Asia Sentinel

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Attorney General's Office ignores two court rulings freeing executives

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Low-ranking official running what appears to be a massive illegal conglomerate

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Government forced to defend self against domestic and international critics

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While the world watches the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an equally important pact is in the works

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Well-respected economist has a limited range of options

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Being middle class in Jakarta is considerably different from being middle class in, say, Oz

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Case involving award-winning project was originally dismissed by another court

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Unity in Diversity or Unity in Similarity?

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Vital elevated roadway on hold as the city and the contractor blame each other

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Tourism explodes with globalization, enriching lives but destroying nature and culture

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Jakarta is seriously at risk

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All full stop

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Major trading partners express alarm with protectionist practices

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Activists take to the streets, airwaves to stall measure

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Prices of many foods skyrocket

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What went up may be coming down

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Playing politics with economic managers

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Eliminating subsidies has a tendency to bring people to the streets

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Concern growing that proposed new law will include language to allow protectionism

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Chevron and Total publicly challenge one nationalist rule. Is it a trend?

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In Mecca, the president asks Allah to lend a hand

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Arrest of party leader, thuggery and even a sex scandal is unlikely to mute rising power

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Nature Magazine study says carbon release is larger than previously thought

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Trade wars increasing over cars, apples, wheat and animal products and more

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Concerns grow about damage to international investment climate

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South Korea puts money into remediating the Ciliwung

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Chevron Indonesia is the latest to feel the heat

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At stake is refusal to divest gas fields to Indonesian companies

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They learned how to make it go, but not stop

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Multinationals need not apply

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Sports minister, once thought presidential material, is named a corruption suspect

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Police, socialites, top politicians no longer sacrosanct

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Human rights courts have never convicted in a single case in 12 years

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Economic Nationalism claims another scalp

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Supreme Court ruling sticks a mysterious thumb in the government's eye

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Bacterial, parasitic infections on the increase?

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After George W. Bush, he's a godsend

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Puzzling Campaign Against Chevron Indonesia

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Lots don't want people with different backgrounds living in their neighborhoods

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An education ministry decision to dumb down grade school is a mistake for the future

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More trouble for SBY's stumbling Democratic Party

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All that confidence may be unwarranted

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Behind the Innocence of Muslims rage

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It didn't work under Suharto and it isn't working again

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Troubles mount in London as well as Indonesia, threatening political bid

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Domestic issues and parochialism may delay or water down projected Asean Economic Community

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More complicated than it looks

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City gains a reformist governor, country gains an ominous potential president

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Heavy spending and intensive advertising guarantee record turnout, officials say

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Inept bombers may not be so inept next time

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From talking-shop to crucible of big-power politics, maybe

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Too few people realize the air in your home can make you sick

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Violence against all but mainstream Sunni Muslims continues to grow

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Suharto's old party says it's best to forget about an estimated 500,000 deaths

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National Police, Yudoyono chums are in KPK's sights

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An official commission finally looks at the massacres that ushered Suharto into power

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Another movie hoax in Indonesia

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Indonesian diplomats scurry across region attempting to put the pieces back together

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International Crisis Group says terrorists are looking for revenge for 2010 Aceh raid

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Backing reform helps Indonesia's Bad-Boy General for 2014

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Race regarded as a proxy battle to foreshadow the 2014 Presidential race

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Governor's race a dry run for presidential polls in 2014

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Why did freedom and development flourish in the Middle East, then fade?

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Rising economic nationalism claims another industry

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Breaking the culture of impunity

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The last word on Lady Gaga’s Indonesia cancellation

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Atheist beaten by mob jailed for 30 months. Mob goes free

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Papuan strength grows against Indonesian military and police

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This is not a time to be asserting protectionist, nationalist strictures on trade

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First cosmetics, then car parts, now this

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The country's leaders look to lock up resources

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Stuffed Chinese warehouses mask an even bigger problem

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With commodity prices falling, SBY's government treads a risky path

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Significantly, he gets there before a Chinese head of state

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She says she goes but only on her own terms

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Will it be needed in Asia?

