Search

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Steven Handoko admits it wasn't his most dignified moment. Naked as the day he was born, the bookish 25-year-old had been invited on stage by one of [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Steven Handoko admits it wasn't his most dignified moment. Naked as the day he was born, the bookish 25-year-old had been invited on stage by one of [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Nearly a week after escaping from a notoriously overcrowded prison in Bali, an American citizen arrested in August on drug charges is back in police custody. Chrishan [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Thursday narrowly rejected a petition asking it to criminalize all sex outside marriage, in a blow to religious conservatives who have been gaining [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Two suicide bombers set off explosives at one of Jakarta's busiest transit hubs on Wednesday night, killing three police officers and wounding at least 10 other people, [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia has stepped back from its decision to suspend military cooperation with Australia, moving to end a rupture that threatened an important military alliance in Asia. The [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia said on Wednesday that it had suspended military cooperation with Australia, a close partner in the fight against terrorism, after material deemed offensive to Indonesians was [...]

Byline: JEFFREY HUTTON and GERRY MULLANY JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia said on Wednesday that it had suspended military cooperation with Australia, a close partner in the fight against terrorism, after [...]

Byline: JEFFREY HUTTON JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia's government has taken tentative steps toward investigating one of the country's darkest periods, the bloody anti-Communist purges of the mid-1960s, with President Joko [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia's president has instructed his government to investigate one of the country's darkest periods, the bloody anti-Communist purges of the mid-1960s, perhaps ending decades of official reluctance [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton When Joko Widodo became Indonesia's president almost 18 months ago, he swept in on tides of emotion and promises of dramatic change. But it has been lonely [...]

Byline: JEFFREY HUTTON JAKARTA, Indonesia -- First, a senior Indonesian government minister called for a ban on gay groups on university campuses. Another official pressured smartphone instant-messaging services to drop [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- First, a senior Indonesian government minister called for a ban on gay groups on university campuses. Another official pressured smartphone instant-messaging services to drop gay- and lesbian-themed [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An Indonesian court rejected on Monday an appeal of a French drug convict, potentially reigniting international tensions over the country's use of the death penalty for serious [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton Last Friday, Linus Hiluka was midway through a 20-year prison sentence for his role in a raid on a military arsenal in Jayapura, the capital of Indonesia's [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton For the past century, Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Islamic organization, has risen to prominence by building thousands of schools and hospitals across the vast archipelago. And, while [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton By nominating a tarnished cop as his police chief, Indonesian President Joko Widodo has triggered a feud between reformists bent on cleaning up the country's endemic graft [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton With ships and aircraft from four countries scouring the Java Sea for the AirAsia jetliner that disappeared Sunday en route from Indonesia to Singapore, Indonesian authorities are [...]

Byline: JEFFREY HUTTON JAKARTA, Indonesia -- After years of neglect, the Indonesian government said on Thursday that it would take a hard line against thousands of illegal foreign fishing vessels [...]

After years of neglect, the Indonesian government said on Thursday that it would take a hard line against thousands of illegal foreign fishing vessels that it says rob the local [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton Indonesia's new president, Joko Widodo, has begun laying the groundwork for what could be the biggest redistribution in decades in public spending in Southeast Asia's largest economy. [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton When it comes to cabinet appointments in Indonesia, the minister of maritime and fisheries is usually not one of the blockbuster posts. But President Joko Widodo's decision [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton Joko Widodo was sworn in today as Indonesia's seventh president amid exuberant crowds here, riding a wave of support from voters who backed his sweeping reformist agenda. [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton The reform-minded Jakarta governor Joko Widodo won a decisive victory in this summer's presidential election - but his defeated opponent, a former general under the dictatorial Suharto [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton Some 16 years after mobs razed Chinese homes across the city in a spasm of sectarian revenge, Indonesia's capital is about to have its first ethnic Chinese [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo is the winner of Indonesia's presidential race, the country's election commission confirmed Tuesday. The former furniture salesman with a popular everyman touch will [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton With exit polls pointing to a wider-than-expected margin of victory for Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo in today's presidential election, his meteoric rise from small-town entrepreneur to Indonesia's [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton When Indonesians go to the polls Wednesday to elect their lawmakers, the country's elite graft watchdog hopes to implant a simple thought in their minds: 'Choose the [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Hutton Suriman, a day laborer in Jakarta, is beaming from ear to ear. He points to three pages of official- looking paper stapled together with his name and [...]