Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – The North Sumatra Police announced they will soon summon local councilor Megawati Zebua for questioning over allegations that she assaulted a Win

Tom Levitt – One of Indonesia's largest nickel-mining companies, which supplies a mineral critical to the global electric car industry, did not tell the public that local drinking water

Bella Evangelista, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto is set to attend the International Workers' Day (May Day) commemoration at the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta on Th

Jakarta – Non-aligned Indonesia has navigated through the complexity of the big power rivalry by forging closer economic ties with China while building more intensive relations on secur

Jakarta – West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi has unveiled a controversial plan to send "delinquent" students from across the province to military barracks for a six-month training program

Irfandi, Gowa, South Sulawesi – Four defendants went on trial Tuesday for their alleged involvement in a sophisticated money counterfeiting syndicate that operated out of an Islamic uni

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – World's largest palm oil producer Indonesia reported Tuesday that it had attracted investment worth hundreds of millions of American dollars in the first q

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry has released Rp 86.6 trillion ($5.22 billion) in previously frozen ministry and agency budgets to jumpstart spending on priority gove

Joniansyah, Jakarta – Ten labor unions within the Aliansi Serikat Pekerja Bandara Soekarno-Hatta (Soekarno-Hatta Airport Workers Union Alliance) have confirmed that they will mobilize t

Yerica Lai and Radhiyya Indra, Jakarta – Six months after stepping down from the nation's top post, former president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has been the target of a barrage of lawsuits, w

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's national human rights commission has found a slew of legal and rights violations in a government-backed project to establish large-scale planta

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has criticized Indonesia's medical specialty training and certification system, calling it excessively expensive and overly

Hangga Fathana – Indonesia's low-key rejection of reported Russian interest in military basing in Papua says more than it appears to.

Ilham Oktafian, Jakarta – Former Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has filed a formal police complaint over long-standing allegations that he used a fake university diploma to r

Jakarta – A non-governmental organisation (NGO) that focuses on human rights issues, Indonesian Human Rights Watch (Imparsial), has strongly criticised a plan by West Java Governor Dedi

Antara, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) on Tuesday issued a pair of landmark rulings that narrowed the scope of the country's controversial Electronic Information and Transactio

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Movement (TPNPB-OPM) claimed to have shot dead two Indonesian National Army (TNI) soldiers in an armed attack i

More than 50,000 Catholics gathered on April 26 for a requiem Mass for Pope Francis at the Esplanade of Tasi Tolu on the coast of Timor-Leste, where the pope celebrated Mass during his

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia reported that it had attracted Rp 465.2 trillion (approximately $27.7 billion) in the first quarter of 2025, and over half of the money came from

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto is planning to assemble a team to deal with Indonesia's unemployment, which could rise as US tariffs loom.

Jakarta – Public trust in hospitals as a safe place for the sick to find treatment has been tested after a student of the anesthesiology program at the Padjadjaran University's School o

Jakarta – The Higher Education, Science and Technology Ministry has downplayed public concerns that the Indonesian Military's (TNI) involvement in university teaching could stifle acade

Alif Ilham Fajriadi, Jakarta -The President of the Association of All-Indonesian Workers' Union (Aspirasi), Mirah Sumirat, has urged companies to stop unfair and exploitative internship

Han Revanda, Jakarta – Arief Prasetyo Adi, Head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas), has voiced his support for President Prabowo Subianto's suggestion that families plant at least fi

Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – Elementary and Secondary Education Minister Abdul Mu'ti has voiced concerns regarding the current state of literacy among Indonesian children.

Riri Rahayu, Jakarta – The status of the Rempang Eco City project has become a topic of discussion in a public hearing held by Commission VI with the residents of Pulau Rempang on Monda

Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – A South Korean consortium led by LG Energy Solution has officially withdrawn from the electric vehicle (EV) battery ecosystem development project in Indonesia.

Jakarta – Authorities are probing two cases of food poisoning outbreaks that have affected over 170 students under Indonesia's ambitious free nutritious meal programme, the latest of at

Fahri Ali, Depok, West Java – West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi is urging men from low-income households to undergo vasectomies as part of a new birth control initiative aimed at reducing

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Muhammad Ali revealed that the Navy (TNI AL) is grappling with a Rp 3.2 trillion (approximately $191 million) fuel debt t

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A palm oil company is gearing up to expand into critical orangutan habitat in Indonesian Borneo, raising alarms over the survival of the critically endange

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organization (TPNPB-OPM) claimed responsibility for the recent attack against Indonesian military (TNI) and the

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Agnes Callamard, the Secretary General of Amnesty International, stated that Indonesia is experiencing human rights protection degradation.

Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia has raised concerns over the persistent violence and intimidation targeting human rights defenders in the country, recordin

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – Several law students from Padjadjaran University (Unpad) have formally requested a judicial review of Law Number 3 of 2025 concerning Amendments to Law Number 34

Antara, Jakarta – Ride-hailing platforms Maxim Indonesia and Grab Indonesia have rejected a proposal to classify online motorcycle taxi (ojol) drivers as full-time employees, arguing th

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – When Resty Kinanthi arrived at a gold shop in South Jakarta at 8am on a recent weekday eager to buy a few grams of the precious metal, she was quickly turned awa

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) believes that the involvement of the Indonesian Military (TNI) in the distribution and implementation of the free nutritious meals (MBG) progr

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – The Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Navy (KSAL), Rear Admiral Muhammad Ali, said the Navy has yet to acquire tools to detect foreign submarines.

Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – Scorching hot weather has affected various regions throughout Indonesia over the past week.

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – The Indonesian government provided a grant of US$6 million, approximately Rp100 billion, to the government of Fiji in April 2025.

Stefani Wijaya, Jakarta – Indonesian National Police (Polri) Chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo has been awarded the Order of Timor-Leste, the country's highest honor, by the Government of the

Prisma Ardianto, Jakarta – The Financial Services Authority (OJK) has reported that the banking sector's risk profile remains relatively stable as of March 2025, despite challenges in t

Jakarta – Chief of the Indonesian National Police (Polri), General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, received the Order of Timor-Leste, the highest honor granted by the government of Timor-Leste, a

Ilona Estherina, Jakarta – The CEO of Indonesia's Daya Anagata Nusantara, or Danantara, Rosan Roeslani, said the agency now manages 844 state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto revealed that he criticized directors of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) during the Danantara Town Hall Meeting at the Jakarta Conve

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has approved the formation of three new task forces to tackle economic challenges faced by Indonesia in the wake of global

Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – The Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science, and Technology (Kemendiktisaintek) has addressed concerns that the involvement of the Indonesian Military

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – The Head of the National Civil Service Agency (BKN), Zudan Arif Fakhrulloh, has disclosed the five primary reasons behind the withdrawals of over a thous

Nawir Arsyad Akbar, Jakarta – As many as 95 percent of Indonesian workers are claimed to support President Prabowo Subianto's policies on International Labour Day or May Day on May 1.