Fikri Arigi, Jakarta – Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) Commander Hadi Tjahjanto says that the Koopssus TNI (special operations…
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July 30, 2019
Jakarta (Antara) – Political expert Dewi Fortuna Anwar predicts that there is a strong possibility for Democrat Party to join forces with the…
M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – Head of the Indonesian Child Protection Agency (LPAI) Seto Mulyadi sees the issue regarding child pornography in…
Shi Yinglun, Jakarta – Indonesian military launched on Tuesday a new elite unit designated to carry out special military missions,…
Revered journalist and writer Arswendo Atmowiloto died on 19 July aged 70 after a short illness. I came to know Arswendo through my research on…
A river in Bekasi, West Java, has come to represent the exact opposite of what its name means as it has made headlines across the country for the…
Bangun Santoso – The seizure of books allegedly containing communist ideas belonging to the Vespa Literacy community by the Kraksaan sectoral…
Jakarta – Singapore remained the largest foreign investor in Indonesia during the first half, with investments of US$3.4 billion…
July 29, 2019
The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), one of Indonesia's most controversial civil society organizations (locally referred to as mass organizations…
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesia's election organizing agency expressed support for a proposal by the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK…
Indonesia's military, or TNI, says its soldiers have taken control of an regional headquarters of the West Papua Liberation Army in…
Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers have agreed that alleged human rights violations in West Papua must remain on the agenda of the regional…
Melbourne (Reuters) – Australia passed a legislation that sets down maritime boundaries with Timor-Leste on Monday (July 29), providing a…
Australia's parliament voted Monday to implement a maritime border treaty with East Timor, potentially unlocking billions in offshore oil and gas…
Jakarta – A number of activists from the Civil Society Coalition suspect that the selection of leadership candidates for the Corruption…
Jakarta – Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto has appointed former chairman of Muhammadiyah's youth wing, Dahnil Simanjuntak, as…
Jakarta – The discovery of at least 300 rusty abandoned buses bearing Transjakarta logos in a field in Dramaga subdistrict, Bogor, West Java has…
Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Police's cybercrime directorate is investigating alleged personal data trading, such as e-ID Number and…
Andita Rahma and M. Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia affirms that they are against the idea of handing death penalty to the…
Jakarta – PT Gudang Garam Tbk (GGRM), one of the country's major cigarette producers, will expand into the road construction business to increase…
Antara & Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – A group of about 100 migrants protested in front of the offices of the United Nations Refugee Agency in…
Antara & Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democracy Index, or IDI, improved slightly in 2018 from the year before, the Central Statistics…
Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – At least 10 villages and seven beaches in West Java have been affected by the oil spill from state energy…
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo signed a decree on Monday granting amnesty to Baiq Nuril Maknun, the woman sentenced to six months in…
July 28, 2019
Anna Coren, Jane Sit and Helen Regan, Jakarta – In his first international television interview since being re-elected in May, Indonesian…
Indonesia's president said in an interview that he wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-…
Patrick Winn – There's nothing new about emerging generations embracing sexual mores that shock their elders. But many Indonesians, especially…
Jakarta (Antara) – The global environmental conservation organization WWF-Indonesia has used an art approach to protect Sumatran tigers, in its…
Jakarta (Antara) – Golkar Party's Deputy Secretary General Ace Hasan Syadzily said President Joko Widodo (Jokowi)'s statement that the government…
Jakarta (Antara) – General Chairman of the Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party Prabowo Subianto on Saturday visited Rachmawati…
Bayu Marhaenjati & Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Thousands of refugees and asylum seekers in Jakarta will be able to breathe easier this…
Musa Abubar and Eliswan Azly, Jayapura – The Papua Archaeological Center's researcher, Hari Suroto, highlighted the importance of teaching "…
Ahmad Faisol, Probolinggo – Police arrested two literacy activists who had setup a free reading stall at the Kraksaan public square in…
Saiful Bahri I, Lhokseumawe – Female religious pupils (santriwati) from the An Islamic boarding school (pesantren) in Lhokseumawe, northern Aceh…
July 27, 2019
Primus Dorimulu, Jakarta – Bambang Soesatyo, the speaker of the House of Representatives, has reminded Australia not to avoid the responsibility…
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Friday that the political parties supporting him remained solid despite recent…
Gisela Swaragita, Jakarta – Munirwan, a farmer and village head in Meunasah Rayeuk village, North Aceh regency, has been arrested for producing…
July 26, 2019
Jakarta – The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) is investigating the possibility that money from drug trafficking has ended up in the hands of…
Jakarta – The National Police are tracking a source of funding for Islamic State-linked homegrown militant group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD),…
Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan said that the results of the police-formed fact-finding team…
Jakarta – Most institutional investors in the financial market want President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to appoint professionals to the economic team…
Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The revision of its 2018 financial report has revealed that national flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia suffered…
On 17th July 2019, ULMWP Chairman Benny Wenda was granted Freedom of the City of Oxford as a messenger of the West Papuan people, an award…
Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to buy more bench vixes and lathe machines while providing better training for its vocational trainers…
James Massola, Jakarta – A sexual harassment victim who was jailed under Indonesia's strict defamation laws is set to be pardoned by Indonesian…
Aichi Halik, Jakarta – The National Democratic Party and Golkar Party have assuaged concerns over a potential split in Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's…
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – The Medan Corruption Court in North Sumatra has sentenced nonactive Pakpak Bharat regent Remigo Yolanda…
Jakarta (Antara) – Deputy head of the PKS Party faction at the House of Representatives (DPR), Aboebakar Alhabsyi, asserted his party would…
Danu Damarjati, Jakarta – A survey has found that victims of sexual harassment range from women wearing revealing clothing to those that are…
M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Amnesty International highlighted the acid attack against senior investigator of the Corruption Eradication Commission (…




