Rebecca Henschke – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Padjaitan has accused the organisers of the International…

Paulina Quintao – The President of Women's Association for Manatuto Municipality (AFM) Clara de Carvalho Ximenes said its members are working with…

Karawang – Around 3,000 workers from the Karawang district branch of the Fraternity of Indonesian Muslim Workers (PPMI) organised a convoy in the…

Apriadi Gunawan and Raras Cahyafitri, Medan/Jakarta – Manufacturing companies in North Sumatra have had to close operations after soaring gas…

Galuh Wandita – In 1965, Kadmiyati was a young student teacher who enjoyed the arts living in Bantul, a small district outside of Yogyakarta.

Jessica Elgot – Two British journalists held for more than five months in an Indonesian prison have described their relief at being back on UK…

Bangkok – Toxic fumes from the Indonesian fires that have spread a choking haze across Southeast Asia may be doing more harm to human and plant…

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Dozens of people voiced their protests in a demonstration on Monday against Gubernatorial Regulation No. 228/2015…

Robin Williams – A young West Papuan currently in Australia is shooting video rather than bullets in his battle to fight the intimidation, torture…

Adam Henry – Why is it seen as appropriate for Australia to support and celebrate the perpetrators of one of the great mass killings of the 20th…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) held on Monday the first trial of two military soldiers accused of fatally shooting two civilians and…

Jakarta – Indonesia's justice minister has bemoaned the level of overcrowding in the country's penitentiaries, saying more needs to be done to…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has rebuffed as irrelevant a people's tribunal to be staged in The Hague this week over a military-led purge…

Jakarta – The government has refused to acknowledge the International People's Tribunal 1965, being held in The Hague, the Netherlands, saying…

Mike Corder, The Hague – A "people's tribunal" opened hearings in the Netherlands Tuesday intended to publicize allegations that Indonesian…

Jakarta – House Speaker Setya Novanto has once again found himself mired in controversy, this time over his use of his personal luxury sedan for…

Jakarta – The government will cut certain projects from the revised 2015 budget (APBN-P) as a result of slow disbursement, Vice President Jusuf…

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The country's textile industry is hoping government efforts to curb illegal imports and reduce electricity costs will help…

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Bogor Mayor Bima Arya said he participated in the Global Mayor's Conference, themed Unity in Diversity, in Florence, Italy…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is mulling whether to implement strict liability in its legal action against individuals or companies…

John McCarthy and Zahari Zen – In late October, thousands of activists, students and lecturers in Sumatra staged rallies, urging the government to…

Venidora Oliveira – The Security Sector Project Manager of the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Naldo Rei said the National Police of…

Brigid Delaney – On the night of 28 April, much of the world's media was trained on a prison island off central Java where eight prisoners,…

Each year on Nov. 10, the country commemorates National Heroes Day. The date was chosen to mark the epic struggle of Indonesian revolutionary…

Liza Yosephine – Historians have questioned the government's plan to name former president Soeharto a national hero because of the controversy…

Venidora Oliveira – The government of Timor-Leste through the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communication (MPWTC) has made the…

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Paulina Quintao – The Deputy Program Manager of International NGO Marie Stopes International Timor-Leste (MSITL) Juliao da Silva said that over 12…

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia's economy is expected to grow by less than 5 percent this year, far from the 5.7 percent target stated in the 2015…

Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa is working on a draft bill on the practice of chemical castration as a punishment for…

Jakarta – No fewer than 38 percent of women in parts of West Java's Bogor district tie the knot before turning 18, a survey has found, with almost…

Jakarta – The Social Security Management Agency (BPJS) should be stricter with employers whose payments to its health program are in arrears, a…

Jakarta – A human rights lawyer has urged the government to apologize to the families of victims of mass killings in 1965 during the International…

Jakarta – Police are looking into claims of threats made against three television reporters covering the high-profile murder of an anti-mining…

James Plested – Across Indonesia, vast swathes of forest and peat land are burning, destroying the habitats of countless endangered species,…

Jakarta – Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) has demanded President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to remove politics from the Attorney General's Office (AGO…

Jakarta – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso will soon travel to North Sumatra in search of crocodiles to help guard a…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government denied claims that it had employed the lobbying services of an Las Vegas-based consultancy firm to assist with…

The lid is lifting on what has been for so long Asia/Pacific's hidden region.

Since incorporation into Indonesia in 1969, outside access to…

National – West Papua National Committee (KNPB) deputy chairman Agus Kossay and two other Papuans, Bano Kalaka and Nodi Hilka, were interrogated…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The incentives to be given to some special economic zones (KEK) should be backed up by infrastructure upgrades;…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama said on Friday that he was ready to talk with human rights activists about the newly-…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Two rival factions within the Golkar Party have showed no signs of backing down in spite of a truce pledge made by…

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – The government is expecting a bigger budget deficit than previously forecast this year as tax revenues have fallen…

Irhash Ahmady and Sam Cossar-Gilbert – We are witnessing the worst manmade environmental disaster since the BP gulf oil spill. Huge, out-of-…

Faiza Mardzoeki, Jakarta – There is no doubt that Bali is a beautiful place. Lush green rice terraces, created through the hard work of Balinese…

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Executive summary

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has vehemently denied the allegation that it tried to ban Indonesian students from attending a "…

October 2015 marked one year of Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's administration, since being sworn into…

Kate Lamb – Freshly burned land in Indonesia has already been illegally planted with oil palm, new evidence suggests, following the loss of two…