Busrah Hisyam Ardans, Denpasar – The People's Global Conference Alliance (Aliansi Konferensi Rakyat Global) held a peaceful action in front of the…

Scores of students from the People's Movement Against the IMF-World Bank have held a protest action in front of the Bali regional police…

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo, as the highest commander in the Indonesian Military (TNI), said he would eliminate…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Council (DPRD) has announced the resignation of five members planning to run for different political parties in the 2019…

Kartika Anggraeni and Chitra Paramaesti, Jakarta – The government stated it had a strong reason to conclude that the photo recently circulated in…

Aboeprijadi Santoso – "My wife was burnt alive in Kutaradja (now Banda Aceh) in the mid-1960s along with 11 members of Gerwani (woman association…

Ryan Dwiky Anggriawan, Jakarta – Deputy of the National Campaign Team of Jokowi and Ma'ruf Amin, Johnny G. Plate, stated that the hoax…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Presidential contender Prabowo Subianto has apologized for amplifying a false claim made by his campaign team…

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and agencies – The humanitarian crisis in Sulawesi has continued to worsen as organisations struggle to bring the millions…

Raymond Samuel – Despite being embroiled in an economic crisis and even being depicted as a "failed state" by the Western media, Venezuela is…

There's been condemnation from civil society of another series of mass arrests of West Papuans by Indonesian police.

Two organisations…

Karina M. Tehusijarana, Jakarta – A breast cancer patient has reached a peaceful settlement with the government after a three-month-long dispute…

Sheany, Jakarta – Human Rights Watch says thousands of people with mental illness remain either shackled or locked up in confined spaces in…

The chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, Benny Wenda, is being considered for the Freedom of Oxford award.

Jane Cunneen – The death toll from the magnitude 7.5 earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck near Palu, Indonesia, on Friday evening…

Helen Davidson – Indonesia has accused Vanuatu of challenging "friendly relations" between the two countries and supporting separatist movements,…

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Indonesian Communication and Informatics Ministry found several misleading contents that followed the Donggala…

Ratna Sarumpaet, an outspoken critic of President Joko Widodo's government who is now a senior member of the presidential campaign team of…

James Massola & Amilia Rosa, Balaroa, Sulawesi – On the outskirts of Palu, in the suburb of Balaroa, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, the streets…

James Massola & Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia's Sulawesi island has risen to…

The Venezuelan government announced Wednesday that it'd be donating US$10 million from its "solidarity fund," Vice President of the…

Joint Statement to UN General Assembly 73

London, New York – TAPOL and the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) condemn yet…

Jakarta – Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Idham Azis has issued circulars urging Jakartans to keep law and order in mind during the…

Jonas Guterres – Fighting corruption is one of the key essential actions needed to support good governance, poverty eradication and the creation…

Stephen Dziedzic – Timor-Leste's leaders want to build a 150-kilometre pipeline, stretching all the way from the tiny south coast hamlet of Beaco…

Peter Williams – Sunrise LNG operator Woodside Petroleum has left open the prospect of over-riding a deal for the East Timor Government to buy a…

Jakarta – The rupiah weakened to Rp 15,025 per United States dollar at 11:37 a.m. on Tuesday, 0.58 percent weaker than its position the day before…

Kharishar Kahfi and Arya Dipa, Jakarta/Bandung – Four days after a 7.4-magnitude quake hit Central Sulawesi, the Meteorology, Climatology and…

Three Pacific leaders have called out Indonesia at the UN for their human rights abuses in West Papua.

Vanuatu's prime minister…

Hannah Ellis-Petersen – Anger and desperation are growing in parts of Sulawesi as residents faced a fourth day without food and drinking water…

James Massola, Karuni Rompies & Amilia Rosa, Palu – Indonesian rescue workers are now focused on retrieving dead bodies and digging mass…

Tasha Wibawa – Residents in the earthquake and tsunami-ravaged city of Palu have turned to looting due to a shortage of necessities such as food,…

Jakarta – As part of an effort to maintain media neutrality in anticipation of next year's presidential and legislative elections, the Indonesian…

Jakarta – Jakarta Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) leader Muchsin Alatas has admitted that the group handed out copies of a book on the banned…

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – After days of public outrage and uncertainty over the sudden closure of three churches in the provincial capital of Jambi due…

Melbourne – East Timor has signed a deal to buy ConocoPhillips' stake in the Greater Sunrise gas field off the country's southern coast for $350…

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – The government has issued another temporary permit extension for gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia…

Indonesia has lashed out at Vanuatu over its representations about West Papua at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In what has…

While reports about Indonesian authorities openly targeting the activities of gay citizens seem to have died down recently (with the exception of…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Center of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation has said the deteriorating Palu-Koro fault had amplified the jolt…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Retailers Association (Aprindo) has blamed the government for the looting that occurred at dozens of retail outlets in…

Makassar – An early warning system that might have prevented deaths in the tsunami that hit an Indonesian island on Friday has been stalled in the…

Estevao Nuno – The Head of the Vocational Training Providers Department (DFFP), Leonor Bernado said the rates of unemployment in the country…

Amilia Rosa, Palu, Indonesia – When I arrive at Palu airport on Sunday, two days after the double tragedies of a powerful quake followed by a…

Amilia Rosa, Karuni Rompies, Jewel Topsfield & James Massola, Palu – Indonesia has said it will accept international aid to cope with the…

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia – The banned Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) is like a ghost which every year is resurrected towards the end of September…

Jakarta – An event organised by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) titled "Prayer for the Salvation of the Nation" at the National Monument (Monas…

An Indonesian air traffic controller is being posthumously hailed as a hero for refusing to leave his post despite devastating earthquakes so that…

Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) says that since 2012 Indonesia has had no functioning early tsunami detection buoys.

James Massola, Jewel Topsfield, Amilia Rosa & Karuni Rompies, Makassar, Indonesia – Grave fears are held for thousands of people living in the…