Jayapura – The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organisation or TPNPB-OPM has announced that all schools in Papua, especially in…
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February 18, 2025
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia kicked off 2025 with a considerable drop in the export of its top commodity palm oil, according to the…
Jakarta – Dissatisfaction with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's new policies has turned into street demonstrations by thousands of students…
Hendro D Situmorang, Jakarta – Village and Underdeveloped Region Development Minister Yandri Susanto confirmed that the Rp 71 trillion ($4.36…
Lestareno S Basariasis, Jakarta – The government is currently trying to cut the state budget to improve efficiency in financial management.…
Kiki Safitri, Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) has highlighted the increase in human rights violations…
Jakarta – Thick, foul-smelling smoke reportedly rose from a newly built refuse-derived fuel (RDF) plant in Rorotan, West Jakarta, last week during…
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia is planning to develop its very own version of DeepSeek, the Chinese low-cost artificial intelligence or…
Najma Sambul – As blackouts crippled Timor-Leste, its leaders scrambled for a solution. It was 2010 and the newly independent country, still…
Jakarta – American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt begins his popular book The Anxious Generation with a graphic showing a sudden and very…
Amanda Puspita Sari, Jakarta – Earlier this month, Indonesian civil servant Kardiani (not her real name) found the supply of drinking water and…
Ricki Putra Harahap, Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – A growing number of Indonesians are considering leaving the…
Medan – The Medan Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) and the North Sumatra (Sumut) Committee for the Safety of Journalists (KKJ) have submitted electronic…
February 17, 2025
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's president has drafted the military to lead the reclamation of illegally occupied forest areas throughout…
Jakarta – Some members of Indonesia's parliament plan to propose the president remove the central bank governor because they think he was not…
Nabiila Azzahra, Jakarta – The Indonesian government will reduce the number of potential amnesty or legal pardon prisoner candidates. Minister of…
M. Raihan Muzzaki, Jakarta – The Ministry of Manpower responded to the trending hashtag #KaburAjaDulu that has been widely discussed by the public…
Bandung – Hundreds of students held a demonstration in front of the West Java Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) building located on Jalan…
Jakarta – The All Indonesia Student Executive Council (BEM SI) is holding a marathon of simultaneous actions in different regions of Indonesia…
Makassar – A "Dark Indonesia" (Indonesia Gelap) demonstration by the Islamic Student Association (HMI) in Makassar, the provincial capital of…
Jayapura – Today, on Monday February 17, students who are members of the West Papua High School Students Solidarity Front (FSPWP) held peaceful…
Yogi Eka Sahputra, Batam, Indonesia – Stress levels among the population of Batam reportedly spiked in January after extreme rainfall over a…
Adhyasta Dirgantara, Dani Prabowo, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto claims that the current state of the Indonesian economy is quite good.…
After a farewell from Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta, the inaugural direct air passenger service between Timor-Leste's capital Dili and the…
Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – Presidential Communication Office Head Hasan Nasbi responded to the protest against the free nutritious meal program in…
Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto on Monday signed a regulation requiring exporters of resources other than oil and gas to hold all proceeds…
Marjorie Preston – In an 11 February filing, Asia-Pacific Strategic Investments Ltd (APS) announced it would establish a $60 million (#47.5…
Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Union of online motorcycle taxi drivers today are protesting the partnership work system with the provider company…
Sui Lee-Wee, Dili, East Timor – Three decades ago, he was a scrappy campaigner roaming the world's corridors of power with a dream to win…
Hendro D Situmorang, Jakarta – Deputy Manpower Minister Immanuel Ebenezer on Monday joined a rally of motorcycle riders and car drivers demanding…
Duncan Graham – Before the 18th century Enlightenment, church and state in Europe were one. In Indonesia, fears that Islam will infiltrate civic…
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto revealed Monday that Indonesia's foreign exchange reserves would skyrocket by tens of…
Ervana Trikarinaputri, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded a drop in exports and imports by 8.56 percent and 15.18 percent, respectively, in January 2025…
Jakarta – The Indonesian Navy has finished taking down a controversial sea fence off the coast of Tangerang, Banten, after more than three weeks…
Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – In the past month, Aldo Simanjuntak's coffee shop in South Jakarta has only had about one third of its typical number of…
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia has maintained a trade surplus for the 57th consecutive month since May 2020 as the country's exports…
Surabaya – Around 1,000 students held a "Dark Indonesia" (Indonesia Gelap) action in front of the East Java (Jatim) Regional House of…
Jakarta – Amid concerns of harmful content over social media and the platforms' impact on their children's development, some parents conveyed…
Denpasar – A number of student groups, including those affiliated with the All Indonesia Student Executive Council (BEM SI) Alliance, are holding…
Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto's recent budget cut to save over Rp 306 trillion (US$18.9 billion) to fund his administration's priority…
Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – The Alliance of the Executive Board of the All-Indonesia Students or BEM SI along with the Civil Society Coalition…
Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) said the implementation of budget cuts to…
February 16, 2025
Iwan Kurniawan – In 1979, shortly after being released from Buru Island in the Maluku Islands, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a writer and member of the…
Roger Peet – I recently spent two weeks in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, collaborating with the artists of Taring Padi on a new artist book about the…
Iwan Kurniawan – Maxwell Ronald Lane is still very active and gutsy at the age of 74. A researcher at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore…
Jakarta – The Judicial Commission introduced on Feb. 14 a work from home (WFH) policy for its employees in an effort to cut costs amid President…
Juan Ardya Guardiola, Bogor – The newly established sovereign wealth fund Danantara will finance 35 large-scale national projects throughout this…
Hendro D Situmorang, Ricki Putra Harahap, Bogor – President Prabowo Subianto welcomed his predecessor, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, as a special guest…
February 15, 2025
Ricki Putra Harahap, Bogor – President Prabowo Subianto announced that Indonesia's budget efficiency measures will continue in three phases,…
Yovanda Noni, East Kutai – The Dayak Wehea Indigenous Community in East Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, shares a very close relationship with the…