Jakarta – A leading anti-haze activist has accused the chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly of allowing corporations to burn forests and causing the haze crisis.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Providing a conducive environment for the delivery of safe and legal abortions will prevent women from suffering complications from unsafe abortions, which are a maj

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Changing a traditional practice like child marriage may seem daunting, especially when such marriages are considered acceptable in a group or society.

Jakarta – Labor activists have pointed fingers at the Jakarta Police for allegedly committing violent acts when they tried to disperse a labor protest from in front of the State Palace in Central J

Environmental degradation, instead of being tackled, appears to be worsening, as evident in the scorching heat in many cities, prolonged droughts during dry seasons and widespread floods and landsl

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has criticized the police for allegedly beating up two of its activists during a labor rally at the State Palace on Friday.

Jakarta – In a move likely to be welcomed by big fishing companies, Indonesia has lifted its ban on foreign vessels being operated by local entities, even as audits found that 80 percent of those s

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – A coalition of human rights groups has voiced opposition to the government's plan to introduce chemical castration for sex offenders.

Jakarta – More than two million hectares of forest area have been reduced to ashes in the past five months in Indonesia, according to the data published by the National Space and Aviation Agency (L

Jakarta – As many as 24 workers were arrested during a demonstration in front of State Palace on Friday demanding the government revise its new regulation regarding the annual minimum wage determin

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Thousands of workers from dozens of alliances in Greater Jakarta staged a protest against Government Regulation (PP) No.

Jakarta – Amnesty International is calling on the Indonesian government to stop restricting the rights to freedom of expression and assembly with its attempts to silence public discussion about the

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Ubud, Bali – As creeping censorship of politically sensitive issues by Indonesian authorities attracted international opprobrium last week, the bodies of nine victi

Jakarta – The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) expects continued conflict in Papua unless the government takes immediate steps to better coordinate its security forces in the region and hold

Yogyakarta – Four university students continued their hunger strike in front of the Yogyakarta Legislative Council's (DPRD) headquarters, which began earlier this week in protest of the provincial

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The Trade Ministry has defended its stance on a revised regulation annulling the timber legality verification system (SVLK) requirement for exporting 15 downstream products

Erika Anindita – A survey conducted by the Muhammadiyah Tobacco Control Center (MTCC) revealed on Wednesday that farming tobacco in Indonesia is no longer a profitable business.

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – The plan to impose a 12 a.m.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Remuneration Council has decided to set the provincial minimum wage at Rp 3.1 million (US$213) per month next year.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – While the annual land and forest fires usually occurr in Sumatra and Kalimantan, a large agricultural project in Merauke, Papua, could turn the eastern part of Indones

Jakarta – Thousands of workers from Jakarta and its satellite cities have gathered near National Monument (Monas) park in Central Jakarta to reject the new payment formula as stipulated in newly is

George Monbiot – A great tract of Earth is on fire and threatened species are being driven out of their habitats. This is a crime against humanity and nature.

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – The National Police ordered all of their personnel to anticipate any potential conflicts in society caused by hate speech.

Alex Morales – Indonesia's forest fires have catapulted the southeast Asian nation to the top of the rankings of the world's worst global warming offenders, with daily emissions exceeding those of

Jakarta – A recent report by the World Bank revealed that doing business in Indonesia has become easier, especially after the government implemented an online system in several licensing sectors.

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Nicholas Owen, Karang Jati, Indonesia – On a dry and dusty sports field in central Java, Indonesian men dressed as traditional warriors take turns to battle with wooden staves, while village women

The renowned artist village of Ubud is in the global spotlight again this week.

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Aceh Singkil – When a mob of Muslims swooped on a little church deep in rural Aceh in Indonesia this month, the local police were nowhere to be seen, although they had received warnings of a possib

Jewel Topsfield, Ubud, Bali – The censorship of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has spread from sessions discussing the 1965 anti-communist massacres to other politically sensitive topics on

Jakarta – Several Indonesian farmers' associations and activists on Tuesday submitted to the Constitutional Court a motion for a judicial review of the country's 2014 Plantations on Law, claiming i

James Giggacher – There must be nothing more frightening than the prospect of a mild-mannered book fair made up of authors, readers, activists and academics politely discussing events from half a c

Tama Salim and Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesian military (TNI) chief Gen.

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) is investigating two arrested Indonesian soldiers for allegedly distributing drugs at nightclubs around Jakarta.

Jakarta – An Indonesian documentary maker has withdrawn her film from the government-funded Melanesian Cultural Festival this week, calling it a "political program" that diverts focus from the real

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers took part in a street rally in Jakarta on Wednesday, expressing their dissatisfaction at the newly announced government regulation on the calculation of minimum-wage i

Hamish McDonald – In 1977, only 12 years after they started, the massacre of Indonesian communists haunted Java's exquisite landscape of tiled-roof villages, fast-flowing rivers and irrigation chan

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Former religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali provided free accommodation for United Development Party (PPP) politicians who joined him on a haj pilgrimage in 2012, a wi

Jakarta – Jakarta-based polling company Populi Center released on Monday the results of a survey of 1,200 respondents across the country's 34 provinces showing public approval of only 49.2 percent

Edna Tarigan, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has said that the Jakarta provincial minimum wage will increase to Rp 3.1 million (US$227.93) next year from the current minim

Muhamad Edy Sofyan, Jakarta – The Indonesian stock exchange authority says it will restrict the market for a highly anticipated initial public offering of shares in mining giant Freeport Indonesia

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo witnessed investment agreements worth a total of US$20 billion between Indonesian and US companies during his trip to the US on Monday.

Yogyakarta – Hundreds of coastal farmers in Kulonprogo regency, Yogyakarta, staged a rally and hunger strike on Monday, protesting at a plan to develop an airport on their farmland.

On Monday, President Obama met Indonesia's new president, Joko Widodo, at the White House to discuss climate change, trade and strengthening US-Indonesian ties.

Laksmi Pamuntjak – A week ago I received a message from Janet DeNeefe, director of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe said the Indonesian Government's proposal to establish the Indonesian Melanesian Brotherhood, which is marked with the signing of declaration in Ambon i

To prevent a rapid return to the fearful, censored and militaristic days of the New Order, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, after a year in office, can and must lay down the law.

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Government leaders and activists in Indonesia's Papua province said talks on extending the contract of the US-based PT Freeport McMoRan mining company ignored input from the l

Suherdjoko, Semarang – National Commission on Human Rights' (Komnas HAM) deputy chairperson Roichatul Aswidah visited Salatiga, Central Java, on Friday to collect information regarding a ban on a s