Tama Salim, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has established a national intelligence oversight team that will monitor the work of state intelligence officials and their clandestine operations

Putra Prima Perdana, Bandung – The coordinator of the Bandung Kulon chapter of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), Tubagus Abbas Murodi, has admitted that the FPI conducted a sweep of boarding house

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's first year in office produced a mixed record on human rights that lacked major initiatives to tackle the worst abuses, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in it

Paulina Quintso – The Chief of the Department of Non-infectious Diseases, of the Ministry of Health, Dr Herculano Seixas do Santos has urged the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Environment (MCIA

William Mackey – It had been years since Indonesia had experienced an attention-grabbing terrorist attack. That changed on January 14.

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – Papuans want dialogue between with Jakarta and this has been constantly echoed in recent years, but there has been no response from Jakarta.

Bandung, West Java – Bandung Mayor Ridwan Kamil said on Tuesday he did not have any problem with citizens who supported or were involved in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) commun

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government should adhere to the 1945 Constitution in handling the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), an organization allegedly involved in recent missing pers

Paulina Quintso – The Chief of the Department of Non-infectious Diseases, at the Ministry of Health, Dr Herculano Seixas do Santos said now the Tobacco Control Law has been approved by the Timorese

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Cilacap – The leader of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) Rizieq Shihab has admitted to having had connections to terrorism convict Abu Bakar Ba'asyir through a fundraising initiative, but claimed it

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Activists have chastised the government for its apparent reluctance to remove an article on libel from the 2008 Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law.

Dili (ANTI/Pacific Media Watch) – Human rights advocates have appealed to President Joko Widodo to "end impunity and consolidate democracy" on the eve of his first visit to Timor-Leste today.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – A minority Muslim group has been ordered to convert to Sunni Islam or be expelled from Bangka island, off the coast of Sumatra, in the latest religious

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – A survey by the Jakarta-based think tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has revealed that incumbent Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Abu Bakar Bashir's lawyer has forcefully denied the radical Indonesian cleric had anything to do with the Jakarta terror attacks, declaring them an attemp

Indra Budiari and Dewanti Wardhani, Jakarta – The sun was scorching over the coast of North Jakarta as Siti Haminah sat in front of her shack, her toddler in her arms.

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.

An Indonesian spy server has been tracked to a street in Sydney, prompting the concern that Australia could get the blame for spying being carried out by other countries.

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Jakarta – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) during his state visit to Timor Leste on Tuesday is expected to discuss the settlement of Indonesian assets in the country, according to a legislator.

Jakarta – Timor-Leste President Taur Matan Ruak will bestow the country's highest medal of honor, Grande Colar de Ordem de Timor-Leste, on President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) in a ceremony at the presid

Nusa Dua – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is set to visit Timor Leste on Tuesday to discuss efforts to speed up land and maritime border resolutions, as well as to boost bilateral trade and coopera

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – The floods affecting a number of regions in Riau, Aceh and Bali have not only engulfed residential areas but also thousands of hectares of farmland, currently causing wid

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is at risk of missing the opportunity to become the first country in the world to achieve full implementation of its timber legality system, called SVLK, as

Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP) leadership formed at a November 2014 national meeting (mukernas) in Jakarta appears to have learned the lesson that current political reality dictates t

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The National Police have opened an investigation into Erwin Natosmal Oemar of the Indonesian Legal Roundtable (ILR) after he criticized the police during a televised talk sh

Liza Yosephine, National – Members of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) groups in Indonesia are facing discrimination and stereotyping in media coverage, say activists who are calling o

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Police observers have called on the Jakarta Police to more closely monitor officers in the wake of a report pointing to a steep rise in the number of city police officers impl

Jakarta – A minister has found himself on the receiving end of angry scorn and fierce criticism following comments he made attacking the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

Evi Mariani and Aldrin Rocky Sampeliling, Jakarta/Depok – Several public officials issued statements on the weekend opposing the presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students o

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – China, and not Singapore, is believed to be the biggest foreign investor in Indonesia, as Chinese investors often invest in other countries through proxy companies that

Church leaders in West Papua appear concerned about religious extremism in the region.

Jakarta – As many as 118 Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) members from West Kalimantan currently housed in Jakarta would undergo five days of "reeducation," Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Kalimantan, Indonesia – A so-called "deviant sect" living in a remote farming community are besieged by a mob who burn their settlement to the ground.

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo will visit Timor Leste on Wednesday as a part of a drive to strengthen bilateral relations and development cooperations with the country.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani – The Coalition for Broadcasting Reform has lambasted the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) for what it sees as the KPI's tardiness in responding to complaints from the

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Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Alliance of Indigenous People (AMAN) has criticized the House of Representatives for not listing the recognition and protection of the rights of indigenous peop

Tom Allard – Malcolm Turnbull's keynote speech in Washington DC last week, the first serious articulation of his foreign affairs stance since becoming prime minister, gained plenty of plaudits on b

Ruslan Sangadji, Poso – Hundreds of elite Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers are set to swarm Central Sulawesi's Poso forests in an effort to capture the country's most wanted terrorist, Santoso, a

Elvan Dany Sutrisno, Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) speaker Zulkifli Hasan says he agrees with Research, Technology and Higher Education Minister Muhammad Nasir who said recently th

Jakarta – The government is responsible for the eviction of over 500 former Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) members from their homes and agricultural areas in West Kalimantan by locals because t

Zuhdiar Laeis, Semarang – Research, Technology and Education Minister Muhammad Nasir has asserted that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) groups should not be allowed into university cam

Jayapura – U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Roberth O Blake held a meeting with Papuan church leaders here on Saturday.

Michael Neilson, Jakarta – Activists are suing the Indonesian government in a bid to stop development they say will devastate the last remaining area on earth where Sumatran tigers, rhinoceroses, o

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Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – The leadership dispute within the Golkar Party is unlikely to end anytime soon as the rival camps within the party still insist on their respective agendas.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Police have arrested 18 terror suspects, six of them were accused of being involved in the Jan.

Phelim Kine – There are new hazards for foreign journalists attempting to report from Indonesia's restive easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua (generally referred to as "Papua"): visa deni

The chair of the Melanesian Spearhead Group has offered to facilitate a meeting between the Indonesian government and the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.