Venidora Oliveira – Twenty-nine political parties have registered with the National Commission for Election (CNE) to take part in the 2017…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has stepped up efforts to develop Papua and is asking the military and the police to adopt a…

Arif Gunawan S., Jakarta – Indonesia is the second-least literate nation in the world in a list of 61 measurable countries, besting only Botswana…

Lisa: New Zealand has committed peacekeepers to Timor Leste for 13 years and lost five soldiers there.

We still give the country $14 million…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The rupiah closed 72 points stronger against the US dollar, leaving its 13,000 level to hit 12,980 at Friday's close.…

Jakarta – The Manpower Ministry says it received only 1,347 working contract termination files in the first two months of 2016, a 10th of the…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government, through the National Archive Agency (ANRI), should try harder to obtain an authentic document of the March…

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – Environmental activists have found indications that police and military personnel have been involved in illegal gold…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is yet to decide on whether it will execute drug traffickers this year, but has said it will focus more on…

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Clayton Lane, the new CEO of the Institute of Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), asked a basic question of the…

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – A controversial bill on alcohol prohibition poses a serious threat to public health and safety as it will lead to…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Despite slow progress on the construction of new smelters due to weak commodity markets, the government insists it…

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Indonesia is eyeing to take over the role of its neighboring countries as Southeast Asia's main logistics hub as the…

Jakarta – The Indonesian military (Tentara Nasional Indonesia, TNI) continues to press for an expanded role in internal security, driven by…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The tug of war for influence in Indonesian politics has heated up with the Indonesian Democratic Party of…

Cypri Jehan Paju Dale, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesian Father John Djonga has continually found himself in trouble with security forces in West…

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – A group of citizens in Riau have filed a lawsuit against the central government with the Pekanbaru District Court,…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Air Force declared on Wednesday that none of its airbases had been sold to private parties. It refuted allegations made…

Jakarta – University of Indonesia (UI) public health expert Hasbullah Thabrany threw down the gauntlet to the government on Thursday, demanding…

Jakarta – Counterfeit alcohol and moonshine has killed dozens of Indonesians already this year showing a failure in public health response, a…

Jakarta – The country's second-largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, said on Thursday it would not issue any edict condemning members of the…

Matthew Pennington, Washington – The Indonesia that Barack Obama lived in as a child bore fresh scars from the darkest period in country's modern…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – A lawsuit challenging a Jakarta gubernatorial permit for the construction of artificial islets F, I and K off the city's…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Political parties have challenged Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama to prove his claim that…

Jakarta – Former deputy Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Bambang Widjojanto said on Thursday that political parties were failing…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Human rights watchdogs have voiced their objections to what they claim as efforts by security authorities to…

Tevita Vuibau – The MSG says while it respects the sovereignty of Indonesia over West Papua, it will still vigorously pursue the reports of the…

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The government needs to pay more attention to the service sector, which is constantly growing, as commodity prices slump…

The government of Timor Leste (East Timor) has approved the purchase of the stake owned by Brazil's OIi telecommunications company Timor Telecom,…

Paulina Quintso – Executive Secretary of Human Capital Development Fund (FDCH), Ismenio Martins da Silva, said Timor-Leste still lacks in human…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Jakarta saw the highest number of cases of violence against women of any Indonesian city in 2015 based on data gathered…

Jakarta – Women's rights activists have called on the Jakarta Police to continue the legal process against two lawmakers for their alleged abuse…

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – Only 10 percent of construction experts in the country are certified, raising concerns over the capacity of domestic…

Jakarta – Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) chairman Judhariksawan said on Tuesday that the KPI needed to expand its ability to sanction…

Jakarta – House of Representatives ways and means committee deputy chairman Achmad Dimyati Natakusumah said on Tuesday that a plan to expand the…

Jakarta – The government is scrambling for a quick plan to plug the gap in state finances after legislators from the House of Representatives…

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – A fisherman who helped return six Bangladeshis to Indonesia said he felt deceived by Australian…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Al Fatah Pesantren Waria, an Islamic boarding school for transgendered people, has decided to continue its…

Mark Bowling – Allegations of recent military and police intimidation, beatings and torture, kidnapping and murder in West Papua, have been…

In a series of recent posts on The Interpreter, Stephen Grenville has suggested that if Australia agreed to enter into maritime boundary…

Parliamentary proposal latest attack on gay rights

New York – The Indonesian government should reject a parliamentary committee…

Samantha Yap, Dili, Timor-Leste – More than a decade after gaining their independence, the people of Timor-Leste are fighting another battle. This…

Bandung – Workers in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung from the Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance (KASBI) protested at the city…

Jakarta – Amid generally positive public sentiment in response to the government's move to cease criminal proceedings against former antigraft…

Lendy Ramadhan, Jakarta – Scores of women calling themselves Women's Solidarity (Solidaritas Perempuan) held a protest action in front of the…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Women's Parade of Struggle held an action in Central Jakarta on March 8 to commemorate International Women's Day (IWD).…

Yogyakarta – On Tuesday March 8 scores of students from the Women's Struggle Committee (KPP) held a protest action at the zero kilometre point in…

The Indonesian People's Center of Struggle (PPRI) has re-launched the Women's Struggle Committee of the People (KPPR, Komite Perjuangan Perempuan…

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Poultry companies should focus on one major business activity, or risk dominating the entire poultry industry – from…

Stefani Ribka and Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta/Jayapura – In the latest twist to serial fugitive Labora Sitorus' recent escape, the former low-…