Jakarta – Gerindra Party patron Prabowo Subianto said he would not oppose a plan by the Golkar Party leadership to join the ruling coalition.

Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, has reiterated its commitment to stay with the opposing Red-White Coalition led by Prabowo Subianto amid speculations that it would switch sides and

Fadli, Batam – Some 2,000 workers from PT Amtek Engineering in Batam, Riau Islands province, went on strike as planned on Monday, blocking the main and only entrance to the company's factory.

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – Indonesia's Attorney-General has hosed down speculation a third batch of executions are imminent saying the nation's economy is "far more important".

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The government aims to include access for Indonesian laborers in future agreements with trading partners in an attempt to boost the country's trade in services, a top offici

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – Vanuatu based West Papua National Coalition for Liberation Acting Chairman Andy Ayamiseba has welcomed the latest initiative by the President of the Republic of Indo

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Fadli, Batam – Authorities in Batam, Riau Islands, have called on thousands of workers from a major local company to drop plans to begin a three-week strike on Monday, claiming the move could cost

Reports from Indonesia's Papua province say extra police have been deployed to a part of Puncak Jaya regency where three officers were killed in an attack late last month.

Severianus Endi, Pontianak – A member of a women's group, Kristina, 33, sat at the side of the room during a recent seminar at a hotel in Pontianak, breast-feeding her baby.

Edo Karensa, Jakarta – Media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Indonesian government for imposing a ban on a French journalist after releasing a documentary on the co

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Cilacap – Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has claimed he was wrongly jailed for 15 years on terrorism charges when he was merely donating money to suppor

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Ongoing conflict within the Yogyakarta royal family risks triggering a rise in intolerance in the province, according to observer of politics and Islam Noorhaidi Hasa

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The local price of salt has been dropping because of an abundance of imported salt that had been entering the country during the peak harvest period from June to Septemb

Ayomi Amindoni, Business – Indonesia narrowed its current account deficit (CAD) to US$17.5 billion (Rp 243.25 trillion) in 2015, a 35 percent improvement on the 2014 deficit, which stood at $27 bil

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo appointed former Corruption Eradication Commission cadre Johan Budi Sapto Pribowo as his spokesman on Tuesday, citing Johan's vast experience as a vocal rep

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The government has reiterated its commitment to easing the conduct of business in Indonesia to make the country more competitive with other members of ASEAN ahead of the imp

Elizabeth Matsangou – As the world's most commonly traded vegetable oil, palm oil is a key economic driver for Indonesia.

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) will deploy more personnel and additional weapons to protect eastern outer islands, which currently lack security, saying an improved watch on b

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – Government watchdog Civil Society Group for State Officials Observation (LMPPN) filed on Monday a report with the House ethics council (MKD) against former House of Repres

The chairperson of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Manasseh Sogavare is calling on Indonesia to commission a fact finding mission to discuss the situation in West Papua with members of the Pacific I

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The World Bank has warned that a continuing economic slowdown in emerging markets will cause substantial spillovers into developing economies and eventually hold back the

Venidora Oliveira – The Deputy Human Rights and Justice Ombudsman (PDHJ) Jesuina Gomes said in 2015 cases amounting to good governance offences registered higher than other types of violations.

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) installed on Monday Ade Komarudin as the new House speaker, replacing Setya Novanto who stepped down on Dec.16 over an alleged ethics br

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While tax revenues reached an all-time record of Rp 1.06 quadrillion (US$76.1 billion) in 2015, they fell 18 percent or Rp 234 trillion short of the target of Rp 1.29 quadrillion set by the governm

Oil and gas exploration company Lapindo Brantas has suspended operations in East Java's Sidoarjo regency, where people are still traumatized by the mudflow disaster blamed on the company's previous

Jakarta – Prosperous Justice Party politician Fahri Hamzah on Sunday confirmed that a party stalwart had urged him to step down as deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, as the party drift

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Critics have lambasted what they deemed as political intervention from Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly in the internal affairs of the Golkar Party and t

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The Muhammad Romahurmuziy-led camp of the United Development Party (PPP) has claimed that the revocation of a decree that had approved Romahurmuziy's leadership

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Amid sluggish economic growth in China, a key trading partner of Indonesia, economists have again warned of the importance of finding new markets to offset the risk of t

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Victor Mamborm, Jayapura, Jubi – About 150 police personnel were deployed to hunt for the perpetrators of the attack on the Sinak Police Headquarters at Puncak Jaya Regency, Papua, which killed thr

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has expressed a commitment to resolve a number of past human rights violations by the end of this year.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Indonesian Army will further strengthen military posts in the Indonesian regions bordering other countries with the objective of developing infrastructure and

Evi Mariani and Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Hendrik Thee has been fuming for months about what is happening in front of his house on Jl.

One of the Pacific's smaller island states, Vanuatu stands taller than the larger nations with its consistent, principled stand on social justice, parliamentary democracy and corruption.

Indonesian NGOs have condemned the Malaysian government's decision to deport human rights activist Mugiyanto Sipin as he attempted to enter the country to attend an event organized by the Bersih 2.

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says it has received an instruction from Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan to drop min

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Residents of Tanggulangin, Sidoarjo, East Java, have protested without avail against planned gas drilling by Lapindo Brantas Inc., a company affiliated with the family

Manado – The hot mudflow from a drilling site of Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE) Lahendong, a subsidiary of state-owned gas and oil company Pertamina, in Tondangow subdistrict, Tomohon, North Sul

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Legal Aid Institute for the Press (LBH Pers) has said that freedom of the press declined last year and would most likely continue to as there were still a numbe

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – More squatters and people occupying state land will be forced to abandon their homes this year as the city administration intends to bulldoze their houses to ma

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The government must rule out an option of granting amnesty to former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) combatant Din Minimi and his fellow insurgents as such a move could cre

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Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Hundreds of villagers in Mamberamo Raya in Papua have fled into the woods to live as they fear the Indonesian Military (TNI) will blame them for the death of an offic

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The government is hoping to see more investors become involved in developing industrial zones following the issuance of a new regulation.

Jakarta – A number of minority groups have joined Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization, to launch a nationwide, grassroots movement aimed at combating extremism.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Coalition to End Child Marriage (Koalisi 18+) has urged the government to issue a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) to stop child marriage to save the future of