Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is set to meet with Supreme Court leaders following a number of case review decisions that…

Jakarta – A number of COVID-19 clusters have emerged at pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) in Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Central Java.

As…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Febi Nur Amelia, a 29-year-old resident of North Sumatra, has been acquitted of all defamation charges after the Medan…

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has announced its plan to put stickers on the houses of residents currently self-isolating.

Tri Yunis…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Global union federations have urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to repeal the recently passed omnibus law on job…

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Amid waves of backlash against the newly passed Job Creation Law, Indonesian K-Pop fans emerge as a formidable…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Labor, environmental and human rights activists have spoken out against the recently passed omnibus law on job creation,…

Jakarta – With the rainy season approaching as the country deals with the pandemic, COVID-19 task force spokesperson Wiku Adisasmito reminded the…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The newly passed Job Creation Law still contains several controversial education provisions that were previously said to…

Jakarta – West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has said that at least three regions in the province are facing a spike in family COVID-19 clusters.…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's foreign exchange (forex) reserves dropped by US$1.8 billion in September to $135.2 billion, mainly due…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The House of Representatives compound in Senayan, Central Jakarta, will remain open despite more than 40 staff members…

Arlina Arshad – Indonesia is caught in a blame game as its Covid-19 cases surge.

The government has blamed it on the failure of people to…

Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Bambang Priadi, Lusy Tunik Muharlisiani, Sandersan Onie and Zulidyana Dwi Rusnalasari – Indonesia is a world leader in the…

Yohanes Sulaiman – Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy, insists on holding its biggest regional elections in December 2020 despite…

Jakarta – Indonesian police arrested 23 protesters in two industrial areas of Java island, using tear gas and water cannon as thousands across the…

Bandung – Thousands of Indonesian students and workers protested on Wednesday against a new law they say will cripple labor rights and harm the…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Muhaemin looked on as a dozen men dug fresh graves and ambulances brought yet more bodies to the vast Pondok Ranggon…

Indonesian police have used water cannon and teargas to disperse protesters rallying against a new jobs law in two cities on the island of Java,…

Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta – Academics from scores of tertiary education institutions across the country have expressed their opposition to the…

Jakarta – A number of the country's labor unions plan to challenge the recently passed Job Creation Law through a petition for judicial review…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The overwhelming majority of confirmed coronavirus cases in Indonesia have occurred in the most densely-populated…

Arya Dipa and Agustinus Hari, Bandung – Protests over the past few days against the recently passed Job Creation Law have turned violent with…

Amy Chew – The United States has lifted its 20-year ban on Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto over alleged human rights violations in a…

Antara, Alexandra Helena, Jakarta – The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) urged the House of Representatives (DPR) to consider the…

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) urged the National Police (Polri) to prioritize the principles of promoting and respecting…

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Omnibus Law on Job Creation which was recently passed by the parliament apparently included the cluster of education.…

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has announced that three candidates running for the upcoming simultaneous regional elections in…

Ghina Ghaliya and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government and the House of Representatives passed on Monday the controversial omnibus…

Jakarta – Women are the main target of the government's premarital programs for future brides and grooms as the women are expected to be the…

Yulia Savitri, Palembang – The government's food estate program in South Sumatra could harm the environment, as an estimated 26,000 hectares of…

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry is developing a web-based application called PRISMA to assess companies'…

Jakarta – Hundreds of people staged a protest and destroyed facilities at a tourist spot called Bukit Bintang (hill of stars) in Larangan Badung…

Police in Bandung have arrested a man over an alleged blasphemous TikTok video, in which the suspect allegedly mocked a mosque in the West Java…

Nivell Byline, Jakarta – Experts have cast doubt on Indonesia's newly passed omnibus law, raising concerns over whether it can effectively create…

Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) appointed senior politician Ahmad Syaikhu as its chairman for 2020-2025 on Monday during a meeting of…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The North Sumatra Police have dismissed Adj. Comr. Bobi Vaski Pranata from his position as Serdang Bedagai Police's…

Jakarta – The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has issued emergency use authorization (EUA) for two antiviral drugs, favipiravir and…

Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia has lambasted the newly passed Omnibus Law on Job Creation, calling it a threat to…

Sebastian Strangio – Workers have taken to the streets across Indonesia to protest the parliament's passage of a contentious job creation law,…

Indonesian workers have launched protests in several cities to oppose the passage of a controversial new jobs law that the government says is…

Tabita Diela, Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesians took the streets of several cities on Tuesday to protest the passage a…

Jakarta – The administration of Yogyakarta has set its sights on balancing its COVID-19 response with its efforts to reopen tourism to keep the…

Arichika Okazaki, Grant Walton – The tragic death of George Floyd has revitalised the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement not only in the USA, but…

Febriana Firdaus and Rebecca Ratcliffe – Indonesia has passed a wide-ranging bill that will weaken environmental protections and workers' rights…

Jack Board, Dili – When Filipe da Costa started to learn about the health of his nation, he was confused.

By most measures, Timor-Leste was…

Made Supriatma – Never before has the Indonesian National Police (Polri) played such an important role in Indonesian politics and government.…

Abhishek Vishnoi and Chester Yung – Indonesia's stocks and currency rallied after the nation passed a bill simplifying labor and investment rules…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins international calls on the government of Indonesia to repeal the Omnibus Law on Job…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) officially passed the Draft Omnibus Law on Job Creation into law during a plenary meeting on Monday…