Haeril Halim and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Against the backdrop of the latest Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) move in naming…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Young Golkar politicians have called on party chairman Setya Novanto to resign from his post as the House of…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named former House of Representatives lawmaker Markus Nari of the Golkar Party a suspect…

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) rejected on Wednesday a judicial review request filed by a lawyer seeking immunity for lawyers from…

Julie Chernov Hwang – Last week, Indonesian President Joko Widodo signed into law a decree to make it easier for his government to ban any group…

Andreas Harsono – The Indonesian government today ordered the disbanding of Hizbut Tahrir, a conservative Islamist group that supports the…

Safrin La Batu and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) has condemned the government's decision to revoke the Muslim…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Alfred Sitorus is a self-appointed footpath warrior. Every Friday afternoon he and other members of…

Indonesia's government has legally disbanded fundamentalist group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) for threatening national unity and the state…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) is set to file a lawsuit with the Jakarta State Administrative Court (…

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court rejected on Wednesday a judicial review petition to challenge several articles in a 2011 law that regulate the…

James Borrowdale – The independence movement is largely ignored by wider – whiter – New Zealand society.

Like apartheid South Africa, I kept…

A campaigner for West Papua says the New Zealand government should be speaking out about the treatment of pro-independence demonstrators by…

Jakarta, Indonesia – About 2,000 people have rallied in the capital of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, denouncing President…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The scandal-prone speaker of Indonesia's House of Representatives, Setya Novanto, could face years in jail after he was…

Jakarta – Islamic boarding schools, or pesantren, should be at the forefront of guarding the state ideology Pancasila and the principle of…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Five of the 10 political factions at the House of Representatives have called on Speaker Setya Novanto to resign…

Edward Febriyatri Kusuma, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Politics, Security and Legal Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Wiranto has warned that…

Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) reports that Indonesia's foreign debt reached US$333.60 billion, growing 5.50 percent year on year (yoy), in May,…

Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) has urged members of the House of Representatives' Commission XI overseeing financial affairs to start debating the…

Jakarta – The Indonesian economy has shown improvement, but increased efforts are needed to achieve President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's target of 7…

Samantha Hawley – Australia's ambassador to Indonesia has emphasised the Federal Government's commitment to try and help boost tourism in…

Grace D. Amianti, Jakarta – The government has called on the House of Representative to delist the palm oil bill from its prioritized legislation…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung has denied reports by several online portals about President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian has defended the government's decision to…

Felicity James – Tourism businesses from an island off the coast of Timor-Leste's capital say they fear large-scale government projects could…

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – Exports in June declined by 18.82 percent month on month (MoM) to US$11.64 billion and imports were down by 27.26 percent…

Jakarta – The government's effort to improve services at seaports has suffered a setback, as indicated by the worsening dwell time to 3.6 days in…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Democratic Party has joined a group of political parties challenging a new…

Fahrizal Syam, Jakarta – The national police already have a list of social organisations (Ormas) that will be disbanded following the issuance of…

Jakarta – The National Police have made a list of mass organizations to be considered for disbandment following the issuance of Regulation in Lieu…

Gregory Fealy, Sydney – On 13 July, Indonesia's President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) issued a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) which will allow the…

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced Monday that the poverty rate and inequality rate or Gini ratio were…

Felicity James – Timor-Leste is developing rapidly – 15 years after independence it's got one of the world's highest proportions of women in…

Jakarta – Dozens of people have stormed the headquarters of the United Development Party (PPP) in Menteng, Central Jakarta, in the early hours of…

Jakarta – The government must carefully review its plan to increase this year's target for non-oil-and-gas tax revenue amid signs of weakening…

Jakarta – National Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Insp. Gen. Budi Gunawan has said the Indonesian economy is currently being controlled by food…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Jakarta Police have detained over alleged hate speech Muhammad Hidayat, the man who reported President Joko "…

Jakarta – Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) Executive Director Alghiffari Aqsa says that Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 2/2017 on…

Jakarta – Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo said that the government has a solid reason for issuing Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (…

Jeffrey Hutton – Amid the din of a few hundred protestors that he helped assemble in front of the main gate of Indonesia's parliament, Cecep…

UCAN – An Indonesian priest in Papua has joined rights activists in filing a judicial review of the country's treason law in the Constitutional…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has called on the government to impose tougher measures on companies refusing to pay…

Jon Emont, Jakarta, Indonesia – Two months after Indonesia's most conservative province drew international headlines for publicly caning two young…

Wulan Nova/Elik S, Jakarta – The Alumni 212 Presidium has held a protest march from the Sunda Kelapa Grand Mosque to the offices of the National…

Andhika Prasetia, Jakarta – The government has issued Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 2/2017 on Social Organisations. It has…

You know that saying, "politics makes strange bedfellows"?

The so-called Presidium Alumni 212 is a hardline group made up of people who…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Research, Technology and Higher Education Minister Mohamad Nasir has called on universities in West Java to step up…

Jakarta – A construction firm linked to Jakarta deputy governor-elect Sandiaga Uno has been declared the first corporation ever to be named a…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry blocked on Friday 11 Domain Name Systems (DNS) owned by the encrypted…