Jakarta – The chairperson of the country's peak Islamic body, the Indonesia Ulama Council (MUI), Cholil Nafis, is asked for the removal of problematic articles in the Education, Culture

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – An Indonesian provincial governor has vowed to crack down on the issuing of permits to palm oil firms after flash floods hit several areas of Borneo, killing sever

Alexander R Arifianto – As Indonesia inches closer to its next general election in 2024, political elites are manoeuvring to hold on to their existing power and advantages.

Edvin Aldrian – As Indonesia's capital and most populous megacity, Jakarta needs rapid solutions to tackle the problems of land subsidence and sea-level rise.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The UK is seeking to deepen ties with Indonesia on trade, investment, and maritime security, among others, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced du

Grace Nadia Chandra, Triyan Pangastuti, Jakarta – Indonesia has secured $44.6 billion of investments commitment in agriculture, healthcare, digitalization, downstream mining, renewable

Arys Aditya (Bloomberg) – The use of crypto assets as a currency is forbidden for Muslims, according to Indonesia's council of religious leaders.

Mahmud Ichi, Ternate, Indonesia – At the inauguration of the Guraping Mangrove Tourism Forest last month in Sofifi, a sleepy coastal town and capital of one of Indonesia's remotest prov

We at Coconuts have been adamant for quite a while that cultural inferiority complex has no place in the 21st century, and it's nice to see President Joko Widodo on our side on this iss

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – More than 45 academics from a wide array of campuses on Thursday voiced their support for the Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Minister's Act No.

Yudith Ho and Fathiya Dahrul – Indonesia's stock benchmark is on course for a fresh record high on the back of signs of an economy recovery.

Rini Kustiani, Jakarta – A survey on digital literacy by the Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) Ministry in 2020 shows that Indonesia scored 3.47 in UNESCO's digital literacy indic

Claire Jiao and Grace Sihombing – Indonesia will likely catch up on growth in the fourth quarter as its all-important consumption engine returns to high gear.

Jakarta – The move by Education, Culture, Research and Technology Minister Nadiem Makarim to issue a ministerial regulation to prevent and overcome sexual violence at higher education i

Fathin Ungku and Bernadette Christina, Singapore – Indonesia's giant palm oil industry, long a target of global green groups, is shoring up its defences closer to home as it tries to co

Wayne Palmer – Work rights for non-citizens is a controversial issue for most – if not all – governments, and Indonesia is no exception.

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – Less than 48 hours after saying it would suspend joint maritime patrols with Australia over the destruction of Indonesian vessels fishing i

The sad state of affairs at flag carrier Garuda Indonesia continues, as the debt-ridden airline has announced plans to massively shrink its destinations list in the name of operations e

The province of West Kalimantan is in the midst of a hydrometeorological disaster of a massive scale, yet those who are at least partially responsible for the environmental destruction

Lili Rambe, Jambi, Indonesia – Conservation authorities in Indonesia have reported the death of a Sumatran tiger captured in October following reports of deadly attacks on people.

Jakarta – National Police's counterterrorism squad Detachment 88 arrested five suspected members of shadowy militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) during separate operations in East Java

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The union of labor organizations staged a rally today, November 10, demanding an increase in the Provincial Minimum Wage (UMP) before Jakarta Governor Anies

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – The Taiwanese government will once again open migrant worker placement for Indonesian workers after suspending it in December 2020 due to the Covid-19 outb

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Indonesia is seeing an increasing rate of new infections over the past week.

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesian Epidemiology Association (PAEI) member Masdalina Pane said efforts to prevent another wave of Covid-19 spread is not by mandating PCR tests on travelers but

Jakarta – West Kalimantan Governor Sutarmidji expelled 20 representatives of palm oil companies from a meeting at his office because they failed to respond when asked to help dealing wi

Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia says that forest loss over the last five years was as much as 2.13 million hectares or the equivalent of 3.5 times the size of the island of Bali.

Antara, Jakarta – The central government has urged all regional governments to fully utilize their COVID-19 vaccine stocks by hastening vaccinations in their respective regions.

On October 27, Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruled that it is constitutionally acceptable for the Indonesian government to block and throttle the internet in times of social strife.

Jakarta – Activists from the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) and the Alliance Against Climate Change (APPI) were forcibly escorted out of a seminar at the Environment and F

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – UNESCO has renewed its call for the closure of a road running through Indonesia's Lorentz National Park after the nation's environment minister said shutti

Arjuna Pademme, Jayapura – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has asked the media that reported the terror against the parents and relatives of rights lawyer Veronica Koman t

Driving around Jakarta now is a far cry from the height of mobility restrictions a couple of months ago – not in a good way, by any means.

It's not Indonesia if there's no pushback from conservatives when progressive rules are passed, and a set of regulations by the Education Ministry designed to protect students from sexu

A senior Indonesian official made special mention of beach clubs and bars in Bali when talking about health protocol violations, warning of dire consequences even though COVID-19 cases

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The UK government announced on Monday that it would soon add China's Sinovac and Sinopharm to its list of approved Covid-19 vaccines for inbound travel, th

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – State-pharmaceutical firm Bio Farma in a House Hearing on Tuesday appeared in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) Commi

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The directorate general of higher education, research, and technology on Tuesday responded to criticism aimed at the Education Minister's Regulation that focuses

Herman, Thresa Sandra Desfika, Jakarta – State-run airline Garuda Indonesia has "technically" gone bankrupt due to the fact of being insolvent and in negative equity amid allegations of

Taufik Wijaya, Palembang, Indonesia – Silo Siswanto picks a rejung melody over a guitar fretboard under stage lights in the Teater Potlot in the city of Palembang, evoking the fragility

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Legal Aid Institute of the Indonesian Women's Association for Justice (LBH APIK) opined that the Education, Culture, Research, and Technology Ministerial Regu

Agung Sandy Lesmana and Ria Rizki Nirmala Sari – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo signed Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 98/2021 on the Economic Value of Carbon on Friday October

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Qolil Qoumas in a written statement on Tuesday advocated the sexual violence prevention and handling act (PPKS) No.

Hendro Situmorang, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is considering buying 1 million doses of Covid-19 antiviral drug developed by US pharmaceutical company Merck & Co Inc., Healt

Jakarta – The government is preparing several policies to prevent a Covid-19 third wave during the year-end and Christmas holidays – a period that will likely increase people's mobility

Jakarta – The House of Representatives accepted the nomination of Andika Perkasa as the new military chief during a plenary session on Monday, the same day when outgoing commander Hadi

Aisyah Llewellyn – The curious incident of a dog left to die in a crate for transporting cabbages has shocked Indonesia and sparked a discussion on "halal" tourism, as Southeast Asia's

Putu Savitri, Fadhli Ruhman – On Wednesday, House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Puan Maharani said that the parliament had received a Presidential letter proposing a single candidate

Kartika Sukarno – My father, Sukarno, the first elected president of Indonesia, was put under house arrest in March 1967 a few days after I was born. He was 67.