Dyna Rochmyaningsih – How much did Indonesia burn this year? An international research organization has taken down an online report that…
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December 10, 2019
Maikel Jefriando, Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank is working to further relax lending rules and may further trim interest rates after this…
University students and human rights activists staged a rally on Sunday in West Papua demanding Indonesia's President Joko Widodo…
A public caning carried out today in Banda Aceh, the capital city of Aceh province, became the first in the city to feature a woman handling the…
Dili – This morning judge Eusebio Xavier Vitor decided that an ex-priest R.D.is sent to Dili main prison in Becora for preventive detention. R.D…
Putu Ayu Palupi – Scores of students in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta held a protest action at the Pal Putih Monument on December 10 to…
Jakarta – The Secretary General of the Nusantara Traditional Community Alliance (AMAN) Rukka Sombolinggi says that traditional communities are…
Ahmad Bil Wahid, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has issued a report on the handling of human…
Farih Maulana Sidik, Jakarta – Students from a number of different campuses held a demonstration in front of the State Palace in Central Jakarta…
Jakarta – Financial technology (fintech) users need to step up their game in ensuring they own safety to protect their data while the government…
Jakarta – A series of new digital infrastructure projects are strengthening Indonesia's information and communications technology (ICT) sector as…
Karina M. Tehusijarana, Jakarta – Arguments from government and political party officials against direct elections – both at the regional and…
Karina M. Tehusijarana, Jakarta – Weekly magazine Warta Minggu published by the Tomang Roman Catholic parish in West Jakarta reported that at…
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Johnny G. Plate, the new communication and information technology minister, says data privacy, talent and infrastructure…
Jakarta – Indonesia remains in the group of countries with high human development index despite no gain in ranking, according to a report by the…
Jakarta – Occasionally you may overhear people gossiping about someone else and they use the term julid, or you come across the word ambyar when…
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed National Police chief Gen. Idham Azis to immediately reveal the perpetrator behind the…
Friski Riana, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo assured that new findings in Novel Baswedan's acid attack investigation will…
Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investments Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, appears to be taking side with…
Ade Ridwan Yandwiputra, Jakarta – A number of university students members of the Indonesian Students Executive Boards' Alliance (BEM SI) planned…
Friski Riana, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo revealed his reasons for not setting a deadline for National Police Chief Gen. Idham Azis…
Fikri Arigi, Jakarta – A legal expert at Trisakti University, Abdul Fickar Hadjar, considered the death penalty for graft convicts inappropriate…
Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Dozens of people wearing black clothes from rights group Amnesty International Indonesia marched to the State Secretary…
Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has said that he wants the government's microcredit program (KUR) to be…
Fadli, Batam – Rian Ernest, a rising politician and former staffer for Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, announced his candidacy for the Batam…
Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Indonesia's human development index has moved up to high category for the first time ever after being stuck on the medium…
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Education plays a pivotal role in creating a more inclusive society for Indonesian women aiming to ensure gender…
Adi Briantika – The sole judge at the South Jakarta District Court, Agus Widodo, has rejected a pretrial suit by six Papuan political prisoners…
Jakarta – Agus Widodo, the sole judge in a pretrial suit submitted by six Papua activists charged with treason, has rejected all of the points in…
Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – Commission A of the Jakarta city legislative council and the office of National and Political Unity (Kesbangpol) agreed…
Jakarta – Indonesia is aiming to start making lithium batteries for use in electric vehicles in 2023, alongside plants that are already slated to…
Indonesian government officials have alleged that permits underpinning a multi-billion dollar plantation project in Papua province were falsified…
Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – A number of people staged a demonstration in front of the South Jakarta District Court building on…
Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The Office of the Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister estimates that US$137 billion worth of…
Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – A rift seems to have formed between President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK,…
December 9, 2019
Eisya A. Eloksari, Jakarta – Technology associations and industry players in Indonesia are optimistic that job gains from the fourth industrial…
Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – A mother in Jeneponto regency, South Sulawesi, has posted about her child's rape case on social media…
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has decided to skip for the first time in his presidency an event commemorating International…
Jakarta – East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa has laid the first stone for the Munir Human Rights Museum in Batu, East Java, marking the…
Norman Harsono, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has named former Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara as the new president…
Benny Mawel, Jayapura – University students and human rights activists staged a rally on Sunday in Sorong, West Papua, demanding that President…
Karlis Salna – Indonesia has entered "a new norm" of historically low inflation, according to a senior central bank official, possibly portending…
Ian Lloyd Neubauer, Jogjakarta and Denpasar, Indonesia – Every year in Indonesia, at least one million dogs are brutally butchered for human…
Police in Malang regency, East Java on Friday arrested a 38-year-old vocational school (SMK) teacher who has been accused of molesting 18 of his…
Solomon Islands and Indonesia have moved to strengthen ties through increased trade and investment opportunities.
That was…
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia's State-Owned Enterprises Ministry is looking to streamline operations, with the objective of slashing…
A woman behind one of the biggest sexual harassment scandals in Indonesia in the past year has retracted her accusations against the alleged…
Dili – The SVD procurator general is currently visiting Timor-Leste to support victims of ex-priest R.D., who sexually abused children in his…
Jakarta – In a bid to provide better public transportation services, state-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) and city-owned…
Beritasatu, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Monday his administration is open to the possibility of imposing the death sentence…




