Jakarta – Police in Semarang on Thursday evening (13/04) shut down an event to celebrate the opening of a local branch of the hardline Islamic…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Jayapura Police have launched Noken Online, an Android-based mobile application that aims to improve police…

Jakarta – Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo has campaigned on behalf of Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and his running mate…

Jakarta – Chief Security Minister Wiranto said it is important to maintain a balance between rights and duties to avoid violence against…

Jakarta – Indonesia would need 113 million skilled workers in 2030 to develop its potential to become the worlds seventh largest economy, Manpower…

Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) suggests that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) establish its own independent security…

Bec Strating – On 10 April this year, the 2006 Certain Maritime Agreement on the Timor Sea (CMATS) was terminated. CMATS was an agreement between…

Jakarta – As many as 64,726 personnel from the Jakarta Military Command, the Jakarta Police and the Jakarta Public Order Agency will be deployed…

Jakarta – Washington has billed Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Indonesia next week as a booster for the strategic partnership between the…

Safrin La Batu and Andi Hajramurni, Jakarta – The National Police have launched an extensive manhunt across the country to track down the drive-by…

Paulina Quintao – According to results from a quick data assessment report on blind prevention from 2016, 2.8% of Timorese people over the age of…

Paulina Quintao – The National Eye Clinic has informed it now has the capacity to perform surgery on patients with sight problems including…

Venidora Oliveira – The Criminal Scientific Investigation Police (PSIK) Unit registered 221 criminal cases in 2016.

The head of the…

Winda A. Charmila, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) released a report on forced evictions on Thursday, revealing that the…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Few people outside of Indonesia would have heard of Palangkaraya. The city on the island of Borneo…

Suherdjoko, Semarang, Central Java – A firecracker explosion occurred near Santo Yusuf Catholic Church in Ambarawa, Central Java, at around 2 p.m…

Jakarta – A shortage of healthcare facilities and medical practitioners has hampered efforts to combat whooping cough and HIV/AIDS, two of the…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo indicated that Indonesia would continue to execute convicts when he confirmed…

Margareth S. Aritonan, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office is planning to create a special directorate, which will handle the settlement of…

Andi Hajramurni, Jakarta – The Makassar District Court in South Sulawesi cleared on Tuesday a woman of defamation charges for comments she made in…

Darwin will be used as a logistic hub for a Queensland company which has signed a landmark onshore oil and gas deal in East Timor. The deal may…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – A recent survey held by Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) puts Anies Baswedan in a strong position to win the…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The Jakarta Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) is set to investigate a one-minute video of a group of…

Jakarta – Political observers have slammed the idea of implementing Islamic law, or sharia, in the capital city, which has been promoted by…

The Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, and his Muslim opponent are neck and neck in the race to lead Indonesia's…

Dandy Koswaraputra, Jakarta – Indonesians go hand-in-hand in massive supports for Novel Baswedan, a senior investigator with the Corruption…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Following the imposition of a travel ban on House of Representatives Speaker Setya…

Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – Losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars appear to be pushing the Indonesian government and mining giant…

Kyle Knight – The rights of all Indonesians are at greater risk following a Constitutional Court ruling this week that the central government…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) is urging the government, particularly President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and the…

Adam Harvey, Indonesia – A video recording of Indonesian vigilantes detaining two young gay men captures them kicking, slapping and insulting the…

Jakarta – The National Police are being called to immediately investigate the acid attack against Novel Baswedan, a Corruption Eradication…

Jakarta – The decline of Jamaah Anshar Daulah (JAD), a home-grown radical group blamed for a spate of terrorist attacks in recent years, has been…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The number of prisoners being held in Indonesia increased by 12,000 within two months this year, raising concerns…

Muhammad Tanziel Aziezi – Legal scholar Saldi Isra will be installed as the new Constitutional Court judge today, replacing the disgraced…

Danuta Kean – An artist who allegedly inserted political and religious messages into an X-Men spinoff comic has apologised, saying his career is…

Jakarta – Top women activists issued a warning on Monday about the increasing threat of intolerance toward minority groups in the country.

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Jakarta – Newly inaugurated Constitutional Court (MK) Justice Saldi Isra signed an integrity pact at his new office on Tuesday, vowing to step up…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Indonesia's immigration authorities have banned House of Representatives Speaker and Golkar…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – More than 60 people were sentenced to death in Indonesia last year but proposed changes to the…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan said on Tuesday that the government would force PT Freeport…

Chris Biantoro – Since Suharto stepped down in 1998, and political reform occurring for the last 18 years, Papua has yet to enjoy real reform, as…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – A court hearing the blasphemy trial of Jakarta's Christian governor has been accused of succumbing to political…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Prosecutors postponed the reading of the sentence demand against Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja…

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – The highlands of west Java provide a calmness that can't be found in the Indonesian capital.

Puncak is a haven…

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – An Indonesian court has adjourned the high-profile blasphemy trial of the city's Christian Governor until after a…

Jakarta – The Regional Representatives Council (DPD) saw yet another plenary session spiral into chaos on Tuesday, as internal power struggles…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta administration's stance on banning street musicians is thought by some to have breached the economic…

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Police in Semarang, Central Jakarta, banned an event held by Islamic hard-line group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) on…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The government has been encouraged to heed the United Nations' call to abolish the death penalty from the…