Max Walden – Indonesia's national police and military have publicly warned about the "risks" of being LGBT, in officials' latest verbal attack…

Kornchanok Raksaseri – It has been eight years since Timor-Leste submitted a formal application to be a member of the Association of Southeast…

James Massola, Jakarta – A massive power failure has hit the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and surrounding cities, potentially affecting more…

Amanda Siddharta, Jakarta – In 2019, Indonesians saw a surging number of cases of violence involving children.

In April, a 14-year-old girl…

Meaghan Tobin – When work began on East Timor's US$490 million deep water port, things went with a bang – literally.

The government waived…

Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – Democracy in Indonesia has declined for the first time since the beginning of the reformasi era – the political…

Jakarta – As part of the ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the capital's worsening air quality, mountaineering community Slow Adventure…

Jakarta – The big family of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's Cabinet gathered at Bogor Palace, West Java, on Sunday to enjoy a range…

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military Information Center (Puspen TNI) has come under fire for publishing a comic strip that…

Jakarta – Fishing ponds in North Jakarta have dried up, killing hundreds of fish and forcing the municipality to deal with rainless months amid…

Meaghan Tobin – Many saw it as the latest example of China's growing diplomatic and economic clout in the 17-year-old nation, which lies just…

Workers and military personnel have been desperately trying to collect rubbish overflowing in a river in Indonesia.

Shocking images have…

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Ms Ayu Rohaya was keeping a watchful eye on the four construction workers mending a portion of her neighbourhood's…

Karuni Rompies, James Massola and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have cancelled a tsunami warning about two hours after a powerful…

Felix Nathaniel – Social media has been abuzz after the TNI's (Indonesian military) official Twitter account carried a cartoon about Lesbian, Gay…

Jakarta – The sudden death of a South Tangerang national flag-hoisting team (Paskibraka) member on Thursday with bruises found on her body has…

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Police HQ recorded there are 236 cases of child sexual assault occurred in January to May this…

Jakarta – Rape suspect Sugeng Slamet, 44, sustained bruises during his first day at the Lumajang detention center in East Java following an…

Jakarta – The South Sumatra Police have arrested and named 16 people suspects for their alleged involvement in assaults against police officers…

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – State electricity firm PLN has estimated that the coal use for electricity generation in…

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – At least 64 percent of Indonesian professionals are confident that China and India will overtake the United States as "…

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan yesterday signed a Gubernatorial Instruction (Ingub) instructing the provincial government to adopt several…

Abah Grandong, the man who appeared in a disturbing viral video this week in which he was depicted eating what looked like the carcass of a…

Johnny Blades – Papua's provincial government is frustrated over a lack of action by Indonesia's central government to open up direct…

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia's crackdown on waste imports is backfiring, with its plastic recycling industry in disarray and hundreds of…

Amy Chew – Indonesia's largest moderate Muslim organisation Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is poised to expand its influence in President Joko Widodo's new…

Jakarta – The TNI's (Indonesian military) information centre has verified that @Puspen_TNI uploaded a comic strip on its Twitter account…

Indonesian journalist Asnawi Luwi's house was burned down, followed by an arson attack at the office of the Indonesian Journalists Association (…

Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is open to the idea of giving taxpayers a second chance to come clean about assets kept abroad…

Jakarta – Emergency services have said they were alerted only three days after a fishing boat carrying 37 people sank on Tuesday off Matasiri…

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities lifted a tsunami warning late Friday after a powerful earthquake struck off the southern coast…

Jeremy Siregar & Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta – AmCham Indonesia and the US-Indonesia Society hosted an exclusive lunch meeting in Jakarta on…

Bayu Marhaenjati & Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is mulling over a plan to extend its limited road ban on cars…

Ade Tri – The presidential and legislative elections are over and the noise of the strident sound of the "festival of democracy" is no longer to…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) says that the deployment of the TNI (Indonesian military) and Polri (Indonesian police…

Jakarta – The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) commended the authorities' policy response in the face of strong external…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – A Muslim organization in Makassar, South Sulawesi, has protested against two local restaurants for selling dishes…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Papua – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe has issued a regulation to help boost the involvement of Papuan businesspeople in…

Surya Fachrizal, Iqbal Musyaffa, Jepara, Indonesia – Farmers look forward to the harvest season as a time to reap the rewards from a year of hard…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has arrested five employees of state-owned enterprises and seized Rp 1 billion (US$70,847)…

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian has signed an assignment order for members of the police's technical team tasked with…

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The first civil lawsuit hearing on the city's air pollution is postponed. The chief judge Saifudin Zuhri said that…

Nivell Rayda, Karawang, West Java – The high tide was coming but fishermen in the remote village of Sedari, in the northern coast of Indonesia's…

Lhokseumawe – Three people were publicly whipped 100 times each in Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province on Wednesday (Jul 31), with one…

Jakarta – Jakarta's air quality is the worst in the world again on Thursday (Aug 1) morning, according to air quality index monitor AirVisual,…

Jakarta – Indonesia plans to relax bank merger rules to encourage more consolidation in the sector in Southeast Asia's biggest economy crowded…

Byniniek karmini, Jakarta – Forest fires burning throughout Indonesia have prompted six provinces to declare a state of emergency and deploy…

A 44-year-old man named Sugeng Slamet from Lumajang, East Java, was violently assaulted in jail by other inmates, with police saying that they…

In conservative Indonesia, public displays of affection (aka PDA) are not just frowned upon, they could potentially land you in legal trouble,…

In mid-July, the male head of a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in the ultraconservative province of Aceh, as well as one of the school's…