Rendy Pahrun Wadipalapa – The "communist" label, inherited from Suharto's era, has become a traditional part of the Indonesian "political repertoire".

Andy Fuller – More than 125 people are dead, after police fired tear gas at football fans in Malang, East Java, over the weekend, in one of the world's worst football disasters.

Karuni Rompies and Chris Barrett, Malang, Indonesia – Indonesian football authorities rejected a request from police to shift the ill-fated Javanese derby between Arema FC and Persebaya

Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok and Reno Surya in Jakarta – Indonesian police are facing mounting pressure over their management of crowds during the Kanjuruhan stadium disaster, where at

Karuni Rompies, Chris Barrett and Amilia Rosa, Malang, Indonesia – As chaos unfolded at Indonesia's Kanjuruhan Stadium, with bodies beginning to accumulate, Arema assistant coach Kuncor

Grace Dungey – Indonesian palm oil workers and labor rights activists are looking to press their advantage following the success of four labor rights appeal cases heard in Indonesia's S

Reuters, Jakarta – The country's fifth-largest political party NasDem on Monday announced that it is backing outgoing Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan as its candidate for the 2024 presi

Jakarta – Anger against the National Police mounted in Indonesia on Monday after at least 125 people were killed in one of the deadliest disasters in the history of football, when offic

Jakarta – Our thoughts and prayers go out to those who were killed or wounded in the post-match tragedy at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java, on Saturday.

Fikri Harish, Jakarta – These days, 32-year-old Rahman who regularly commutes from his apartment near Tanah Kusir to Sudirman, takes a combination of TransJakarta feeder buses and the M

Singgih Wiryono, Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition is urging President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to publically apologise to the victims of the Kanjuruhan Stadium tragedy.

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has reportedly moved to select the new Indonesian Military (TNI) chief as the current commander, Gen.

Rebecca Ratcliffe, David Connett and Adam Fulton – At least 174 people were killed and around 180 injured at a football match in Indonesia after police used teargas in response to a pit

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore/Jakarta – Indonesia President Joko Widodo has ordered an investigation into security procedures at a football match in East Java after one of

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The North Tapanuli Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) in North Sumatra has recorded to date that at least one person has been killed and 24 injured, with 952 hom

Antara, Jakarta – Muhadjir Effendy, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Cultural Affairs, has invited the people, including the younger generation, to interpret and practice

John Duerden – Indonesia's love for football is the greatest in all of Asia but along with that passion comes a long list of tragedies.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The Indonesian government implied on Sunday that it won't recognize the results of the so-called referendums in four regions in Ukraine that become the basis

Jakarta – Leading plantation firm Astra Agro Lestari (AAL) denied allegations that it has committed environmental destruction, human rights violations, and land grabs that led food and

Winda Nelfira (Liputan6.com) – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has officially become a member of the social organisation (ormas) Pancasila Youth (PP).

Riri Rahayu (Antara), Jakarta – The increase in soybean prices has affected tofu and tempeh producers.

Bisnis, Jakarta – The National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) was urged to immediately reveal the person behind the hacker persona 'Bjorka'.

Robertus Robet (360info), Jakarta – A fatal oversight in Indonesia's history of political reform is the absence of efforts to reform Indonesian police.

Fachrizal Afandi (360info), Malang, East Java – There's a joke in Indonesia: NKRI, the widely used acronym for the republic, in fact stands for Negara Kepolisian Republik Indonesia – "I

Jakarta – The Indonesian Navy hasn't requested or received money to release detained vessels or ship captains, a senior naval officer said, responding to a Reuters report quoting

Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ombudsman has urged the Agriculture Ministry and other government bodies to solve a horticulture imports conundrum that has been draggin

Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman, Jakarta – The World Bank has said that new rules on investment brought about by the Job Creation Law should be complemented by trade policy reforms for Indonesia

Jakarta – Indonesia said it has granted emergency use approval to an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese company, becoming the first country, ahead of even China, to do so.

Andrew Conroe, Jakarta – What does it mean to have knowledge about a violent historical event that, for the most part, has never made it into national history books?

Singapore – More than a dozen senior Indonesian government and military officials were targeted last year with spy software designed by an Israeli surveillance firm, according to nine p

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Tri Meilani A, Suharto, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has rejected the Prosperous Justice Party's (PKS) application for a judicial review of the 20-percent presidential threshold s

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Bonfilio Mahendra Wahanaputra – An alliance of students which make up the Populist All Indonesia Student Executive Council (BEM SI Kerakyatan) has invited President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo

An Indonesian man who had built a reputation as a savior of unwanted children has been arrested on suspicion of child trafficking.

Jakarta – Putri Candrawathi was detained on Friday ahead of the trial on the murder of a policeman allegedly ordered by her husband, former police general Ferdy Sambo.

Hendro Situmorang, Jakarta – The Drug and Food Supervisory Agency (BPOM) on Friday issued the emergency use authorization for two local vaccines against Covid-19 called IndoVac and AWco

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Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta – Ship operators under the River, Lake and Water Transportation Operators Association (Gapasdap) have announced that they will scale back ferry services on

Jakarta – Demonstrators from an alliance of student groups begun arriving at the Horse Statue in Central on Friday September 30 where they gave speeches on the road after refusing to us

Jakarta – Beverage company Es Teh Indonesia Makmur apparently cannot take criticism gracefully as it immediately took legal action against a Twitter user who recently criticized

Arrijal Rachman, Jakarta – Indonesia's debt at the end of August this year has reached a total of Rp7,236.61 trillion, which is a 1.01 percent increase compared to July by logging Rp7,1

Novel Baswedan is all of us right now after former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) staffers jumped onboard the legal team representing ex-police general Ferdy Sambo, who was cha

Yanuar Nugroho – Jakarta faces unprecedented pressure to get Indonesia's new personal data protection (PDP) law right from the get-go, lest a notorious hacker exposes more weaknesses in

News Desk, Jakarta – Febri Diansyah and Rasamala Aritonang, respectively a former spokesperson and a former senior official of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), held a joint

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Commission III House of Representatives (DPR) has appointed Johanis Tanak in replacing Lili Pintauli Siregar as deputy to lead the Corruption Eradication Com

Kholis Kurnia Wati, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is currently in the process of growing its electric vehicle ecosystem with the development of lithium-ion batteries handled by th

Jakarta – The Indonesian Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has initiated an online petition urging national police chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo to fully investigate the co

Jakarta – Flourish Ventures, a global venture capital firm with portfolio investments in Indonesia and across Asia, recently released a new study that confirmed the importance of corner

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investments Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan on Tuesday said that he is unaware whether the national program to conver