Andrea Shalal, Washington – A U.S. trade agreement reached with Indonesia in July is at risk of collapsing because Jakarta has backtracked on…

Haryanti Puspa Sari, Danu Damarjati, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has criticised the trend of verdicts in criminal cases of…

Adyaksa M, Poso – The detention of Kristian Toibo, a resident of Watutau Village in Lore Peore district, Poso regency, has sparked criticism from…

The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has identified companies in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra as having caused damage to…

Vedro Imanuel Girsang, Jakarta – The Indonesian Minister of Human Rights, Natalius Pigai, responded to President Prabowo Subianto's recent…

Dian Fiantis, Budiman Minasny and Frisa Irawan Ginting, The Conversation – Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November…

Jakarta – Blaming nature for the deadly floods and landslides in Sumatra is not going to take us very far beyond stating the obvious and long held…

Gloria Dickie – A small brown line snakes its way through the rainforest in northern Sumatra, carving 300 metres through dense patches of meranti…

David Akana, North Sumatra, Indonesia – Indonesia's environment ministry on Dec. 6 suspended private sector activity in a crucial high…

Ifan Ahmad, Makassar, S – Sulawesi. The Indonesian government has rejected foreign assistance for the devastating floods and landslides that have…

Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Jakarta – The Jakarta Metropolitan Police have confiscated six Molotov cocktails from two men suspected of planning to incite…

Addin Anugrah Siwi, Jakarta – Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) has raised concerns over Indonesia's persistently high youth unemployment…

Yogi Eka Sahputra, Jakarta – Customs data confirms that a flood of suspected illegal electronic waste (e-waste) continues to arrive in Batam, Riau…

Jakarta – Dompet Dhuafa, a Muslim alms organization, recently held a charity concert "Together for Sumatar" at M Bloc Live House and M Bloc Space…

Indonesian police used unlawful force against protesters, including beatings and the improper use of water cannon and tear gas grenades, during…

Antara, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's Geological Agency has begun an airborne survey in Sulawesi to identify potential new oil and gas…

Jakarta – Hats off to the people who have acted on their own initiative to help the victims of the disaster in Sumatra. They are volunteers in the…

Ruth Dea Juwita, Jakarta – Indonesia's bid to mass-produce cars of a homegrown brand in 2027 is "highly ambitious", experts say, noting that an…

Mei Leandha, Jakarta – The Governor of North Sumatra, Bobby Nasution, estimates that the total damage caused by the recent flash floods and…

Tempo, Jakarta – Indonesia's PT Pertamina (Persero) announced that as many as 688 fuel stations, or 98 percent of the total stations in the…

Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Jakarta – Indonesia's Minister of Environment and Forestry, Hanif Faisol Nurofiq, has inspected corporate operations in the…

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Governor of Aceh, Muzakir Manaf, confirmed that the region is receptive to foreign assistance in the aftermath of…

Alif Ilham Fajriadi, Jakarta – Indonesia's National Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) has released a detailed mapping of forest concession permits…

Andrea Hosana, Jakarta – A hundred Indonesian musicians have joined forces to launch Heal Sumatra, a humanitarian concert aimed at supporting…

Greg Fealy – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and its high-profile chair, Kiai Yahya Cholil Staquf (commonly known as Gus Yahya), have for many years…

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The catastrophic Sumatra floods and landslides have killed at least 950 people, according to data by the national…

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The government has sealed seven forestry-related facilities in North Sumatra as part of an ongoing crackdown on illegal…

Martin Bagya Kertiyasa, Jakarta – Early government estimates show that Indonesia will need to spend around Rp 51.82 trillion (approximately $3.1…

Andrew Tito, Jakarta – South Aceh Regent Mirwan may be dismissed from office after traveling for Umrah while his district was under a state of…

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Indonesia's goal to upscale the downstream cacao industry faces a multitude of obstacles spanning the entire supply chain…

Luqman H, Tegar Nurfitra, Yogyakarta – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao met Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, Governor of Indonesia's Special…

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Indonesian Employers Association, or Apindo, projects the national economy to expand between 5.0 percent and 5.4…

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – Major General Freddy Ardiansyah, Head of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) Information Center, has clarified a…

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – The Presidium of the Indonesian Caucus for Academic Freedom (KIKA), Herdiansyah Hamzah, has stated that a series of…

Ervana Trikarinaputri, Jakarta – Indonesia's Minister of Elementary and Secondary Education Abdul Mu'ti revealed that nearly 3,000 schools were…

Jayapura – The 2014 bloody Paniai Tragedy was once again remembered by Papuan students in the study city of Manokwari, West Papua, by holding a…

M Adi Fajri, Jakarta – The Solidarity Action Committee for Munir (KASUM) held a protest action to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the…

A. Anantha Lakshmi and Diana Mariska in Jakarta – Almost every Thursday for the past 18 years, Bedjo Untung has joined a small group of protesters…

Jakarta – An Indonesian government task force has ordered dozens of companies in palm oil cultivation and mining to pay fines totalling 38.62…

Jakarta – The Coalition for the Codification of Election Laws rejects the idea put forward by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto regarding the…

Vinnilya Huanggrio, Jakarta – Recent floods and landslides in Sumatra are a sign that Indonesia can no longer claim to be beyond the reach of…

Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Jakarta – The government has begun investigating the alleged involvement of several companies in environmental damage that…

Suryadi M Nur, Jakarta – The extreme weather caused by tropical cyclone Senyar at the end of last November is suspected to have claimed many lives…

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – The BNPB (National Disaster Management Agency) reported the death toll due to floods and landslides in three provinces…

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto departed for the province of Aceh on Sunday morning, December 7, 2025 to…

On 7 December 2025, fifty years since Indonesian troops invaded East Timor, survivors and their descendants continue to live with the legacy of…

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto highlighted the use of palm oil for fuel while attending the Golkar Party…

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq has identified several key activities contributing to the worsening floods…

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto spoke on Western democracy and human rights while addressing a Golkar Party…

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said his flagship free nutritious meal (MBG) program is considered the world…