Diamanty Meiliana, Jakarta – The Islamic Brotherhood Front (FPI), the 212 Alumni Brotherhood (PA 212) and the National Movement to Safeguard the Fatwas of the Ulema (GNPF Ulama) fully s

Jakarta – The campaign team of president-elect Prabowo Subianto has urged supporters to cancel a street protest planned for Friday in anticipation of the Constitutional Court's verdict

Intan Setiawanty, Jakarta – A number of residents in Lumajang Regency, East Java, self-evacuated to a safer place as cold lava floods hit Mount Semeru areas on Thursday, April 18, 2024.

Jeremy Hance – There's good news and bad news for the Javan rhino, one of the most threatened large mammals on Earth.

In early March 2024, the Indonesian internet and its online periphery would be rocked by a shocking video: A Papuan native seemingly detained in a bucket of water and being punched exce

Deasy Simandjuntak – In February's presidential race, the use of religion as a motivator to get votes seemingly declined in North Sumatra.

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) reported that Indonesia's Foreign Debt (ULN) stood at $407.3 billion in February 2024, showing a 1.4 percent year-on-year increase.

Ruth Dea Juwita, Jakarta – Indonesian manufacturers are feeling the pinch, as a weakening rupiah exchange rate against the United States dollar and a surge in oil prices lead to higher

Jakarta – Indonesia's trade surplus is estimated to have widened in March as imports were seen easing from a seasonally high demand in the prior month, a Reuters poll showed on F

Diva Suukyi Larasati, Jakarta – Supporters of the presidential candidate pair number 1, Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar or AMIN, staged a rally in the Horse Statue area in Central Jaka

Jakarta – Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi stated that the people's movement during the 2024 Eid al-Fitr homecoming and return flow was recorded at more than 242 million.

Michelle Anindya, Denpasar, Indonesia – Four years after Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced that he would move the nation's capital from the main island of Java to Borneo, he le

Taufiq Hanafi – Mr Hanafi is responding to Max Lane's Fulcrum, published on 18 March 2024, on the success of "Eksil", the documentary about ten exiled Indonesians discussing Suharto's p

Harkristuti Harkrisnowo – Indonesia's recent election results have sparked controversy and raised questions about the integrity of the Indonesian electoral process.

Jakarta – When he officially takes the helm of Singapore on May 15, Lawrence Wong will owe a debt to his predecessor Lee Hsien Loong, the outgoing prime minister, and the country's two

Thomas Rizal, Jakarta – The Anti-Mafia Task Force (Satgas) for Football is investigating allegations of match-fixing in the Indonesian Liga 1 match between Bhayangkara FC and Persik Ked

Antara, Jakarta – According to data from OAG Aviation Worldwide Limited, a travel intelligence agency based in London, Soekarno-Hatta Airport (Soetta) claimed the title of the busiest a

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – Deputy Chair of Commission IX of the House of Representatives (DPR), Kurniasih Mufidayati, highlighted the case of the dismissal of 249 non-civil servants hea

Jakarta (Agencies) – Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said China and Indonesia had agreed to strengthen cooperation and bilateral relations, after a meeting with China Foreign Minister Wa

Laila Afifa, Jakarta – Many Islamic boarding schools are operating without permits. There needs to be standardization of these religious educational institutions.

Antara, Denpasar – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) discovered that the glacier's thickness atop Puncak Jaya, Papua, decreased by about four meters, or 66 perc

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – Indonesia will need a total investment of at least Rp 7,130 trillion ($440.8 billion) to attain economic growth of up to 5.6 percent next year, a governme

Resty Woro Yuniar – A new report alleges that miners in Indonesia's nickel hub of Sulawesi, some tied to Chinese electric vehicles battery manufacturers, cleared protected forests at a

Jakarta – Defense minister and president-elect Prabowo Subianto on Thursday held a meeting with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who arrived in Jakarta for bilateral talks wit

