Yanto Awerkion, a West Papuan local independence leader, remains imprisoned after being arrested the Indonesian security services for collecting…

Filani Olyvia, Jakarta – Presidium Alumni 212 chairperson Ansufri Idrus Sambo says that his organisation does not just defend ulama (Islamic…

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo and Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan signed on Friday a…

Jakarta – Arief Hidayat was re-elected as the Constitutional Court chief justice for the 2017 to 2020 period during a plenary meeting on Friday.…

Jakarta – In view of the Constitutional Court (MK) chief's substandard performance in the first half of his term, two notable law monitoring…

Jakarta – The Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Finance Ministry and Indonesia's law enforcers have set up a task force that will…

Michael Leach – Twenty-one parties will contest sixty-five parliamentary seats and decide who governs Timor-Leste in national elections on 22 July…

Jakarta – The scene could not be more symbolic and the parallel could not be more striking. On Wednesday, from a lectern set up inside the State…

Furqon Amrullah, Jakarta – The House of Representative's (DPR) official Twitter account (@DPR_RI) held a poll following the issuance of Government…

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – The Indonesian Government's decision to ban groups that do not support the nation's ideologies has been condemned by…

Ben Westcott – An Indonesian government decree that allows the country's president to disband religious and civil society organizations without a…

Usman Hamid & Liam Gammon – On 10 July, Jokowi signed a Regulation in Lieu of Law (Peraturan Pemerintah Pengganti Undang Undang/Perppu)…

Jakarta – Civil organisations in Indonesia on Wednesday (12/07) decried a move by the government to disband certain groups deemed to be in…

Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has expressed concern over the country's low tax-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio. At 10.3…

Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that Indonesia and other Asian countries need to increase their tax-to-gross domestic…

Kyle Knight – The authorities in Aceh – Indonesia's only province that implements full Sharia (Islamic law) – clearly feel stung by the…

Shannon Power – After an international outcry over the public caning of two gay men in Aceh, the province will make future canings private.

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The Indonesia government says claims of mass arrests of West Papuans in the past two weeks are wrong.

Earlier this week the Australia West…

Paulina Quintao – Some 97 percent of all children in Timor-Leste under the age of five years old received their full immunization according to…

Venidora Oliveira 00 The Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) considers grave that five members of the national parliament raised their…

Jakarta – Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf has said President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed him to encourage investment in the province.

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Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) is seeking assistance from the Presidential Working Unit for the…

Jakarta – The government has been advised to reduce its dependency on foreign debt in trying to cover the deficit in the state budget.

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Jakarta – Authorities have charged Papua Governor Lukas Enembe with allegedly persuading residents to vote for one of the candidates in the…

Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament should scrap proposed revisions to its counterterrorism law that are overbroad, vague, and would unjustifiably…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Indonesia has introduced new powers enabling the government to ban mass organisations considered to…

Jakarta – Justice and Human Rights Minister (Menkumham) Yasonna Laoly says that the new Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) on Social…

Jakarta (AFP) – Indonesia has issued a decree allowing it to ban groups that oppose its official state ideology, in a move seen to target radical…

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta, Central Java – As many as 500 conventional taxi drivers from six companies across Surakarta held a rally at the…

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – A panel of judges at the Bandung District Court has decided to continue the trial of Buni Yani, the uploader of a…

Jakarta – Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has told Jakarta governor-elect Anies Baswedan and deputy governor-elect…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The House of Representatives inquiry team tasked with investigating the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)…

Jakarta – The Indonesia Retail Association (Aprindo) is urging the government to lift a ban on alcohol sales from minimarkets amid slowing retail…

Jayapura, Jubi – Director of the Papua Policy and Human Rights Advocacy Association (PAK-HAM), Matius Murib, admitted that there is no significant…

Haeril Halim and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is ready to step in and counter the ongoing attempts to weaken…

Jakarta – US President Donald J. Trump signaled more trade between the United States and Indonesia might be coming during the G-20 summit in…

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua legislator criticized a framing made by an online media in Jakarta toward an involvement of Free Papua Organization (OPM)…

Indonesia says it will invite the head of mining giant Freeport McMoRan Inc to Jakarta this month to try to settle a festering dispute over a new…

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Hundreds of Islamic scholars and preachers from the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization,…

Jakarta – The government is seeking to increase the budget deficit by Rp 467.3 trillion (US$34.91 billion) for development financing this year, as…

Jakarta – The government is to hunt down tax money from Indonesians who park their money in Singapore, following an offer from Singapore to allow…

Jakarta – Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution says the government will propose to revise down its tax revenue target for the 2017 state…

The Australia West Papua Association is pushing for action from Canberra over another bout of mass arrests of West Papuans in neighbouring…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto said Monday that…

Jakarta – Following the free fall in global nickel prices, more smelter companies in Indonesia have begun halting operations.

The number of…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo presided over the 71st anniversary ceremony for the National Police at the National Monument in Central…

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian pointed to the increased welfare of all police officers throughout the country and the…

Jakarta – Several e-commerce platforms have reported significant revenues from sales prior to the Idul Fitri holiday this year.

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Retailers Association, or Aprindo, says the closure of 7-Eleven outlets on June 30 may lead to a layoff of more than 1,…

Jakarta – The East Java branch of the Indonesian Pesantren Association (IPI) is going to build a digital pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in…