World Bank, Jakarta – A small number of Indonesians are benefitting from financial and physical assets – sometimes acquired through corrupt means – that, in turn, drive higher wealth co

Hans Nicholas Jong – The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry has issued a ministerial regulation to protect and uphold human rights in the fisheries industry, making it a requiremen

Jakarta – West Java is the province with the highest number of human rights violations this year, according to the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras).

Bandung – The National Police have reiterated their commitment to proceeding with an assault case implicating Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan amid pu

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered the National Police to make improvements after it was listed by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras)

Ananda Teresia, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has instructed all government officials in all levels to expedite the settlement of past human rights violation cases as many cases are s

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission is set to miss its target with some survey groups estimating a lower voter turnout in Wednesday's simultaneous regional elections compared to

Jakarta – More than a thousand dockworkers staged a rally in North Jakarta on Friday to protest their employers' failure to pay their wages.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – It will be hard to prevent people from watching Joshua Oppenheimer's second groundbreaking documentary on the 1965 Indonesian communist purge, The Look of Si

Jakarta – The government needs to push all educational institutions to actively promote values of tolerance and diversity because education plays an important role in encouraging the ba

Ivo Mateus Goncalves – Forty years has come and gone since East Timor was invaded by Indonesia's military.

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Indonesia potentially added an additional 4 to 6 million business enterprises over the last decade, from 2006 to 2016, bringing the total number of enterprises

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo's administration has failed to promote human rights since taking office more than a year ago, according to a survey by the Setara

Jakarta – The National Police (Polri) committed the highest number of human rights violations this year, according to a recent finding by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims

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Jakarta – House of Representatives deputy speaker Fadli Zon has joined the condemnation of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's recent statement to ban Muslims from enter

Djemi Amnifu and Arya Dipa, Kupang/Bandung – Local elections (Pilkada) in three regions with a single-ticket candidate pair ran smoothly on Wednesday as voters flocked to nearby polling

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Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Apriadi Gunawan and Ina Parlina, Padang/Medan/Jakarta – Voter turnout in the country's first-ever simultaneous regional elections on Wednesday was likely lower tha

Jakata – House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto reported Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said on Wednesday to the National Police's Criminal Investigation Corps (

The latest World Bank report on Indonesia warns of the rising risk of social tension and conflict as inequalities of income and asset ownership widen, recommending a more vigorous colle

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesia has moved backward and is becoming an uncivilized nation in terms of its repression of freedom of expression, according to art and human righ

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Business and community leaders in Bali have expressed their opposition to an alcohol prohibition bill that is presently being deliberated at the House of R

Novani Nugrahani, Jakarta – A novel by Indonesian author Laksmi Pamuntjak, Amba, which was translated into German under the title "Alle Farben Rot", has sold more than 10,000 copies sin

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ) condemned on Tuesday the Jakarta Police's move of issuing it a letter pressuring the council to cancel a discussion on the 1965 t

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Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Professors, university staff and students helped detect, expel and torture suspected communist elements during the 1960s political upheaval, a Gadjah Mada Univer

Jakarta – The capital city is not equipped with a sufficient surveillance system, according to Jakarta Police chief Ins. Gen. Tito Karnavian.

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – A string of recent assaults against women on footbridges has raised concerns about the safety of pedestrians on the capital's many footbridges, some of which ar

Adam Harvey, Indonesia – Indonesia has pulled 1,600 private buses off its roads after a weekend bus crash in which 18 people died.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Even after the passing of 50 years, Indonesians are still reluctant to bring up the events of 1965 in a discussion as they always relate it with the co

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The government's recently issued economic stimulus package allowing street vendors to use state land will not be seen as an incentive since such regulation is

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Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Wednesday's simultaneous regional elections in 269 cities and regencies across the country are further evidence that individual candidates play a more import

Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – Communications and Information Technology Minister Rudiantara says a draft of the revision of the controversial clause 27 of the Electronic Information and Trans

Jakarta – The Jakarta Art Council (DKJ) released a statement on Tuesday saying that a drama dealing with the events of 1965 at the Jakarta Theater Festival (FTJ) will be staged despite

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have banned a reading and discussion of a drama script titled "Family Album: #50years1965" at the Jakarta Theater Festival (FTJ) that was scheduled to take

Ganug Nugroho Adi – A week after the world commemorated 'World AIDS day' on Dec 1, nine children living with HIV have been rejected from their new house in Surakarta, the home-town of P

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Provided with a limited allocation from the state budget, the government may only have the capacity to restore less than 5 percent of the total peatland ar

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors have called on Jakarta Corruption Court judges to sentence former NasDem party secretary-general Patrice Rio

Padang – Dozens of journalists affiliated with the West Sumatra Anti-violence Journalists Coalition (KWAK) staged a rally on Monday at the temporary Padang headquarters of the West Suma

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Indonesia is at risk of leaving its poor and vulnerable behind as the nation's income inequality continues its rapid rise, a World Bank official has said.

Nicholas Jong, National – The Constitutional Court (MK) rejected on Monday a judicial review filed by a civil society organization that had sought to strip the House of Representatives

Jakarta – A LIPI researcher has recommended that the Jakarta administration limit construction on coastal areas in North Jakarta as a measure to prevent worse land subsidence and floodi

Adam Harvey – The 40th anniversary of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor was marked yesterday with a small commemoration at the headquarters of the nation's Kopassus special forces.

On the first anniversary of the violent deaths of four West Papuans in Paniai, Indonesia's government has been urged to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice.

Paris – The Indonesian government has introduced a monitoring system named the Indonesian National Accounting Carbon System (INCAS) in a bid to reduce national carbon emissions.

Edna Tarigan, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has annouced that the city's transportation department has suspended route permits for more than a thousand Metro

Jakarta – The Bogor City administration's plan to relocate a church belonging to the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin congregation faces strong opposition from congregation memb