Hans Nicholas Jong, Haeril Halim and Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Local elites have displayed their true political muscle in the country's…

Djemi Amnifu and Arya Dipa, Kupang/Bandung – Local elections (Pilkada) in three regions with a single-ticket candidate pair ran smoothly on…

Syamsul Huda M. Suhari, Arya Dipa and Ganug Nugroho Adi, Gorontalo/Bandung/Surakarta – The Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) has received 45…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Indonesia potentially added an additional 4 to 6 million business enterprises over the last decade, from 2006 to 2016,…

Jakarta – The government needs to push all educational institutions to actively promote values of tolerance and diversity because education plays…

Jakata – House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto reported Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said on Wednesday to the National…

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Apriadi Gunawan and Ina Parlina, Padang/Medan/Jakarta – Voter turnout in the country's first-ever simultaneous regional…

Jakarta – The National Police (Polri) committed the highest number of human rights violations this year, according to a recent finding…

Ivo Mateus Goncalves – Forty years has come and gone since East Timor was invaded by Indonesia's military.

On 7 December 1975 Jakarta…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The government's recently issued economic stimulus package allowing street vendors to use state land will not be seen as…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Wednesday's simultaneous regional elections in 269 cities and regencies across the country are further evidence that…

Jakarta – The capital city is not equipped with a sufficient surveillance system, according to Jakarta Police chief Ins. Gen. Tito Karnavian.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesia has moved backward and is becoming an uncivilized nation in terms of its repression of freedom of…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – A string of recent assaults against women on footbridges has raised concerns about the safety of pedestrians on the…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Even after the passing of 50 years, Indonesians are still reluctant to bring up the events of 1965 in a…

Today, celebrating international human rights day, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) expresses its concern about various forms of human…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Professors, university staff and students helped detect, expel and torture suspected communist elements during the 1960s…

Novani Nugrahani, Jakarta – A novel by Indonesian author Laksmi Pamuntjak, Amba, which was translated into German under the title "Alle Farben Rot…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ) condemned on Tuesday the Jakarta Police's move of issuing it a letter pressuring the…

Adam Harvey, Indonesia – Indonesia has pulled 1,600 private buses off its roads after a weekend bus crash in which 18 people died.

Witnesses…

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Business and community leaders in Bali have expressed their opposition to an alcohol prohibition bill that is…

Katharina R. Lestari, Jakarta – Human rights groups have accused the Indonesian government of dragging its feet in an investigation into the year-…

Haeril Halim, Fedina S. Sundaryani and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Authorities say fuel import businessman Muhammad Reza Chalid has left the country as…

Jakarta – A LIPI researcher has recommended that the Jakarta administration limit construction on coastal areas in North Jakarta as a measure to…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have banned a reading and discussion of a drama script titled "Family Album: #50years1965" at the Jakarta Theater…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Art Council (DKJ) released a statement on Tuesday saying that a drama dealing with the events of 1965 at the Jakarta Theater…

Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – Communications and Information Technology Minister Rudiantara says a draft of the revision of the controversial clause 27…

Nicholas Jong, National – The Constitutional Court (MK) rejected on Monday a judicial review filed by a civil society organization that had sought…

Padang – Dozens of journalists affiliated with the West Sumatra Anti-violence Journalists Coalition (KWAK) staged a rally on Monday at…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors have called on Jakarta Corruption Court judges to sentence former…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Provided with a limited allocation from the state budget, the government may only have the capacity to restore less…

Ganug Nugroho Adi – A week after the world commemorated 'World AIDS day' on Dec 1, nine children living with HIV have been rejected from their new…

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Indonesia is at risk of leaving its poor and vulnerable behind as the nation's income inequality continues its rapid…

On the first anniversary of the violent deaths of four West Papuans in Paniai, Indonesia's government has been urged to ensure the perpetrators…

Adam Harvey – The 40th anniversary of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor was marked yesterday with a small commemoration at the headquarters of…

Jakarta – Tumiso Lukas still remembers the morning of Dec. 19, 1965, when hundreds of armed soldiers marched onto the campus of Res Publica…

Jakarta – The Bogor City administration's plan to relocate a church belonging to the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin congregation faces…

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – As world prices continue to plunge, oil-and-gas companies operating in Indonesia are expected to further lower…

Jakarta – House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon has accused PT Freeport Indonesia president director Maroef Sjamsoeddin of…

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Djemi Amnifu and Apriadi Gunawan, Surakarta/Kupang/Medan – As election day nears, candidate pairs are worrying about the…

Paris – The Indonesian government has introduced a monitoring system named the Indonesian National Accounting Carbon System (INCAS) in a bid to…

Edna Tarigan, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has annouced that the city's transportation department has…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Legal activists on Sunday slammed a contempt of court draft bill for limiting reports on court proceedings and judges.

Jakarta – An accident involving a commuter train and a Metro Mini bus that killed 18 of the bus' passengers in Tambora, West Jakarta, on Sunday…

Jakarta – Legal experts and activists have slammed a bill that proposes penalizing anyone criticizing court proceedings, including journalists,…

Pekanbaru – Police in Pekanbaru, Riau, have come under fire for clashing with university students and beating a journalist at a congress for the…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The popularity of several local leaders set the stage for election campaigning ahead of this year's local elections.…

Jakarta – Indonesian Women Against Corruption (PIA) activists have called on House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto to remember the…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has recently updated its outlook on Indonesia, forecasting moderate gross domestic…

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – Should the sanctity of an investment contract always be honored and should business contracts be held sacred? Not always…