Alfan Hilmi, Jakarta – Director of Amnesty International Indonesia, Usman Hamid, urges an investigation to find out the roots of the riot…

Isabel Ermelita – The Chief of the Election Observers Mission Australia-Timor-Leste, Professor Damien Kingsbury said the Early Election 2018 was…

Ika Krismantari – Indonesia witnessed another terrorist act last Tuesday.

But, this time, it occurred in a maximum-security detention centre…

Erwin Renaldi and Iffah Nur Arifah – The massive chicken-shaped building in Indonesia, is a place where people from different faith and religions…

Jerry Courvisanos – For the last year, the people of Timor-Leste have expected – and received – little from their government except deadlock.

Erwida Maulia and Bobby Nugroho, Jakarta – Tens of thousands of Muslims gathered in Jakarta on Friday to protest against the United States'…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has attended a rally in Jakarta in protest over the planned relocation of the United States Embassy in…

Michael Leach – After a tense month-long campaign and two rest days, East Timorese cast their votes tomorrow in the country's latest parliamentary…

Max Walden – Parliamentarians from across Southeast Asia have warned of "dark forces" of intolerance in Indonesia, calling upon the government to…

Jakarta – Residents of Jakarta Military Command (Kodam) Jaya housing complex in Tanah Kusir, South Jakarta, condemned on Thursday the detention of…

Paulina Quintao – According to the data from the Ministry of Health, the number of all HIV registered cases since 2013 increased to 725 in 2017,…

Paulina Quintao – According to the Labour Code of Timor-Leste, Law Number 4/2012, Article 59 about the entitlement to maternity leave, it states…

Estevao Nuno – Timor-Leste's National Youth Council (CNJTL) warns youths against falling for political parties' trap and to not allow themselves…

Paulina Quintao – The President of the Press Council Virgilio da Silva Guterres said Timor-Leste received high scores for Freedom of the Press at…

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko said President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) was weighing the reinstatement of the National…

Michael Sainsbury, Dili – It's 4 o'clock on a warm Tuesday afternoon in the East Timorese capital of Dili. Down a rabbit warren of alleys across…

Simon Roughneen, Denpasar, Indonesia – For the second time in less than a year, voters in East Timor will head to polling stations on May 12 to…

Shannon Power – A very senior Islamic leader in Indonesia has spoken against LGBTI people saying they should be criminalized because of their '…

Dili (Timor-Leste) – Timor-Leste is set to hold an election at the weekend, after a campaign marred by violence and political mudslinging as the…

Kate Lamb – Inmates who started a deadly riot controlled three cellblocks inside a maximum-security Indonesian jail for more than 36 hours before…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – According to the National Police, the prison riot that killed five officers and led to a more than 30-hour standoff…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – The Islamic State (IS) has claimed its fighters are engaged in a standoff with the nation's anti-terror squad at the…

While preparations for the Asian Games, which will begin on August 18 and be hosted by both Jakarta and Palembang, seem to generally be on track,…

Five Indonesian police officers and a prisoner were killed in clashes at a high security jail that saw Islamist inmates take an officer hostage,…

Jakarta – Military personnel have evicted residents from houses in the Jakarta Military District Command (Kodam) Jaya housing complex in Tanah…

John Mcbeth, Jakarta – Protracted contract negotiations between the Indonesian government and US-owned mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper &…

Karlis Salna – As investors flee emerging markets, Indonesia is taking a bigger knock than its peers in Asia.

The rupiah has slumped to a 28…

Property and businesses owned by Chinese Indonesians were targeted in the widespread rioting and violence that broke out in cities including…

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court rejected on Wednesday a petition against Law No. 9/2017 on access to financial information for taxation…

East Timor is set to hold weekend elections after a campaign marred by violence and political mudslinging as the impoverished country struggles to…

Avery Poole – The people of East Timor are heading to the polls this week for the second time in 10 months. On May 12, a fresh round of…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The 10 November Institute of Technology (ITS) in Surabaya, East Java, has questioned three of its lecturers for…

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office Intelligence Team in collaboration with the Central Jakarta District Attorney Team has…

It looks like Indonesia still has ways to go to eliminate the gender pay gap as a recent study by the National Statistics Agency (BPS) showed that…

Phelim Kine – The Indonesian government's failure to address growing intolerance for religious minorities and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and…

Dhania Sarahtika, Jakarta – What comes to your mind when you hear the word hijab, or the headscarf? In the current political climate, more than a…

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Amnesty International has urged the government to release Alnoldy Bahari, a farmer from Pandeglang regency in…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – Former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad called for the implementation of…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – National Mandate Party (PAN) leader Zulkifli Hasan met with former Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gatot…

Jakarta – National Mandate Party (PAN) executive Yandri Susanto said his party was supporting Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia's (HTI) plan to…

John Dennehy – When Asia's youngest nation heads to the polls for the second time in a year on May 12, Abel Da Costa just wants someone to win.…

There should have been more transparency around a government-led delegation's visit to West Papua last month, a leader of Solomon…

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry has lifted the restriction on cellphone numbers from three per person to unlimited following…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has accused the government, along with state-owned airport…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government would be wise to boost household consumption, the country's biggest economic engine, as the…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Indonesia's foreign exchange reserves stood at US$124.9 billion in April, lower than the $126 billion recorded a…

Jakarta – A picture of a political banner during a Gerindra Party event in Bojonegoro, East Java, on Saturday has gone viral online…

Jakarta – The Tangerang District Court in Banten sentenced on Monday Abraham Ben Moses, also known as Saifuddin Ibrahim, 52, to four years in…

East Timorese independence hero Xanana Gusmao has called on supporters not to be provoked after campaigning for next weekend's elections was…

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy expanded by 5.06 percent year-on-year (yoy) during the first quarter this year…