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The Islamists who shut down the star’s performance in Jakarta expose deep problems in the country

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And loses, at least for now

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Teak producer on Java's contentious relationship with forest peoples

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Russian Superjet's crash once again raises questions

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Witness eluded authorities in several different countries while pleading memory loss

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Change comes to both

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US National Academy of Sciences says forest is being converted even faster than thought

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It's a losing battle, mostly

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Despite the damage to the global marine ecosystem, Indonesia has no rules on shark fishing

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Millions of enthusiasts should expect more out of what’s billed as one of the world’s greatest golf spectacles

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Street protests and murky politics combine to sink attempt to cut fuel subsidies

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So far, it appears that the government can make price rise stick

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Government now faces a major test of its staying power over fuel subsidy cuts

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As South Africa faces a poaching crisis that could lead to extinction, India succeeds

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Circumstances unclear over Bali shooting

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New regulation says multinationals must divest control to locals

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First step: put the girls in jilbabs

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Head of SBY’s party accused of being behind a shell company to win government contracts

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Monocle Hits Five

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Bogor mayor refuses permission for Christians to build an approved church on their own property

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SBY's Democratic Party faces more trouble

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New research may hold key to Indonesia’s church-building controversy

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But the networking parties are fun

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Tenders for the Tanjung Priok port are dropped

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A dedicated, honest politician

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Spectacular testimony in anti-corruption court

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Deployment announcement generates worry, mistrust

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Families seek young taken away during Indonesia's occupation

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Violence gets out of hand over inaccurate rumors of changes in alcohol laws

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Dependence on natural resource exports must change

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Outrage over prosecution and beating of a youth for stealing sandals

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Revelations of corruption continue from former fugitive treasurer Nazaruddin

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Government threatens a shutdown

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Former treasurer’s testimony leaves Yudhoyono’s party in tatters

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Jogja Biennale mixes art and religiosity

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Democratic Party former treasurer Nazaruddin loudly objects to charges

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If the stars align, that is

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Two powerful political families unite in matrimony

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Freedom of travel, open skies, removing non-tariff barriers in the cards

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A 1904 novel has eerie parallels to the events surrounding the giant Indonesian mine

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A member of a ruling coalition party says so

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Encouraging cooperation on the One Health program

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Widespread problems, corruption, mar what was expected to be an Indonesian showcase

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The wake-up call from the floods

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Jihadi Bashir could be out in nine years or sooner

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A key Indonesian bribery witness remains out of the country

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Southeast Asian Games construction bribery a blot on the country’s reputation

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Civil libertarians alarmed at sweeping powers for intelligence agency

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Religion, corruption and money mar a publicity tour

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Political stability in Indonesia

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Illegal miners wreck the environment off Sumatra

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But we’ve heard that before

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The Quran doesn’t say so

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Jakarta governor is ripped by miniskirted women for his comment on provocative dress

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Haze from illegal logging, oil palm planting becomes a hazard

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Former finance minister is noncommittal

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66 years later victims of Japanese atrocities remembered

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Philip Morris’s Indonesian unit serves up a grotesque advertising campaign

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Allegations of corruption tarnish the ruling party but the trail leads everywhere and nowhere.

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Logic turned upside down for the Ahmadiyah sect in an Indonesian Court

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Was the planeload of officials with him trying to work out a deal to shut him up?

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Papua the latest flashpoint

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Eurozone, US take note: Maybe, given the turmoil no government is better

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Nazaruddin found in Colombia

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Former finance minister’s possible candidacy could set the stage for an epic political battle

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Did the Hindus get there first?

Religious extremists get a light tap from the court in Ahmadiyah mob murder

District court hands out slaps on the wrist for religious fanatics who murdered sect members in February

Corruption, infighting in Democrat Party spark a crisis

A once-pristine island is wrecked by refuse from Jakarta across the bay

CEO Tony Fernandez seeks to join the world’s big carriers

Prison time a minor inconvenience

A terrorism victim seeks to stop the cycle of violence

An effective family planning scheme has done its job

Seeking to unchain Bali’s mentally ill

Outrage erupts in Jakarta

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A new UNDP report says the Indonesian province is coming back from the 2004 tsunami, but slowly

