Syofiardi Bachyul Jb and Rizal Harahap, Padang/Pekanbaru – Thick haze produced by land and forest fires has continued to blanket several parts of…

Jakarta – Indonesia has more than halved its child mortality rate in the past 25 years, but malnutrition remains a major hurdle, a new Unicef…

Jakarta – Former Timor Leste president Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao has won the Excellence in Public Health Award from the World Health Organization (…

Haeril Halim and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) on Tuesday lashed out at former…

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has issued an official apology for a publicity stunt involving House of Representatives Speaker Setya…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Responding to a planned defense budget cut, Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo said that he would order a…

Jakarta – Religious Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin has called on Indonesians to pray for rainfall as the archipelago continues to struggle with…

Julianna Waeda – The PNG Union for Free West Papua and supporters of the Free West Papua movement are convoying around the streets of Port Moresby…

Grace D. Amianti, Jakarta – The country needs to further improve business confidence in order to avoid massive capital flight, which could hit the…

A New Zealand opposition MP Catherine Delahunty says the New Zealand government is showing a lack of leadership and credibility over West Papua.…

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo pledged last week to revise 154 regulations pinpointed by the chief economics minister as major barriers to…

West Papua Action Auckland (WPAA) is shocked at Murray McCully's refusal to back a fact-finding mission for West Papua at the Pacific Island Forum…

Jayapura, Jubi – The West Papua National Committee (KNPB), Papua Students, Youth and People Movement (GempaR) and other KNPB supporters held a…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Papuan independence leader Filep Karma has flummoxed Indonesian authorities by refusing to be released from prison…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – For the first time in the past five years, the government is planning to cut budget allocation for the defense sector,…

Jakarta – The government says that it is paying close attention to the murder case of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib but stresses that it…

Jakarta – Indonesia's antigraft commission says it may pursue investigations into individuals said to have benefited from free hajj trips handed…

Ary Hermawan, Tucson, Arizona – At first it was funny, but then just sad. That's pretty much how many Indonesians felt when they saw pictures of…

Mr. Joko Widodo President of the Republic of Indonesia
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Jakarta Pusat,
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West Papua's non-attendance at this week's Pacific leaders' summit in Port Moresby is because of different agreements between Indonesia and Papua…

Joey Tau – Solidarity groups throughout the Pacific including Australia and New Zealand are calling on Pacific leaders to act on the West Papua…

Pacific leaders gather this week in Papua New Guinea for their annual summit West Papuan leader and freedom campaigner Octo Mote says the support…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The wife of slain human rights defender Munir Said Thalib, Suciwati, on Sunday called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to…

Fadli, Batam – Two British journalists detained by Indonesian authorities for making a documentary about piracy in the Malacca Strait without…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Purwakarta regional administration in West Java has recently issued a regulation that bans premarital dating after 9 p.m…

Jakarta – Indonesian House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon has threatened to sue the prominent Indonesian imam of a New York City…

Lani Pujiastuti, Bogor – Currently there are 10,922 companies holding Mining Business Permits (IUPs) in Indonesia. Of this total, only 29 percent…

Jakarta – Indonesia's police chief has revealed that the removal of his controversial chief of detectives was being considered since at least mid-…

Tama Salim and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The government has denied that the presence of House of Representatives leaders at a campaign…

Jakarta – The work visit to the United States by leaders of the House of Representatives, during which some of them appeared in public with…

Jakarta – The surprise appearance of Indonesia's House speaker at a Donald Trump campaign event in New York on Thursday has spawned a torrent of…

Jakarta – Members of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the National Awakening Party (PKB) are set to report the House of…

Kanupriya Kapoor & Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia's 11th-hour decision to scrap plans for the nation's first high-speed railway has sown…

Paulina Quintao – The President of the Executive Council of the Disability Association Timor Leste (DATL) Joaquim Freitas dos Santos urges the…

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office says it will not consider dropping a criminal case against the suspended chairman of Indonesia's antigraft…

Regardless of the motives behind the latest major reshuffle within the National Police, there is a pressing need for President Joko "Jokowi"…

Ian Wilson, Murdoch, Western Australia – The violent evictions in Kampung Pulo have once again drawn attention to the politics of flood…

A joint statement by the Commission for the Disappearances and Victims of Violence (KontraS) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)

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Nani Afrida, Jakarta – After prolonged discussion, including the comparison of five different types of jet fighters, the Defense Ministry has…

Jakarta – Legislators plan to launch an inquiry into the chief of state-owned port operator Pelindo II in connection with the removal from office…

Jakarta – Loyalists of a police general best known for trying to undermine the national antigraft commission have been removed along with their…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The governor of Yogyakarta's ban on non-indigenous citizens owning land in the province is not problematic,…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Despite rumors that the National Mandate Party (PAN) will be awarded positions in the Cabinet for joining the…

Pacific civil society groups are adding their weight to a call for a Pacific Islands Forum mission to the Indonesian region of West Papua.

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The West Papua independence activist, Benny Wenda, has been denied entry into Papua New Guinea.

Mr Wenda was invited to Port Moresby by the…

Jakarta – Antigraft activists have demanded that the new National Police chief of detectives review the many controversial investigations launched…

Jakarta – Most regions of Sumatra are currently blanketed by smoke from land and forest fires and the pollution will potentially reach neighboring…

Archipelago – Dozens of Papuan students demonstrated on Friday in Malang, East Java, calling on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to bring an end to…

Eko Widianto, Malang – Dozens of students from Papua united under the Papuan Students Alliance launched a protest at the Malang City Hall on…

Siteri Sauvakacolo and Solomone Rabulu – West Papua will apply to be a member of the Pacific Islands Development Forum, even though freedom…