Daniel Boffey – The director of the Rijksmuseum said he was "happy" as Dutch prosecutors announced they would not proceed with an investigation into complaints over a newly opened exhib

Palu – A wild crocodile in Indonesia that was trapped in a tyre for more than five years has been rescued, freed from its rubber ring and released back into the wild.

Emma Connors, Singapore/Jakarta – One of Indonesia' richest men has acknowledged he could reap millions from the planned new capital in East Kalimantan but has denied the fix is in.

Jamal A Nashr, Jakarta – The Central Java Police spokesperson Commissioner Iqbal Alqudusy, said that 250 police personnel has been mobilized to guard the land measurement process at the

Andi Firdaus, Raka Adji, Jakarta – The COVID-19 positivity rate among health workers is currently high, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, has informed.

Tassilo Hummel and Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – Indonesia will order 42 Rafale fighter jets, France's defence minister said on Thursday, after the two countries signed a series of agreem

Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank will review policy rate levels in the third quarter to head off any spike in inflation next year, Governor Perry Warjiyo said on Thursday, after it de

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Nusantara, the government's new capital city project, is facing more public scrutiny even after lawmakers passed a law formalizing the staggered move away from co

Jakarta – No less than 2.7 million undereducated and unskilled Indonesians, most of them also undocumented, have risked their lives for the sake of getting the jobs in Malaysia they bad

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investments Luhut Pandjaitan said in a virtual press conference on Thursday, February 10, 2022, that energy

Surabaya – Indonesia began testing a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine on humans Wednesday after getting the green light from the drug regulator as the country faces a rising wave of virus cas

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said press freedom is a fundamental pillar for the advancement of Indonesia as one of the largest democratic countries in the w

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – Indonesian rights groups have called for the release of dozens of farmers and activists, they say were wrongfully arrested on Feb.

Emma Connors and Natalia Santi, Singapore/Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo's government started the year with a ban on coal exports and now it has ordered palm oil producers t

By Sebastian Strangio – Indonesia's plan to shift its capital from Jakarta to a remote location on the island of Borneo is set to inflict a further setback on a Chinese government-backe

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In the nearly two years since Indonesian lawmakers passed a controversial mining law, the legislation has increasingly been used by police to arrest villag

Resty Woro Yuniar (SCMP) – Indonesia is sticking to its decision to open the resort island of Bali to foreign tourists despite a spike in Covid-19 cases, saying the move will boost the

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Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights or Komnas HAM strongly condemned acts of violence committed by police against residents and legal assistants for resident

Jamal A. Nashr, Purworejo – As many as 64 residents of Wadas Village, Bener District, Purworejo, were arrested by the police on Tuesday, Feb.

Jamal A. Nashr, Jakarta – The Yogyakarta Legal Aid Institute or LBH Yogyakarta said its Instagram account had been inaccessible since 11:20 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.

Daniel Ahmad, Jakarta – An epidemiologist from Australia's Griffith University, Dicky Budiman, shared optimism that the wave of COVID-19 transmission due to the Omicron variant in Indon

Arrijal Rachman, Graven Fikri (Intern), Jakarta – The development of the new capital city or IKN is continuously protested.

Jakarta – A number of professional organisations have slammed the alleged throttling of the internet at Wadas Village in Bener sub-district, Purworejo regency, Central Java, which has m

Jakarta – A resident of Wadas Village has reported that scores of police units entered their village in the Bener sub-district of Purworejo regency, East Java, on the morning of Wednesd

Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Chairperson Muhammad Isnur has accused Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs Mahfud MD of lying over an incide

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – An Indonesian diocese has banned Catholics from carrying out a traditional marriage-related ritual involving animal sacrifice, saying it is contrary to the Catholi

Fathiya Dahrul – The brother of Indonesia's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto seeks to supply clean water to the country's new capital.

Duncan Graham – Corporate tsars and the political powerful rarely back independent probes into official misconduct – unless limited to their rivals.

Radhiyya Indra, Jakarta – From a decades-long tradition to movie inspiration – arisan is a social rite, financial help, a fun get-together and more.

Jakarta – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) said it had received 73,000 reports on suspicious financial transactions in 2021, up from 68,057 in 2020, as well

Jakarta – Property companies association Real Estate Indonesia, or REI, recently announced that its global tour to attract investors to fund Indonesia's new capital city in East Kaliman

Indonesia's government likely won't impose strict restrictions despite a surge in COVID-19 cases, as the Executive Office of the President (KSP) said that there is no need yet to take d

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Police (Polri) criminal investigation unit (Bareskrim) has formed a special investigation team to handle cases regarding health quarantine viol

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Mutia Fauzia, Jakarta – The Ministry for the Empowerment of Women and Protection of Children (KPPPA) says that as many as 30 percent of women consider it normal to be hit by their husba

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Indonesian Navy has intercepted 34 undocumented Indonesian workers trying to leave for Malaysia on a motorboat from Batu Bara regency in North Sumatra.

Jakarta – Indonesia may soon rejoin the upper-middle income country again after continuing a robust recovery from the Covid-19 slump in the fourth quarter of 2021, a senior government o

Rachmawati, Yogyakarta – A petition has emerged opposing andesite rock mining for the construction of the Bener Dam project at Wadas Village in Bener sub-district, Purworejo regency, Ce

M. Faiz Zaki, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ministry of Industry recorded a growth of 3.67 percent in the non-oil and gas processing industry throughout 2021.

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Lenny Tristia Tambun & Herman, Jakarta – The elderly population accounts for 44 percent of the 356 Covid-19 deaths since Indonesia confirmed its first case of the highly contagious

A Catholic man is on a mission for love and the recognition of interfaith marriage in Indonesia, after he filed a judicial review against a legal hurdle for marrying his Muslim girlfrie

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore/Jakarta – In Tondano, near the north-east tip of the island of Sulawesi, south-east Asia's first Holocaust museum was unveiled last month.

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia has tightened mobility in Jakarta, Bandung and Bali to the second-highest level as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continued to spread rapidly.

Jakarta – Indonesia has temporarily banned foreign tourists entering the country through Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, the Transportation Ministry said, in a bid to sl

Gisela Swaragita, Jakarta – The Bandung municipal administration ordered on Friday that Mal Festival Citylink, a shopping mall on Jl.

Radhiyya Indra, Jakarta – The head of a Tangerang market who resigned over a viral TikTok clip showing him with piles of money has claimed that the video was "an accident" and that the

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Communication and Informatics Ministry (Kominfo) in commemorating the National Press Day on February 7 said it had discovered 9,546 hoax contents

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will examine the inactive Langkat Regent Terbit Rencana Perangin Angin on Monday afternoon, Feb. 7.