Jakarta – A rally commemorating International Labour Day or May Day in the Central Java provincial capital of Semarang on May 1 was marred by chaos.

Salman Mardira, Jakarta – Human rights activists on Friday criticized West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi over his controversial proposal to send "unruly students" to military barracks for

Reza Rifaldi, Sari Hardiyanto, Makassar – Hundreds of students from various student alliances in the city of Makassar, South Sulawesi (Sulsel), held a demonstration to commemorate Natio

Jakarta – Power has started returning in most areas affected by an outage in Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Friday, officials said, and efforts were continuing to fully restore se

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – Indonesia saw a decrease in foreign tourist arrivals in March 2025, with a total of 841,030 visits, marking a 5.63 percent decline from February 2025 and

Ilham Oktafian, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto welcomed the International Workers' Day, or May Day, on Thursday with a political address, pledging to fight poverty, expand access

Nurhalim, Banda Aceh – The commemoration of International Labour Day (May Day) 2025 has again reverberated in the Acehnese provincial capital of Banda Aceh, where hundreds of workers an

Antara, Jakarta – Thousands of workers from various labor unions began to fill the area around the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta on Thursday, May 1, 2025, to commemorate

Rifky Pratama Wicaksono – Feeding millions is the easy part. Ensuring it changes lives is the real challenge.

Muhammad Aulia Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's anti-corruption watchdog is pressing ahead with its investigation into the alleged misuse of Bank Indonesia's corporate social responsibilit

Jakarta – Over 5 thousand people have signed an online petition opposing Indonesia's 2nd president Suharto being awarded the title of national hero.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A deadly landslide in an Indonesian industrial park has reignited concerns over poor safety and environmental standards in the country's booming nickel sec

Muslimin Emba, Makassar – On Thursday May 1, labour groups began to throng into the fly over area at the intersection of Jalan AP Pettarani and Arip Sumoharjo in Panakkukang sub-distric

Miftahul Huda, Yogya – Thousands of workers from various labour alliances, as well as students in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta, took to the streets to commemorate May Day or Inte

Agencies, Jakarta – The government has spent Rp 2.3 trillion rupiah ($138.55 million) so far in President Prabowo Subianto's flagship program to provide free school meals for students a

Beritasatu Team, Nisrina Zahrani, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto voiced his support for slain labor activist Marsinah to be named a national hero, responding to a proposal from In

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has expressed his commitment to promptly form the Employment Termination Task Force in response to laborers' concerns about

Sopian Hadi, Jakarta – Udayana University (Unud) in Bali has permanently expelled a student found guilty of sexually harassing dozens of victims using deepfake artificial intelligence t

Dani Aswara, Jakarta - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto responded to the demand to erase the outsourcing system with a serious yet relaxed tone during his speech at the Internation

Jakarta – A mass action by an alliance of workers that make up the Labour Movement with the People (GEBRAK) issued a number of demands during a May Day 2025 action in front of the House

Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Jakarta – A total of 13,252 joint personnel from the military (TNI) and Indonesian National Police (Polri) have been deployed to safeguard the International Labor Da

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto expressed his support for forming the Asset Forfeiture Bill as a legal measure to crack down on corruption and save the stat

Muhammad Aulia Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have frozen over 5,000 bank accounts linked to online gambling, with deposits totaling approximately Rp 600 billion ($36.2 millio

Kartika Sari, Medan – Hundreds of workers in Medan held a peaceful action commemorating International Labour Day or May Day at the North Sumatra (Sumut) governor's office.

Ade Ridwan Yandwiputra, Jakarta – Civil groups from all walks of life commemorate May Day by staging a rally in front of the House of Representatives building in Senayan, Jakarta, on Ma

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – President Prabowo and several high-ranking state officials attend the International Labor Day commemoration at the National Monument (Monas) square on Thursday, M

Hanaa Septiana, Kukuh S. Wibowo, Surabaya – The commemoration of International Labour Day or May Day in Surabaya, East Java, on Thursday May 1 was marked by two separate actions.

Ervana Trikarinaputri, Jakarta – Thousands of workers crowded the area around the Parliament Complex, Central Jakarta, during the commemoration of May Day 2025.

Erfan Maruf, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has written off Rp 486.1 billion ($29.2 million) in debt owed by micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to state-owned banks as of

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – Former presidents Soeharto and Abdurrahman Wahid, popularly known as Gus Dur, are likely to be posthumously awarded the title of National Hero by Pre

Commemorating May Day or International Labour Day in West Java, dozens of workers ranging from factory workers to media workers along with other elements of society throughout Greater B

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is holding firm to its ambitious goal of boosting domestic oil production to 1 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2030, despite a steady decline in out

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

Fika Nurul Ulya, Jessi Carina, Jakarta – Ahead of National Labour Day which falls tomorrow, House of Representatives (DPR) Deputy Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad together with officials from

Kasper Nollet – Indonesia has been in turmoil in recent weeks due to ongoing protests against a reform of a law relating to the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 – 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

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

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

Badung – Dozens of workers from various industrial sectors in Bali who are members of the Bali People's Struggle Alliance held a peaceful demonstration titled "Fight Union Busting, Dema

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

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