Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Ministry confirmed that the use of 35 percent biodiesel or B35 will begin to take effect on February 1, 2023.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The government has issued a regulation in lieu of the job creation law to provide a secure footing for key economic policies in the face of global uncertainti

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The government is planning to upgrade the Covid-19 tracing app PeduliLindungi into a more comprehensive citizen health app that also stores the patient's m

Jakarta – In another push to develop downstream mineral industries, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has announced an export ban on washed bauxite to come into effect in June of this year

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Jakarta – A group of university students and activists on Thursday asked the Constitutional Court to carry out a judicial review of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's controversial emerge

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said he may reshuffle his cabinet in the next few days, as some political sources bet on a last major realignment of his government to complete

You may be moved on a spiritual level by a Quran recital, but you must never shower the reciter with tips, as this latest religious controversy in Indonesia illustrates.

Amy Heppy, Jakarta – The Jakarta Transportation Agency urged the public to remain wearing masks while riding public transportation. The notion is regulated in Circular Letter No.

Timor Leste is proposing to amend its education law to make the Portuguese language mandatory in schools across the Catholic-majority country.

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – Environmental watchdog Satya Bumi lamented the government's enactment of regulation in lieu of law or Perppu No.

Arimbihp, Septia Ryanthie, Jakarta – Siti Dyah Sujirah, popular with the nickname Sipon, who is known as the wife of the missing poet Wiji Thukul passed away on Thursday, January 5.

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – A lawsuit has been filed against President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo at the Jakarta Administrative Court (PTUN) following his controversial decision to inaugurate

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo summoned Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto to Jakarta State Palace on Friday morning, January 6, 2023.

Nugroho Nafika Kassa, Makassar – This year the government of the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar will begin deliberating a draft bylaw (Ranperda) on deviant sexual behavio

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has named and arrested three suspects in the corruption case involving base transceiver station (BTS) procurement by the Tele

Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court has sentenced a former senior official at the trade ministry and three palm oil company executives to jail in a case about improper palm oil expor

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has cited a possible economic recession this year to justify his executive order implementing the 2021 Job Creation Law, which has been declared

Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman and Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – Both laborers and businesses have expressed their concerns over government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on job creation, with

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – The act of a million workers alliance issued a statement in response to the government's regulation in lieu of law or Perppu on job creation.

Amy Heppy, Jakarta – The Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) said that the floods that submerged parts of the capital city had receded on Wednesday night.

Ima Dini Shafira, Jakarta – The latest survey by Indikator Politik Indonesia shows the electability of former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan coinciding with the public discontent again

Jakarta – Siti Dyah Sujirah or Sipon died today on Thursday January 5.

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Bandung – The West Java branch of the Indonesian Employers Association, or Apindo, slammed Governor Ridwan Kamil on Thursday for his decision to include the employment period as an extr

Heru Andriyanto & Chairul Fikri, Jakarta – Indonesia gets around 12,000 medical school graduates every year but few will have advanced medical training in a specific area while ther

Antara, Jakarta – The National Police Traffic Corps is planning to install chips and QR codes on license plates.

Antara, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia in the Bogor Regency, West Java, only officially register 45.21 percent of married couples in the regency as the rest are unregistered marriages,

Dicky Kurniawan (Antara), Jakarta – The National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas) is strongly considering reintroducing manual traffic ticketing after it had been stopped in October of

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – A number of former Constitutional Court (MK) judges voted unanimously against the actions of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo who issued the regulation in lieu

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry's special staff for strategic communication Yustinus Prastowo on Wednesday elaborated on the Ministry's income tax (PPh) calculation s

Antara, Jakarta – The number of public transport passengers increased during the year-end holidays to nearly reaching its pre-pandemic level.

Muhammad Aulia, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, detained a police officer on Tuesday for allegedly misusing his authority and accepting at least Rp 50 billion (

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Jakarta – We were dumbfounded to learn that the government still subsidizes the price of gasoline of RON92 and higher qualities which are used by middle and high-income consumers.

Jakarta – Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly ordered on Wednesday the newly installed Director-General for Immigration Silmy Karim to begin work on digitizing services provided

PMade Supriatma – The Widodo administration's heavy-handed ramming through of the revised Criminal Code in late 2022 raises deep concerns about Indonesia's commitment to democratic proc

Jakarta – Indonesia's state-owned railway firm KAI said on Tuesday it has received a 3.2 trillion rupiah (S$273 million) capital injection from the government to help a consortium of In

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo did not let a single day of 2022 go to waste.

Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman, Jakarta – Higher domestic demand spurred a December rebound for Indonesian factories as core inflation rises to within the central bank's target, indicating an o

Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – While congratulating her newly appointed Chinese counterpart Qin Gang on Sunday, Foreign Minister Retno L.P.

Investor Daily, Jakarta – Indonesia-Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, commonly shortened as IK-CEPA, has finally entered into force, thus paving the way for Indonesia

Makassar – Law authorities in South Sulawesi have been investigating the disappearance of some 500 tons of rice from a warehouse belonging to the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) for more

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Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – The Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS) economist Bhima Yudhistira believes that the issuance of the government regulation in lieu of law on Job Cr

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – The All-Indonesia Workers Union Confederation (KSPSI) in a written statement on Tuesday accuses President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo of betraying the constitutio

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The Indonesian Workers Union Association (Aspek) on Monday once again asserted its position against the government regulation in lieu of law on Job Creatio

Now that we've established that there will practically be no Bali boink ban under Indonesia's revised Criminal Code (KUHP), let's take a look at how current and future iterations of the

The city of Medan no longer welcomes sexual minorities (this country's constitution notwithstanding) according to its mayor Bobby Nasution, who declared the North Sumatra capital "anti-