Anton Hermansyah – Indonesia registered a trade surplus of US$1.65 billion in the first quarter of this year, amid a 14-percent cumulative year-on-year (YoY) decline in exports to $33.59 billion.

Erika Anindita Dewi – The Islamic United Development Party (PPP) will submit a bill on the anti-propaganda of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) content to the House of Representati

Trade unions have called on the government to issue a regulation that protects the rights of homeworkers, including a decent wage and safety as they have been neglected for years.

Anton Hermansyah – Despite a slight month-on-month (MoM) increase in March, the daily income of low-wage laborers in the country's informal sectors are being eroded by inflation, a Central Statisti

Arnold Belau, Jayapura – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta) reports that 63 people have been arrested over the last nine days in West Papua.

Terror suspect Siyono's family continues to receive threats from the police, a defense team for the family has said.

Siyono's wife Suratmi probably did the best thing she could when she asked for help from Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Islamic organization, to figure out why her husband died in the cus

Hannah Sinclair – East Timor has filed a request with the United Nations to resolve a dispute over its maritime border with Australia.

Liza Yosephine – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said an apology over the atrocities of 1965 would be futile unless the whole truth was revealed.

Ria Apriyani, Cianjur – Police have shut down a meeting by victims of the mass killings in 1965-66 that was to be held in Cipanas, Bogor, West Java on the grounds that members of the Pancasila Yout

Ni Komang Erviani – Following several large rallies against the planned Benoa Bay reclamation project, the Bali Police have called on people not to stage demonstrations on weekends as protests may

Ary Hermawan – The sinister circumstances surrounding the death of suspected terrorist Siyono and the blatant cover-up attempts by the police are no trifles.

The head of Indonesia's leading human rights organisation has described how the nation is in a type of denial about festering rights issues in Papua region.

Nine female protestors from Mount Kendeng in Rembang regency, Central Java, cemented their feet in the aim of not only to protest against cement plant developments in their hometown but also to rem

Lyndal Rowlands, United Nations – Timor-Leste which won independence from Indonesia in 1999 is now engaged in a new struggle with Australia over rights to oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea.

Yesterday's demonstrations in West Papua have been described as a sign of widespread support for integration with the wider Melanesian community.

On Monday, East Timor asked the United Nations to begin the process of establishing a permanent maritime boundary with Australia in the Timor Sea.

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Calls for the Indonesian government to launch a truth and reconciliation process to address the slaughter of half a million suspected communists in the 1960s are growing ahead

Haeril Halim – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has pledged to step up its crackdown on future bribe-taking acts following two separate arrests it made in the past two weeks involving pr

Jakarta – Indonesia's second largest bank by asset, PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), will open a new branch in Timor Leste in an effort to expand business in the young nation, top official of the le

Venidora Oliveira – Research conducted by the Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) research in 2015 has found that 34% of Timor-Leste girls are victims of sexual violence.

Hans Nicholas Jong – The government is campaigning against a "zero deforestation" pledge (IPOP) signed by leading palm oil producers in Indonesia.

Erika Anindita Dewi – The government and the House of Representatives will focus on an article on defamation in the amendment of the 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law, as both

Nethy Dharma Somba – A number of liquor businesspeople in Jayapura, Papua, are protesting Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe's policy to ban the distribution of alcoholic beverages in the province.

Jakarta – The United States must disclose information contained in its confidential archives related to the 1965-66 anti-communist massacres, as high-ranking Indonesian officials repeatedly said th

Hotli Simanjuntak – The Takengon Prosecutor's Office in Central Aceh regency, Aceh, caned on Tuesday a 60-year-old woman, Remita Sinaga, alias Mak Ucok, for violating sharia by storing and selling

Arnold Belau, Jayapura – The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) reports that on April 12 district police arrested 15 KNPB activists and vandalised the KNPB secretariat in Kaimana district, West P

Demonstrations in support of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua have been taking place in cities across Indonesia's Papua region today.

A coalition of rights groups demanded on Tuesday that the National Police and the Indonesian Military (TNI) remain calm over the simultaneous rallies planned in seven cities across Papua on Wednesd

Edo Karensa, Jayapura – Eleven activists were arrested when a peaceful rally in support of full membership for the Papua independence movement in the Melanesian Spearhead Group was interrupted by p

Benny Mawel, Jayapura, Indonesia – Peaceful demonstrations supporting Papuan independence were held in several parts on the predominantly Christian Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua Apri

Jakarta – Today we will be addressing what to do about the 1965 killings. Why do these still matter and how can we properly address them?

Jakarta – The police will reinstate Jakarta's controversial 3-in-1 carpooling system until the alternative electronic road pricing system is ready.

Ayomi Amindoni – An ongoing debate by lawmakers over a proposed tax amnesty should be part of the country's efforts to reform its taxation system and not just an effort to create an instrument to r

Padang, West Sumatra – United States Ambassador to Indonesia Robert O. Blake affirmed that relations between his country and Jakarta were getting better.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – Human rights activists will treat the case of Siyono, an alleged terrorist, who died during interrogation by the National Police's counterterrorism squad Densus 88, as a cr

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Stefani Ribka – In view of the potential for human rights abuses by special operations police officers, some have called for the National Police to evaluate the work and o

Elly Burhaini Faizal – It was the saddest day for the family of Siyono, 34, who on March 8 was arrested on suspicion of being a terrorist, who then returned to his hometown, in Pogung, in a coffin

Five members of the Central Sulawesi Police have tested positive for drugs based on urine tests conducted by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN).

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge – Recently, Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Politics and Security, Luhut Panjaitan, made a three-day visit to Papua.

Jakarta – More than two thirds of Jakartans polled in a recent survey have indicated that they want the 3-in-1 carpooling system permanently scrapped, arguing that it is ineffective in reducing tra

Erika Anindita Dewi – Amid protest from several factions, including Gerindra, the House of Representatives on Monday authorized House Commission XI overseeing banking and finance affairs to start t

Jakarta – Family planning experts insist that in countries like Indonesia, there needs to be greater engagement of faith-based communities to make sure everybody's sexual and reproductive health ne

A delegation from the Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has made a trip to West Papua, visiting the Catholic faithful in Jayapura.

Indonesia's government has been increasing efforts to strengthen diplomatic ties with Pacific Island countries as it seeks to become a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

A Catholic Women's group in West Papua has called for regional support for their people's plight, after a visit to the Indonesian territory by Catholic Bishops from other parts of Melanesia.

Jayapura, Jubi – Dozens of civil society organisations comprising elements of the labour, student, women's, urban poor and other social movements support the Papuan people's right to freedom of exp

A number of female protesters cemented their feet in front of the State Palace on Tuesday in protest of a cement plant development by state-owned PT Semen Indonesia in their hometown in Rembang reg

Mark Colvin: Labor's shadow foreign Minister says if the United Nations rules in favour of East Timor in a border dispute and her party wins government, it'll negotiate a new and fair maritime boun

Thomas Ora, Dili, Timor Leste – Timor-Leste Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araujo has praised late Bishop Alberto Ricardo da Silva of Dili, as well as other Catholic clergy, nuns and religious for the