However critics said a more enduring solution did not require flashy proposals, just stronger anti-graft laws to ensure ...

Indonesia's parliament passed revisions to the country's military law on Thursday, allocating more civilian posts for ...

Indonesia’s newly revised military law expands the role of the armed forces in civilian affairs and undoes the ...

Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday passed contentious revisions to the country’s military law, which will allocate more ...

Legislators revised a law to allocate more civilian posts for military officers, a move that harked back to the era of the ...

Civil society groups warn the moves could signal a return to the era of former strongman president Suharto, who used the military to dominate civilian affairs. Protesters have clashed with ...

The revisions backed by President Prabowo Subianto - a former special forces commander and Suharto's son-in-law - allow military officers to take up positions in government without first retiring ...

By bno - Jakarta bureau The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) on March 20 officially approved amendments to Law No.

The Indonesian Parliament amended a law on Thursday to formally expand the military's role in civilian affairs, triggering nationwide protests and drawing sharp criticism from human rights ...

The bill has been criticised by civil society groups, who say it could take the world’s third-biggest democracy back to the draconian “New Order” era of former strongman President Suharto ...

President Prabowo Subianto, who took office last October and was a special forces commander under Suharto, has been expanding the armed forces’ role into what were considered civilian areas ...