Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – A lawmaker is pushing the government to immediately sign the bill containing revisions of the 2015 Regional Elections Law so that it can be used for public purposes.

Jakarta – Supporters of Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama have informed the Constitutional Court on their intention to file a judicial review if a revised regional elections bill is pa

Jakarta – Minister of Home Affairs Tjahjo Kumolo has been forced to deny allegations that the cancellation of 3,143 regional regulations also included several sharia-based regulations.

Jakarta – The National Coalition of Civil Society for Tobacco Control called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to ratify the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO F

Margareth S. Aritonang, Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Comr. Gen.

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Arya Dipa and Djemi Amnifu, Surakarta/Bandung/Semarang/Kupang/Batam/Palu/Surabaya/Yogyakarta – While most regional administrations threw their support behind President Joko "Joko

Syaiful Hakim, Jakarta – An Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Security and Legal Affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said here on Thursday that the government wishes to settle alleged ca

Banda Aceh – The Indonesian government has said it will not take in 44 Sri Lankan refugees who have been stranded in Aceh waters for the last few days.

Benny Mawel, Abepura, Indonesia – Over a thousand people, including seminarians, have staged a rally in Jayapura, the provincial capital of Papua in Indonesia to protest the central government's hu

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesia is committed to taking a holistic approach in its push for an immediate settlement of human rights cases in Papua, Coordinating Political, Legal, and Sec

Tama Salim, Jakarta – A global higher education index has found Indonesia is lagging behind ASEAN neighbors in academic excellence as the country is represented by only two higher education institu

Semarang – Hundreds of workers of the PT Nyonya Meneer jamu (traditional herbal medicine) factory in Semarang, Central Java, staged a protest on Wednesday, demanding the company pay their January t

Shinta Maharani, Yogyakarta – A group of young artists under the Alliance for Art Jog 2016 Boycott urged the Art Jog 2016 committee to return a sponsorship money worth Rp100 million (US$7,500) give

Jayapura, Jubi – The West Papua National Committee claimed that more than 1,000 of its members have been detained by police during a rally on Wednesday to oppose the Human Rights Investigation Team

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Decades of uncontrolled urbanization has led to mounting problems in cities across the country as urban populations keep spreading, resulting in people being unable to

New Zealand politicians want the government to press for progress on a high level fact-finding mission to Indonesia's Papua region.

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Farida Susanty and Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – As it scrambles to cut this year's spending due to low tax revenues, the government has promised that proposed budget cuts will not affect major infrast

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – "I left my family to take care of others. All to make a living.

Djemi Amnifu, Kupang – Oil spilled into the Timor Sea for approximately 74 days in 2009, resulting in a change of fish migration patterns in the area, which is now costing the local fishing industr

Jakarta – Indonesia on Wednesday briefly detained more than 1,000 pro-independence demonstrators in its eastern province of Papua, ahead of a visit by a top security official to look into claims of

Jakarta – Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika has warmly welcomed a plan by the 9th regional military command (Kodam IX Udayana) to train gang members and mass organizations as part of a state defens

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – As following the latest crime trend in the republic, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is pushing for an investigation into and greater s

Jamil Anderlini – On September 21 1999 Sander Thoenes, a Financial Times correspondent, was shot and killed by soldiers from the Indonesian army on the outskirts of Dili, the capital of East Timor,

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Dandy Koswaraputra, Jakarta – The police have denied claims that they detained over 1,000 Papuans who staged a rally today to demand Indonesia hold an independence referendum in the nation's easter

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Despite having a smoking prevalence already among the highest in the world, Indonesia has slackened its efforts to control the tobacco industry in the face of powerful lobbying by business players.

Pandaya – "Just tobacco.

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Indonesia's biggest Islamic organization, is of the opinion that making Indonesia a peaceful country with the world's largest population of Muslims

Jakarta – The government should annul discriminative and intolerant bylaws, not only those seen to be hampering economic growth, rights watchdog Setara Institute has stated.

Jakarta – Indonesia, which has the world's highest prevalence of smoking, is facing an uphill attle to keep its burgeoning young population away from tobacco, an addiction that may in turn jeopardi

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – A 53-year-old woman who tearfully begged officials not to confiscate food from her roadside stall as punishment for trading during the fasting month of Ra

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Despite wreaking environmental havoc and causing more than US$16 billion in economic losses, hundreds of companies behind last year's massive peatland and forest fires

Gatra Priyandita, Indonesia – Military figures have publicly warned of discreet attempts by communists to launch a revolution and reminded citizens to steer clear of communism or risk imprisonment.

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Ministries and government agencies have been relying too much on state funds allocated to them instead of finding private sector partners to work on infrastructure project

Tim McDonald, East Timor – On the road that goes from East Timor's capital of Dili to Suai, on the Island's south, there's a cross by the roadside.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu has denied providing armed military training to gang members and mass organizations as part of Bali's state defense program.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Having introduced economic deregulation at a national level since September last year, the government has now shifted to removing local stumbling blocks to investment.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The government will not back down from its plan to castrate child rapists despite the country's doctors' association refusing to conduct the procedure.

Journalists have been intimidated and threatened while covering an election in the Mamberamo Raya regency of Indonesia's Papua province.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has expressed the government's commitment to ensuring openness and transparency in res

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The Mathla'ul Anwar Islamic organization has called on the government not to revoke sharia inspired bylaws that are in place in many regions across the country as it says

Tim McDonald, Suai, East Timor – Near Suai on East Timor's south coast, a rusty old oil pump sits near a beach, some mangroves and the ruins of an old prison from the Portuguese era.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesian Military commander Gen.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – In another show of intolerance toward minority faiths in Indonesia, mass organizations have extorted churches in Bandung, West Java, in the process of attaining building permit

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The fight to prove the innocence of cleaners and teachers accused of sodomy at a prestigious international school in Jakarta is being waged not just by

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The government has called on regional police chiefs to prevent raids during Ramadhan to ensure a peaceful atmosphere throughout the holy month, Coordinating Political, Leg

Jakarta – A Muslim intellectual has voiced his concern over the Serang Public Order Agency's (Satpol PP) recent raid on an elderly woman's food stall that had served customers at midday during Rama