Slamet Susanto and Ruslan Sangadji, Yogyakarta/Palu – The current extreme weather has aborted harvests on hundreds of destroyed of farmland in…

Jakarta – A parliamentary watchdog has lashed out at Indonesian legislators for demanding a hefty increase to their various allowances that…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has said that his administration is ready to use existing city regulations on liquor…

Jakarta – At least 10 companies believed to be behind several land fire incidents across Sumatra and Kalimantan have been charged by the National…

Jakarta – The process of evicting hundreds of street vendors from Jl. Karang Ayar in Sawah Besar, Central Jakarta, was supported by 1,500 security…

Jakarta – Indonesia's chief welfare minister plans to spend another Rp 200 million ($13,900) revising a website that her office took down last…

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Evicted residents and people facing eviction have come together to fight against what they call unjust evictions by…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has dismissed 120 civil servants and demoted 2,500 others, citing various reasons.…

Jakarta – The declining rupiah exchange rate, which currently stands at Rp 14,300 per US dollar, must be used to create momentum to consolidate…

Jakarta – Indonesia had a US$433.8 million trade surplus in August, which was triggered by a $1.01 billion surplus in the non-oil and gas sector,…

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will meet the government of East Timor in Dili to discuss issues related…

Nusa Dua – Army forces from countries across the Asia-Pacific region are striving to increase cooperation for the creation of stronger solidarity…

Jakarta – A group of activists calling themselves the Indonesian People's Movement (GDRI) has criticized the government for sidelining the poor in…

Jakarta – The company behind the popular but controversial ride-hailing mobile app Uber is campaigning for support among its Indonesian users to…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-111-2015

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding…

Arya Dipa, Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Suherdjoko, Bandung/Surabaya/Semarang – With many rice fields on the brink of harvest failure as a result of…

Hans Nicholas Jong – Activists have urged the government to revise its Intended National Determined Contribution (INDC), saying the emissions…

Jakarta – Women are poorly represented in the upcoming regional elections in December, with less than 10 percent of all the candidates being…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Human rights activists and families of victims of the 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre have criticized President Joko "…

Jessica Longbottom – It is almost 40 years since a group of Australian journalists known as the Balibo Five were gunned down by Indonesian forces…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by palm oil company PT Kallista Alam and ordered the company to pay fines…

Jakarta – Up to 26,506 workers in Indonesia have been laid off while the rupiah has been weakening, said Manpower Minister Hanif Dhakiri on…

Jakarta – Business players and analysts have strongly criticized the central bank's recent policy that required all business transactions…

Port Moresby (ULMWP/Pacific Media Watch) – The Solomon Islands Special Envoy on West Papua, Mathew Wale, today cautiously welcomed the decision by…

Jakarta – A rights group, the Commission for Missing Person and Victims of Violence (Kontras), warned that the newly inaugurated National…

Jakarta – City councilors from Jakarta have come under fire over the cost of their purported "study trip" to Bali, and their only response has…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Ethics Council has launched a probe into potential violations committed by House Speaker Setya Novanto and…

Paulina Quintao – The National Director of Autonomous Service for Medicines and Medical Equipment (SAMES), Odete Maria Belo said it has run out of…

Paulina Quintao – Dili resident Rosaria Martins da Cruz urges the national parliament to create a consumer protection law to regulate the import…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's child mortality has declined substantially thanks to government and civil society interventions, a new…

Jakarta – The United Nations Children's Fund's Indonesia office has been focusing on factors such as child development, social policy, education,…

In East Timor's national hospital in Dili, an Australian doctor checks the vital signs of an impossibly tiny baby girl, six months old, born…

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said on Thursday that the National Police had yet to hand over suspended Corruption Eradication…

On Wednesday, the government announced what President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo called the first of a series of regulatory and bureaucratic reforms…

Port Moresby (Pacnews/PNGLoop/Pacific Media Watch) – Solomon Islands will not be intimidated by Indonesia or other countries in the Pacific…

Jayapura, Jubi – Indonesian Minister of Rural and Underdeveloped Region and Transmigration, Marwan Jafar, contradicted President Joko Widodo's…

Up to 134 regulations in 17 ministries and state institutions are set to be deregulated. According to Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin…

Tassia Sipahutar and Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Economic analysts have been underwhelmed by the government's newly launched economic policy package,…

Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi, Jakarta – As Indonesian President Joko Widodo was preparing on Wednesday to present a grand package of measures…

Jakarta – The newly inaugurated chief of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso, has generated further controversy by…

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – People's decreasing purchasing power as a result of the downturn in the economy and increases in the prices of staple…

Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency may be forced to postpone its ambitious plan to recruit 1,000 agents and informants for this year's…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Amid the country's economic slowdown, the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has urged the government to…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court on Thursday granted a plea lodged by high-profile lawyer turned graft suspect Otto Cornelis Kaligis to…

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Ten plantation companies operating in Riau, South Sumatra, Jambi and Kalimantan provinces may see their licences revoked,…

Rizal Harahap and Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Pekanbaru/Padang – A day after being appointed the head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB)…

Jakarta – Women continue to be discriminated against in Indonesia through prevailing laws, despite progress on some fronts, according to a study…

Jakarta – Hundreds of university students from Jakarta and Banten organized rallies on Thursday to demand that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's…

The Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare will push for a West Papuan group to be admitted to the Pacific Islands Forum at the annual…

RNZI reported that New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully said (in relation to a call by civil society organisations for a fact finding…