Wintang Warastri, Jakarta – Public defender Azas Tigor Nainggolan criticized the social punishment handed to COVID-19 health protocol violators –…

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Jakarta State University (UNJ) lecturers alliance on Friday demands for campus officials to cancel…

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The leading expert at the Presidential Staff Office (KSP), Donny Gahral Adian, strongly denies rumors suggesting that the…

Matt Moore – Jakarta Police have arrested over 50 men at an apartment in Kuningan, South Jakarta, after raiding an alleged 'gay party'. The event…

Emma Powys Maurice – Nine men in Indonesia are facing fines and up to 15 years in jail after police raided a "gay party" in a Jakarta hotel.

Tris Reid-Smith – Indonesian police arrested 56 men in a raid on a 'gay' party and have charged nine of them under pornography laws.

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Jakarta – A number of state-owned companies have moved into the app-based logistics business. This is at odds with the Business Competition Law.…

Authorities in West Sumatra are investigating a video in which a woman was stripped and paraded by a mob in Pasaman regency this week.

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John McBeth, Jakarta – Retired general turned businessman and politician, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The surge in coronavirus cases has reached a new level in Indonesia with daily rises averaging over 3,000 as the…

The East Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) will stop imposing the sanction of forcing any residents caught not wearing face masks in public…

More than 139,000 people in Jakarta have been sanctioned for not wearing masks in public during transitional large-scale social restrictions (PSBB…

A group of lecturers at Jakarta State University (UNJ) have voiced their opposition to the university's plan to award honorary doctorates to Vice…

Andra Nasrie – Indonesia has taken its obsession with deathly elements in its fight against COVID-19 to another level after Jakarta introduced a…

Palupi Annisa Auliani (editor) – The threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic has distracted public attention. In the mist of the panic among the…

Jakarta – Arif Susanto, a political analyst from the think tank Exposit Strategic, has criticised Presidential Chief of Staff Expert Donny Gahral…

Heru Andriyanto & Carlos Roy Fajarta, Jakarta – Indonesia reported a dramatic surge in confirmed cases of coronavirus on Thursday, with 3,622…

Jakarta – Recent research has shown that many members of the public in Jakarta and East Java assume they are immune to COVID-19 or even doubt…

Jakarta – The National COVID-19 task force has called on the Jakarta administration to evaluate the odd-even license plate policy currently in…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Indonesia saw another daily record in confirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities on Thursday, recording 3,622…

Jakarta – Authorities have named 29 Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel suspects over an attack on the Ciracas Police Station in East Jakarta and…

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has named NasDem politician Andi Irfan Jaya a new suspect in a bribery case implicating prosecutor…

Nina A. Loasana, Jakarta – The government is set to change the mechanism for several social safety net (SSN) programs because of the poor…

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has nominated Surabaya Development Planning Board head Eri…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The executive director of the government's COVID-19 Response and Economic Recovery Committee, Erick Thohir,…

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – A protected Sumatran tiger was found rotting last week in a forest in Siak regency, Riau. A wire snare was found around…

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government has ordered state-owned electricity company PLN to lower the electricity rates for all homes and certain…

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – Jakarta will host the annual National Press Day celebration on Feb. 9 next year, Governor Anies Baswedan announced…

Jakarta – The police will suspend any criminal investigations involving potential or registered candidates running in the 2020 regional elections…

Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – The government, the Indonesian Military (TNI) and the National Police need to make a serious effort to settle years of…

Gemma Holliani Cahya and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – As Indonesia enters its sixth month since COVID-19 first reached it shores, the…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Graft watchdog Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) has called for the Health Ministry to improve the…

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has collected around Rp 4 billion (US$271,000) in fines from residents violating COVID-19 health protocols…

Jayanty Nada Shofa & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's plan to ban self-isolation for Covid-19 patients regardless of…

Jakarta – Two members of the House of Representatives intervene in an investigation into the smuggling of textiles being carried out by the…

Alya Nurbaiti and Ardilla Syakriah, Jakarta – Indonesia is reportedly among the countries with the highest COVID-19 death rate among children,…

Antara, Jakarta – The Environment and Forestry Ministry's observation of the ambient air quality shows that Bekasi City's average air particles…

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) spokesman, Handi Risza, resented the statement made by the Indonesian…

Simon Butt – On 1 September, Indonesia's national legislature (DPR) passed amendments to the Constitutional Court Law. This statute, which has now…

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – In a country battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, both in terms of economics and public health, the government appears to…

Jakarta – Not every netizen who openly supports government policy is a 'buzzer' – social media propagandists. Supporting President Joko Widodo on…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government will probably fail to meet its tax collection target, because economic activity slowed more than…

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesia's manufacturing activity has shown signs of improvement for the first time since February, but risks remain as…

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is set to issue a policy that will require COVID-19 patients in the capital to be…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indigenous rights activists have welcomed the cancellation of an oil palm plantation permit on Indigenous land in…

Health authorities have placed the Darussalam Blokagung Banyuwangi Islamic Boarding School in East Java under quarantine after nearly 100 students…

Book Review: Ben Bland, Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the struggle to remake Indonesia (Penguin, Lowy Institute, 2020)

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Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is hoping to recruit 1,800 medical workers by next week to address the COVID-19 crisis in the capital.

Norman Harsono and Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Indonesian natural resource exporters are waiting to see what Bank Indonesia's (BI) recently…

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has given his condolences for the deaths of frontline medical professionals working…