Jakarta's traffic cameras will undergo a technological upgrade, police say, so that they will have the ability to catch a larger array of traffic…

Jakarta – The government's decision to go ahead with the appointment of a problematic university rector sends the wrong message to the public. The…

It was only a matter of time before somebody sniffed an opportunity to make a quick buck out of Indonesia's latest COVID-19 screening tech.

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The head of the Papuan People's Assembly says it has rejected Indonesia's plans on special autonomy for his region.

Indonesia's…

Jeff Armstrong – The Indonesian-occupied nation of West Papua has called for urgent international intervention against Indonesia's intensification…

Melanie Chalil, Kuala Lumpur – Indonesian actress Nikita Mirzani has plans to give out free condoms to communities across her country to prevent…

Dion Bisara, Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – A United States citizen has run for a district head election in Sabu Raijua, a region in one of Indonesia's…

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Minister of Research and Technology Bambang Brodjonegoro on Wednesday claims that the Covid-19 screening…

Benny Mawel, Jayapura – Human rights activist Ambrosius Mulait plans to report five powerful politicians to the police for alleged racism in their…

Bimandra Djaafara, Fahrin Ramadan Andiwijaya, Fiona Verisqa, Ihsan Fadilah, Kartika Saraswati and Rizka Maulida – The Indonesian government policy…

An elderly woman in West Jakarta was caught on video admitting her intention to cook several cats for asthma medication, believing that consuming…

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – The Indonesian government says it aims to purge the country's civil service of people who support or have links to Islamic…

Lhokseumawe – Scores of Rohingya women missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia have been trafficked into Malaysia to reunite with their husbands…

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Carlos K.Y. Paath, Jakarta – A close aide of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo delivered a strong rebuke to Agus Harimurti…

Hipolitus Wangge – The Pacific region has been rising on the Indonesian diplomatic horizon for twenty years, yet it has rarely been a priority.…

Indonesia is intensifying its COVID-19 mass vaccination efforts with plans to accelerate shipment of the CoronaVac vaccine into the country.

Bisnis, Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Ma'ruf Amin on Monday went on Youtube calling people to strictly adhere to the Java-Bali…

Nabiha Shahab – Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua arguably has the richest biodiversity in the country, offering potential for sustainable…

Medan – Scores of students from the Papuan Student Association (IMP) in Medan, North Sumatra, held a protest action in front of the North Sumatra…

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The fourth batch of Covid-19 vaccine from Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech arrived in Indonesia on…

Meleva Thorn, Jakarta – Indonesia has taken the path to electric vehicles since President Joko Widodo in late 2019 issued a decree detailing the…

Jakarta – Indonesia has detained a British woman named in a list of global terror suspects and plans to deport her for visa violations,…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Illegal loggers in Indonesia's remote Papua region have largely evaded any meaningful kind of punishment and…

Mongabay editor Philip Jacobson has been awarded the 2020 Oktovianus Pogau Award for Courage in Journalism. The award, announced Jan. 31,…

Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – Indonesia urges fellow Asean member state Myanmar to follow democratic principles, as defined in the bloc's…

Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) will review a number of policies including the collective leave days for Chinese New Year and Eid,…

Anwar Siswadi, Bandung – Statistician from Padjadjaran University (Unpad) Yuyun Hidayat predicted that the number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia…

Elena Couper, Jakarta – The Indonesian palm oil industry, the biggest in the world, has suffered disruption during Covid-19. Although lockdown…

Herman, Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – Inflation in Indonesia has slowed down to the lowest level in three months in January. Most of the…

The central government's Enforcement of Restrictions on Public Activities (PPKM) partial lockdown protocol has not produced the desired outcomes,…

Mob justice is sadly common in Indonesia, but a recent incident saw one of the most frail members of society being roughed up by a group of men…

Muhsidin, Rahmad Nasution, Jayapura, Papua – Population in the Indonesian province of Papua currently reached 4.30 million, or rose by some 1.47…

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Heavy rain suddenly poured down when Ahmad Marzuki, an office boy in Jakarta, was on his way home from a late shift in…

Vidi Legowo-Zipperer – In Germany, a 101-year-old nursing home resident was the first person to receive a COVID vaccine. In the UK, it was a 90-…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – January has become the deadliest month in the Indonesian coronavirus outbreak with 7,860 deaths, 51 percent higher than…

Rebecca Ratcliffe, Bangkok – An Indonesian family whose relatives died onboard the Sriwijaya Air flight that crashed into the Java Sea have filed…

Pacific Media Watch – The Timorese Episcopal Conference has called on the entire Catholic community in Timor-Leste to accept and respect Pope…

Jakarta – The government is insisting that the flooding in South Kalimantan was caused by extreme natural events. This ignores the massive change…

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry has joined forces with tech giant Grab to recover the pandemic-stricken…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has accused sections of the oligarchy in government circles of being one of the causes…

Two men in the city of Banda Aceh in Indonesia's Aceh province were each flogged 77 times yesterday (28 January) for alleged consensual same-sex…

Sienna Curnow, Jakarta – Communication remains at the heart of effective diplomacy. The inability for formal and informal diplomatic conversations…

Leon Langdon – In December 2020, Benny Wenda told TIME Magazine, "I'm on a mission. I'll finish my mission and then I will rest." Wenda, an…

Antara, Jakarta – Jakarta Environment Department recorded a high number of medical wastes in the capital city during the Covid-19 pandemic,…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia's recent dramatic spike in newly coronavirus cases and deaths is attributable to West Java, which now…

The Jakarta Provincial Government is planning to add five more private hospitals as referral hospitals for COVID-19 patients, as the…

Two gay men in Indonesia's Aceh province have been publicly caned 77 times each after they were reported to police by vigilantes who raided their…

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia argued that the South Kalimantan floods in mid-January were caused by deforestation and severe forest…

In the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia is believed to have regressed in its struggle against corruption, a study has shown.

Berlin-…

Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations in Indonesia have forced the provincial government in…