Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – For air traffic control (ATC) official Dio Resnu Aditya, dealing with a lack of personnel has become a day-to-day…

Jakarta – The government will start implementing a 12-year compulsory education program next June, according to Coordinating Minister for Human…

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has decided to cancel its contract with monorail project operator PT Jakarta Monorail (…

Yeremi Sukoyo & Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – Intervention from President Joko Widodo is needed to a resolve dispute between two ministries…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The country's largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has revved up efforts to reach a resolution to the…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A joint team of National Police (Polri) and Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel is pursuing an armed civilian group…

Andreas Harsono – In December, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo promised the long-suffering residents of Indonesia's easternmost area of Papua…

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council has announced plans to set up a hotline for victims of domestic abuse.

Noor Syamsu…

If there is any hope that the National Police will be reformed under President Joko Widodo then we should bury it deep for at least another five…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – A number of activists and legal experts have questioned a panel of judges who have denied attempts to access information…

Jakarta – Critics in Indonesia have slammed President Joko Widodo's decision to nominate Budi Gunawan as the next National Police chief, citing…

Jakarta – Arief Hidayat, a law professor, was on Monday appointed the new chief justice of Indonesia's troubled Constitutional Court.

Arief…

Jakarta – The West Jakarta Social Affairs Agency raided at least 30 street singers donning punk attire, locally known as punkers, during an…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) wants people to respect President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has urged the North Sumatra provincial administration and police to…

Nani Afrida and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has been urged to involve the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and…

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry announced on Friday the suspension or transfer of at least 11 aviation officials at the…

The spokesperson for the global Free West Papua Campaign claims up to 1000 police and military deployed to the Timika region in West Papua have…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Amid calls for the government to protect a lecturer at Ar-Raniry State Islamic University (UIN) who is under…

Jess Melvin, Melbourne – On Dec. 29, the Film Censorship Institute (LSF) banned public screenings of Joshua Oppenheimer's second groundbreaking…

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – With a significant cut in the fuel subsidy, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will be able to double the government's…

Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – Megawati Soekarnoputri announced her own appointment on Saturday as the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – Men, women and children from the Network of Urban Poor (JRMK) and the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC) came to meet with…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Hotli Simanjuntak, Jakarta/Banda Aceh – An alliance of NGOs and individuals has called on the government to protect a…

Michael Bachelard, Banda Aceh – Last November, a young pregnant woman we'll call "Yasmeen"* was led onto a high platform in a city square in the…

Index: ASA 21/001/2015

The Indonesian authorities must ensure that the new investigation team formed on 7 January by the National…

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesia's Human Rights Committee announced on Thursday that it had formed a team to investigate possible human rights…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The reconciliation process to unite the divided Golkar Party is seeing early signals of deadlock as the…

Jakarta – Political observers are predicting the National Mandate Party's congress, scheduled for Feb. 28, to be yet another heated stage for a…

Jakarta – The National Intelligence Agency (BIN) and security authorities are keeping an eye on radical groups in anticipation of potential…

Hayat Indriyatno & Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Dewi has been saving up for the past year and a half to buy a car. "I could get a loan from my…

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) announced on Thursday another foreign debt regulation involving a stricter reporting system for…

Jayapura – The Papua Police have nabbed 13 members of an armed separatist group led by Ayub Waker following the deaths of two Mobile Brigade…

Singapore – Dutch brewer Heineken said on Thursday it will begin building a beverage plant in East Timor this year that will manufacture a range…

An interview with Allan Nairn on Indonesia and Guatemala

Craig Hughes and John M. Miller – During the 2014 presidential campaign in…

Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan could have started a revolution within his own ministry – in the directorates general of land, sea and air…

Indra Budiari and Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have handed over a blasphemy case implicating The Jakarta Post editor-in-chief…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesia and the United States have stepped up their defense cooperation with the signing of an agreement under which the…

Jakarta – The Supreme Court said 117 judges received administrative punishment for misconduct in 2014.

"There were fewer complaints […

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – An alliance of 34 NGOs and a group of individuals called on the government and security authorities to provide…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of tourists have reportedly canceled trips to Weh Island in Sabang, Aceh, as the result of recent…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Farouk Arnaz & Yerema Sukoyo, Jakarta – Indonesian Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan's move to set a price floor…

Richard C. Paddock, Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who played a key role in negotiating peace in Aceh after the 2004 tsunami…

Jakarta – Muhammad Nasir, the research and technology minister, says construction is ongoing for an experimental nuclear power reactor on the…

Linda Yulisman and Tama Salim, Jakarta – Indonesian exporters may well struggle again this year as the global economic slowdown is likely continue…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo decided on Tuesday to pick I Dewa Gede Palguna, a constitutional law professor at Udayana…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency, or BPS, last week released Indonesia's latest poverty data, which found that 27.73…

Jakarta – Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, the Nahdlatul Ulama, says it is ready to mediate talks between the Bogor administration and the…

Jakarta – Gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia has appointed former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief Maroef Sjamsuddin as its…

West Papua Action Auckland is urging the government to do more to protect people from ongoing security force violence in Indonesia's Papua region…