Jakarta – Indonesian forest fires that have caused choking smoke to drift across Southeast Asia are spreading to new areas and are unlikely to be…

Aceh Singkil – Authorities in Aceh province on Monday began tearing down several small Christian churches after hard-line Muslims demanded their…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – At least US$187 billion of the country's funds stolen from illicit practices such as corruption, tax evasion and other…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A bribery case implicating the NasDem Party's secretary-general, Patrice Rio Capella, has turned political with the House…

China's State Councilor and Defense Minister Chang Wanquan held talks with visiting Minister of Defense of Timor-Leste Cirilo Cristovao in Beijing…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has demanded overwhelming authority in a planned presidential decree (Perpres)…

Jakarta – The Defense Ministry has denied speculation that the Defending the State program initiated by Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu is just…

It is the duty of every citizen to contribute to this nation, including in the defense of Ibu Pertiwi (the motherland). That contribution can take…

Jakarta – The Youth Coalition for Indonesia rejects the government's plan to recruit 100 million state defense cadres that has been concaved by…

Jayapura, Jubi – The people of Papua, especially the West Papua Liberation Army (TPN) has mourned the death of a charismatic figure in Brigadier…

Aceh Singkil – Hardline Muslims in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Sunday demanded the local government close 10 Christian churches,…

Jakarta – Authorities in West Sumatra deported a survivor of the 1965 anti-Communist purge after he tried to locate his father's mass grave,…

Abdul Azis, Jakarta – The editor of the magazine Lentera (Beacon), Bima Satria Putra, says that the police have asked them to recall the October…

Parliza Hendrawan, Palembang – The bad old practices of the New Order dictatorship of former President Suharto are still being applied in some…

Jakarta – An alliance of civil society organizations has criticized the government of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for failing to improve the…

Balibo, Timor-Leste – The people of Balibo in Timor-Leste marked Friday's 40th anniversary of the killing of Australian-based journalists by…

Thousands of vulnerable people – children, women and the elderly – are staying in shelters following the burning of a church that prompted…

Arif Gunawan Sulistiyono, Jakarta – A labor union rejected the government's plan to apply a new formula for an annual wage raise, unless the…

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The number of people falling ill from deteriorating air quality has jumped to almost 500,000 as fires that have ravaged…

Surabaya – A Muslim organization has reported a local footwear manufacturer to the East Java Police for sacrilege for producing sandals embossed…

Jakarta – Two months from year-end, Indonesia's economy is forecast to remain stuck in the doldrums next year, with the gross domestic product (…

Jakarta, the city with the "worst traffic in the world", as many say, plans to open at least 16 new transit routes and develop six-inner city toll…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – The development disparity between provinces is widening, with Java enjoying about 60 percent of total gross domestic…

Molly Schmidt – A son of one of the five Australian-based journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, has asked the Australian Federal Police to re-…

Randy Fabi and Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo will court tech giants Apple and Google during his first trip to the…

Raras Cahyafitri and Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – When it comes to the sanctity of a contract, the devil is always in the detail. With both hands…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesia hopes its relationship with Australia will get "even stronger and better" with the experience and "walk of…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan maintained on Thursday that the…

Erika Anindita – Death penalty convicts in Indonesia were frequently not given access to lawyers and were forced to confess after being severely…

Ayomi Amindoni, National – The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) said on Friday it supported to the Defense Ministry in initiating the defense…

Endy M. Bayuni, Frankfurt – Indonesian writers have had a grand and stylish coming-out party here at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, as…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) today, commemorate the…

The ITUC has strongly criticised the decision of the Indonesian Government to change the minimum wage fixing system, eliminating any role for…

Pacific churches say Indonesia must seriously address human rights abuses and extra-judicial killings in Papua.

The call by the Pacific…

Fedina S. Sundaryani and Hotli Simanjuntak, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra – Police have named 10 people suspects for their alleged role in…

Jakarta – Indonesia's trade surplus reached US$7.13 billion in the first nine months of 2015, which was the biggest trade surplus from January to…

Jakarta – The antigraft commission named Patrice Rio Capella, secretary-general of the NasDem Party, as a suspect for allegedly taking gifts…

Nani Afrida, Ina Parlina and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Despite public criticism, the government of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has insisted on…

Angelo Risso – Barely a week goes by without Tony Maniaty thinking about Balibo.

Maniaty, an up-and-coming ABC journalist, travelled with a…

"The truth is never too young to be told, nor too old." So said Coroner Dorelle Pinch as she summed up the 2007 inquest into the deaths of the…

Nick Xenophon and Clinton Fernandes – Forty years ago on Friday, five young men met their deaths in a small corner of a foreign field.

Gary…

Death row prisoners in Indonesia are routinely denied access to lawyers and are coerced into "confessions" through severe beatings, while foreign…

Melissa Davey – In the year since the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, assumed office, 14 prisoners have been executed, 12 of which were foreign…

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua legislator Laurenzus Kadepa cast doubts on reports that a commander of West Papua Liberation Army/Papua Free Movement (OPM…

Marguerite Afra, Jakarta - The Indonesian government should reject the upcoming World Trade Organization ministerial meeting as it is irrelevant…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Rationalizing the emission reduction capabilities of each region in the country should be a government priority…

Jakarta – Facing fierce public criticism, the House of Representatives decided on Tuesday to drop articles endorsing kretek (clove cigarettes) in…

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Inc should significantly increase the amount it pays in royalty payments to the Indonesian…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is poised to sue the oil company responsible for the worst oil spill in the history of…

Jakarta – The National Police said on Tuesday that one person has died and others are injured after a brawl between two mobs over the burning of a…