Haeril Halim, National – Anticorruption activists have criticized the Supreme Court's choice of 15 new ad hoc judges for the Jakarta Corruption Court, saying the selectees lack integrit

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The country's religious leaders have condemned a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that left more than 120 people dead in Paris on Friday.

Phelim Kine – Something remarkable happened last week in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province.

Palembang – The Muara Enim Police in South Sumatra have defended personnel involved in a recent shooting that wounded two Indonesian Army (TNI) personnel, arguing that their actions wer

Victor Mambor, Semarang, Jubi – Vice Chairman of Advisory Council of the Union Churches of Indonesia, the Rev.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Leaders of the country's two largest Muslim organizations have condemned a plan from the so-called Anti-Shia National Alliance (Annas) to declare an anti-Shia movement on Sunda

Ati Nurbaiti – The country was on the global stage this week for far from enviable reasons in The Hague, where activists and scholars held the International People's Tribunal 1965 on atrocities fol

Jakarta – The panel of judges at the International People's Tribunal (IPT) at The Hague has concluded that the Indonesian government was responsible for the massacres and oppression that followed t

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – The current account deficit (CAD) narrowed in the third quarter from the previous quarter, paving the way for a lower full-year figure, the latest balance of payment (Bo

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The Defense Ministry has unveiled a plan to incorporate its state defense program, popularly known as Bela Negara, into school curricula starting next year.

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – After being heavily criticized for issuing a regulation that restricted public protest, Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has revised the controversial Guberna

Arya Dipa and Lita Aruperes, Bandung/Manado – The Purwakarta regional administration in West Java has issued a circular that guarantees the freedom of local residents to express their religious bel

Victor Mambor, Jakarta, Jubi/IFEX – An international delegation of media and freedom of expression organisations met with the Indonesian government to discuss the state of media in the country.

Jakarta – Attorney General M.

Jakarta – Sharia police officers, locally known as Wilayatul Hisbah, raided a number of warnet (internet cafes) in North Aceh in the wee hours of Friday morning in an effort to prevent online gambl

Jakarta – Two Australian Navy ships from Perth have arrived in Surabaya to join the TNI-AL in a major four-day maritime security exercise to be conducted in the Java Sea.

Jakarta – The Defense Ministry is drafting a new curriculum for the state defense program and has included intelligence technique as a main focus.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – As corruption cases pile up at the Jakarta Corruption Court, the Supreme Court has started a quick-selection process to recruit new ad hoc judges, raising concerns about the

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – A discussion initiated by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) on Thursday urged the Jakarta administration use a participatory approach before evicting resid

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) on Thursday announced a plan to recruit 50,000 preachers and dispatch them across the country to promote moderate teachings of Islam.

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has backed a proposal to expand the functions of a building to be constructed by the Christian Yasmin Church in Bogor,

Jakarta – The rector of State Diponegoro University (Undip) has forbidden students from holding a discussion on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) issues on campus claiming that the them

Jakarta – The Foreign Ministry says the government has nothing to do with the proceedings currently underway at the International People's Tribunal (IPT) at The Hague, the Netherlands.

Ross Tapsell – When charting the difficult Australia-Indonesia relationship back in 1990, journalist Peter Hastings wrote:

Semarang – A house of worship of traditional Javanese belief-system, Sapta Darma, standing in Blando hamlet, Plawangan village, Rembang regency, Central Java, was burned down on Tuesday by a Muslim

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – The second day of a "people's tribunal" in The Hague, the Netherlands, in relation to Indonesia's 1965 massacre heard testimony from a survivor of sexual abuse on Wednesda

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Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – A website presenting updates on the International People's Tribunal on Indonesia's 1965 mass killing could not be accessed on Thursday afternoon.

Jakarta – The website of the International People's Tribunal 1965, held in The Hague until Friday, could not be accessed in Indonesia on Thursday, sparking speculation that it was being blocked.

An independent tribunal investigating Indonesia's involvement in the 1965 massacres, during which an estimated 500,000-1 million people connected to the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) were system

Nithin Coca – World leaders often cite Indonesia as an example of tolerance and democracy, both for Asia and the Islamic world.

Jakarta – Green group Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI) has criticized the Environment and Forestry Ministry for being one of the most secretive ministries in the government and has warned that that att

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Seminyak, Bali – To protect women from unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions, a stronger regulatory framework is needed to ensure sufficient access to sexual and reproduct

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Home Minister Tjahjo Kumulo said on Wednesday that his office would propose to revise a joint ministerial decree regulating the establishment of houses of worship, a regulat

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Alliance of Indigenous People (AMAN) has reminded President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo of the importance of his promise to establish a Presidential task force to pro

Sashka Koloff, staff – When Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, they effectively sealed off the country to the outside world.

Jemma Purdey and Kate McGregor – No doubt about it.

Katharine Murphy, Jakarta – Malcolm Turnbull began his day in the Indonesian capital emphasising the importance of boosting economic linkages and investment – and ended it mobbed in a Jakarta texti

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Indonesia has to vastly improve the competitiveness of industrial sectors before it can finally be considered ready to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which so f

Jessica Elgot – Two British journalists held for more than five months in an Indonesian prison have described their relief at being back on UK soil but criticised the Foreign Office for a dismissiv

Apriadi Gunawan and Raras Cahyafitri, Medan/Jakarta – Manufacturing companies in North Sumatra have had to close operations after soaring gas prices forced them to lay off some 20,000 employees.

Bangkok – Toxic fumes from the Indonesian fires that have spread a choking haze across Southeast Asia may be doing more harm to human and plant health than officials have indicated, scientists meas

Karawang – Around 3,000 workers from the Karawang district branch of the Fraternity of Indonesian Muslim Workers (PPMI) organised a convoy in the West Java industrial zone on Wednesday November 11.

Jakarta – The government is sending a mixed signal with plans to award former president Suharto national hero status, as law enforcers try to recover the Rp 4.4 trillion ($322 million)

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The government's decision to raise excise on tobacco products by only around 11 percent next year has sparked public outcry as it would contradict the nationwide anti smokin

Paulina Quintao – The President of Women's Association for Manatuto Municipality (AFM) Clara de Carvalho Ximenes said its members are working with municipal based child protection officials to deli

Venidora Oliveira – The Coordinator of Rede ba Rai (Network for Land) organization Roberto Aleixo da Cruz said land disputes continue to be a source of social conflict because a land law has not ye

Paulina Quintao – National Member of Parliament MP Francisco da Costa said the public's money is going to waste because the government does not consider the monitoring results provided by MPs follo

Rebecca Henschke – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Padjaitan has accused the organisers of the International People's Tribunal on 1965 (IPT 65) of being "kuran

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – Bogor mayor Bima Arya has been criticized for trying to relocate a planned Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin in an attempt to end a long dispute between the GKI con