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Yuliasri Perdani and Bambang Muryanto Jakarta Post Date of publication: 26-03-2013   Indonesia's national police has been criticized for showing restraint in the examination of an execution-styl…

Ridwan Max Sijabat Jakarta Post Publication date: 15-03-2013   An Alliance of trade unions in Indonesia, the exploitation of the workers on different public companies, demand that the Government put…

Prodita Sabarini The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 01-03-2013   Indonesian presidential spokesperson Julian Adrian Pasha is calling Human Rights Watch (HRW) “naive” for its report released on Thur…

News Desk The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 23-02-2013   With pollsters saying most parties will garner less than 25 per cent of the popular vote in the upcoming legislative election, the public w…

Arya Dipa The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 23-02-2013   Major confederations of labour unions have filed a lawsuit against the West Java administration regarding the postponement of the 2013 regi…

Sita W. Dewi The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 18-02-2013   The members of several beleaguered Christian congregations in different parts of Indonesia defied the peril of new Molotov cocktail atta…

Linda Yulisman The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 18-02-2013   The Indonesian government has prepared necessary actions to defend the shrimp industry in the looming legal battle against the United …

Lawmakers in the Indonesian House of Representatives are discussing a draft indigenous peoples bill aimed at protecting communities from injustice and marginalisation. "Violations of the rights…

Lawmakers in the Indonesian House of Representatives are discussing a draft indigenous peoples bill aimed at protecting communities from injustice and marginalisation. "Violations of the rights…

Officials with the three Indonesian ministries that were recently reported to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) by Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam over alleged corrupt practices said on Friday…

It has been more than a decade since the Indonesian Reform era began, yet we still wonder why corruption has been so difficult to eradicate. In fact, corruption has become a chronic illness that has…

Officials with the three Indonesian ministries that were recently reported to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) by Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam over alleged corrupt practices said on Friday…

Officials with the three Indonesian ministries that were recently reported to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) by Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam over alleged corrupt practices said on Friday…

The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), an Indonesian non-governmental organisation advocating human rights issues, has received the Emilio F. Mignone International Hum…

The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), an Indonesian non-governmental organisation advocating human rights issues, has received the Emilio F. Mignone International Hum…

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Indonesian Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi said yesterday that the lack of legal permits from the local administration had been behind the closure of nine churches in country's most conservative Mus…

Indonesian Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi said yesterday that the lack of legal permits from the local administration had been behind the closure of nine churches in country's most conservative Mus…

Indonesian security forces are going all out to hunt down militants responsible for the killing of two police officers in a forest in Central Sulawesi, as top officials fingered members of radical g…

Indonesian security forces are going all out to hunt down militants responsible for the killing of two police officers in a forest in Central Sulawesi, as top officials fingered members of radical g…