Jayapura – Police on Wednesday seized ammunition, two government-issued firearms and an airsoft gun from two houses in Sentani, Jayapura regency,…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – What is needed most in Papua is not the construction of railways or the extension of Freeport Indonesia's contract…

The government will consider a request for an amnesty and living assistance from 10 former members of a Papuan separatist group known as the Free…

Jakarta – Ministries are pooling their efforts to save 126 Indonesian migrant workers facing the death penalty in Malaysia for drug-related…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Customers will have to pay for plastic bags when they shop at shopping malls, department stores, supermarkets and…

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – The National Commission of Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has described as a violation of human rights recent statements made…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Former House of Representatives speaker Setya Novanto has maintained that he played no part in an alleged…

Tama Salim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has been forced to cancel a crucial first meeting to deliberate a rough draft…

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo asked for the help of Islamic groups on Friday in order to tackle the spread of radical…

Jakarta – Based on the assumption that prisons accommodating convicted terrorists may be fertile ground for radicalization, the government has…

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Members of the former Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) at the Bina Insan Rehabilitation Center in Cipayung, East…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Puan Maharani said on Thursday that the government should take legal…

Anton Hermansyah, Business – Five ministries are combining forces to jack up domestic consumption of natural rubber with the issue of a joint…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – Papuan legislator Laurenzus Kadepa accused the Indonesian Government of lacking ideas to solve problems in Papua…

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has taken another major step forward in healing its internal rift after the leaders of the two rival camps…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – Golkar lawmaker Tantowi Yahya urged the government to 'counter' news about Papua online. Tantowi made the remarks…

Jakarta – The Free Papua Movement (OPM) has denied that hundreds of rounds of ammunition, firearms and explosives confiscated by police during a…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is rejecting the draft bill on the revision of the KPK law, saying that it contains…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has issued a fatwa against the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), declaring…

Labor unions plan to send 20,000 members to rally in front of the Presidential Palace and the Supreme Court on Feb. 6 to protest layoffs and to…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities compiled a secret dossier of prominent Papuans that details their "weaknesses" – such as women…

Jakarta – The electronics sector is unlikely to feel any respite this year amid pressure to do another round of mass retrenchments as consumers…

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Automakers are asking the government to drop duties imposed on steel products widely used in car manufacturing to help…

Jakarta – Having compiled enough evidence, the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) is ready to summon 12 big corporations in its…

Jakarta – The governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste, through the Ministries of Defense, have agreed to establish cooperation in the field of…

Jakarta – Becak (pedicab) drivers across Jakarta are seeking help from the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to mediate a meeting…

One of the most startling cases of a government using the fig leaf of national security to protect its own interests is happening right before our…

Anton Hermansyah – Indonesian citizens have more faith in business than the government, in terms of solving prolonged social issues such as…

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The continuing decline in crude oil prices will mean that Indonesia will not meet its national oil production target…

Venidora Oliveira – The Director of the Directorate of Plenary Support of the National Parliament, Armando Machado said that in 2015, members of…

Haeril Halim, National – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is lobbying the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to withdraw the dossiers of…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – More terrorist attacks are likely in Indonesia as local Islamic State groups compete to carry out plots and establish…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Leaders of youth organizations Ikatan Pemuda Karya (IPK) and Pemuda Pancasila (PP) agreed on Monday to refrain from…

Jakarta – The North Sumatra Police have named seven people as suspects in a fatal brawl between two gangs in Medan that claimed two lives on…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is calling on the government to protect Fajar Nusantara Movement (…

A member of the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), accompanied by human rights activists visited the headquarters of the National Commission on…

Paulina Quintso – The Director General of the Ministry of Education Antoninho Pires said that in 2015 the ministry was able to rehabilitate over…

Ten former members of a Papuan separatist group, the National Liberation Army/Free Papua Movement (TPN/OPM), have asked the government to grant…

Rutaban Yameen – Australia, which promotes itself as the liberator of the tiny nation of Timor-Leste (East Timor), has been ripping the country…

Steve Cannane – Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has intervened in an application by a former senior intelligence agent to have his passport returned…

Paulina Quintso – The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MNEC) Hernani Coelho said in 2016 the number of Timorese female ambassadors…

Thomas Ora, Timor Leste – Pope Francis has appointed Salesian Father Virgilio do Carmo da Silva, the provincial superior of the Timor-Leste…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – The chairman of the Jayapura city branch of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), Victor Mambor, said…

Jakarta – Golkar Party executive Ade Komarudin has questioned the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) plan to involve itself in the party's…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Responding to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's pledge to resolve several past gross rights abuse cases by the end…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has turned over a new leaf by announcing the contracts for its procurement projects this year…

Surabaya – Former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste (RDTL) Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao visited patients at the Indonesian…

Medan, North Sumatra. Police have named at least ten suspects in a fatal clash between youth groups Pemuda Pancasila and Working Youth Alliance in…

Human-rights activists have slammed an investigation into the leader of the controversial Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) by the Attorney…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Muhammadiyah has advised the government against banning the controversial Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), warning that…