Fiji – The groundswell of support for West Papua across the region is the ideal build up to the upcoming Forum Leaders meeting in Federated States…

Reports from Indonesia indicate external elements hijacked a peaceful rally yesterday in the Papuan provincial capital when unrest broke out and…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Evi Mariani, Jayapura/Jakarta – National Committee of West Papua (KNPB), an organization campaigning for the right to self-…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's Independence Day speech on Tuesday – which covered the direction of the country's…

Djemi Amnifu and Panca Nugraha, Kupang/Mataram – The spread of HIV in the nation's eastern provinces has prompted local administrations to raise…

Ina Parlina and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo officially dismissed on Monday Arcandra Tahar from his position as energy…

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – The government said Monday it would tighten supervision on the management of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport's…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Despite the high enthusiasm seen in every tax amnesty program dissemination event held throughout the country, the…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Bandung Mayor Ridwan "Emil" Kamil says he has not given the nod to a program for Islamic preachers to board city buses and…

Djemi Amnifu, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – Care for West Timor Foundation (YPTB) chairman Ferdi Tanoni expressed his thanks for the Australian…

The Australia West Papua Association says its condemns the arrest of over 50 KNPB activists leading up to the commemoration of the New York…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – One day in the 2015 fasting month, the field commander of the Yogyakarta chapter of the Indonesian Islamic Front (…

Yogyakarta has been famous as the Javanese cultural capital and a center of excellence. It has been a peaceful melting pot where people from…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesians think highly of Australia – but it would seem the feeling isn't mutual.

Almost half of more than 2000…

The Australia West Papua Association condemns the arrest of over 50 KNPB activists leading up to the commemoration of the New York Agreement,…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Soaring public approval for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo far outstrips that for the House of Representatives,…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Indonesia's balance of payments (BoP) ended in positive territory in the second quarter, thanks to improving exports and…

Independence day speeches need clear signal on human rights

Phelim Kine – Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has an opportunity this…

Attorney-General George Brandis went to the Indonesian province of Papua last week, boasting his trip was a first by an Australian minister. He…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The government will set minimum and maximum prices – technically referred to as price floors and ceilings – for staple…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – With growing Islamic conservatism in the country, spiritualism has become a popular leisure activity – or at least that's…

Ni Komang Erviani, Bali – The government is preparing a legal instrument that will allow closer monitoring of the funding of non-profit…

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – In an effort to boost infrastructure development, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in January instructed the Public Works…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Indonesia will need to offer more than tax incentives in order to propel competitiveness with its peers in ASEAN,…

Jakarta – Following uproar on social media on Friday, a painting entitled #The Indonesia Idea (.ID) by Galam Zulkifli at the new Terminal 3 of…

Jakarta – With the public standing behind it in opposition to the possible prosecution of its leader for defamation, the Commission for Missing…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The US-Indonesia Council on Religion and Pluralism will tackle intolerant movements within Indonesia, the council's…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Most factions at the House of Representatives have rejected the national security bill, which if passed would…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Having been accused of frequent abuses of human rights in Papua, the Indonesian government took a couple of senior…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has revealed hundreds of drug-related cases involving its own personnel in the…

Melbourne – Gadjah Mada University (UGM) historian Dr Abdul Wahid has put forward a hypothesis that intellectual genocide occurred in Indonesian…

Stefani Ribka – The consumer goods sector will remain the jewel of the Indonesian economy's crown, thanks to the country's large population and…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Finance Ministry's taxation director general Ken Dwijugiasteadi expresses hope that corporate income tax can reach as…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Andro Supriyanto, 21, a street performer, recalled the night he spent with his friend in the custody of the Jakarta…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has urged the National Police to investigate the testimony made by the now executed drug…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – "If we can't express our opinions in social media, then where? Should we go to the State Palace…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government encouraged an unprecedented attack against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has called on the House of Representatives to ensure that the prohibition bill,…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has not responded to an urgent call to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – A peak human rights group has accused the Indonesian Government of fuelling a campaign of hate against the LGBT…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Politicians might employ propaganda maligning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to gain…

Tens of thousands of endangered birds are being sold illegally at markets across Indonesia, threatening these species with extinction.

Tens…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A brief video showing a father and his son engaging in an arm-wrestling duel went viral on YouTube a month ago. Such videos…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Indonesian Army is ready to impose severe punishments on all personnel found guilty of using drugs or being…

Indonesia is in the midst of a government-incited meltdown about LGBT rights. In January, the country's high education minister said he wanted to…

Lauren Farrow – Australia's Attorney-General must raise current and past abuses, including the alleged Biak massacre of 1998, when he travels to…

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) has urged the police not to issue investigation termination…

Agus Maryono, Banyumas – For the nation's civil servants, ending a marriage is not simply a private matter – in order to be able to do so, they…

There is "no room" for the gay community in Indonesia, the president's spokesman has said, as a new report criticised officials for an…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The legal case against outspoken human rights activist Haris Azhar could soon be…