Jakarta – Constitutional Court justices presided over the last hearing over a challenge to the presidential election result on Friday evening and…
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June 23, 2019
Jakarta (Antara) – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) attended the plenary session of the 34th ASEAN Summit in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday.
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Jakarta – The Jakarta provincial government's (Pemprov DKI) decision to issue 932 building permits (IMB) for land reclamation project islets in…
Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – China is one of the most influential countries for Indonesia, and the East Asian nation's growing economy and…
Jakarta (Antara) – Several regional authorities have been reminded to intensify the monitoring for possible forest fires and droughts, as the…
June 22, 2019
Apriadi Gunawan, Langkat, North Sumatra – Following a fire that killed 30 people at a cigarette lighter factory in Sambirejo village, Langkat…
Jakarta – Maj. Gen. (ret) Soenarko, a former commander of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus), was released from detention on Friday. His…
Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has allocated Rp 20 billion (US$1.42 million) for a series of events to celebrate the capital city's 492nd…
Jakarta – As a popular domestic tourist site in Jakarta, Ancol Dreamland Park in North Jakarta has the potential to attract foreign visitors,…
Iqra Anugrah, Jakarta – I met Sugeng, a fisher and a community organiser in my research trip to Kendal District, Central Java earlier this year…
M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Indonesian press experienced dark history twenty-five years ago on June 21, 1994, when Tempo magazine was banned by…
M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – A public attorney from the Jakarta Legal Aid (LBH) institution Ayu Eza Tiara, mentioned that there were dozens of…
Junaedi, Polewali Mandar – Riots broke out at the Polewali Mandar Class IIB Prison (Lapas Polman) in Polewali Mandar regency, West Sulawesi, on…
Chandra Iswinarno and Ria Rizki Nirmala Sari – Razman Arif Nasution, the legal affairs spokesperson for the Joko Widodo-Ma'ruf Amin election…
June 21, 2019
Herman, Jakarta – The government plans to lower minimum airfares on certain routes, cut fuel price and offer fiscal incentives to airlines…
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – At least 30 people died in a fire at a lighter factory in Binjai district, Langkat regency in…
Jakarta – A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Sarmi, a district in Papua, early on Thursday morning. No casualty was reported,…
Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Indonesia and other countries that significantly contribute to the world's high carbon emissions must take concrete steps…
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said the upcoming Asean Summit and G-20 Summit will provide a momentum for Indonesia to…
Nezar Patria, Oslo – Top Indonesian scholars have supported the nomination of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's two largest…
Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who is celebrating his 58th birthday today, received well wishes from construction workers…
Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, JAKARTA – State mining holding company PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) has booked total assets of Rp 162…
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has come under attack for "neglecting the cries of its people, particularly in West Papua".
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Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to tighten vetting of senior public servants amid fears that hardline Islamist ideology has permeated…
Fiji's diplomatic relations with Indonesia have come under intense scrutiny in Parliament this week over human rights abuses in West Papua.
…The West Java Police have arrested a preacher named Rahmat Baequni for his alleged role in perpetuating a hoax positing that hundreds of election…
Almost all of the recent drama surrounding the election lawsuit by losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has taken place within the…
Muh Syaifullah, Jakarta – An academician at the Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Bagas Pujilaksono Widyakanigara Ph. D, wrote an open letter to…
Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Kivlan Zen, who is suspected of illegal firearms possession, has filed for a pre-trial. The retired major…
M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Deputy Head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Saut Situmorang, denied rumors about radicalism in his…
Friski Riana, Bandung – Presidential Chief of Staff, Moeldoko, hoped that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Prabowo Subianto could meet anytime…
Yogyakarta – It is widely known that Indonesia was once ruled by a Hindu kingdom. However, centuries after the fall of that kingdom, the values…
Linda Yulisman and Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh,ljakarta – Lawyers for Indonesia's defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto spent the past…
Jakarta – Every member of the Cilincing and Koja district election committees (PPK) in North Jakarta have been named suspects of vote rigging…
Apriadi Gunawan, Langkat, North Sumatra – Twenty-seven adults and three children who died in a fire at a lighter factory in Binjai…
Angel Riadi & Egna Setiawan, Jakarta – "Race for Water," a solar-powered hybrid catamaran, arrived in Jakarta this week as part of a global…
Jeis Montesori & Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – About 8,000 people, including representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, regional…
Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has gone abroad to an unidentified country while his legal team is busily engaged in the…
June 20, 2019
New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, says he will raise concerns over human rights abuses in West Papua with his…
Yesterday's session of the Constitutional Court hearing on the election fraud lawsuit filed by Prabowo Subianto's campaign appeared to go quite…
Johnny Blades – The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has officially submitted an application for full membership in the Melanesian…
Dion Bisara & Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – The government is prioritizing revisions to the corporate income tax law, seeking to cut the tax rate…
One of Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's main campaign promises was stopping the land reclamation project in Jakarta Bay, but he has effectively…
Halida Bunga, Jakarta – The legal team representing Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan mentioned…
There are an estimated 14,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia. But an unclear legal framework and the unwillingness of politicians to…
Gayatri Suroyo, Maikel Jefriando, Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank held its policy interest rate unchanged on Thursday, but moved to cut the…
Kuala Lumpur (Reuters) – Less than half of the garbage produced on Indonesia's resort island of Bali is recycled, with thousands of tonnes burned…
The United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) has officially submitted its application for full membership of the regional Melanesian…
Haris Fadhil, Jakarta – One of the witnesses that was to be presented by the legal team representing the loosing 02 presidential ticket of…
Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration will receive a total of Rp 100.47 billion (US$6.257 billion) in dividends from publicly listed…




