Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has reportedly appointed Marco Kusumawijaya, a member of his campaign team during the gubernatorial…

Abhishek Mohanty – In a major setback to Islamic State (ISIS) in Southeast Asia, a top court in Indonesia has sentenced to death a cleric reckoned…

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Boyolali, Central Java – Security personnel assigned to guard election material in Boyolali, Central Java, claimed that…

Jakarta – Former president and Democratic Party chairman Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) said on Saturday that many individuals in the Indonesian…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Arya Dipa, Jakarta/Bandung – Many have noted the political significance of West Java, the nation's most populated…

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) chief patron Prabowo Subianto voiced a string of criticisms on the government…

Jakarta – Gerindra Party presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's team started a crowdfunding initiative that had collected more than Rp 275…

Palm oil companies have been blamed for some of the worst environmental destruction in recent times, specifically the wide-scale destruction of…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Tens of thousands of people from six regencies in Papua gathered in Wamena in Jayawijaya regency on Saturday to…

Jakarta – Indonesia is making it easier for foreigners to work here – but they will have to study as well.

A decree by President Joko Widodo…

Dili – Former Timor Leste independence fighter Jose Maria de Vasconcelos was sworn in as Prime Minister yesterday and pledged to bring unity to…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Indonesia's foreign debt stood at US$356.9 billion as of April, growing by 7.6 percent year-on-year (yoy), which…

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar, Bali – "Indonesia's wealth is no longer just about natural resources. Indonesia has extraordinary wealth that has to…

John Harris – A passenger ferry capsized on Lake Tabo, in northern Sumatra, Indonesia on Monday evening. Only 18 people have been rescued and…

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Personnel of the National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism squad shot dead on Friday a suspected terrorist who…

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The independent election monitoring committee (KIPP) urged Gerindra Party Chairman Prabowo Subianto to retract his public…

In Indonesia, political parties are generally funded by wealthy patrons while individual politicians are often forced to finance their own…

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is likely to fail to utilize the city's budget effectively this year given low absorption as of the middle of…

Dili – East Timor's president is refusing to swear in 11 members of cabinet because of corruption investigations, marring the…

Jakarta – Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has connected the sinking of ferry KM Sinar Bangun to inadequate infrastructure…

Jakarta – House of Representatives Commission III member Herman Herry did not confirm whether he was involved in the beating of Ronny Kosasih…

Jakarta – The lawyer of lawmaker Herman Hery, who has been under fire after being accused of beating up a couple in South Jakarta, said the…

Devina Heriyanto, Jakarta – With 171 elections simultaneously taking place on June 27, the 2018 regional elections are surely something to keep an…

Sheany, Jakarta – The Association of Indonesian Churches, or PGI, has denounced the use of identity politics and warned against the spread of fake…

Jakarta – Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) chairperson Prabowo Subianto is encouraging people accept electoral bribes if they are…

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has asked the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu)…

Jakarta – Jakarta-based rights group Community Legal Aid Institute (LBH Masyarakat) has slammed the South Jakarta District Court's decision to…

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court found on Friday Aman Abdurrahman guilty of inciting several terror attacks in Indonesia…

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – Indonesia has blamed staff members of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights regional office in Bangkok…

Harold Mitchell – Today finds me in Timor-Leste. Not too many Australians are aware of this tiny nation just 40 minutes off the coast of Northern…

Gisela Swaragita and Jon Afrizal, Jakarta/Jambi – "I became pregnant when I was 16. When I sought help from my family, they disowned me," 23-year-…

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta – The Surakarta administration in Central Java made an impromptu inspection Thursday to make sure its civil servants…

Herman Hery, a member of the House of Representatives (DPR) from the PDI-P party, has been accused of assaulting a couple in Jakarta over a…

Rizieq Shihab, the founder of the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), has been a fugitive from Indonesian justice for over one year after…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government says it has not intervened in a pornography investigation involving Islam Defenders Front (FPI)…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo has accused the government of trying to weaken the Indonesian Military (TNI) and…

About 180 people are missing from a ferry that sank early this week at a popular lake on Sumatra, according to Indonesian officials – a much…

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – Mandiangin Police chief in Sorolangun regency, Jambi, has been removed from his post following a recent clash between his…

Krithika Varagur, Jakarta – Indonesia has been chosen as one of five non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council after a…

Nelson de la Cruz, Dili – East Timor will swear in as prime minister on Friday its former president and independence fighter Jose Maria de…

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The national commission on human rights (Komnas HAM) monitoring team claimed that it has uncovered a new crucial finding…

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia has criticized the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, saying that his regional office in Bangkok…

The new law has provisions that will facilitate rights violations and ultimately undermine public safety. – Brad Adams, Asia Director

New…

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Muhammad Isnur, the lawyer of KPK's senior investigator Novel Baswedan, suspects there is a 'big man' protecting the…

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a regional human rights organization in Asia, condemns the repeated arbitrary arrest and detention…

Natalia Santi, Jakarta – Indonesia's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Hasan Kleib, has slammed the UN High Commissioner…

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – Villagers from Rengkilling village in Mandiagin district, Jambi, clashed with local police at 9 p.m. on Sunday,…

David Sobolim, Manokwari – Dozens of human rights activists, the families of victims, and human rights partisans held a protest to commemorate…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed concern at not yet being able to visit Indonesia's Papua region.…

Hanna Azarya Samosir, Jakarta – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, has questioned the invitation from…