Jakarta – The Garuda Indonesia Workers Union [Sekarga] has revoked a police report it filed against YouTube content creators Rius Vernandes and…
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July 19, 2019
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has given the National Police a deadline of three months to discover who attacked the Corruption…
Jakarta – The removal of a bamboo art installation titled Getah Getih from near the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle on Wednesday has left an empty…
Jakarta – The Indonesian Petroleum Association (IPA) welcomes the government's plan to revise Energy and Mineral Resources Ministerial Decree No…
Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo promised to allocate eternal funds to support the development of the country's…
Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Indonesian Navy Chief Admiral Siwi Sukma Adji met his Australian counterpart Vice Admiral Michael Joseph Noonan in the…
Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – PKB and Golkar are not the only parties eyeing the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) speaker position.…
Jakarta (Antara) – The Law and Human Rights Ministry's director-general of immigration Ronny Franky Sompie said that there are no…
Despite the dangers and despite the fact that is not easy being Jewish in Indonesia – the largest Muslim country in the world – two members of…
Jakarta – Non-biodegradable waste has been found clogging sewer pipes in Mega Kuningan, one of the Jakarta's most high-end business…
Jakarta – The government is considering whether or not to extend the mass organization permit for the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), a hard-line…
Jakarta – Indonesia must pass the new land bill into law to give investors legal certainty and avoid conflict with indigenous communities,…
Bayu Marhaenjati & Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Jakarta Police handed over more than 300 people suspected of being involved in…
Thresa Sandra Desfika, Jakarta – Garuda Indonesia has dropped its defamation charge against a local vlogger who posted a photo on social media of…
Siti Sadida Hafsyah, Jakarta – Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) researcher Cahyo Pamungkas says that the Trans Papua Highway has yet to…
July 18, 2019
Jakarta – The Jakarta High Court has increased the prison sentence of Golkar Party politician and former social affairs minister Idrus Marham to…
Jakarta – National Movement to Safeguard the Ulama Fatwa (GNPF) leader Yusuf Muhammad Martak has said that they plan to hold the 4th Ijtimak…
Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) plans to form a political party, the Indonesian Green Party, and make the issue of the…
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has officially signed Presidential Regulation Number 42/2019 on Two Revisions to Presidential Regulation…
Rustam Agus, Palu (Bisnis) – The Central Sulawesi branch of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has declared that pushing for the…
Yashinta Difa/Azis Kurmala, Jakarta – Indonesia has strongly condemned the Oxford City Council's decision to award Benny Wenda, a member of the…
Kate Lamb – Activists have warned of an "epidemic" of sexual harassment and violence against women in Indonesia, in the wake of two recent cases…
The Oxford City Council in Britain has awarded United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) chairperson Benny Wenda the Honorary Freedom of…
Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) senior investigator Novel Baswedan has expressed his deep disappointment with the results of a…
Jakarta – The Jakarta Fire and Rescue Agency's acting head, Subejo, has said the capital needs more fire stations, considering the significant…
Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister has revived a discussion about relaxing the negative…
Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – Four people died while seven others were injured in a bloody clash in Mesuji, Lampung, the local police said on…
Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati says the slow growth of tax revenues in the first half of 2019 was caused by…
Fikri Arigi, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia strongly suggests President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo take proactive action and form an…
Jakarta (Antara) – A West Sumatra University fisheries and mainland fisheries academic announced that a number of fish species…
Andita Rahma, Jakarta – Hendardi, a member of the fact-finding team (TGPF) assigned to uncover Novel Baswedan's attacker said the Corruption…
Indonesia's Information and Electronic Transactions Law (the ITE Law) has all too frequently led to victims being charged, rather than…
Jakarta – Bank Indonesia cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 5.75 percent on Thursday in anticipation of expected policy easing…
Andreas Harsono – Indonesian police last week senselessly detained and charged a woman with a mental health condition with blasphemy after she…
July 17, 2019
Resty Woro Yuniar – An Indonesian woman who received a six-month jail sentence for recording a lewd phone call from her boss has been given a…
Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani says the government has allocated Rp 10.3 trillion (US$737.51 million) for…
A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – Indonesian netizens are poking fun at the Depok city administration in West Java for its unorthodox plan to play…
Jakarta – The administration of West Java's Depok is planning to increase its groundwater tax from the current Rp 500 to Rp 4,000 (2 US cents)…
Jakarta – Select Cabinet positions in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's new government will be distributed among ruling coalition parties…
Jakarta – The Finance Ministry has projected a revenue shortfall of Rp 140 trillion (US$10.02 billion) from the revenue forecast of Rp 1.58…
Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) says that the narrative of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's "Vision Indonesia" speech…
James Massola, Jakarta – Garuda Indonesia's response to a critical video review has turned into an omnishambles. Now, two bloggers could be…
Fira Prameswari, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Kurnia Ramadhana says that the Corruption Eradication Commission…
Hui Min Lee Fred Wang, Singapore – The fate of seven major Indonesian thermal coal producers is hanging in the balance amid government regulation…
Jakarta – On May 16, 2012, the Constitutional Court restored the rights of indigenous peoples over customary forests. This decision has had wide…
Victor Mambor, Jayapura – The Papua administration has requested that the central government assist it in bolstering the trade network with…
Karina M. Tehusijarana, Jakarta – After six months of work, a fact-finding team formed by National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian has failed to…
Jon Afrizal, Jambi – The Piyungan River in Bantul regency, Yogyakarta, has been polluted with chromium from waste disposed by four nearby leather…
Jakarta – The lawyer representing senior Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan, Arif Maulana, believes that the…
Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – Jakarta Council's head of Democrat Party faction Taufiqurrahman reminded the Indonesia Solidarity Party…




