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Indonesia increasingly contributing to human rights cause: UN

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay has stated that Indonesia has been ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights meets Constitutional Court chief

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navenethem Pillay visited Constitutional Court (MK) chairman Mahfud MD at the ...

RI acts as role model for Islamic democracy through pro-democracy forum

As the world`s largest country populated with Muslims, Indonesia with its population of about 240 million, has served ...

Yudhoyono receives Ahmadinejad in Bali

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday morning received Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Nusa Dua, ...

Indonesia good example of democratic developing country: South Korea

President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea stated that Indonesia is a good example of democratic developing country as ...

Megawati hopes Soekarno`s ideas can be discussed without fear

Former president Megawati Soekanoputri has expressed hope that discussing Soekarno`s ideas will no longer be taboo, ...

Govt to lift outsourcing system

The government looks set to lift the outsourcing recruitment system but will still maintain it in the recruitment of ...

People encouraged to consume tubers

Various efforts have been made to encourage Indonesian people to consume tubers instead of rice. Tubers have not ...

Indonesian Committee for Palestinian People sends volunteers, aid

Indonesia`s National Committee for Palestinian People (KNRP) has sent 21 volunteers and aid worth US$100,000 under the ...

UN experts call on countries to prevent child marriage

A group of United Nations human rights experts on Thursday, the first UN International Day on the Girl Child, urged ...

PDIP rejects national security bill over potential human rights violation

The secretary general of the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), Tjahjo Kumolo, has said his party has ...

Workers` rally legitimate and constitutional, observer says

An observer has said that the workers` street rallies staged on Wednesday throughout Jakarta and surrounding areas ...

Indonesia to prepare road map for international protocol on blasphemy

Indonesia will develop a road map for an international protocol on religious defamation, as earlier proposed by ...

Stop Abusing Freedom of Speech And Drop Double Standards

Although it was not for the first time that the United Nations General Assembly debated on the issue of religious ...

Electric train for female passengers between Jakarta and Bogor

The state railway company has operated an electric commuter train specially for female and child passengers between ...