Hilda Meilisa Rinanda, Surabaya – Women's rights activists held a Women's March on Car Free Day at the Bungkul Park in the East Java provincial…

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – Former TNI Commander General Gatot Nurmantyo held dialogue with the congregation of Al-Azhar Grand Mosque, South Jakarta.…

Luke Hunt – Earlier this week, Australia and Timor-Leste finally reached an expected agreement that defined the maritime boundary between the two…

Giacomo Tognini – Timor-Leste will go to the polls on May 12 for the second time in less than a year, with the country's politicians calling upon…

Jun Suzuki, Jakarta – Indonesia saw a jump in commercial vehicle sales last year as the government's push for infrastructure and tourism…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Protecting Indonesian tigers can help to preserve the country's forest ecosystems, environmentalists have said.

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The Indonesian government is considering house arrest or other forms of clemency for the ailing radical cleric who was the ideological leader of…

Hundreds of feminists wielding colorful placards took part in the second Jakarta Women's March this Saturday, demanding an end to…

Puput Tripeni Juniman, Jakarta – In the lead up to International Women's Day (IWD), around 1 thousand people gathered in Jakarta on the morning of…

The murder of women or 'femicide' was one of the issues taken up by the 2018 Women's March in Jakarta on Saturday March 3.

The rally in the…

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Coordinator of Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) Donal Fariz says the 2018 regional head election will not be as…

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Pianist Ananda Sukarlan requested assistance from the Legal Aid Institute for Ansor Youth Movement (LBH GP) after he was…

Nurina Savitri and Erwin Renaldi – Indonesia is entering election season – this June the country will hold local elections across 17 provinces, 39…

Sheany, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday (01/03) expressed approval toward recent steps taken by the Supreme Court to uphold…

Jakarta – A new policy to terminate a corruption case investigation if the alleged perpetrator is willing to return the embezzled money to the…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police traffic division's statement that listening to music while driving is a criminal act is an exaggerated interpretation…

Dhania Sarahtika, Jakarta – This Saturday (03/03), women in Jakarta will march from a parking lot next to the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel on Jalan…

Aji Nugroho, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Deputy Chief Basaria Panjaitan confirmed that the refund of corrupted money will…

Padang (Antara) – Head of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) Suhardi Alius warned the public about the outspread of radicalism on the…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Anti-Slander Society (Mafindo) has set up a national anti-hoax force, which aims to tackle the spread of hoaxes in the…

Sheany, Jakarta – A human rights group said the so-called Muslim Cyber Army, which has allegedly been responsible for spreading fake news and hate…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has called on the government to halt its plan to execute several more death row inmates…

Jakarta (Bisnis) – The construction of 38 elevated infrastructure projects will resume after its moratorium has been lifted following the final…

Fiona Suwana – Google – a company with several data protection issues – recently invested more than US$1 billion in Indonesia's popular ride-…

Damon Evans – Reports that East Timor is set to bank tens of billions of dollars from the potential development of the Woodside Petroleum-operated…

Erin Cook – Long-running and increasingly controversial reforms of Indonesia's criminal code are threatening to set the tone for elections this…

Indonesia's penal code, a legacy of Dutch colonialism, has been discussed for many years in the parliament, resulting in academic papers and draft…

John McBeth, Jakarta – Indonesian society would undergo a dramatic and regressive transformation if Parliament goes ahead with proposed amendments…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The Pedestrian Coalition has criticized the Jakarta administration's move to allow street vendors to occupy…

Phelim Kine – Three undocumented Indonesian immigrants have taken sanctuary in a New Jersey church to avoid deportation from the United States.…

Jakarta – The authorities have been called on to step up efforts to complete their investigation into the acid attack against Corruption…

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo or Jokowi started showing signal to establish a joint fact-finding team (TGPF) concerning the attack against KPK…

Juli Hantoro, Jakarta – Haris Azhar, the former coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), said the only…

Grant Wyeth – Earlier this week Australia and Timor-Leste reached an agreement for a treaty on their disputed maritime border at the Permanent…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is planning to revise a presidential instruction (Inpres) that prohibits the construction of…

We're still a long way off from Indonesia's 2019 presidential election, but since incumbent Joko Widodo was (unsurprisingly) officially named the…

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – West Java Police have investigated a caretaker at Al Istiqomah Mosque in Pamengpeuk district in Garut regency,…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Women ulema from across Indonesia are calling on all parties to uphold unity ahead of the elections.

In a five-point…

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The nephew of former House of Representatives speaker and graft defendant Setya Novanto, Irvanto Hendra Pambudi, has…

Michael Sainsbury – In January, after half a year of political gridlock, Timor-Leste's president Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres set the date for its…

Since last July, Timor-Leste has endured political gridlock that has kept attention on political parties and sidelined the development of policies…

Chitra Paramaesti, Jakarta – Police Public Relations Division's Public Information Bureau Head Brig. Gen. Muhammad Iqbal said the Muslim Cyber…

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Chairman of Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Maruf Amin asked President Joko Widodo or Jokowi to give clemency…

Bogor – The constitutional law expert Mahfud MD said illegal sweeping acts which often done by certain groups were unlawful acts. "In…

Michael Walsh and Nurina Savitri – Members of Indonesia's House of Representatives have come under fire for passing a law giving themselves powers…

Jakarta – In a move that would further boost President Joko Widodo's standing in the 2019 presidential election, the Democratic Party (PD) has…

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has issued a decree to extend the office term of the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU)…

Jakarta – The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) is temporary closed as of Wednesday after the House of Representatives rejected…

Alexander R Arifianto – Since the Defending Islam rallies in late 2016 and early 2017, there is a perception of a growing ideological convergence…

Olivia Tasevski – A new requirement for foreign researchers to obtain a permit to enter museums run by the Indonesian military constitutes an…