Jakarta – The draft of an anticriminalization regulation, which includes a ban on law enforcement institutions disclosing information on graft case progress to the media, contradicts the Press Law

Ward Berenschot – On 9 December voters in Central Kalimantan were supposed to elect a new governor. In early November I travelled to the province to follow the campaign.

Galuh Wandita and Tegan Molony – Christina from Yogyakarta was arrested by military police in 1965 and again in 1968 and held for ten years without charge.

Jess Melvin – On a hot afternoon in 2010, I returned home from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency's archives in Banda Aceh with a heavy cardboard box filled with photocopied docu

Adriaan Bedner – On 23 May this year Pemuda Pancasila (PP) members came to the house of the poet Kelana, to ask him for 'clarification' about 'communist photos' he had uploaded on the p

Fadli, Batam, Riau Islands – The second trial of two UK citizens has begun in Batam District Court on Thursday.

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives praised the Constitutional Court (MK) for its ruling allowing regions with only a single ticket candidate to proceed with balloting in

Jakarta – The Central Jakarta Police have confirmed that the family of an allegedly raped child had to pay for a forensic examination themselves because the 3-year-old victim was not a participant

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo confirmed that Indonesia will not issue an apology for its role in what has been described as one of the worst mass killings of the twentieth century, as the nation

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is certain that past incidents such as the rebellion by the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) will not be repeated in Indonesia.

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) has said that it is forbidden to apologize to the victims of the 1965 communist purge.

Banda Aceh – The Wilayatul Hisbah (Sharia Police) have apprehended two young women for allegedly being a lesbian couple after the two were seen sitting and hugging in a public space in the capital

Taking centre stage at the United Nations General Assembly, the Tongan Prime Minister has urged the world to take action on the human rights situation in Indonesia's West Papua region.

Jayapura, Jubi – The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) condemns the shooting of two high school students in Timika on Monday the 28 September by the Indonesian security forces.

Jakarta – Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Suryamin said staple food contributed a lot to the deflation in September, which stood at 0.05 percent with a consumer price index (IHK) of 121.67.

Matthew Pennington – Thirteen years after winning independence from Indonesia, East Timor has to wage another struggle for justice with a more powerful neighbor – but this time in the courts, the n

Jakarta – The parents of DA, a 3-year-old rape victim, said on Friday that they had been asked to pay Rp 1.2 million (US$81.7) by a policewoman from the Central Jakarta Police women and children's

Greg Poulgrain, Brisbane – Two months ago President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo tried to stop the discrimination still suffered by descendants of family members accused of being linked to the Indonesian C

Hamish McDonald – It was a night depicted in the film "The Year of Living Dangerously"; a time when a reckless president ruled a country in economic freefall.

Jakarta – Fifty years after the bloodbaths of the mid-1960s, authorities in Indonesia continue to ignore the suffering of millions of victims and their relatives, Amnesty International said in a pr

Jakarta – As the 50th anniversary of the 1965 anti-Communist massacre in Indonesia draws near, several human rights advocates are again pressing US President Barrack Obama to fully declassify all o

Crowds have reportedly gathered in the Papuan town of Timika to protest the police shooting of two high school students.

The government will not apologize to the victims of the 1965 communist purge and instead will focus on reconciliation, said Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar

Semarang, Jubi – A Papuan human rights activist, Yones Douw, urged the central government to withdraw troops from Papua.

Hari Tri Wasono, Blitar – Thousands of members of the Islamic mass organisation Nahdlatul Ulama's (NU) paramilitary youth wing Barisan Ansor Serbaguna (Banser) demonstrated in front of the Blitar r

Laksmi Pamuntjak – As 250 million Indonesians face up to the 50th anniversary of one of the most crushing episodes of our nation's history – the massacre of up to 500,000 or more alleged Communists

Marlene Millott – Fifty years ago, on September 30, one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century took place on Australia's doorstep.

Pat Walsh – Like Tony Abbott before him, Malcolm Turnbull is slated to make Jakarta one of his first overseas ports of call as prime minister.

Tama Salim, Jakarta – With the selection of candidates to lead the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) put on hold until the House of Representatives decides whether to follow up on the Preside

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Oliver Holmes, Bangkok – Two British journalists are facing five years in jail in Indonesia for making a documentary about piracy while allegedly on tourist visas.

Jakarta – World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Indonesia, an international NGO concerned with conservation, research and environmental conservation, called on the government to be more serious about pr

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – The Public Works and Public Housing Ministry has revealed that at least 30 lakes and reservoirs in Greater Jakarta have been lost in the last 20 years, replaced by housing an

Jakarta, Jubi – The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) will form a team called the Papua Peace Task Force to resolve the problems in Papua peacefully, its chairman Sutiyoso said.

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Investment in energy, mining, oil and gas exploration and production activities will likely fall far below the government's target this year as investors are holding off

Jayapura, Jubi – The hostage-taking of two Indonesian citizens by an alleged rebel group in Papua New Guinea has been used as a pretext to deploy more troops on the border, accoriding to a Papuan l

A West Papuan human rights campaigner says a 17-year-old high school student was shot dead on Monday in Timika in the Indonesian province.

Michael Vatikiotis, Guest Contributor – Fear of the future explains failure to grapple with the past.

Neles Tebay, Jayapura, Papua – The conflict between the government and indigenous Papuans, particularly those Papuans involved with the Free Papua Movement (OPM), has long been considered an Indone

Jakarta – A smoking ban has been in place since 2005 in the capital city, but cigarette smokers still puff in 70 percent of public places where smoking is prohibited, the results of recent research

Joshua Oppenheimer – This week marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of a mass slaughter in Indonesia.

Jakarta – Antitobacco campaigners have lambasted new provisions in a culture bill recognizing kretek (clove cigarettes) as a part of national cultural heritage and obliging the government to safegu

Jakarta – Built during the tenure of Indonesia's second president Soeharto, the Pancasila Sakti (Sacred Pancasila) monument complex in Lubang Buaya, East Jakarta, continues to promote the New Order

Jakarta – Some 2,500 people took part in a demonstration in front of the State Palace on Tuesday, calling on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to reform agrarian law and set up a team to handle land d

Jakarta – Up to 218 cases related to forest and land fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan are currently being investigated by police.

Hans Nicholas Jong, New York – Indonesia has pledged to support the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' health, a global road map launched by the UN to end the preventable deat

Jakarta – Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) chairman Hariyadi Sukamdani has said that in September alone, 27,000 people lost their jobs as companies started to lay off workers when the rupi

The government is set to revitalize its family planning (KB) program as roughly 4.5 million new babies, equal to 85% of Singapore's population, are born in the country annually.

Jakarta – There were 43,085 workers laid off since the beginning of this year and thousands of other workers are set to face the same fate, according to the Manpower Ministry.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Environmental group Greenpeace Indonesia has criticized the government for its "weak" commitment to renewable energy development.