Andrew Mathieson – Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji – in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity – to hold the greater Pacific region…
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August 22, 2025
Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – Indonesia's balance of payments (BOP) swung into a deep deficit of $6.7 billion in the second quarter of 2025, the…
Muhammad Aulia Rahman, Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has detained coal mining tycoon Rudy Ong Chandra on…
Alfitria Nefi P, Jakarta – The narrative advocating for the government to forcibly acquire shares of PT Bank Central Asia (BCA) has the potential…
Dian Rahma Fika, Jakarta – Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) is considering a proposal to lower the minimum age for Hajj registration.…
Nandito Putra, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named Deputy Minister of Manpower, Immanuel Ebenezer, as a suspect in a…
Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has urged the government to ensure the protection of Indonesian…
Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Constitutional law expert Jimly Asshiddiqie proposed that, in Indonesian presidential elections, the public should…
M. Raihan Muzzaki, Jakarta – Deputy Minister of Manpower, Immanuel Ebenezer, hopes that President Prabowo Subianto will grant him amnesty after…
Yolanda Agne, Jakarta – Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) arrested Deputy Minister of Manpower Immanuel Ebenezer in a sting…
Aimee Gabay – A camera trap in an Indonesian mountain forest has recorded a rare Javan leopard, sparking renewed conservation monitoring efforts…
Kate Lamb – The Indonesian government is working on plans to treat 2,000 people from war-ravaged Gaza, holding a series of inter-ministerial…
Aimee Gabay, Jakarta – Some of the world's biggest consumer brands are banding together to tackle deforestation in one of Earth's richest…
August 21, 2025
Jakarta – The first few months of office normally serve as a honeymoon between an elected leader and his or her people, with the former…
Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Concerns are mounting that President Prabowo Subianto's free nutritious meal program could overshadow meaningful…
Hafizh Wahyu Darmawan, Akhdi Martin Pratama, Jakarta – A number of protesters from the Student Movement with the People (Gemarak) began filing the…
Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – Indonesia is aiming high, but the private sector is "cautiously optimistic."
The government has set a 5.4…
Muhammad Ghafur Fadillah, Jakarta – Bank Central Asia, Indonesia's largest private lender by market value, rejected allegations that its takeover…
Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Tulus Abadi, the chair of the Indonesian Empowered Consumer Forum (FKBI), dismissed a remark by an Indonesian…
Eka Yudha Saputra – Indonesia's Maluku Police Region stated that approximately 557 local residents are still displaced due to clashes between…
Ahmad Fikri (Kontributor) – The West Java Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) reported that dozens of houses, as well as educational and health…
Dani Aswara, Jakarta – Indonesia Safety Journalists Committee (KKJ) strongly condemns the planned murder of journalists in Gaza by the Israeli…
Dandi Bajuddin, Jakarta – State-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) CEO Bobby Rasyidin said that the company will coordinate with…
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Thirteen organizations and businesses have launched the Indonesian Reuse Association, or AGUNI, a coalition…
Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has launched its second humanitarian airdrop mission for the besieged residents of Gaza, delivering nearly…
August 20, 2025
Muhammad Aulia, Jakarta – The National Police said Wednesday that DNA testing has ruled out any biological link between former West Java governor…
Aimee Gabay, Karawang/Jakarta, Indonesia – At 55, Warno has spent the past quarter of a century making a living from a fish farm that he manages…
Mita Amalia Hapsari, Jakarta – Thousands of job seekers crowded the Jakarta International Velodrome this week as the city government staged…
The Timorese government announced the launch of formal negotiations with neighbouring Indonesia to delimit the maritime border between the two…
Jakarta – Tropical wood demand from some of America's top RV brands is fuelling deforestation in Kalimantan, home to Asia's last great rainforest…
Washington – US health authorities announced Tuesday a recall of frozen shrimp potentially contaminated with radioactivity.
The…
Jakarta – Amass protest against a property tax hike on Tuesday turned violent in Bone regency, South Sulawesi, leaving four Public Order Agency (…
Adelia Anjani Putri – It seems like everyone is trying to leave. On social media, over office lunches, in group chats filled with job openings in…
Jakarta – The enduring maritime boundary dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia over the Ambalat block has resurfaced, this time with a twist.…
Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – "If you run, you are shot. If you don't, you are beaten," a 20-year-old Acehnese man said about life in the region, as…
Laurensia Yame is a mother of seven in her 50s who, with her Indigenous community, the Awyu, lives deep in the forests of South Papua Province,…
Abi S. Nugroho – The government of Pati Regency, in the northeast of Central Java, has always been proud of the slogan Bumi Mina Tani – an…
Irfandi, Bone, S – Sulawesi. A protest against higher land and building taxes in Bone Regency, South Sulawesi, descended into chaos on Tuesday…
Prisma Ardianto, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia is stepping up efforts to widen its tax base and tap into the shadow economy as it seeks to…
Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Movement (TPNPB-OPM) has accused the Indonesian military (TNI)…
Anastasya Lavenia Yudi, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia has decided to cut the benchmark interest rate, or BI Rate, to 5.00 percent. This decision was…
Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Several regions in Indonesia have staged demonstrations protesting the hike in the Rural and Urban Land and Building…
Alfitria Nefi P, Jakarta – The Corps of Alumni of the Association of Indonesian Muslim Students (KAHMI), Textile Rayon, suspects that rising…
Anastasya Lavenia Yudi – The Forum Indonesia for Budget Transparency (Fitra) criticized the provision of a housing allowance amounting to Rp50…
Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Saifullah Yusuf, or Gus Ipul, has uncovered significant issues within Indonesia's social welfare…
Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – A journalist from CNN Indonesia, Zulkifli Natsir, was a victim of violence from authorities while covering a…
Ade Ridwan Yandwiputra, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) considered the housing allowance for parliament members as a form of budget…
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Asia Pulp & Paper, one of the world's biggest forestry groups, has effectively been given the green light to…
Ilham Oktafian, Alfida Rizky Febrianna, Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament is facing criticism over a Rp 50 million ($3,067) monthly housing…
Ema Ganivatu – In exile but unbroken, three West Papuan journalists are in Fiji calling on the Pacific to stand with them against Indonesia's…




