The foreign affairs department was not consulted before Labor announced a new policy to reopen good faith maritime boundary talks with East Timor…

Haeril Halim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders have dropped a plan to dislodge investigator Novel…

Labor shadow foreign minister Tanya Plibersek has committed a future Labor government to negotiations with the Timor Leste government to reach a…

Paulina Quintso, – The Inspector General for Labour (IJT) and Secretary of State for Vocational Training Policy and Employment (SEPFOPE) Aniceto…

Venidora Oliveira – The Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communication (MOPTC) Gastso de Sousa said the government has allocated $10…

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Lawmakers have criticized the government for lacking a unified approach in dealing with separatism in Papua, the country's…

New York – Local Indonesian authorities have banned the activities of the Ahmadiyah religious community in the town of Subang in West Java…

Grace D. Amianti, Jakarta – Layoffs in the banking industry may continue this year, but the number will not be as high as in 2015 when thousands…

Indra Budiari, Safrin La Batu and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Police have once again bowed to hardliners at the expense of minority groups and…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Most of the cities planning to join a campaign to tax plastic bags have withdrawn from the program, saying that they…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – American documentary film director Joshua Oppenheimer is set once again to focus global awareness on…

Jakarta – The association of pesticide producers, CropLife Indonesia, expects a further increase in pesticide demand in Indonesia thanks to the…

Aceh fishermen are nominated to receive the 2016 Nansen Refugee Award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) for rescuing…

Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia has received a recommendation from the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry for the extension of its export…

Jakarta – All ten parties at the House of Representatives' Legislative Body agreed to form a working committee for the proposed revisions to the…

Jakarta – Activists and lawyers suspected that there is a plan to oust one of the country's most prominent anti-graft investigators from the…

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Investors will be allowed to kick off the construction of their factories and other investment facilities without having…

Today during a National Press Club Address, the Shadow Foreign Minister, Tanya Plibersek, outlined the Australian Labor Party's recently amended…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta is the repository of Javanese culture, a famed center for intellectuals and students.

But the city…

Tom Allard – Labor has pledged to submit to international adjudication over the disputed maritime boundary between Australia and East TImor if "…

Brigid Andersen – Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek says Labor wants to repair Australia's relationship with East Timor by…

Jakarta – Around 20,000 contract government workers staged a rally in Central Jakarta's main streets demanding full-time civil servant status on…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – An Indonesian meatball seller who claimed he was lured to join Islamic State in Syria by the promise of a large payment…

Haeril Halim and Indra Harsaputra, Jakarta/Surabaya – Following the recent controversy over LGBT groups on university campuses, an ulema group has…

Paulina Quintso – The President of National Commission Against Child Labour (KNTI) Aniceto Leto Soro said the commission has started conducting a…

Karlis Salna – Australia spent $1 million fighting litigation brought by East Timor over an ASIO raid linked to a dispute over $40 billion of oil…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The American documentary film director Joshua Oppenheimer is set to make his way up the red carpet at the…

Reject overbroad proposed restrictions on citizenship and speech

New York – The Indonesian parliament should reject proposed…

Jakarta – An Ahmadi group in Srimenanti, Bangka, has reportedly been discriminated against by the local administration, including being evicted.…

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The local electronics industry is expected to remain stable amid layoff concerns surrounding Japanese electronics giants…

Indonesian Trade Union Confederation (KSPI) chairperson Said Iqbal is again talking up the issue of mass dismissals (PHK), saying most recently…

Farida Susanty and Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's plan to speed up the development of toll-roads in the country may…

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – State revenues are estimated to fall between Rp 67 trillion (US$4.91 billion) and Rp 100 trillion this year, as…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli has conveyed a plan to improve the national defense industry by…

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – A coalition of anticorruption civil society groups has urged all political party factions in the House of…

Jakarta – Former commissioner of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Bambang Widjojanto has criticized the government for its lack of…

Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) has urged the government not to relax requirements for Chinese investors who want…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives should reject proposed amendments to Law No. 15/2003 on the eradication of terrorism, which are…

[This statement was originally published by SEAPA on 5 February 2016.]

Timor Leste Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo filed a defamation…

Jakarta – Indonesian courts have been very lenient toward corruption defendants last year, sentencing them to an average of just 26 months in…

Jakarta – As many as 23 workers, a student and two Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) officials have been named suspects in relation to an October…

Nivell Rayda – There is something about the mysterious death of 27-year-old Wayan Mirna Salihin that captures people's imagination so much that…

Tama Salim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The traditionally inclusive National Awakening Party (PKB), the political party of the country's largest…

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Women and children of the Ahmadiyah religious sect in a district in Bangka regency, Bangka Belitung province, were…

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – One faction of the internally riven United Development Party conveyed its intention to reach an islah or reconciliation…

Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian labor union members flooded into Jakarta for a massive rally on Saturday, urging the government to stop layoffs…

Ahmad Masaul Khoiri, Jakarta – House of Representatives (DPR) Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon from Prabowo Subianto's Great Indonesia Movement Party (…

Jakarta – A senior member of the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), Hidayat Nur Wahid, has insisted that the opposition Red-and-White…

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The government is revising the regulation on the assessment of smelter development, connected to leniency in export…

Jakarta – Japanese electronics maker Panasonic says that the figure mentioned in claims made earlier by a labor union about mass layoffs in some…