Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo honors the General Elections Commission's (KPU) decision to issue a regulation…

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Golkar Party advisory board head Aburizal Bakrie failed to meet a summons on Monday issued by the Corruption…

David Lipson – The marginalisation of Indonesia's LGBT community is fuelling an HIV "epidemic", with HIV rates among gay men increasing five-fold…

Tria Dianti and Ika Inggas (BenarNews) – A plan by heads of Indonesian universities to begin surveillance on campuses in order to detect extremist…

Reza Gunadha – Many academics, intellectuals and Indonesian youth can speak fluently on the historical ideas of ancient Greece and modern Europe…

John McBeth, Jakarta – Barring any last minute changes, Indonesian President Joko Widodo is close to naming Golkar Party chairman and Industry…

Jakarta – A physical clash escalated on Sunday between sympathizers of sole candidate Munafri Arifuddin-Andi Rahmatika Dewi (Appi-Cicu) and "empty…

Erwin Prima, Jakarta – Sixth Indonesian president-cum-Democrat Party chairman Susilo "SBY" Bambang Yudhoyono has publicly complained about the way…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Indonesian female bureaucrats are still facing various hindrances in rising to the highest ranks in ministries, with…

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesian security forces have committed nearly 100 extrajudicial killings in Papua and West Papua since 2010, with little to…

Usman Hamid, Jakarta – The tactics used by the country's security forces may have changed since the fall of military rule in 1998, but in Papua –…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government will look into the details of a newly-released report that accused Indonesia of "unlawful…

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Police (Polri) have sent a Mobile Brigade (Brimob) company to hunt down the armed group that attacked…

Jakarta – Indonesian security forces are behind the unlawful killing of at least 95 people in Papua since 2010, with most perpetrators never held…

Jakarta – Indonesia's police and military are responsible for at least 95 unlawful killings in the easternmost Papua region since 2008, including…

Karina M. Tehusijarana, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) issued a regulation on Saturday that, among other things, bans former…

Jakarta – The Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry has defended its decision to give money to journalists after an event, following criticism…

Jakarta – An unidentified person threw Molotov cocktails at the office of Aceh-based tabloid newspaper Modus in Gampong Berauwe, Aceh…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua and two of its regencies, Nduga and Puncak Jaya, where deadly shootings by unknown assailants occurred last…

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Gerindra Party Secretary-General Ahmad Muzani said his party insists to propose Prabowo Subianto as a presidential…

Mohammad Bernie – A group of protesters from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) have…

Ahmad Rafiq, Solo – Approximately two thousand people followed the rally which took the start and finish at Solo West City Square on Sunday, July…

David Dixon – They just couldn't leave it alone could they? The Attorney-General's decision to approve charges against "Witness K" and his lawyer…

Indonesian authorities are fueling an HIV epidemic through complicity in discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)…

Philippa H Stewart – The men were nearly identically dressed. Matching fresh crewcuts almost hidden under baseball caps pulled down to shade their…

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The Makassar Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI) blasted police's decision to prevent journalists from reporting the…

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has said 110 million people turned out to vote during Wednesday's regional elections…

Jakarta – West Java deputy gubernatorial candidate Dedi Mulyadi said he believed the hashtag #2019GantiPresiden (#2019ChangePresident) was…

Anne Barker – When police in East Timor caught a large fleet of Chinese fishing boats last year, with thousands of dead sharks on board, the…

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to step up cooperation on governance, corruption eradication, connectivity and border issues…

Jakarta – Robiatul Adawiyah, a teacher at private elementary school Darul Maza in Bekasi, West Java, went viral recently after news of her…

Jakarta – Millions of indigenous peoples in forested countries, including Indonesia, are continuing to suffer from harsh conservation policies…

Jakarta – The Golkar Party said it was grateful that graft suspect and party member Ahmad Hidayat Mus was leading the North Maluku gubernatorial…

Bantul, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Police arrested four people, members of youth organization Pemuda Pancasila (PP), and named them…

Quinton Temby – A principle of social movements seems to be that once a movement is written about there's a good chance it is now over or changed…

Clinton Fernandes – The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Sarah McNaughton SC, recently filed criminal charges against Canberra lawyer…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo congratulated Timor Leste for holding a successful election on May 12.

"I want to…

Jakarta – First Lady Cidalia Lopes Nobre Mouzinho Guterres of Timor Leste paid a brief visit Thursday to Kampung KB (Family Planning Village) at a…

Albert Agua, Waigani – Indonesia is driving towards the Papua New Guinea border because of a recent discovery of huge mineral deposits in the Star…

Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank on Friday raised interest rates for the third time in six weeks as it moves to shield the rupiah from a selloff…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad met for a bilateral talk on Friday…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo must pay close attention to his electability in four provinces ahead of the 2019 presidential election, a…

When former house speaker Setya Novanto was sentenced to 15 years in jail in April for his role in the massive electronic ID card (e-KTP) graft…

Jakarta – Indonesia's elite counterterrorism squad Densus 88 plans to arrest more than 100 suspected militants in a bid to prevent retaliatory…

Michael Sainsbury and Jose Belo, Dili – Timor-Leste's new government has hit a major hurdle in its plan to improve fraught relations with…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Around 100 members of youth organization Pemuda Pancasila (PP) have damaged the Bantul District Court building in…

Nick O'Malley – A retired senior judge has expressed alarm over the decision to charge the former spy known as Witness K and his solicitor Bernard…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court ruled unanimously on Thursday to scrap a number of controversial articles in the 2018…

Anton Hermansyah, Bogor, West Java – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo welcomed East Timor President Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres at the…

A faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for Monday's deadly shootings in Indonesia's Nduga regency.

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