An umbrella organisation representing Papuan students worldwide has been formed with a renewed commitment to strengthening their efforts to gain "…

Pamela Nilan and Gregorius Ragil Wibawanto – Our study of young environmental activists in Indonesia found that Muslim youth activists based their…

Hreeloita Dharma, Raka Adji, Jakarta – Commissioner of the National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) Maria Ulfah Anshor has…

Jakarta – The widely predicted third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is now raging, driven mainly by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the…

Arnold Belau, Jayapura – The Timika regional chairperson of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), Steven Itlay, who was reportedly arrested by…

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has placed more schools under hybrid learning to reduce the number of students in class, but…

Sebastian Strangio – Last week saw the opening of Indonesia's – and Southeast Asia's – first museum dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. The…

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – Indonesia has welcomed Cambodia's recent announcement that it will resume the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' retreat later this…

Jakarta – Abandoned mining pits in East Kalimantan have already claimed many lives. Based on a report in 2021, forty people have died as a result…

Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has revealed that resistance by retired TNI (Indonesian military) and Polri (…

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – Tjandra Yoga Aditama, who is a former WHO South-East Asia director of communicable diseases department, on Friday…

Katharina R. Lestari, Jakarta – Catholics and rights activists in Indonesia have expressed disappointment at a sermon by a well-known Muslim woman…

The public has cast doubt on the integrity of a popular COVID-19 test lab chain after a woman allegedly received positive results a day before her…

Alexander Loen, Jayapura, Jubi – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has designated 36,003 hectares of land in Papua as a Social Forest area on…

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – Head of the Covid-19 task force lieutenant general Suharyanto on Thursday received complaints from a number of…

Jakarta – The number of Covid-19 patients at Wisma Atlet makeshift hospital in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, has surpassed 5,000 in the past 24…

Jessica Vincentia Marpaung – The newly released, award-winning movie Photocopier has given a glimpse into the elusiveness of sexual violence in…

Nada Zeitalini Arani, Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Bambang Soesatyo, who is also the Deputy Chairperson of the Pancasila…

Jakarta – For the first time, on Thursday February 3, a Kamisan (Thursday) action has been held in Thailand. The action was held in front of the…

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Wednesday announced the arrest of the former Home Affairs Ministry's…

Antara, Jakarta – Jakarta has reported a hospital bed occupancy rate of 60 percent across 140 Covid-19 referral hospitals used for…

Maria Fatima Bona & Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The National Food and Drug Control Agency, or BPOM, recently authorized the use of a booster…

Jakarta – There is nothing odd about the sudden rise in intensity of field trips made by the three popular governors who have consistently topped…

Raka Ibrahim, Denpasar – In Indonesian society, it is highly unusual for children to cut off contact with their parents. But for some, it is an…

Denpasar, Bali – The holiday island of Bali will welcome its first direct flight carrying foreign tourists for nearly two years on Thursday, but…

Matthew Scott – The association representing international students from the West Papuan provinces of Indonesia have clapped back, saying the move…

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesia's government is under mounting pressure to close schools temporarily as the number of Covid-19 infections…

Nicholas Kuipers and Saiful Mujani – As of early December 2021, nearly 70.4% of Indonesians had received one dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine…

Yuliana Lantipo, Jayapura, Jubi – The judicial review upon Law No. 2/2021 on the Second Amendment to the Papua Special Autonomy (Otsus) Law at the…

Theo Kelen, Jayapura, Jubi – Papuan students abroad have expressed their concerns regarding the fate of their education following the issuance of…

Antara, Jakarta – The Secretary-General of the House of Representatives (DPR) Indra Iskandar said nine members and 80 staff employees in the…

Herman, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency, or BPS, reported on Wednesday that the food, beverages, and tobacco expenditure group was the…

Chris Barrett, Singapore – The surge of new patients admitted to Dili's main hospital has been so great, many have had to share beds. The influx,…

Maria Fatima Bona & Willy Masaharu, Jakarta – Indonesia's Omicron tally has reached 2,980 cases as of Wednesday, but 1,100 patients have…

Christopher Knaus – Newly released cabinet documents reveal Australia was preoccupied with the interests of major oil and gas corporations in the…

Ronna Nirmala – Indonesian Muslim groups, including an influential scholars' body, are demanding the closure of a Holocaust museum that opened…

Sella Panduarsa G, Suharto, Jakarta – More than 1.56 million foreign tourists had visited Indonesia last year, down 61.57 percent as…

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – Rights groups have condemned Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body after it called for the demolition of a Jewish…

Sri Krishnamurthi – A global Papuan student body International Alliance of Papuan Students Association Overseas (IAPSAO) is seeking a meeting with…

Jakarta – Indonesia has seen its highest inflation in more than two years in January, driven by increases in foods, beverages, tobacco products…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia will reclaim around 250,000 square kilometers of its airspace from Singapore after both countries agreed to…

Pribadi Wicaksono, Jakarta – The Special Region of Yogyakarta administration has decided to temporarily stop the 100 percent physical…

Arrijal Rachman, Jakarta – Griffith University epidemiologist Dicky Budiman on Wednesday noted that Indonesia has entered its Covid-19 third wave…

Antara, Jakarta – The number of Covid-19 cases in Bogor City's schools has almost doubled in just a day. On January 31, the city's health office…

A fishing community in Indonesia's Aceh region is demanding protection from prosecution after three fishermen were sentenced to prison last year…

Jakarta – Indonesia's manufacturing sector expanded at a solid rate at the start of 2022, as demand was strong, with foreign sales increasing and…

Antara, Jakarta – The peak of COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant could be up to six times higher than that recorded during the Delta…

Hengky Yeimo, Jayapura, Jubi – Director of the Democratic Alliance for Papua Latifah Anum Siregar said the desire for independence has always…

A global Papuan students abroad umbrella organisation has appealed for a meeting with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to air their grievances over…

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – Indonesian police have arrested a Muslim politician on hate speech charges for allegedly insulting members of the mostly…