National – Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has said that he will consider revising a controversial joint agreement letter (SKB) between himself and the Religious Affairs Minister on constructio

Todung Mulya Lubis, The Hague – Fifty years ago on Sept. 30, in the middle of night, atrocities began.

Joe Cochranenov, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia will not allow the country's armed forces to make a political comeback and undermine civilian rule, the country's security minister said on Wednesday

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Indonesia has no travel restrictions on foreign journalists in its easternmost province of Papua, the country's security chief said on Wednesday, vowing to dismiss any police officials who blocked

Jakarta – A human rights activist has criticized President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's subordinates for rebuffing the people's tribunal on the 1965 mass killings and standing against the exposure of the

Jakarta – An under-construction place of worship for an religion indigenous to Central Java was attacked and set alight on Tuesday by a group of protesters, adding to a growing list of such inciden

Galuh Wandita – In 1965, Kadmiyati was a young student teacher who enjoyed the arts living in Bantul, a small district outside of Yogyakarta.

There are calls for Australia's prime minister Malcolm Turnbull to raise the matter of human rights abuses in West Papua with his Indonesian counterpart.

Jakarta – Six months after President Joko Widodo announced that foreign media would have unimpeded access to Papua, Indonesian authorities continue to hamper reporting from the region in various wa

Adam Henry – Why is it seen as appropriate for Australia to support and celebrate the perpetrators of one of the great mass killings of the 20th Century – before, during and after the e

John McCarthy and Zahari Zen – In late October, thousands of activists, students and lecturers in Sumatra staged rallies, urging the government to resolve the country's haze problem.

Each year on Nov. 10, the country commemorates National Heroes Day.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has rebuffed as irrelevant a people's tribunal to be staged in The Hague this week over a military-led purge that led to the deaths of up to two million suspecte

Jakarta – The government has refused to acknowledge the International People's Tribunal 1965, being held in The Hague, the Netherlands, saying that Indonesia works on its own justice system.

Mike Corder, The Hague – A "people's tribunal" opened hearings in the Netherlands Tuesday intended to publicize allegations that Indonesian authorities were responsible for killing hundreds of thou

Brigid Delaney – On the night of 28 April, much of the world's media was trained on a prison island off central Java where eight prisoners, including two Australians, were executed at midnight.

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The country's textile industry is hoping government efforts to curb illegal imports and reduce electricity costs will help improve the industry's growth in the fourth quarte

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is mulling whether to implement strict liability in its legal action against individuals or companies whose forest concessions are burning, in a bid to

Liza Yosephine – Historians have questioned the government's plan to name former president Soeharto a national hero because of the controversy that surrounded the New Order leader before he was for

Paulina Quintao – The Deputy Program Manager of International NGO Marie Stopes International Timor-Leste (MSITL) Juliao da Silva said that over 12,000 women so far have received Family Planning ser

Venidora Oliveira – The government of Timor-Leste through the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communication (MPWTC) has made the commitment to pay companies who completed urgent projects da

Robin Williams – A young West Papuan currently in Australia is shooting video rather than bullets in his battle to fight the intimidation, torture and massacres that are regular occurrences in his

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Bogor Mayor Bima Arya said he participated in the Global Mayor's Conference, themed Unity in Diversity, in Florence, Italy, over the weekend, to learn about maintaining diver

Jakarta – The government will cut certain projects from the revised 2015 budget (APBN-P) as a result of slow disbursement, Vice President Jusuf Kalla has announced.

Jakarta – House Speaker Setya Novanto has once again found himself mired in controversy, this time over his use of his personal luxury sedan for official purposes.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) held on Monday the first trial of two military soldiers accused of fatally shooting two civilians and injuring three others during a festival in Mimika, Papu

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Dozens of people voiced their protests in a demonstration on Monday against Gubernatorial Regulation No.

Venidora Oliveira – The Security Sector Project Manager of the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Naldo Rei said the National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) has made significant progress in the

Jakarta – Indonesia's justice minister has bemoaned the level of overcrowding in the country's penitentiaries, saying more needs to be done to rehabilitate rather than incarcerate drug users, who m

Jakarta – A human rights lawyer has urged the government to apologize to the families of victims of mass killings in 1965 during the International People's Tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands, s

Jakarta – The Social Security Management Agency (BPJS) should be stricter with employers whose payments to its health program are in arrears, a watchdog has said, in order to stop the agency fallin

Jakarta – No fewer than 38 percent of women in parts of West Java's Bogor district tie the knot before turning 18, a survey has found, with almost 8 percent of brides being under 15.

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia's economy is expected to grow by less than 5 percent this year, far from the 5.7 percent target stated in the 2015 state budget.

Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa is working on a draft bill on the practice of chemical castration as a punishment for convicted pedophiles despite issues raised by human

Jakarta – Police are looking into claims of threats made against three television reporters covering the high-profile murder of an anti-mining activist in East Java.

Jakarta – Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) has demanded President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to remove politics from the Attorney General's Office (AGO) and the Law and Human Rights Ministry and prevent

The lid is lifting on what has been for so long Asia/Pacific's hidden region.

Jakarta – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government denied claims that it had employed the lobbying services of an Las Vegas-based consultancy firm to assist with President Joko Widodo's recent visit to the United

James Plested – Across Indonesia, vast swathes of forest and peat land are burning, destroying the habitats of countless endangered species, poisoning the air and threatening the health of tens of

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama said on Friday that he was ready to talk with human rights activists about the newly-issued gubernatorial regulation on public rallies, hint

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The incentives to be given to some special economic zones (KEK) should be backed up by infrastructure upgrades; otherwise the policy would not work and miss the stated goa

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – The government is expecting a bigger budget deficit than previously forecast this year as tax revenues have fallen well below target.

Irhash Ahmady and Sam Cossar-Gilbert – We are witnessing the worst manmade environmental disaster since the BP gulf oil spill.

Faiza Mardzoeki, Jakarta – There is no doubt that Bali is a beautiful place.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Two rival factions within the Golkar Party have showed no signs of backing down in spite of a truce pledge made by party leaders Aburizal Bakrie and his rival Agung La

National – West Papua National Committee (KNPB) deputy chairman Agus Kossay and two other Papuans, Bano Kalaka and Nodi Hilka, were interrogated on Friday in connection with the arrival of French j

Michael Buehler – Why did a Singaporean consultant pay $80,000 to a Las Vegas PR company to lobby for the Indonesian government?

Kate Lamb – Freshly burned land in Indonesia has already been illegally planted with oil palm, new evidence suggests, following the loss of two million hectares of forest and peatland since July to