Newly appointed National Police detective chief Insp. Gen. Ito Sumardi has denied any link to illegal logging and gambling cases when serving as the police chief in South Sumatra and Riau.

Local police on Wednesday detained 14 Greenpeace activists, including nine foreigners, who blocked four cranes at a pulp mill in Perawang, Riau.

The Attorney General’s Office and the National Police will follow President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s request that they drop criminal investigations into suspended Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chiefs Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah, an official says.

The Washington Post will close its remaining U.S. bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago at the end of the year to save money and will focus news efforts on covering the U.S. capital.

The Constitutional Court ruled in favor of suspended Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chiefs Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah on Wednesday, declaring their suspension to be unconstitutional.

Former minister for maritime and fisheries affairs Rokhmin Dahuri has been released on parole from prison for good behavior after serving two thirds of his sentence at the Cipinang Penitentiary in East Jakarta.

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a citizen lawsuit against the national final exam, upholding a high court’s decision that required the government to withdraw the controversial end-of-study test.

National Police Chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri said Wednesday that chief detective Comr Gen. Susno Duadji was not replaced following request from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Pramono Anung, legislator from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and also one of the House of Representatives deputy speakers, says that the Bank Century inquiry committee must be led by legislators from his party.