Erika Anindita, Jakarta – A coalition of anticorruption civil society groups has urged all political party factions in the House of Representatives to retract their support for the amendment of Law

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli has conveyed a plan to improve the national defense industry by encouraging countries in Southeast Asia to obtain minority

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The local electronics industry is expected to remain stable amid layoff concerns surrounding Japanese electronics giants operating in the country, an official says.

Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) has urged the government not to relax requirements for Chinese investors who want to use their own unskilled workers for projects in

Indonesian Trade Union Confederation (KSPI) chairperson Said Iqbal is again talking up the issue of mass dismissals (PHK), saying most recently that the wave of layoffs has also hit the pharmaceuti

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The American documentary film director Joshua Oppenheimer is set to make his way up the red carpet at the 2016 Academy Awards later this month, voicing the impo

Karlis Salna – Australia spent $1 million fighting litigation brought by East Timor over an ASIO raid linked to a dispute over $40 billion of oil and gas reserves.

Haeril Halim and Indra Harsaputra, Jakarta/Surabaya – Following the recent controversy over LGBT groups on university campuses, an ulema group has paved the way for banning all activities that advo

Paulina Quintso – The President of National Commission Against Child Labour (KNTI) Aniceto Leto Soro said the commission has started conducting a national research program to determine the number o

Jakarta – Indonesian courts have been very lenient toward corruption defendants last year, sentencing them to an average of just 26 months in prison, the country's most prominent antigraft watchdog

Nivell Rayda – There is something about the mysterious death of 27-year-old Wayan Mirna Salihin that captures people's imagination so much that when the Jakarta Police announced that they finally h

Jakarta – As many as 23 workers, a student and two Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) officials have been named suspects in relation to an October 30, 2015 action that ended with police attacking w

Tama Salim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The traditionally inclusive National Awakening Party (PKB), the political party of the country's largest moderate Muslim organization, is debating whether it w

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Women and children of the Ahmadiyah religious sect in a district in Bangka regency, Bangka Belitung province, were evacuated on Friday evening to save them from the wrath o

Ahmad Masaul Khoiri, Jakarta – House of Representatives (DPR) Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon from Prabowo Subianto's Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) has had frequent discussions with DPR collea

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – One faction of the internally riven United Development Party conveyed its intention to reach an islah or reconciliation in a national meeting on Friday.

Jakarta – A senior member of the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), Hidayat Nur Wahid, has insisted that the opposition Red-and-White Coalition (KMP) continues to remain in existence, de

Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian labor union members flooded into Jakarta for a massive rally on Saturday, urging the government to stop layoffs at multinational corporations.

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The government is revising the regulation on the assessment of smelter development, connected to leniency in export permits, as part of its efforts to support mining fir

Anton Hermansyah, Business – Five ministries are combining forces to jack up domestic consumption of natural rubber with the issue of a joint ministerial decree (SKB) on mandatory rubber utilizatio

The government will consider a request for an amnesty and living assistance from 10 former members of a Papuan separatist group known as the Free Papua Movement (OPM).

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – What is needed most in Papua is not the construction of railways or the extension of Freeport Indonesia's contract, but a dialogue between Jakarta-Papua to seek a co

Jayapura – Police on Wednesday seized ammunition, two government-issued firearms and an airsoft gun from two houses in Sentani, Jayapura regency, Papua.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Puan Maharani said on Thursday that the government should take legal action to follow up the recent Indonesian Ulema Coun

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – The National Commission of Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has described as a violation of human rights recent statements made by public officials vilifying the lesbian, gay, bi

Jakarta – Japanese electronics maker Panasonic says that the figure mentioned in claims made earlier by a labor union about mass layoffs in some of the company's plants is much higher than the actu

Jakarta – Ministries are pooling their efforts to save 126 Indonesian migrant workers facing the death penalty in Malaysia for drug-related offences, an official said on Thursday.

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Tama Salim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has been forced to cancel a crucial first meeting to deliberate a rough draft of the 2002 Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Customers will have to pay for plastic bags when they shop at shopping malls, department stores, supermarkets and other retail outlets throughout 23 of the country's m

Jakarta – Based on the assumption that prisons accommodating convicted terrorists may be fertile ground for radicalization, the government has introduced measures to curb the spread of radical teac

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Members of the former Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) at the Bina Insan Rehabilitation Center in Cipayung, East Jakarta, are facing uncertain futures as they have nowhe

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo asked for the help of Islamic groups on Friday in order to tackle the spread of radical ideology in Indonesia, in the wake of last month's t

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – Golkar lawmaker Tantowi Yahya urged the government to 'counter' news about Papua online.

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is rejecting the draft bill on the revision of the KPK law, saying that it contains provisions that will weaken the antigraft body.

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – Papuan legislator Laurenzus Kadepa accused the Indonesian Government of lacking ideas to solve problems in Papua.

Jakarta – The Free Papua Movement (OPM) has denied that hundreds of rounds of ammunition, firearms and explosives confiscated by police during a raid on Wednesday night belonged to the organization

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has taken another major step forward in healing its internal rift after the leaders of the two rival camps agreed to restore the rights of party members who w

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Automakers are asking the government to drop duties imposed on steel products widely used in car manufacturing to help locally made vehicles become more competitive.

Jakarta – The governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste, through the Ministries of Defense, have agreed to establish cooperation in the field of defense, in particular education and training.

Jakarta – The electronics sector is unlikely to feel any respite this year amid pressure to do another round of mass retrenchments as consumers continue to reduce their spending to cope with the im

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has issued a fatwa against the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), declaring it a heretical organization that spreads deviant re

Jakarta – Becak (pedicab) drivers across Jakarta are seeking help from the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to mediate a meeting with Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama that see

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities compiled a secret dossier of prominent Papuans that details their "weaknesses" – such as women and alcohol – and outlines a strategy to "suppress"

Jakarta – Having compiled enough evidence, the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) is ready to summon 12 big corporations in its investigation into an alleged price-fixing conspiracy

Labor unions plan to send 20,000 members to rally in front of the Presidential Palace and the Supreme Court on Feb.

One of the most startling cases of a government using the fig leaf of national security to protect its own interests is happening right before our eyes – and it should have Australians up in arms.

Steve Cannane – Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has intervened in an application by a former senior intelligence agent to have his passport returned, rejecting his application on the grounds he is a

Ten former members of a Papuan separatist group, the National Liberation Army/Free Papua Movement (TPN/OPM), have asked the government to grant them an amnesty, a senior intelligence official has c

Anton Hermansyah – Indonesian citizens have more faith in business than the government, in terms of solving prolonged social issues such as poverty and unemployment this year, an Edelman Trust Baro