Jakarta – Agencies and organizations have come to an agreement to support the city administration's policy on limiting activities on Car Free Day…

Jakarta – The police, in cooperation with local informal figures, raided a number of hotels in West Jakarta at dawn on Sunday and netted 35…

Mitchell Bland – As Australia celebrates its historic partnership with New Zealand and commemorates lives lost through war, our Pacific partners…

Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo should free himself from the suffocating political "straitjacket" and focus on the economy for…

Jayapura, Jubi – Youth, Student and Papuan People Movement (GempaR) urged the Indonesian Government to open the democratic space and immediately…

Jewel Topsfield – Myuran Sukumaran has painted what could be his last self-portrait: a torso with a palm-sized black hole over the heart dripping…

Hamish McDonald – It will be scant help to the two Australians and six other foreigners now facing imminent execution on Nusakambangan Island, but…

Why should President Joko Widodo repeal the planned execution of 10 drug convicts on death row?

Forget the human rights argument for now –…

Cilacap – An NGO activist has said that Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, a Philippine death row inmate convicted on drug trafficking charges, is only a…

Michelle Nichols, New York – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Indonesia on Saturday not to execute 10 prisoners, including…

An open letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to President of the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Joko Widodo

Mr. Joko Widodo
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Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – In 1918, the Dutch government established the Alcoholbes Trijdings Commissie to investigate the abuse of alcohol in the…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives is once again in the spotlight for its plan to construct a new multi-story building in the legislative…

Jakarta – Students at Jakarta State University (UNJ) held demonstrations against former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit on Saturday,…

Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa confirmed on Saturday that former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid and former army…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The family of former strongman Soeharto has inserted itself into the deepening rift between the two competing…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Friday it had not been invited to any House of Representatives'…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Wawa, a two-and-a-half year old girl, looks happy in her smaller-than-average frame. She always smiles from ear to…

Yogyakarta – Indonesia could face food crisis in the next three years because each year 100,000 hectares of farmland changes function as the…

Indonesia's foreign debt continues to rise, primarily because private sector debt is growing. Of the various issues related to private sector…

Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – The only law that the House of Representatives (DPR) managed to pass during its third sitting period of the 2014-2015 term…

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration will enlist this year the help of the military and the police to enforce order among its…

Bagus BT Saragih, Bandung – The patron of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) leader Megawati…

Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto has apologized for the behavior of two prominent legislators who were…

The campaign to push West Papuan independence from Indonesia continues to spread in Africa with a Free West Papua protest being held in Nigeria.…

Jakarta – An unmarried couple have been caned by order of the Bener Meriah regency administration in Aceh after they were found guilty of making…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has called for both judicial settlement and reconciliation for the country's seven…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Environment and Forestry Ministry is in hot water after refusing to release what it deems to be confidential…

Jakarta – An announcement by the Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) that the punk rock band Superman Is Dead (SID) will be performing…

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – A number of NGOs in Jambi have called for the logging moratorium that has applied since 2010 and which is due to end on May…

Jakarta – Following reports that the youngest son of former president Soeharto, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, had expressed interest in running in…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Anti-Corruption Civil Society Coalition activists tore up a copy of the Nawacita document containing the…

Ina Parlina and Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has endorsed the decision made by newly installed National Police…

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – National Police Chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti has defended the under-the-radar inauguration of Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan as his…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti defended on Thursday his selection of controversial officer Comr. Gen.…

Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – A daughter of former dictator Soeharto, Titiek, said on Thursday that many supporters in the region had demanded that her…

Jakarta – The Indonesia Labour Movement (GBI) has agreed to form its own political party following the commemoration of May Day 2015.

"The…

Syahrul Ansyari, Foe Peace Simbolon – In the lead up to the commemoration of International Labour Day 2015 or May Day, the Indonesian Labour…

Ari Susanto, Jakarta – Activists have filed a pretrial motion against Sukoharjo Police for the lack of progress in the allegations of child…

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Regardless of apparently conflicting statements from the Vanuatu government about the opening of an embassy in Jakarta,…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A panel of judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court handed down on Wednesday a lenient five-year prison sentence to a police…

Jakarta – Situbondo District Court in East Java sentenced Asyani, 70, to 15 months probation on Thursday for stealing seven pieces of wood…

Jakarta – The Media Hotel and Towers management just recently announced their decision to cancel the controversial students' bikini party that was…

Jakarta – Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has expressed his disapproval over a controversial bikini party allegedly involving high school…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Anti-corruption activists in Yogyakarta said on Thursday the inauguration of Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan as deputy…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The administration of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo says it will establish a task force to seek resolutions to…

Jakarta – NGOs want law enforcers to take into consideration the impending revision of the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) concerning elderly…

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Rights monitors on Wednesday slammed police for last week's arrest of five indigenous Papuans who stand accused of treason,…

Dewanti Wardhani, Jakarta – Responding to the Trade Ministry's prohibition on the sale of alcohol in minimarts, Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja…

Farouk Arnaz & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – In a low-profile ceremony on Wednesday afternoon, Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan was inaugurated…