Jakarta – The North Jakarta Police have garnered protests and backlash from various public groups for their recent raid on an alleged gay sex…

A Liberal MP says the "cruel and sickening" caning of two gay men in Aceh has cast a cloud over Australia's relationship with Indonesia.

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Indonesia's president urged people to remain calm on Thursday, a day after suspected suicide bombers killed three police officers on duty at a…

Susan Taylor, Toronto – Freeport McMoRan Inc said on Thursday that mining and milling rates at its Grasberg copper mine in Papua, Indonesia have…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Indonesian police say a suicide bombing that killed three police officers at a busy bus terminal in…

Jakarta – A movement to address the contextualization of Islamic teaching, dubbed Humanitarian Islam, has been inaugurated in Jombang, East Java…

Jakarta – The double suicide bombing on Wednesday night near a Transjakarta bus station in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta, that killed three police…

Krithika Varagur, Jakarta, Indonesia – Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting that starts Friday, has typically been a relaxed affair in the…

David Hutt – On May 19, as dignitaries gathered in Dili for the inauguration of Timor-Leste's new president, Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres, the…

Thomas Ora, Dili – Timor Leste's new president Francisco Guterres inherits a nation beset by critical problems, including poor education, high…

Nicholas Jones – Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee says gay rights in Indonesia are an "ongoing and real concern" after the public caning of two…

Jakarta (AFP) – Wearing a red hijab and all-encompassing gown, Sakdiyah Maruf cuts an unusual figure in a dark, smokey Jakarta bar as she reels…

Tom Allard and Stefanno Reinard, Jakarta – Police in Indonesia's most populous province plan to deploy a taskforce to investigate lesbian, gay,…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Ahead of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, Indonesia's largest teachers group signed on Wednesday a declaration to…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have asked the family of Islam Defenders Front (FPI) firebrand leader Rizieq Shihab to persuade him to return to…

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has approved a two-year extension to a moratorium on issuing new licences to use land designated as…

Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla has asked the United Nations not to interfere with Indonesia's judiciary system in relation to the recent…

Rhiannon Elston – In Timor-Leste's western enclave of Oecusse, change is coming fast. Reuban Landos and his family run a tiny village store on the…

Jakarta – Maritime Coordinating Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has warned Jakarta Governor-elect Anies Rasyid Baswedan over the latter's plan to…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Amid growing rumors of another internal split, former Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie…

Karuni Rompies and Jewel Topsfield, Banda Aceh – The crowd roared as two men in their early 20s – one muttering through clenched teeth – received…

Two Indonesian men were caned on Tuesday in front of a jeering crowd as a punishment for gay sex, in a first for the Muslim-majority country where…

Hamish McDonald – Tolstoy once wrote a short story about a greedy peasant offered as much land as he could get around in a day. The man ran off…

Jakarta – The National Police have said a raid conducted by the North Jakarta Police on an alleged gay sex party at a gym in Kelapa Gading, North…

This sickening spectacle, carried out in front of more than a thousand jeering spectators, is an act of utmost cruelty – Josef Benedict, Deputy…

Jakarta – The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the Aceh administration's plan to sentence two men to public caning for engaging in same-sex…

Khairiah Rahman – The Facebook account of Afi Nihaya Faradisa, an Indonesian high school student from the village of Banyuwangi in eastern Java…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Balikpapan – Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has called on people not to worry about a communist…

There's been more deadly violence in Indonesia's Papua province. The body of a 45-year old woman from Maluku province was discovered outside a…

Joost Cote – A new feature film has prompted a renewed interest in the life of national hero Kartini.

Like so many iconic figures of history…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Responding to rumors of disharmony between President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, senior…

Indonesian police have detained 141 men who were allegedly holding a gay party at a sauna, an official said on Monday, the latest sign of a…

Indra Budiari and Callistasia A. Wijaya, Jakarta – In an unexpected turn of events, Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has withdrawn his appeal against…

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Indonesian police have arrested more than 100 men in a weekend raid on a gay sauna in the capital Jakarta, a day before two…

Jakarta – A coalition of advocates and supporters of sexual and gender minorities protested the arrest and alleged inappropriate treatment of 141…

Alexander R Arifianto – On May 8, 2017, retired general Wiranto, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, issued a…

Lucy Marks – A program to find and treat children in East Timor with rheumatic heart disease is reducing the rates of heart failure and…

Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Samuel Wanda, Jakarta/Timika – An estimated 9,000 workers at the giant Grasberg copper mine operated by Freeport…

Deasy Simandjuntak – Indonesia has moved to disband the decades-old hardline group Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia (HTI).

In a speech on May 8,…

Jakarta – Legal experts are showing differences of opinion over the need to revoke the blasphemy articles in Indonesia's penal code in a debate…

Helen Davidson, Dili – National pride is a serious business for Timor-Leste, a young country with a violent history. So on the eve of a…

Jakarta – Democratic principles are rarely used to resolve national crises, the governor of state-security think-tank National Resilience…

Sudarsono, Jakarta – Several lawmakers are calling on the government to close down or expel non-government organisations (NGOs) working for…

Jakarta – Two thirds of Indonesian people are fed up with divisive political rhetoric and rampant hate speeches that dominated debates in social…

Jakarta – Titi Anggraini, the director of elections watchdog Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem), has said the House of…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesians have called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to immediately repeal Article 156a on religious…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have released Miko Panji Tirtayasa from custody following questioning at police headquarters.

Miko was arrested…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto has called on lawmakers to accelerate the establishment of an…

The Indonesian government needs to change the policy of development which makes Papuan community a subject, says a non-government organisation…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Dozens of activists protested a solo painting exhibition by noted poet Sitok Srengenge at the Langit Art Space in…