Dili – President Francisco Guterres Lu Olo swore in eight new cabinet members on Friday. For the first time a woman has become deputy prime…

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Rahima Malik, 29, has dreamed of being a teacher since she was pursuing a teaching degree with a major in Indonesian…

Jakarta – The ongoing feud between East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa and Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini aka Risma over how to handle…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University (UGM) has canceled a planned online discussion about the constitutional mechanism…

Amy Chew – Indonesia's first reported honour killing of a schoolgirl earlier this month has shocked the nation and prompted rights activists to…

Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs Mahfud MD has confirmed that there are no parties seeking to revoke the…

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Ministry has issued new guidelines for houses of worship, which are set to reopen soon as…

Jakarta – The Central Java Police have arrested a district police chief after he was reported to have crashed his car into a house, killing a 3-…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 700 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Sunday to bring the country's total to 26,473 and…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – A law enforcement task force that includes the Environment and Forestry Ministry and the West Kalimantan Natural…

Jakarta – The Social Affairs Ministry hosted a virtual event to celebrate the 24th National Day for Elderly People on Friday.

"The…

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The World Bank has agreed to provide a US$250 million loan to support Indonesia's COVID-19 response, the…

Jakarta – Authorities in East Jakarta are readying the city-owned Pulogadung Sports Hall as a quarantine center for people returning to Jakarta…

Jakarta – The central government has insisted on holding the simultaneous regional elections in December despite the COVID-19 pandemic, with the…

Triyan Pangastuti, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has approved a plan to extend the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail to Surabaya, East…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has spoken out against a police report filed by an Indonesian Solidarity…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – Transparency International Indonesia (TII) has urged the government to increase transparency and…

Jakarta – Senayan has approved the proposal to revise the Constitutional Court Law. There is no urgent need to do so.

The House of…

Sorong – Four defendants charged with treason in Sorong City, West Papua province, were finally declared guilty and sentenced to eight months and…

Jakarta – A 100-year-old woman in Surabaya, East Java, has recovered from COVID-19 after spending a month in the hospital. The woman, identified…

Dina Manafe, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The number of patients recovering from coronavirus in Indonesia hit a new record of 523 on Saturday,…

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – Parents and the government must pay more attention to children's health and education as the pandemic casts a…

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Automaker Nissan Motor Indonesia (NMI) announced the official closure of its factory in Indonesia as its Japanese…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The COVID-19 pandemic might have largely affected the elderly and chronically ill adults, but a recent assessment has…

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Nationwide fuel consumption during this year's Idul Fitri period was 31.2 percent below the normal level as the…

Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – As the government stands firm in its decision to push back the 2020 simultaneous regional elections until the end of the…

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Publicly listed pharmaceutical company Kalbe Farma has signed an agreement with South Korea-based biotechnology firm…

Bengkulu, Indonesia – Indonesian officials are forcing social distancing violators to recite Koran verses, stay in "haunted" houses and submit to…

Jakarta – With the COVID-19 pandemic having challenged sustainable development in many parts of the world, it is necessary to use the United…

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Commuter line operator PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia (KCI) has asserted that it will maintain COVID-19 health protocols…

Arys Aditya and Harry Suhartono – Indonesia will focus on infrastructure projects and social programs worth $97 billion over the next five years…

Jakarta – Indonesia has imposed tariffs on imports of some textile products for the period until November 2022, according to a finance ministry…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Ramadan is usually a bumper time of year for shopping malls in the Indonesian capital as friends meet for dinner after…

Richard Borsuk – It is lagging badly behind Asean rivals in the competition for foreign direct investment. Things could get rougher in post-Covid…

John Martinkus – It was a simple insult that started it: "Monkey."

The Indonesian police, alongside Islamist and nationalist Indonesians,…

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) and the National Police planned to establish a database post to monitor the public's…

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – On the fifth day after 2020 Eid al-Fitr, Thursday, May 28, Jakarta Metro Police recorded that a total of 3,095…

Antara, Jakarta – Two members of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) in Timika, Papua, have reportedly been arrested by local…

M Rosseno Aji, Translator: Dio Suhenda (Intern), Jakarta – Chief of the Papuan Human Rights Lawyers Association, Gustaf Rudolf Kawer, reported…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) has injected an additional Rp 167.6 trillion (US$11.33 billion) this month to stabilize the…

At 7:00 in the morning on May 27th, two West Papuan activists, Gerson Son Tabuni and Kalep Kilungga were arrested without explanation by the…

A journalist from one of Indonesia's largest digital media companies, DetikCom received death threats following their coverage of Indonesian…

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Audit Agency, or BPK, plans to audit how regional governments have been reallocating their budget…

Beritasatu, Jakarta – At least 14 shopping malls in the North Sumatra capital of Medan partially reopened on Friday amid the ongoing coronavirus…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 678 confirmed cases of coronavirus on Friday, bringing the total number of infections in the…

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – At a meeting of artists and cultural activists after the 2018 Indonesian Cultural Congress, President Joko "…

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – As Indonesia has yet to see the curve of COVID-19 infection flatten, the government's decision to roll out guidelines…

Indonesia's Finance Ministry recently estimated that the national poverty rate will continue to increase amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with Java…

Amanda Siddharta, Jakarta, Indonesia – Six activists charged with treason in Jakarta for organizing a protest rally last August outside the…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is set to receive $56.15 million from Norway, the first payment based on the results of the Southeast…