Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) has slapped Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab with a Rp…

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – A multibillion-dollar and flagship coal gasification project in South Sumatra might do more harm than good for Indonesia…

Jakarta – Digital violence has shown an alarming increase throughout 2019, especially leveled at women and critical voices against authorities,…

Jakarta – The shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani in Kampung Hitadipa in Intan Jaya Regency, Papua, on September 19, conjured up memories of…

Banda Aceh – Residents of Kuta Alam in the Acehnese provincial capital of Aceh have caught a gay couple having same-sex relations at a boarding…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Journalists have called on fellow reporters and media workers to band together and form unions to stand up for their…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Twenty-two years since the 1998 student movement was staged by university students against former Indonesian strongman…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 5,272 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Saturday, a day after daily number passed the 5,000 mark for…

Muhammad Ridha – In a recent article Edward Aspinall suggests that the current student mobilisation revives old patterns from the Indonesian…

Jessica Washington, Syarina Hasibuan, Eliazar Ballo, Jakarta, Indonesia – In the centre of the vast Indonesian archipelago – hundreds of giant…

Siktus Harson (UCAN) – Indonesia's firebrand and most controversial cleric Muhammad Rizieq Syihab has finally returned home after years living in…

Bu Wilson, Iram Saeed, Laura Afonso de Jesus, Caitlin Leahy, Pauline Tweedie – Timor-Leste, together with only a small number of countries…

To all regional heads in Indonesia, consider this a warning from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman Firli Bahuri. The commission…

Tom Allard, Stanley Widianto, Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia has sought emergency authorisation to start a mass vaccination campaign by the…

Bali (Bloomberg) – Bali, the hardest-hit economy among Indonesia's provinces last quarter, is seeing a pick-up in activity as its governor…

With conservative lawmakers in Indonesia this week making another push to ban alcohol with a controversial bill, some are arguing against the…

Jakarta – The draft law on alcoholic beverages has again attracted public attention after the House of Representatives (DPR) Legislative Body (…

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Three people were arrested in Riau on Wednesday for allegedly trading elephant tusks.

They were identified as YP…

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – The national COVID-19 task force confirmed 5,444 new cases on Friday, the highest single-day figure the country has…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's decision to award six Constitutional Court justices civilian honors has come under…

Jakarta – Eighteen members of an extended family in Yogyakarta have tested positive for COVID-19.

The Yogyakarta Health Agency and COVID-19…

Jakarta – The Army Military Police have named eight soldiers suspects for allegedly burning down an official residence of the Intan Jaya Health…

Jakarta – Indonesia has entered the monitoring stage of a phase three clinical trial for the Chinese-developed vaccine Sinovac, state-owned…

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Insufficient cold storage infrastructure and lengthy shipping routes have posed challenges for fishery product…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives resumed its deliberation of a controversial alcohol prohibition bill on Tuesday, after the bill had spent…

Jakarta – One soldier from the Indonesian Army and one from the Air Force are facing punishment after voicing their support for Rizieq Shihab, the…

Jakarta – Attorney General ST Burhanuddin has filed an appeal against a guilty verdict in a lawsuit filed by family members of victims of the…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported a new high in daily number of coronavirus cases on Friday amid a dramatic surge in Central and West…

Jakarta – As the national tourism has been idle for months amid global coronavirus lockdown, the Indonesian government has taken its time to…

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Indonesia has pushed for a travel bubble in Southeast Asia to start in the first quarter of next year as the…

Jakarta – The Army's Central Military Police commander, Lieutenant General Dodik Wijanarko, says that a joint army (TNI AD) investigation team has…

Jakarta – The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani, who was shot dead in September in Intan Jaya Regency, Papua, has demanded that the military…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – Ever since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo named his expert staff team last year, the wait has been on for the millennial…

Jakarta – The COVID-19 health crisis is said to have driven up the number of manusia perak (silver human), a kind of street performer covered in…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Australia has signed a AU$1.5 billion (US$1 billion) loan deal with Indonesia to help it fight the coronavirus…

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Social media giant Facebook is selecting local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) affected by the COVID-19 crisis…

Jakarta – The names of several current and former top officials were mentioned during the hearing of a bribery case against former Supreme Court…

Jakarta – Emergency response authorities have evacuated 1,294 residents from parts of Yogyakarta and Central Java in the vicinity of Mount Merapi…

Jakarta – Bandar Lampung, the capital of Lampung, faces a shortage of hospital beds to treat COVID-19 patients as the city has seen a fast rise in…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Palm oil giant Korindo Group is alleged to have set fires to clear rainforest in Indonesia's easternmost region of…

Friski Riana, Jakarta – A legal expert from Al-Azhar University, Suparji Ahmad, argued that the existence of the Information and Electronic…

Forget drinking responsibly – if some conservative lawmakers have their way, Indonesians may not be able to sell or drink alcohol at all. And that…

Bandung – The team of Indonesian scientists conducting phase three clinical trials on a COVID-19 candidate vaccine developed by Chinese…

David Webster – "We hear the voice of the farmers," explains the acting director of Raebia, an organization in Timor-Leste working for sustainable…

Jakarta – Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto is considered the people's top pick for the 2024 election, according to a recent survey by pollster…

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia aims to double the value of business deals to be made during this year's business forum with Latin…

Jakarta – At least 282 healthcare workers nationwide have died of COVID-19 ever since the start of the outbreak in Indonesia in March, the…

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader, who just arrived from his proclaimed self-exile in Saudi Arabia, Rizieq Shihab,…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government needs to issue fiscal measures such as cutting fossil fuel subsidies and providing renewable energy…

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – As the government calls for developing the herbal medicine sector, officials and scientists have both highlighted…