{mosimage}Islamists target puppet shows, churches and diversity

{mosimage}A veteran band looks for love in all the bad places

{mosimage}The archipelago nation falls down on attracting visitors

{mosimage}A tycoon's close relationship to government rescues his conglomerate

{mosimage}Yudhoyono continues to cruise towards a second term

{mosimage}The ADB and Islamic Development Bank seek to create a support structure

{mosimage}Lurid tales of sexual abuse, torture, kidnapping

{mosimage}The press conflates a Facebook crisis in Indonesia

{mosimage}Indonesia's biggest corporate group takes the investors off on another wild ride

{mosimage}Reformasi rears its unlikely head

{mosimage}A high-profile murder case focuses attention on a benighted judicial system

{mosimage}Indonesia's anti-corruption czar is suspected of ordering a love triangle slaying

{mosimage}Don't count them out despite their overall falling numbers

{mosimage}Is the island nation's laid-back Islam being undermined from the Middle East?

{mosimage}As it prepares for elections, the country outshines its neighbors

{mosimage}Jakarta doesn't much want back its terrorist, lately with a Guantanamo address

{mosimage}The country greets the new anti-pornography law pretty much with a yawn

{mosimage}Indonesia's macro performance doesn't look that bad – but keep protectionism at bay

{mosimage}The world's biggest producer of palm oil can't get it together to make biofuels

{mosimage}Indonesia's conservative Muslim party abandons Valentines to woo voters

{mosimage}Jakarta fumbles a major program

{mosimage}Indonesia's ill-starred conglomerate gets a Hong Kong good governance award

{mosimage}Sometimes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is observed in the breach

{mosimage}In the latest drama, somehow US$130 million of government money ends up in Bakrie pockets

{mosimage}A state-owned airline leaves 13 new planes on a ramp in China

{mosimage}Slow going to get rid of the tag ends of a once-rich military empire

{mosimage}Individual governors, Brazil and Indonesia seek to protect the rainforest

{mosimage}Despite endorsement by a tame certifier, Southeast Asia’s miracle oil faces trouble

{mosimage}Bakrie boss says he’ll leave the cabinet at the end of his current term

{mosimage}The House of Representatives pushes through an overly broad bill that could energize Islamic fundamentalists even more

{mosimage}The archipelago nation seems to be doing some things right

{mosimage}A defining struggle breaks out between a reformer and the king of the country’s old guard

{mosimage}It's an economic cliché, but as the rich get richer, this country's poor keep getting poorer

The flag carrier restarts a budget airline that could divert fliers from another government-owned carrier

Villagers are still neck-deep in never-ending mud while the company blamed for the disaster evades responsibility

An interview with Indonesian scholar Anis Baswedan

Politicians to the left of him, politicians to the right of him, Indonesian President Yudhoyono sounds an uncertain charge

Jakarta hopes to gain revenue and investment by cutting tax brackets, increasing collections

The OECD says Indonesia has to try harder despite 5.5 percent growth

Jakarta leads the region in desperation over power shortages

The post-Suharto era sees the rise of unhealthy religious righteousness

Traces of the murder of a human rights activist climb higher into Jakarta’s power structure

A movie and book about Islamic lovers is a vehicle for marketing fundamentalism

The curtain finally falls on Suharto, with the actors still performing their roles

Ten years after the Asian financial crisis, the archipelago looks well-placed to weather trouble

Indonesia joins discussions on compensating countries for not cutting down their rainforests

Jakarta’s governor, ordering up a green day, says do as I say, not as I do

Politics, connections and denials make an environmental disaster worse

A massive judgment against a leading US newsmagazine raises concerns about Indonesian court independence, but journalists are not sure about the story

Indonesia’s lawmakers say Jakarta gave away too much on defense to get its prized extradition treaty

A UN Security Council vote against Iran’s nuclear ambitions puts Indonesia’s president on the spot with other Islamic countries and his own voters

A satirical television show ruffles a minor cabinet minister’s feathers and sets up a confrontation over free speech

Indonesia, seeking legal recourse to nab fleeing financiers, uses the world’s cheapest commodity as a weapon

Bloody jihad-fueled conflict could reignite as Jakarta dithers

Can Indonesia’s devastated fishing grounds be saved?