2:30 a.m. when a group of 10 men arrived at a major magazine and newspaper distribution outlet in Harmoni, Central Jakarta, on Monday.

Farouk Arnaz, Nurfika Osman & Nivell Rayda – The case of the disappearing magazines led police on Tuesday to accuse Tempo of making up the tale of having some 30,000 copies of this

Nurfika Osman – Tens of thousands of copies of the latest edition of Tempo magazine were purchased by mystery buyers early on Monday morning.

Jakarta – The law that serves as a basis for the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to ban the circulation of books is no longer contextual or relevant under the current situation.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Chairman of the National Commission of Human Rights Ifdhal Kasim denounced Tuesday the Attorney General's Office's right to ban books as unconstitution

Jakarta – Chairman of the National Commission of Human Rights Ifdhal Kasim said Wednesday that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) should not have the right to ban books on the basis of