Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Golkar's support for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is likely at stake as the party is reportedly preparing a congress…

Cikarang – On Monday November 20 some 644 PT Alpen Food Industry or PT Aice workers went on strike in protest against the ice cream company.

Maya Ayu Puspitasari, Jakarta – Sexual harassment against women continues to rise, according to data from various agencies.

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Rinaldy Sofwan, Jakarta – Philosopher and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Noam Chomsky and a group of international…

Ian Lloyd Neubauer, Dili, East Timor – Smouldering fires. Haphazard explosions. Malnourished children. The disintegration of law and order and the…

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – The truth is, no one knows. Even the bare facts surrounding his disappearance are murky. According to police in…

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has relinquished control over nine tracts of forest to the indigenous communities that have…

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – At just 16 years old, Tanzil Alil Uman is just a boy, crying in pain from his hospital bed. His brother sits by his…

Timika, Indonesia – U.S. miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc is evacuating spouses and children of workers from its giant Indonesian copper mine after a…

John McBeth, Jakarta – While most of Indonesia's youth appears to have a worldly outlook, recent surveys show some troubling insights into the…

Adinda Putri, Jakarta – Identity politics, utilizing ethnic and religious sentiments by politicians to solidify their own political bases, is…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta – A joint team comprising Indonesian Military and National Police personnel Friday gained control of Banti and Kimbeli…

Jakarta – State-owned energy company Pertamina has said fuel prices – particularly subsidized gasoline Premium and subsidized diesel fuel Solar –…

Jakarta – The real reason behind the regrouping policy for customers of of state-owned electricity firm PLN became clear when the PLN president…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women, or Komnas Perempuan, on Wednesday (15/11) stressed that the government must conclude…

A new set of mass graves from Indonesia's anti-communist purges has been discovered, a victim right's group said Thursday, after recently…

Anton Hermansyah, Bogor, West Java – The government is studying the possibility of establishing what it calls a "workers fund" as a temporary…

Jakarta – City administration permanently closed Diamond Discotheque in West Jakarta on Thursday evening following allegations last September that…

Sam Wanda, Fergus Jensen, Jakarta/Timika – Indonesia on Friday began evacuating villages that authorities said had been occupied by armed…

Tembagapura, Indonesia – Indonesian police said they helped evacuate more than 340 people Friday from villages in easternmost Papua after security…

Jeffrey Hutton – Oktovianus Warnares gathered with five other men outside a government building on the picturesque island of Biak, just off the…

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia has threatened to bar the world's biggest social-media providers from operating in the country unless they comply…

Many people are concerned about a rise in religious intolerance throughout Indonesia, and one of the prime examples used to illustrate those…

Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has issued a revised regulation to give another change for taxpayers who did not avail of the tax…

Jakarta – Sectarian and religious lines exploited during the gubernatorial election period has given Jakarta the status of "most intolerant city…

A top Indonesian politician embroiled in a corruption scandal has been hospitalised after a car crash that is being widely mocked online as…

Enid Tsui – There isn't a single image of jailed former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama to be seen, but the man commonly referred to by…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Whether or not Setya Novanto is guilty of colluding with businessmen, government officials…

The West Papua National Liberation Army, or TPN, has told villagers in Mimika regency their conflict is not with them but with Indonesian security…

Andreas Harsono – An Indonesian organization representing victims of the mass killings of 1965-66 has located 16 suspected mass graves in central…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Small and Medium Enterprises Agency is investigating reports about the "rental" of Tanah Abang sidewalks to street vendors,…

Indonesia's anti-graft commission said on Thursday it will declare the speaker of parliament a fugitive if he does not turn himself in after being…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has said it would provide legal assistance for chairman Setya Novanto after the nation's…

Sebastian Strangio, Yogyakarta – When Shinta Ratri prays, like many devout Indonesian women she dons a mukena, a long flowing gown often…

Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia is urging state-run utility company Perusahaan Listrik Negara, or PLN, to cancel its coal-fired power plant…

Jakarta – A high level of religiosity in Indonesia has no significant impact on the practice of corruption in daily life, a new survey from the…

Adinda Putri, Jakarta – Indonesians are most often asked for bribes or illicit favors when dealing with the police and the courts, a survey…

Despite Indonesia's stable economic growth over the last few years, unemployment and concerns about job prospects remain a major issue, especially…

Sheany, Jakarta – The National Democratic Party, or Nasdem, on Wednesday (15/11) nominated President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as its candidate in the…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has condemned an assault of a couple accused of having premarital…

After arresting four moral vigilantes suspected of parading a young couple naked through the streets of a village in Tangerang Regency on Saturday…

Since his appeals to mainstream (and hardline) Muslim voters was such a major factor in his election win, some were concerned that Jakarta…

Heyder Affan – A number of locations in the vicinity of Purwodadi, Central Java, have been confirmed as sites of mass grave, places where bodies…

Herlambang P Wiratraman – Every International Labour Day, workers across Indonesia conduct major protests against outsourcing, low wages, and…

Jakarta – The government has collected Rp 991.2 trillion (US$73.20 billion) in taxes and excise duties from January to October, or 67.3 percent of…

Jakarta – A visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) team has projected that the Indonesian economy will grow 5.1 percent this year, slightly…

Driver discipline and road safety is obviously a big problem in Indonesia, but just how bad is it? According to National Traffic Police Chief…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – A recent Jakarta Health Agency report on leprosy prevalence has recorded a relatively high number of new…

Jakarta – The lawyers of Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama have said that Buni Yani's 18-month prison sentence for hate speech is too lenient.

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Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – The head of an Indonesian group representing victims of the mass killings of alleged communists in the mid-1960s…