Jakarta – There is increasing evidence to support the suspicions voiced by a number of people that the selection of ministers in the current…

Adrian Wail and Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Foreign investors are slowly coming back to Indonesia as Bank Indonesia (BI) is seeing signs of an easing…

Eisya A. Eloksari, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has officially assumed the authority to tax digital companies operating in the country…

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) reviewed that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's policy on free electricity for 450…

Junaidi Hanafiah, Aceh Besar, Indonesia – Conservationists say a road project at the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra Island poses a threat to…

John McBeth, Jakarta – With most Indonesians preoccupied with a coronavirus outbreak, security officials were caught off guard when at least…

Laurens Ikinia – A sad story has taken place again in the PT Freeport Indonesia gold and copper mine area near Timika in West Papua on Monday…

Jakarta – Apart from hitting the economy hard and throwing the entire healthcare system into disarray, the novel coronavirus pandemic has also…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) has announced that two more doctors died after contracting the…

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has enlisted the help of local authorities as part of wider efforts to curb the spread of the…

Tara Marchelin, Jakarta – Lawmakers at the House of Representatives have urged the National Police to improve coordination with the government,…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo declared on Tuesday a public health emergency in response to…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Heavy downpour that lasted hours on Monday evening has caused floods that inundated at least 9,285 houses in six districts…

Ganug Nugroho Adi and Aman Rochman, Surakarta – State-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) has cancelled additional long-distance…

Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has narrowed down the number of candidates for several key…

Sylvia Westall and Philip J. Heijmans, New York – During a visit last summer where he strolled through the tropical gardens next to Indonesia's…

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has announced that Indonesia's poorest households will receive free electricity and…

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The government's social restriction policy to encourage people to stay at home, launched in the middle of March,…

Prima Wirayani and Farida Susanty, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo signed on Tuesday a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) to…

Eko Listiyorini, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to mobilize volunteers to fight the spread of coronavirus in coastal villages and the vast hinterlands…

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's largest thermal coal miner, PT Bumi Resources, booked a US$6.84 million profit in 2019, down 97 percent…

Jakarta – Acting transportation minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan has indefinitely postponed the Jakarta Transportation Agency's policy to…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The World Bank has estimated that the COVID-19 pandemic will significantly slow Indonesia's economic growth this…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has raised concerns over an increase in imported COVID-19 cases as migrants workers are expected to…

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – If Indonesia does not step up its current COVID-19 control measures, the country might have to deal with a "collapsed…

Rieka Rahadiana, Jakarta – Indonesia barred foreign nationals from entering the country as the world's fourth-most populous country stepped up…

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition for Reform on the Security Sector is calling on the government to refrain from declaring a civil emergency…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Postponing this year's regional elections was the most viable option to avoid COVID-19 from further spreading…

Michael Leach – In late January, Timor-Leste's governing alliance collapsed after the largest coalition party, Xanana Gusmao's CNRT, abstained on…

Asip Hasani and Apriadi Gunawan, Trenggalek, East Java and Medan, North Sumatra – A number of cities and regencies have restricted access to main…

Made Anthony Iswara, Jakarta – South Korean industrial conglomerate LG, known for its electronics subsidiary LG Electronics, will donate 50,000…

Eisya A. Eloksari, Jakarta – A new report shows that netizens in Indonesia are becoming more supportive of the idea to contain the spread of the…

Jakarta – Working from home (WFH) may be effective in slowing down the spread of COVID-19, but for many in the informal sector with no regular…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The government, the House of Representatives and the General Elections Commission (KPU) have agreed to delay the 2020…

Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – Indonesia is set to release about 30,000 prisoners early as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to avoid a possible…

Apriza Pinandita, Jakarta – The Indonesian Embassy in Wellington has expressed its deepest condolences over the shooting incident that left a New…

Tsarina Maharani, Jakarta – A number of civil society organisations are urging the House of Representatives (DPR) and the government to cancel…

Ian Morse, Kokoe, Indonesia – For years, this eastern Indonesian village of fishermen and seaweed farmers simmered with anger over the pollution…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Mining companies in Indonesia are among those being hit by weakened demand as the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Sukabumi city in West Java has been announced as a new COVID-19 cluster and the epicenter of the spread of the virus in the…

Jakarta – Billionaire, former Trade and Industry Minister under Soeharto's New Order – also famous for being the dictator's golf buddy – and…

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – The government is still preparing a regulation on the annual Idul Fitri exodus, or mudik, during the Covid-19 outbreak,…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, has issued a circular advising Muslims to perform…

Jakarta and Medan – Some nearby residents oppose the burial of a person with COVID-19 at the Bedahan Public Cemetery in Sawangan district in…

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The World Bank has called on the government to prioritize financial incentives for households and businesses to…

Jakarta – The 2020 national online population census is to be extended until May 29 as a mere 12 percent of the needed data was gathered by the…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Indonesian government should prioritize "human rights principles" in its handling of the tens of thousands of…

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The NasDem Party, which is part of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's government coalition, has called on the House of…

Suherdjoko, Semarang – A recovered COVID-19 patient in Central Java has recounted his experience fighting the disease and called on the general…

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called for stricter rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as the government mulls…