Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Diverging from the government's planned amendments of the 2003 Terrorism Law, the country's spy agency demanded…

Indonesia's human rights body has demanded lawmakers include the supervision of antiterror squad Densus 88 in the ongoing revision of the…

Jakarta – The National Intelligence Agency (BIN) plans spend Rp700 billion (US$54 million) to recruit more agents in response to concerns over…

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo said on Saturday that many military personnel still got involved in the drug…

Tom Allard – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has offered to hold "frank and open" discussions with East Timor about the unresolved maritime…

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia has recorded a 0.09 percent month-on-month deflation in February, with a modest year-on-year inflation at 4.42 percent…

Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who is also a former chairman of the Golkar Party, said the democratic process was costly, but not all…

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) decided over the weekend that it would not directly take part in the upcoming…

Jakarta – Indonesia's government will back controversial revisions to the law governing its top anti-graft agency, a senior cabinet minister said…

Banda Aceh – Officials in Aceh disbanded a talent show on Sunday evening (28/02) for featuring a fashion show displaying clothing deemed…

Jakarta – A leftist festival dubbed "Belok Kiri Festival" or "Turn Left Festival," scheduled to start last weekend in Taman Ismail Marzuki,…

Haeril Halim, Syofiardi Bachyul Jb and Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Padang/Pekanbaru – The Home Ministry has ordered local administrations in Kalimantan…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has urged the National Police to review their recruitment process following the…

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – Poultry industry players have denied the allegation from an antimonopoly agency that they have acted like a cartel by…

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Consumer prices are expected to have dropped in February, providing more room for Bank Indonesia (BI) to further cut…

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Kalijodo – one of Jakarta's most notorious red light districts since the days of Dutch colonialism –…

Ayomi Amindoni, Business – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered members of his administration working in the energy sector to immediately…

Arkhelaus W., Jakarta – The Preparatory Committee-All Indonesia United Workers Confederation (KP-KPBI) condemned Jakarta Police's action banning…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Al Fatah Islamic School for transgender people in Yogyakarta has ceased all activity and its owners and students…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan is pushing to improve the country's…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Facebook has suspended an Indonesian woman's account after she posted a series of historical photos of local…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY), the external judicial supervisory body, has elected its commissioner Aidul Fitriciada Azhari…

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) has reinstated its support for the newly passed public housing…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The shutdown of Jakarta's Kalijodo red-light district in North Jakarta reveals a lack of fairness in the way…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The country's largest Islamic outfit, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), has become the latest organization to campaign for the…

Michael Neilson, Jakarta – On the University of Indonesia campus in Depok, south of Jakarta, there is a group that gets together twice a month…

Tama Salim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has officially opened the legislation process for revising the 2003 Terrorism…

Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP) agreed to appoint Emron Pangkapi as interim party chairman during its national meeting (Mukernas) on…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Local authorities of Kotagede district in Yogyakarta have decided to shut down the Islamic Al Fatah School for…

Tom Allard – East Timor's president has compared former prime ministers Xanana Gusmao and Mari Alkatiri to the Indonesian dictator Suharto, saying…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – In response to public complaints with regard to poor quality programs, the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (…

Sam King – A large and angry demonstration was held outside the Australian Embassy in Dili on 23 February, against the Australian government's…

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Fishermen have demanded that the Jakarta administration and city council reject a draft bylaw on zoning and spatial…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The National Awakening Party (PKB) is at the center of a bribery investigation related to infrastructure projects in…

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Indonesia has a great potential to become a hub for manufacturing industries but poor infrastructure and an unpleasant…

John Pilger – Out of a population of almost a million, up to a third were extinguished. Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives…

Jewel Topsfield – Two former teachers at the prestigious Jakarta Intercultural School have been re-sentenced to jail for allegedly sodomising…

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Kupang, E Nusa Tenggara – Ferdi Tanoni, an observer of the Timor Sea issue, expressed support to the people of Timor Leste for demanding the…

Fedina S. Sundaryani and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Golkar Party is striving to clean up its image by inviting the Corruption…

Safrin La Batu and Dewanti A. Wardhany, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has found in a study that 95 out of a total of 113…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The police and military should not be supporting Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's plan to…

Haeril Halim and Tama Salim, Jakarta – As a backlash against President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's move to delay revisions of an anticorruption law,…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Fedina S. Sundaryani and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The National Police are declining to take the blame for worsening violence…

Banyumas – Islam Defenders Front (FPI) patron Rizieq Shihab canceled his visit to the Al Fattah Islamic Boarding School in Cilongok district,…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – A corruption watchdog reported on Wednesday that the country had seen a decreasing number of corruption cases…

Jakarta – When the police started investigating a number of abortion clinics in Cikini, Central Jakarta, the immediate question from local…

Indonesia's gay community has come under attack, with the country's Defence Minister labelling the community a "threat" and likening fighting it…

Jakarta/Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Police shut down a rally supporting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at the Tugu Monument in…