Jakarta – Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has urged regional administrations to provide more room for the involvement of the Inter-Religious Harmony…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saefuddin has called on the South Jakarta municipality to help the…

Jakarta – The state may have raked almost Rp 100 trillion (US$7.69 billion) into its coffers from the tax amnesty but the program may also be…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is at risk of missing the opportunity to benefit from its demographic dividend – which will peak in 2025…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – State electricity company PLN is ready to supply electricity to areas on Indonesia-Timor Leste borders by the end of…

Ina Parlina, Moses Ompusunggu and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Home Ministry and lawmakers are once again mulling a plan to increase the…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama denies that he insulted verses in the Quran last month and says that his words were taken…

Paulina Quintao – Alumni from the Timor-Leste Youth Parliament (ATLYP) are raising awareness about conflict resolution to high school students.…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Increasing wage demands by trade union activists over the last few years have not reflected increases in workforce…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Papua Police's ethical court found five policemen who were members of the Mobile Brigade guilty of ethical…

Tonga's prime minister Akilisi Pohiva has told parliament that leadership without morality is due to fail.

According to Matangi Tonga, he…

Venidora Oliveira – The government through the Secretariat of State for Land and Property (SSLP) is planning to evict Kaikoli residents in the…

Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste Parliamentary Women's Group (GMPTL) with other women's associations is developing a law to enforce the legal age…

Agus Maryono and Syamsul Huda M. Suhari, Banyumas/Gorontalo – It has been a challenging year for the Indonesian Military (TNI) with several of its…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto has promised that the law reform package the…

Lita Aruperes, Manado – Members of minority groups like Shiites and Ahmadis have suffered persecution in several regions of Indonesia. Many have…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Despite having the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia, unlike neighboring Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam,…

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – While lauding the government's 13 economic policy packages, foreign investors say they want to see more changes to smooth…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Law enforcers have become stumbling blocks in the effort to stop forest fires as they are impeding attempts to bring…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – A survey by Public Opinion and Policy Research (Populi Center) revealed on Thursday that 42.5 percent of…

Prashanth Parameswaran – As ASEAN approaches the commemoration of its 50th anniversary next year, one of the key things to watch will be the…

Surakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) visited the mass grave of victims of the May 1998 riots at the…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – While remaining defensive about mass killings during the communist purge of 1965, the…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government is planning to set up a special agency that will use non-judicial mechanisms to resolve past…

Dili, East Timor – Two East Timorese journalists are going on trial in a criminal defamation case brought by the country's prime minister that has…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – [Indonesia's Security] Minister has applauded Indonesian diplomat's strong response to the allegations of human…

Jakarta – Papua's place in Indonesia is not up for negotiation, a minister has said in response to allegations of human rights violations conveyed…

Jakarta – Resistance toward bestowing the country's longest-serving president, Soeharto, with the title of national hero has continued amid…

Bhatara Ibnu Reza, Sydney – For the past two months the Indonesian Military (TNI) has promoted a number of officers who were involved in past…

Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP) has suggested an amendment to the 1945 Constitution and the reintroduction of the stipulation that…

Jakarta – Police have arrested an information technology expert who allegedly hacked the system of a jumbotron on Jl. Wijaya, South Jakarta, and…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – After almost two decades of reform, the Indonesian Military (TNI), which dominated…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The first stage of the tax amnesty program may have ended in success, but the government's bigger purpose of widening…

Viriya P. Singgih, Jakarta – A state audit on the use of billions of dollars worth of tax funds has found thousands of irregularities, casting…

Imanuddin Razak, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) is celebrating its 71st anniversary on Wednesday in a modest but solemn manner. TNI…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Most urbanites in Jakarta are familiar with labor rallies.

For years, blue-collar workers from Greater…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A discussion titled "Indonesian Political Economy after Oct. 1 1965" in the Public Administration Master's Program…

Paulina Quintao – Every year almost 10,000 out of one million people in Timor-Leste will suffer from hepatitis, according to estimates from the…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Darman Gerfasius Purba, a follower of indigenous faith Ugomo Bangsa Batak (UBB) in Medan, North Sumatra, once had a dream…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – A benign consumer price index (CPI) in September indicates that consumer spending remains weak, economists say.

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Godwin Ligo – The Melanesian Wantok Summit organized by Vanuatu Free West Papua Association (VFWPA) and supported by the Pacific Islands…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-116-2016

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding…

Mungo MacCallum – It may sound unpatriotic, but I could not help cheering when the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague brought down its…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has issued a statement condemning the Indonesian government's "denial of reports of human…

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – In less than a year, the country has taken a step back in plastic waste management, as retailers have stopped charging…

Ian Wilson – Sri rummaged through shopping bags stuffed with kitchen utensils. "Where's that clothes line?" she sighed. The sky was overcast and…

Yogya – An event organised by the MAP Corner-Klub MKP in the lobby of the Public Administration Master's Program at Gadjah Mada University (UGM)…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Fadli and Ruslan Sangadji, Batam/Jakarta/Palu – For a country whose maritime territory is about four times the size of its…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – The use of the internet is becoming ever more omnipresent and unavoidable in the country. Even President Joko "Jokowi…

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – A condemned Pakistani man has spoken of his suffering as his life remains in limbo more than two months…