Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Marzuki has been sitting in his parked light blue angkot (public minivan) at the Lebak Bulus bus terminal, South Jakarta…

Beijing – The fledgling Southeast Asian nation of Timor-Leste has taken its big neighbor Australia to a UN conciliation commission at the…

Wu Qiang, Beijing – The still fledgling Southeast Asian nation of Timor-Leste has taken Australia to the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in…

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Setya Novanto can breathe a sigh of relief after the Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that a recorded…

Pandaya, Jakarta – "When lawmakers are mulling a legislative plan, be very, very afraid." So goes a classic adage warning of anxieties about an…

Jakarta – Millions of people could lose their voting rights in the upcoming regional elections in February as the government and the House of…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Recent controversy over dual citizenship and the growing role of the Indonesian diaspora have brought up the…

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – Many Indonesians know Vina Panduwinata's song "September Ceria", which tells of happiness and new hope in the month of…

Arif Gunawan Sulistiyono, Jakarta – Leuser ecosystem, a UNESCO world heritage site that covers thousands of hectares of protected forest in Aceh…

Indonesia is impeding Pacific regional efforts to pursue justice for human rights abuses against Papuans the United Liberation Movement for West…

Jakarta – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be an uneven playing field for Indonesian businesses, given the country's low ratings in…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo hoped that his flagship tax amnesty policy would be the dawn of a new day for the country's economy, with…

Jewel Topsfield – Indonesian President Joko Widodo has flagged he will visit Australia in November in a powerful indication of the warmth between…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's target of cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 29 percent by 2030 appears ever-more unrealistic as…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – In West Java, a religiously conservative province that implements sharia-inspired bylaws, curfews are the norm and gender…

Jakarta – The discovery of an online prostitution ring involving nearly 150 boys in Bogor, West Java, has raised concerns over the growing threat…

On the 12th anniversary of the murder of Munir Said Thalib, a prominent Indonesian human rights activist, the East Timor and Indonesia Action…

Jakarta – The Forum of Legal and Constitutional Studies (FKHK) has filed for a judicial review against the 2014 Regional Administration Law at the…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies – An Australian expert who testified that Indonesian woman Wayan Mirna Salihin was unlikely to have died from…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) plans to procure weapons and intelligence tools to eradicate illicit drug…

The international playoff match in the Central Java city of Solo on September 6 didn't just result in a 3-0 victory by Indonesia over Malaysia.…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) head Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso has shrugged off criticism that the nation's war…

Nic Maclellan (Islands Business magazine) in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia – The issue of West Papua will be on the agenda at this week'…

Biak, Jubi – The human rights group Kontras has urged Papua Police Chief Inspector General Paulus Waterpauw to complete the investigation into the…

Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – The future of Indonesia's oil and gas sector continues to look bleak with latest estimates showing oil lifting rates…

Severianus Endi, Pontianak – The practice of breast-feeding exclusively is hindered by myths among lower and middle income people in West…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Colombo – The World Health Organization (WHO) has demanded Indonesia renew its commitment to reducing maternal and neonatal…

Hans Nicholas Jong and Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Pekanbaru – Following an incident in Riau where officials from the Environment and Forestry Ministry…

Christian Donny Putranto – The Indonesian Military (TNI) recently promoted four officials to the rank of brigadier general, at the same time as…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian has said the results of an investigation into a video featuring…

Oliver Holmes, Bangkok and agencies – Up to 100 Indonesian men, believed to have been hired by a palm oil firm, took a team of official…

Callum Smith – Commenting on a certain international maritime dispute, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said, "this is an important…

Su Hao and Wang Zheng – The South China Sea disputes should be resolved between China and other claimants, but countries from outside have…

Tanjung Balai – The Tanjungbalai municipal administration on Monday asked the Tri Ratna Temple Foundation board to immediately take down the…

A petition has been tabled in New Zealand's parliament calling on the government to make a number of representations on the plight of West Papuans…

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the assassination 12 years ago, of prominent human rights activist, Munir Said Thalib,…

Jakarta – The Environment and Forestry Ministry has lashed out against a palm oil firm's attempt to stop a forest fire investigation by taking…

Jakarta – The 2019 presidential election is still three years away, but the Golkar Party has already launched an aggressive campaign in the…

Stephen Grenville – Senator Wong urges the Australian government to commit to an international process of dispute resolution to settle the…

Jakarta – The House of Munir museum, or Omah Munir, and Sahabat Munir (Friends of Munir) activists will commemorate the 12-year anniversary of the…

Surya Anta – Increasingly broad mobilisations by the Papuan people in recent years shows that there must be a new assessment of West Papuan as an…

The Pacific Coalition on West Papua (PCWP) is gaining momentum with the addition of two new members and the confirmation of the membership of two…

Two more countries have joined the Pacific Coalition on West Papua, voicing their concerns over human rights abuses in the Indonesian province and…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The government hopes the revised 2009 Mining Law permits companies that have made significant progress in smelter…

A West Papua leader says he is the most optimistic he has been in years about gaining support from this week's Pacific Islands Forum leaders…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government has changed its approach in developing Papua from administration-based development to anthropological-…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A challenge to gain the trust of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo awaits Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan following his…

Australia and East Timor are at loggerheads over drawing a maritime boundary to finally and permanently resolve the division of undersea oil and…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives is set to pass the revision of the controversial 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law by…

Victoria Fanggidae, Jakarta – Improving productivity and competitiveness is at the heart of Nawacita, the nine-point development agenda of the…