Jakarta – More than 10,000 Indonesian civil servants will move to Nusantara in September, marking the first phase of inhabiting the country's new capital in East Kalimantan as developme

Jakarta (Agencies) – Authorities in North Sulawesi shut an international airport and evacuated hundreds of people from the vicinity of the Ruang volcano after it belched explosive plume

Antara, Jakarta – State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Abdullah Azwar Anas has announced the first batch of 38 ministries and institutions set to be relocated to Indonesia's

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – South Korean automobile giant Hyundai has ended an agreement with Adaro Minerals, a subsidiary of Indonesia's second-largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, t

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – The Indonesian Army (TNI AD) received 235 improvised firearms left over from the 1999 East Timorese crisis from East Nusa Tenggara residents living on the I

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta (Antara) – Presidential candidate number three Ganjar Pranowo believes that the submission of amicus curiae or "friends of the court" by Indonesia's Fifth

Jakarta – The faithful gathered in an imposing modernist building, thousands of men in skullcaps and women in veils sitting shoulder to shoulder.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The government is planning to review energy subsidies later this year, according to Chief Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto.

Dina Indrasafitri – Circa 1999, I sat on the floor in a poorly lit house on the outskirts of Jakarta, still in my grey-and-white high-school uniform.

'Alopi Latukefu – I came to this evening of short films not sure what to expect.

Jakarta – Indonesia's economy was primed for monetary easing later this year, but an unwelcome plunge in its currency is complicating matters for Bank Indonesia and could force it to gr

Jakarta – Prospective legislators need to spend large amounts of money to garner votes in increasingly transactional elections. A simpler system is needed.

Jakarta – The human remains at Rumoh Geudong are strong evidence of human rights violations. The government has an obligation to uncover the truth and bring justice.

Antara, Jakarta – The government has reversed its decision to restrict imported goods carried by air passengers due to public outcry.

Jaka Hendra Baittri, Vinolia Ahmad, South Pesisir, Indonesia – Bendri lived with his wife and child just 80 meters, or 260 feet, back from the Surantih Mudiak Dalam River, which flows f

Authorities in Indonesia have issued a tsunami alert after a volcano erupted five times in the province of North Sulawesi, spewing a column of smoke more than a mile into the sky and fo

Jakarta – A volcano erupted several times in North Sulawesi overnight Wednesday, forcing hundreds of people to be evacuated after it spewed lava and a column of smoke more than a mile i

Ihsanuddin, Jakarta – On Wednesday April 17 the Indonesian Lawyers Association in America (IALA) submitted an amicus curiae in relation to the 2024 presidential election (Pilpres) dispu

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – A recent string of fatal clashes in Papua has led experts to call for more restraint in the Indonesian Military's (TNI) handling of tensions in the country's rest

Ilham Oktafian, Jakarta – Pastor Gilbert Lumoindong has been officially reported to the Jakarta Metro Police for a sermon addressing prayer and almsgiving in Islam (Zakat).

Jakarta – Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) chairman Kaesang Pangarep, the youngest son of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, has said that his wife Erina Gudono will not run for Sleman re

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Further escalation in the Middle East conflict could pose multi-layered economic risks to Indonesia, ranging from further capital outflows to weaker gross domest

Jakarta – Hyundai Motor Company's recent withdrawal from an agreement with PT Adaro Minerals Indonesia (Adaro) following calls from climate activists should give us pause.

Dani Prabowo, Jakarta – The chairperson of Centra Initiative and Indonesian Human Rights Watch (Imparsial) senior researcher, Al Araf, says that the reuse of the term Free Papua Organis

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – President-elect Prabowo Subianto's legal team expressed confidence on Tuesday that the motion challenging the presidential election result will be dismissed by

Elisa Sekenyap, Jayapura – The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) says it deplores the recent sadistic torture of indigenous peoples of Melanesia in West Papua committed by the Indone