Jakarta – South Tangerang saw an increasing divorce rate in 2018, with up to 3,500 couples separating while most cases stemmed from…

Jakarta's ban on single-use plastic bags (locally known as kresek) is expected to be passed and enforced in early 2019, but Governor Anies…

Another day, another mishap for presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto.

In a speech titled "Ceramah Kebangsaan Akhir Tahun" ("End of Year…

Jakarta – National Committee for West Papua (KNPB) head Agus Kosay sent a legal notice to the Mimika Police precinct chief, requesting that the…

Jakarta – Hundreds of survivors of the Sunda Strait tsunami that hit Banten and South Lampung on Dec. 22 are in dire need of temporary housing,…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Indonesia, with the help of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Canadian government, has poured funding into…

Fabian Januarius Kuwado, Jakarta – The coordinator of the Commission for Missing Person and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Yati Andriani, hopes…

Fabian Januarius Kuwado, Jakarta – Human Rights (HAM) activists in Indonesia have few expectations about the first debate between the…

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The latest news coming from the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin campaign team treasurer reported that it managed to collect…

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Spokesman for the Prabowo Subianto – Sandiaga Uno electoral campaign team Ahmad Riza Patria said that his team's…

Chaerul Umam, Jakarta – The 212 Reunion organising committee has held a "212 Award" for media and individuals that have consistently championed…

Jakarta – Ships at the Makassar Container Terminal in South Sulawesi are having to wait for five or seven days before they can load and unload…

Karina M. Tehusijarana, Jakarta – Even as the judicial reform process goes on, the Supreme Court continues to turn a cold shoulder to the body…

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – In an unprecedented move, the Jakarta Corruption Court has declared publicly listed construction company PT Duta…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – A group of Muslim clerics in Aceh has challenged Indonesian presidential candidates to undergo a Quran reading…

indy Silviana, Fanny Potkin, Jakarta – Lion Air has ended its search for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from its Boeing 737 MAX jet that…

Jakarta – Although 2019 is expected to see a repeat of the previous year's challenges, some sectors have a rosier outlook than others.

The…

Jakarta – Indonesian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dian Triansyah Djani raised the Indonesian flag on Wednesday New York time at…

Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party's (PKS) Jakarta executive board has added another name to its list of prospective deputy governor…

Jakarta – These days, it is almost unthinkable to leave home without Google Maps.

Jakarta's traffic-weary motorists rely on the application…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government reported on Wednesday that state revenue collected last year had surpassed the target as…

Dian Septiari and Agnes Anya, Jakarta – The government has asked Taiwanese authorities to explain allegations of forced labor involving…

Jakarta – The government plans to revoke the limitation on the number of franchise outlets of convenience stores as well as food and beverage…

A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has condemned the use of children as anak ondel (under-aged…

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has reported fake news propagators to the police after misinformation about seven containers of…

Evarukdijati, Jayapura, Papua – Armed Papuan rebels would likely remain a serious security threat in certain areas of the central mountain range…

In another horrifying case of domestic violence in Indonesia, a man from the Bireuen Regency of Aceh allegedly committed a brutal crime against…

After a huge controversy regarding the sawing off of a wooden cross grave marker in Yogyakarta last month, the neighboring city of Magelang saw…

The case of Baiq Nuril – a high school teacher who was sentenced to six months in prison for recording audio of her principal making explicit and…

A policewoman in Indonesia has been dishonorably discharged after her sexy selfies, which were spread by a man she thought was another police…

Jakarta – A landslide that crashed on to a hilly village on Indonesia's main island of Java buried 30 houses and killed at least 15 people,…

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – The 2014 presidential election was the closest in Indonesia's democratic history, decided by a margin of just 6…

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia posted the smallest fiscal deficit in six years in 2018 and less than initially projected, despite turbulence in…

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The TNI-Polri (Indonesian Military-National Police) joint personnel were accused of holding hostage to an entourage of…

Karina M. Tehusijarana, Jakarta – Flooding and landslides will remain the predominant type of disasters in Indonesia in 2019, a repeat of what…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police have taken over the West Papua National Committee headquarters in Timika, Mimika Baru…

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The National Statistics Indonesia (BPS) on Wednesday announced that the whole-year inflation rate was 3.13 percent, lower…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Indonesia is preparing for a presidential election in April that will see a rematch of Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and…

Jakarta – Secondary landslides are impeding search and rescue efforts at a landslide that caused fatalities in Sukabumi, West Java, where 20…

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – Jakarta's urban mobility is to get a significant facelift this year with the new, modern, railway-based public…

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – The government has been fending off criticism questioning its recent deal with United States mining giant…

Jakarta – The Indonesian economy is expected to face continued external challenges stemming from uncertainty in the global environment, as…

In a major victory for the environment, Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld a lower court verdict ordering PT National Sago Prima (NSP), a sago…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) started implementing on Wednesday a regulation that requires it to handcuff detainees.

Although there is currently something of an unofficial moratorium on executions, Indonesia still utilizes the death penalty, mostly for drug…

Agus Setyadi, Jakarta – New Year's Eve in the Acehnese provincial capital of Aceh was not celebrated this year as it was in other parts of…

AWPA has written to the Australian Foreign Minister concerning the security force operation in the Nduga region and also concerning the ongoing…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Police have opened an investigation into a sexual assault case after an official at Gadjah Mada…

Jakarta – Soldiers, police and residents fanned out across a damaged Indonesian village Tuesday, searching in the mud for possible victims of a…

Jakarta – Police officer chief Brig. Matheus was found dead on Monday at Mutiara Cemetery in Depok, West Java.

Depok Police…