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

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

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

Al Araf, the director of Indonesian rights group Imparsial, said Thursday the new law is inconsistent with the spirit of the ...

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

Civil society groups say that the changes are a throwback to the repressive New Order period, when the military dominated ...

Indonesia's parliament has passed controversial changes to legislation that will allow its military a bigger role in ...

Contentious legal revisions giving the military an expanded role in government has sparked outrage in Indonesia and raised ...

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 ...

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 have been criticised by civil society groups, who say it could take the world's third-biggest democracy back to ...