Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Poor digital infrastructure and a lack of human capital are hampering gaming industry growth in Indonesia despite…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia is aiming to capitalize on the coronavirus crisis to conduct structural reforms including in human capital…

Tabita Diela and Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia has put on the backburner President Joko Widodo's ambitious $33-billion project to relocate…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's current account deficit (CAD) narrowed in the second quarter of the year as import demand fell and…

Jakarta – A group of prominent figures has officially formed the Save Indonesia Coalition (KAMI) to ensure that Indonesia does not deviate from…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Anticorruption activists have expressed their disapproval of the legal assistance made available by a prosecutors…

Jakarta – Hundreds of Papuan students from the East Java cities of Malang and Surabaya held an action on Tuesday August 18 commemorating the…

Yeremia Sukoyo, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office has launched corruption investigation against three prosecutors in Indragiri Hulu district…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – After Bank Indonesia (BI) issued a special commemorative Rp 75,000 (US$5.08) bill on Monday, enthusiastic citizens…

Febriana Firdaus and Elias Visontay – The Indonesian government has extended a deadline for foreigners to leave the country or switch or extend…

David Robie – The silence from Facebook is deafening and disturbing.

At first, when I lodged my protests earlier this month to Facebook over…

Jakarta (Reuters) – Two critically endangered orang utans have been rescued from captivity on Indonesia's Java island and sent to a rehabilitation…

Dili, Timor Leste – Timor-Leste Red Cross (CVTL) is urgently ramping up COVID-19 prevention in remote areas bordering Indonesia as the country's…

Latika Bourke – New footage taken inside Indonesian abattoirs show Australian cattle being tied up by the mouth, dragged around a slaughter house…

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The recovery of the retail sector from the hard blow of the COVID-19 pandemic will rely on a recovery in people's…

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The government has unveiled a new microcredit program (KUR) for laid-off workers and housewives who own micro-sized…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has instructed his subordinates to prepare for a possible baby boom in the capital in…

Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry will allow university students to enlist in the military reserve component program proposed by the…

Jakarta – An expert staffer to State Secretary Pratikno has tested positive for COVID-19, an official has said.

This development…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has sparked public outrage after sharing links of…

The brand new IDR75K (US$5) bill was only released yesterday, but it has already become the subject of a racial controversy online.

A hoax…

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Public Works and Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono announced on Monday a plan to accelerate infrastructure spending in…

Koran Tempo, Avit Hidayat, Jakarta – A networking group dubbed the Jaringan Bonus Demokrasi (JBD) revealed to Tempo that it had paid social media…

Ahmad Faiz, Jakarta – The declaration of the action to save Indonesia coalition or Koalisi Aksi Menyelamatkan Indonesia (KAMI) committee chair,…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia added 1,821 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Monday to bring its total to 141,370, with several…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Indonesia celebrated 75 years of independence in a somber mood on Monday, with many…

David Hanan – The evolution of the Indonesian film industry is marked not only by its economic development, but more importantly by the…

Jakarta – Indonesian Education Monitoring Network (JPPI) National Coordinator Ubaid Matraji says that the military training on university campuses…

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Several international leaders conveyed their well-wishes for Indonesia's future on the country's 75th Independence…

Ronna Nirmala, Jakarta – Government security forces in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province have killed a separatist commander whose group…

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo presided over a 75th Independence Day ceremony along with a handful of state…

Jakarta – Hundreds of visitors flocked to Mount Lawu in Magetan, East Java, on Sunday, raising concern over the transmission of COVID-19 at the…

Jakarta – As many as 150 national figures have reportedly agreed to form the Save Indonesia Coalition (KAMI), a movement that aims to prevent any…

Herman, Jakarta – Indonesia launched a special edition banknote with a face value of 75,000 on Monday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of…

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Antara, Jakarta – More than 1,800 people have applied to become volunteers in the landmark clinical trial of a vaccine…

Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – A surge in coronavirus cases in Jakarta has driven up hospital occupancy, with 70 percent of ICU beds for Covid-19…

Alfian Kartono, Jayapura – Indonesian troops fatally shot a separatist leader in ongoing clashes between security forces and a rebel group near…

Usman Hamid – The debate over Papua flared up again in Indonesia after anti-racism protests in the US triggered a social media campaign…

Papua, Indonesia's eastern-most province, has been in a grip of a civil unrest. The Free Papua Movement (Organisasi Papua Merdeka or OPM) is an…

Mong Palatino – Arbi Nur was one of four students who were expelled from Khairun University in Indonesia after they joined a protest in December…

Alex Sariwating/Suharto, Ambon, Maluku – Police will probe the raising of the South Maluku Republic (RMS) separatist movement flag at the…

A group of Indonesian religious leaders, academics, activists and cultural figures have called on President Joko Widodo to free all political…

Ronny Kareni – We are West Papuans living in Australia, calling for our friends to support Veronica Koman, an Indonesian human rights lawyer. Many…

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Arya Dipa and Apriadi Gunawan, Surabaya/Medan – Residents in various regions of Indonesia decided to go ahead with festive…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – More than 15,000 hikers swamped Mount Bawakaraeng in Gowa regency, South Sulawesi to celebrate Independence Day on…

Islami Adisubrata, Wamena, Jubi – Papua Customary Council (DAP) commemorated the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples of 9 August…

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – Three influencers on social media have apologized to their followers after facing a backlash for posting content…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have apprehended seven alleged provocateurs at a rally protesting the controversial…