Jakarta – The government has targeted Rp 500 billion (US$35.49 million) in revenue from plastic taxes as stated in the 2019 state budget, but the…

Civil society groups in Papua New Guinea are urging the government to speak out about violent conflict in the neighbouring Papua region of…

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Wonogiri – Hundreds of students at a state junior high school in Wonogiri, Central Java, staged a protest on Monday to demand…

Celebrity musician, failed politician and Nazi-apparel aficionado Ahmad Dhani is officially filing an appeal for his 1.5-year prison sentence,…

Chinese-Indonesians were not allowed to celebrate Chinese New Year during Suharto's New Order dictatorship, just one part of his regime's…

Jakarta – The construction of a bridge on the Trans Papua road in Nduga, West Papua, will be finished by the army (TNI AD). The construction of…

Arya Dipa and Kharishar Kahfi, Bandung and Jakarta – In January last year, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said the key to settle all the…

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's younger brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, who is also a member of Prabowo's campaign team,…

Fikri Arigi, Jakarta – Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) secretary-general Raja Juli Antoni has called Prabowo's and his Gerindra Party's…

Vindry Florentin, Jakarta – In a coordination meeting between state ministers and regional heads on Monday, January 28, 2019, Vice…

Ryan Dwiky Anggriawan, Jakarta – Vice presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno criticized 31 regional heads in Central Java for publicly…

Jakarta – Exporters have welcomed the government's short-term policy to boost exports by reducing the number of the commodities requiring…

Celebrity musician, failed politician and Nazi-apparel aficionado Ahmad Dhani was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison today after being found guilty…

Ayu Cipta, Tangerang – The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) of Tangerang City stopped a Post Office located on Jalan Daan Mogot from…

Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said that the number of mosques in Indonesia has increased significantly in recent years, but the exact…

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – Indonesia Real Estate Broker Association (AREBI) chairman Lukas Bong has called on the government to relax…

Karina M. Tehusijarana, Jakarta – Making up nearly half of the electorate, millennials are at the top of every political party's target group…

Jakarta – Farmers in Kayu Aro village, Kerinci regency, Jambi have thrown potatoes and cabbage harvested from their farms onto the road in…

Maimon Herawati, the woman perhaps best known as the initiator of an online petition demanding that Indonesian authorities take a "vulgar" Shopee…

A group of UK parliamentarians in the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for West Papua have welcomed the handing-in of the historical West…

Paulina Quintao – After a secret voting at the National Parliament, Sergio de Jesus Hornai, was elected new Commissioner for the Anti-Corruption…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council's (MUI) Bogor chapter in West Java has urged members of the public not to heed the call from a…

While many analysts have predicted that "Islamic mobilization" (i.e. the ability of candidates to bring voters out to the poll on the basis of…

London (Benny Wenda/Pacific Media Watch) – As chairman of The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), I have presented the West Papuan…

Students at a junior high school in the Wonogiri Regency of Central Java came out in the dozens to demand the resignation of one of the school's…

A petition by West Papuans seeking decolonisation has been handed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.…

Febriana Firdaus – Jakob Skrzypski left a stable job in Switzerland to travel through Indonesia last year. He visited Java, Sumatra and the…

Jakarta – Floods and landslides that hit 12 regencies and one city across South Sulawesi last week have killed at least 68 people and displaced…

Jakarta – At least 68 people have been killed and nearly 7,000 forced to take refuge in emergency shelters after floods, landslides and a tornado…

Geneva – A separatist movement in Indonesia's West Papua province delivered a petition with 1.8 million signatures demanding an independence…

Isal Mawardi, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto's younger brother and financial backer, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, says that they will accept any and all…

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who became a coconut and palm oil trader at the age of 15 before building a multi-billion dollar empire…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo is backing away from a plan to release a radical cleric linked to the Bali bombings in…

Dede Oetomo – In the 1960s, I grew up in Pasuruan, East Java in Indonesia. During this time, I learned that trans women in Jakarta started…

James Massola, Jakarta – Australia's very particular and peculiar love affair with the Indonesian island of Bali is well-established, to the…

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – State-owned weapons manufacturer PT Pindad announced on Thursday that it booked net profits of Rp 98 billion (US$…

Ni Komang Erviani and Bambang Muryanto, Denpasar and Yogyakarta – Journalists and rights activists across Indonesia were outraged by President…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Aerospace company PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) delivered on Thursday five antisubmarine helicopters and one CN235-220…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government said it would ease procedures to boost exports, with the aim of bolstering the country's current…

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan responded to the deforestation issue that had been in…

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The assessment by sociologist Ariel Heryanto on Indonesians that choose to be non-voters or 'Golput' is mainly caused by…

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – The Prabowo-Sandiaga Uno campaign team (BPN) spokesman Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak announced the team will pay…

It's 2019, but paranoia about communism – caused by the 1965 coup attempt of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) as well as decades of…

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Rights activists have criticized the police for allowing the identity of a soap opera star, officially identified…

Sheany, Jakarta – A plan by the Attorney General's Office to launch a massive crackdown on books about communism and other banned ideologies has…

Heru, Dian, Astri, Hermawan, Rei, Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu supports the proposal by Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo to…

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) says that the release of former Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok"…

By Max Lane

Executive Summary

• The policy content in the sharpening rhetorical contestation in Indonesia's…

James Massola, Jakarta – On paper, the two men couldn't be much more different.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, widely known as Ahok, is an…

Angus Watson – Indonesians this week got a taste of how far their outwardly secular President Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, would go to buttress…