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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 – 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.