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October 30, 2017
Human Rights Watch Dispatches - October 30, 2017
Phelim Kine – Indonesia's Vice President Jusuf Kalla last week praised religious tolerance in Indonesia as "better than in other countries" and a…
The Conversation - October 30, 2017
Hellena Yoranita Souisa and Primatia Romana Wulandari – After banning Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) through a decree in…
The Drum - October 30, 2017
Danielle Long – Starbucks Indonesia is encouraging women to break their silence about breast cancer in a bid to generate awareness of the disease…
October 29, 2017
Shanghai Daily - October 29, 2017
Kiki Siregar – Deep in Indonesia's easternmost province, a group of birdwatchers wait in earnest, hoping to glimpse the renowned bird-of-paradise…
Jakarta Globe - October 29, 2017
Jakarta – Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Saturday (28/10) announced that the Indonesian government does not recognize Catalonia's declaration…
Tempo - October 29, 2017
Amirullah, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo or Jokowi says that the Pancasila Youth (Pemuda Pancasila, PP) are a special social organisation (ormas…
Jakarta Globe - October 29, 2017
Jakarta – The government is preparing a plan to integrate Jakarta with Bandung, in effect establishing a massive urban area on the eastern end of…
Jakarta Post - October 29, 2017
Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan inaugurated the Filadelfia Batak Protestant Church (HKBP) in Semper, North Jakarta, on Sunday, the first…
October 28, 2017
The Guardian (Australia) - October 28, 2017
Arthur Neslen – Nestle, Mars and Hershey have been accused of breaking pledges to stop using "conflict palm oil" from deforested Indonesian…
Jakarta Post - October 28, 2017
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – The Medan District Court has declared Democratic Party politician Ramadhan Pohan guilty of fraud and…
Detik News - October 28, 2017
Bayu Ardi Isnanto, Solo – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo attended the keynote event of the Pancasila Youth's (PP) 58th anniversary in the Central…
Agence France Presse - October 28, 2017
Jakarta – Three suspects have been named in connection to a deadly blaze at an Indonesian fireworks factory that killed 48 workers and was caused…
New York Times - October 28, 2017
Joe Cochraneoct, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia's troubled legal system is again coming under scrutiny, after rulings in two high-profile cases…
Detik News - October 28, 2017
Muhammad Nur Abdurrahman, Makassar – The commemoration of Youth Pledge day on Friday October 28 at the Muhammadiyah University (Unismuh) campus in…
October 27, 2017
Bangkok Post - October 27, 2017
Dili – East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri said Thursday his country is "doing our best" to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…
Dili Weekly - October 27, 2017
Paulina Quintao – The Director of the organization Women's movement (MOFFE), Yasinta Lujina acknowledges that new Members of Parliament (MPs) need…
Jakarta Post - October 27, 2017
Jakarta – The Indonesian government and Freeport McMoran, a parent company of gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia, have not reached an…
Radio New Zealand International - October 27, 2017
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua says it hopes New Zealand's new prime minister will take up the issue of Papuan self-determination…
Radio New Zealand International - October 27, 2017
Indonesia's foreign minister says it is the right of Pacific Island countries to raise issues about West Papua in international fora.
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UCA News - October 27, 2017
Jakarta – Rights groups have accused Indonesian President Joko Widodo of reneging on an election promise to improve the country's human rights…
Global Voices - October 27, 2017
Indonesia's House of Representatives has passed a presidential decree into law that empowers the government to disband organizations even without…
Jakarta Post - October 27, 2017
Jakarta – Golkar Party, the second-largest party in West Java with 17 legislative seats, officially endorsed on Friday popular Bandung Mayor…
October 26, 2017
Jakarta Post - October 26, 2017
Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Activists of women's rights groups have called on National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian to issue a standard…
Jakarta Post - October 26, 2017
Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has praised the strong performance of the capital market so far this year, and expects…
Jakarta Post - October 26, 2017
Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has accepted the Central Jakarta District Court's ruling that granted the lawsuit filed by Bukit Duri…
Jakarta Post - October 26, 2017
Jakarta – The Defense Ministry will get a Rp 107.7 trillion allocation, the largest figure among the allocations for the Cabinet Ministries as…
Jakarta Post - October 26, 2017
Jakarta – Depok Police are conducting a cyber patrol to find the suspects behind the circulation of a porn video allegedly involving an alumna of…
Jakarta Globe - October 26, 2017
Jakarta – According to one member of the House of Representatives, the rise of identity politics in Indonesia must be countered to preserve the…
Jakarta Post - October 26, 2017
Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – The Democratic Party is prepared to file a petition against the government if the latter does not revise the 2017 Mass…
Jakarta Globe - October 26, 2017
Jakarta – Lawmakers passed a bill offering more protection for Indonesian migrant workers in Jakarta on Wednesday (25/10).
The new law…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 26, 2017
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – More than 40 people were killed after a fire ripped through a fireworks factory in a satellite city of…
Human Rights Watch Statement - October 26, 2017
Jakarta – Jakarta's new governor, Anies Baswedan, should act to protect and promote human rights in the Indonesian capital, Human Rights Watch…
October 25, 2017
Sydney Morning Herald - October 25, 2017
Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The US has now claimed an "administrative error" was the reason why Indonesia's military chief was told he could not…
Straits Times - October 25, 2017
Francis Chan, Jakarta – The number of forest fires across Indonesia fell by more than 30 per cent this year as fire prevention and enforcement…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2017
Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Former members of the now-defunct Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) plan to lodge a judicial review against the…
Gay Star News - October 25, 2017
Shannon Power – One of the hundreds of men rounded up in Indonesia's crackdown on its LGBTI community has shared his story from jail.
Justin…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2017
Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, who has typically remained tightlipped when asked about the Jakarta Bay reclamation project since…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2017
Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has criticized governors, mayors, and regents for failing to make progressive budgetary…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2017
Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said it arrested on Wednesday an East Java regent in connection to a…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2017
Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Judges with the Jakarta Corruption Court have found former Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry…
October 24, 2017
Jakarta Post - October 24, 2017
Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Survivors and families of victims of the 1965 communist purge have urged the National Commission on Human Rights…
Kompas.com - October 24, 2017
Rakhmat Nur Hakim, Jakarta – Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 2/2017 (Perppu Ormas) has finally been passed into law by the House of…
Jakarta Post - October 24, 2017
Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – A 13-year-old girl from Walenrang district, Luwu regency, South Sulawesi, is psychologically unstable…
CNN Indonesia - October 24, 2017
Bimo Wiwoho, Jakarta – The chairperson of the Institute for the Study of the 1965-1966 Massacres (YPKP 65), Bedjo Untung, claims that they have…
Dili Weekly - October 24, 2017
Celestina Soares – Since 2016, the government through the Ministry of Education has distributed 1100 chairs and tables to schools throughout Timor…
Human Rights Watch Dispatches - October 24, 2017
Andreas Harsono – More than 530 people have been publicly flogged in Indonesia's Aceh province since a new Islamic criminal code was enacted in…
Jakarta Post - October 24, 2017
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Papua has received an additional 400 Mobile Brigade personnel to secure its two regencies, Intan Jaya and…
Radio New Zealand International - October 24, 2017
An academic says recent violence near Papua's Grasberg gold mine could be connected to plans to divest half of the American-owned operation to…
Radio New Zealand International - October 24, 2017
An indigenous community in Indonesia's Papua region claim a house in the village of Utikini was razed to the ground by Indonesian Military Police…