Jakarta – A leftist festival dubbed "Belok Kiri Festival" or "Turn Left Festival," scheduled to start last weekend in Taman Ismail Marzuki, Central Jakarta, has been relocated to the Jakarta Legal

Banda Aceh – Officials in Aceh disbanded a talent show on Sunday evening (28/02) for featuring a fashion show displaying clothing deemed inappropriate under the province's shariah bylaws.

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Consumer prices are expected to have dropped in February, providing more room for Bank Indonesia (BI) to further cut its key rate to help revive the country's sluggish e

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Al Fatah Islamic School for transgender people in Yogyakarta has ceased all activity and its owners and students are keeping a low profile after the school was shut d

Arkhelaus W., Jakarta – The Preparatory Committee-All Indonesia United Workers Confederation (KP-KPBI) condemned Jakarta Police's action banning the Belok Kiri.Fest event to be held at Taman Ismail

Fedina S.

Michael Neilson, Jakarta – On the University of Indonesia campus in Depok, south of Jakarta, there is a group that gets together twice a month over a "pot-luck" dinner to discuss topics generally c

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY), the external judicial supervisory body, has elected its commissioner Aidul Fitriciada Azhari as its new chairman and Sukma Violetta as deputy ch

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Facebook has suspended an Indonesian woman's account after she posted a series of historical photos of local women, based on numerous reports of "nudity" and "expl

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The shutdown of Jakarta's Kalijodo red-light district in North Jakarta reveals a lack of fairness in the way the Jakarta administration clears areas for develop

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) has reinstated its support for the newly passed public housing savings (Tapera) program, pinning its hopes on the new

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The National Awakening Party (PKB) is at the center of a bribery investigation related to infrastructure projects in Maluku as more of its lawmakers have been implicated in

Tom Allard – East Timor's president has compared former prime ministers Xanana Gusmao and Mari Alkatiri to the Indonesian dictator Suharto, saying there was "widespread discontent" among the public

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Indonesia has a great potential to become a hub for manufacturing industries but poor infrastructure and an unpleasant business climate remain the major challenges that the

Tama Salim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has officially opened the legislation process for revising the 2003 Terrorism Law to strengthen measures to thwart growing radical

Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP) agreed to appoint Emron Pangkapi as interim party chairman during its national meeting (Mukernas) on Thursday.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Local authorities of Kotagede district in Yogyakarta have decided to shut down the Islamic Al Fatah School for transgender students and ban any religious activities f

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Sam King – A large and angry demonstration was held outside the Australian Embassy in Dili on 23 February, against the Australian government's refusal negotiate a permanent international border wit

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – In response to public complaints with regard to poor quality programs, the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has demanded stronger legal measures to enable t

Banyumas – Islam Defenders Front (FPI) patron Rizieq Shihab canceled his visit to the Al Fattah Islamic Boarding School in Cilongok district, Banyumas, Central Java, on Tuesday, following a protest

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John Pilger – Out of a population of almost a million, up to a third were extinguished.

Haeril Halim and Tama Salim, Jakarta – As a backlash against President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's move to delay revisions of an anticorruption law, the House of Representatives is rife with lobbying to

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – A corruption watchdog reported on Wednesday that the country had seen a decreasing number of corruption cases prosecuted by law enforcers as a result of the crimina

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The police and military should not be supporting Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's plan to demolish the Kalijodo red-light district in West Jakar

Safrin La Batu and Dewanti A.

Jewel Topsfield – Two former teachers at the prestigious Jakarta Intercultural School have been re-sentenced to jail for allegedly sodomising three preschool boys, in a decision that will send shoc

Indonesia's gay community has come under attack, with the country's Defence Minister labelling the community a "threat" and likening fighting it to "a kind of modern warfare".

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Jakarta – When the police started investigating a number of abortion clinics in Cikini, Central Jakarta, the immediate question from local residents was: "Why only now?" as they had known about the

Kupang, E Nusa Tenggara – Ferdi Tanoni, an observer of the Timor Sea issue, expressed support to the people of Timor Leste for demanding the establishment of maritime boundaries and for urging Aust

Paulina Quintso – The Director of Caucus (Women in Politics) Foundation Paula Corte Real urged women's associations across the 12 municipalities to stand firm and work together to encourage women w

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The National Police have vowed to follow up on reports that five mosques in Jakarta have been used as recruitment centers for the Islamic State (IS) movement.

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Tama Salim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – On the back of a deal between President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and the House of Representatives to postpone the revision of the 2002 Corruption Eradication Commi

Thomas Ora, Dili, Timor Leste – About 3,000 people marched to the Australian embassy in the Timor-Leste capital of Dili on Feb.

Hanis Maketab – Facebook has suspended the account of a young Indonesian woman who posted historical photos of local women to protest the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission's censoring of a beauty

Jakarta/Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Police shut down a rally supporting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at the Tugu Monument in Yogyakarta on Tuesday (23/02) afternoon, citing the

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Police banned on Tuesday activists from Democracy Struggle Solidarity (SPD), a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) support group, from holding a rally at th

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) plans to set up new military bases in eastern Indonesia, with Biak and Merauke in Papua and Morotai in Maluku among the options for its the l

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In a move to enhance support for the Indonesian Military (TNI), President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo promised on Tuesday that he would allocate more funds to it if the economy got

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The government will give high priority to local products, particularly for infrastructure projects as part of efforts to assist the development of national industries, cre

Paulina Quintso – The Director of CAUCUS (Women in Politics) Foundation, Paula Corte Real said the foundation is committed to continue to prepare women with potential for decision making roles.

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Jakarta – Government, businesspeople and economists have said that the issue of mass layoffs that has spread on social media recently is not as severe as a labor union claims.

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – The government is seeking to maintain infrastructure funding at current levels while trimming other sectors' funding amid a cash-strapped budget in a measure lauded by a

Khoirul Amin and Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – In a world where everything moves so fast and economic rivalry becomes fiercer among nations, Indonesia should no longer take anything for granted, or i