Agnes Anya, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration plans to investigate developers in upscale areas, including Kemang in South Jakarta, for allegedly contributing to worsening flooding there.

Although East Timor is doing much better than it was, it is still very fragile. And the Timor Sea dispute could undo much of the progress that has been made.

Timor-Leste once agreed to let the maritime boundary question rest for 50 years. What changed?

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Lawmakers expressed dissatisfaction toward most candidates for supreme court justices and ad hoc judge for the corruption court that have recently undergone fit-an

Rizal Harahap and Jon Afrizal, Pekanbaru/Jambi/Jakarta – As haze caused by forest and land fires thickens in Riau, a local administration has given holidays to school students.

Eman Riberu, Merauke, Indonesia – A priest in Merauke Archdiocese in Papua has appealed to Indonesian President Joko Widodo, urging him to halt the destruction of pristine forests by a palm plantat

Steve Cannane – The former president of East Timor has told a commission sitting at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague that Australia exploited a vulnerable nation while negotiating tr

Jakarta – The Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) has released an election vulnerability index identifying regions prone to electoral fraud and conflicts, with West Papua province topping the li

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – In his latest effort to push industrialization in the country, Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution has called on related ministries to identify problems in each

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – As the government is mulling over the electoral system that will be implemented in the 2019 elections, it is encouraged to keep the current open-list system that allows voter

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Pensioner Elyzabeth, 63, annually pays taxes for her car and a 0.25-hectare plot of land, but she has not declared both assets on her tax returns form (SPT).

Arya Dipa, Bandung – In defiance of last week's violent raid by troops of the Siliwangi Military Command, the Street Library continued its service in Cikapayang Park in Bandung, West Java, over the

Jakarta – Indonesia ranks 60th out of 61 countries in terms of reading interest, a study by Central Connecticut State University in the US has revealed.

Jakarta – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will only benefit US-based information and communication technology (ICT) firms, rather than other companies, an activist has said.

This week's conciliation talks in The Hague give Australia a new chance to do the right thing by East Timor to help it secure its future

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A man who attacked St.

Jakarta – Since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo declared a "drug state of emergency" and all-out war on illicit substances last year, little has been done on the front line, except for the controver

Jan van der MadeIssued – East Timor is asking the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague to help resolve a dispute with Australia over a maritime border that cuts through lucrative oil and gas

Ben Doherty – Timor-Leste has urged Australia not to "turn its back on the law" and to negotiate over the Timor Sea maritime boundary, but Australia has claimed the commission it has been brought b

Arya Dipa, Bandung – At least 15 members of the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI) dispersed a religious discussion in Bandung, West Java, on Sunday, as they objected to the presence of an Ahmad

Australia has injected last-minute intrigue into the opening of compulsory conciliation proceedings over the unsettled maritime border with Timor-Leste.

Jakarta – A police office in the Sugapa subdistrict in Intan Jaya, Papua, was burned down late Saturday (27/08) in a riot following the killing of 15-year-old Etinus Sondegau in an incident involvi

Medan – The young failed suicide bomber in Sunday's (28/08) Medan terror attack is believed to have met an identified man on the street prior to the event, preliminary investigations have found.

Jayapura, Jubi – A teenager died after being shot allegedly by a Mobile Brigade officer in Sugapa. Angry residents set fire to the Sugaba Police Station in response to the news.

Steve Cannane – The ongoing dispute between Australia and East Timor over maritime boundaries could be resolved in a landmark case that begins in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague on

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – It is happening again: Indonesia's inability to control forest fires has left the residents of its northern neighbor covered in smoke, an annual occurrence that has often

Jakarta – Human rights activists have rejected a House of Representatives plan to reinstate deliberation on a government-proposed national security bill, which has been on the backburner for years

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Almost three years after it was first implemented in January 2014, hailed by many at the time as a landmark in Indonesian history, the government's universal health-ca

Amanda Hodge, Jakarta – Australia and East Timor will face off in The Hague on Monday in their territorial dispute over maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea – the first nations to use a last-chance

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – They left their families for jobs and higher wages in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, but many of the migrant workers from Sumbawa regency, West Nusa Tengg

Hans Nicholas Jong & Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – A group of LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning) advocates was bestowed with the Suardi Tasrif Award, given to th

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has issued a presidential decree that is expected to boost the fisheries industry, a minister said on Friday.

Jakarta – The jury for the Suardi Tasrif Award for freedom of expression on Friday night bestowed the prize on two groups that have fought stigma and the legacy of a dark past.

Federation of Catholic Bishops' Catholic bishops from the Pacific region have voiced their support for the West Papuan people's desire to participate in the inter-governmental Melanesian Spearhead

Jakarta – The government is set to continue with its controversial State Defense program, a paramilitary training program for civilians, despite concerns that the program will exacerbate thuggery.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – A plan to expand the power of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD), a branch of the country's legislature representing the country's provinces, has been met w

Haeril Halim and Margareth S.

Jakarta – A police investigative team is interested in speaking with Liberty Sitinjak, the former head of Batu prison on Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap, Central Java, in connection with a testimon

Teressa Warianto – Indonesia's most celebrated author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, might have died 10 years ago, but his work continues to inspire people.

Air pollution in Singapore has risen to the "unhealthy" level as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the city-state's National Environment Agency (NEA) sai

Margareth S.

Jakarta – Instead of impulsively throwing ideas with no backup research into the public arena, the culture and education minister needs to focus on resolving fundamental problems in the country's e

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Hospitals are suspected of abusing the national health insurance (JKN) program to gain profits, including by encouraging pregnant women to deliver their babies via C-s

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Once hailed as an urban traffic panacea, the train system in Greater Jakarta has become less popular among commuters amid worsening services.

Pacific women are calling for an independent mission to investigate violence against women in Indonesia's Papua region.

Hundreds of Maori students marched to New Zealand's parliament today calling for freedom for West Papua.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With conservative academics dominating the hearings of a judicial review request to outlaw extra-marital sex at the Constitutional Court (MK), where they lashed out at

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The government's tax amnesty bullets seem to be hitting the wrong targets as most people participating in the program so far are small taxpayers, not those who keep assets

Severianus Endi, Pontianak – Haze is causing concern for people in West Kalimantan where fires have razed land and forests for the past two weeks.

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The Trade Ministry will implement specific measures to prevent illegal stockpiling aimed at manipulating the price of goods in the market.