Gregory B. Poling, Jayapura, Jubi – Ongoing troubles in the West Papua region, and the unwanted attention they have garnered, are a sore spot for Indonesian authorities.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Recent data from the government has shown that rampant environmental crime in Indonesia is posing an extraordinary threat to the country's ecological sustainability.

Kanupriya Kapoor & Randy Fabri, Jakarta – Exasperated by the performance of his economics team, Indonesia's president has personally taken on the job of promoting Southeast Asia's largest econo

Jakarta – Indragiri Hilir Police in Riau province revealed on Thursday that they had apprehended Sugito, 63, for allegedly molesting five underage girls who he taught as a religion teacher.

Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesians have taken to the Internet and the streets in protest at a new government regulation requiring employees and former employees to wait until retiremen

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In a bid to increase company compliance with the National Health Insurance (JKN) program, from July 1, the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) will

Haeril Halim, National – The Supreme Court has defended South Jakarta District Court judge Sarpin Rizaldi following the Judicial Commission's recommendation that the judge be sanctioned for ethics

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives confirmed on Wednesday the nomination of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo to replace Gen.

Nilufar Rizki, Jakarta – An Indonesian military transport plane that crashed into a northern residential area of Medan on Tuesday was carrying 113 people, an air force spokesman said.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The number of cases of sexual violence affecting children, or those under 18 years old, has continued to rise in Yogyakarta, showing that existing measures to protect

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The interim leadership of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has denied reports that it has dropped the probe into the Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) case

Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) has recommended penalizing South Jakarta District Court judge Sarpin Rizaldi with a six month suspension because he has been found to have breached ethics in

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has said Indonesia will see a significant increase in rice production this year, giving a push to the no-imports vision of Preside

Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla has justified the alleged use of a military plane that crashed on Tuesday for the commercial transportation of civilians, even as the Air Force chief denounced

Ernes B Kakisina, Manokwari (AFP) – Police Chief of West Papua Province, Paulus Waterpauw prohibits people from celebrating the anniversary of the Free Papua Movement.

Andreyka Natalegawa, Jakarta – The admission of Indonesia into the Melanesian Spearhead Group last week has sparked concerns over the future of central government policy in the West Papua region, a

Ina Parlina, Dylan Amirio, Tama Salim and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta/Medan – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo renewed his pledge on Tuesday to modernize the country's aging weapons systems and military

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Archipelago – The high rate of illiteracy in Papua's two provinces has stalled development programs in the region, an official has said.

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Jakarta – The chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Hafid Abbas has called for an end to discrimination and stigma against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LG

NGOs in Vanuatu says the Melanesian Spearhead Group decision not to admit West Papua as a full member, but upgrade Indonesia's membership, is a slap in the face for ni-Vanuatu.

Jayapura – Manase Agapa, 22, a resident of Ugapuga village, East Kamu district, Dogiai regency, Papua, has been shot dead by an unidentified man while participating in a blockade of Jl.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A new survey launched by an independent Jakarta-based pollster has found that the public wants President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to give more ministerial seats to professionals

Cory Rogers – A mysterious new partnership between Indonesia's spy agency and Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) to boost foreign investment has civil society wary of deepening agrarian conflict

Jakarta – Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has disclosed there is disharmony among the ministers in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's Working Cabinet.

Jakarta – Indonesia will enter a new era in the fight for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people following a recent US Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's plan to pardon past financial crimes in exchange for repatriating dirty assets parked overseas by criminal offenders has been met with rejec

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published more than 60,000 secret documents from Saudi Arabia and said that it had more than half a million additional documents that it will be releasing in t

David Robie – The Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders' summit in Honiara this week must go down as the most shameful since the organisation was founded two decades ago.

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has commended the Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his government for the steps they are taking to improve conditions in West Papua for its Melanesian populati

Godwin Ligo – The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has accepted the United Liberal Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) as Observer in the regional organisation on the basis that it represents West Papu

Jakarta – Nearly two decades after the fall of dictator Soeharto forced Indonesia's military out of politics, the army is inching back into civilian roles, risking a setback for democracy in this S

Honiara, Jubi – Indonesian delegation reacted strongly to a speech by the General Secretary of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) at a meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (M

Haeril Halim and Tama Salim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has accused a number of lawmakers who had been put under its surveillance program of hijacking the House of Repres

Jakarta – The US' latest report on human rights practices has listed the Indonesian police's alleged unlawful torture of suspects in the Jakarta International School (JIS) sexual assault case as a

National – Despite progress as one of the world's biggest democracies, Indonesia's law enforcement is still substandard and rampant with human rights violations, a report by the US government state

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) announced on Friday that Indonesia had been removed from the global money-laundering and terrorist-financing li

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Jakartans, especially women, have no one but themselves to rely on for safety on public transportation amid messy management and an absence of law enforcers.

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Peter Klinger – Woodside Petroleum has quietly put the Laminaria-Corallina oil project in the Timor Sea up for sale, and is thought to be in talks with a preferred buyer.

Sadachika Watanabe, Nikkei staff writer, Dili – East Timor Prime Minister Rui Araujo expressed his eagerness to liquefy natural gas from a joint project with Australia onshore, with plans to use th

Andreyka Natalegawa, Jakarta – Civil society organizations and education experts have called on the national government to employ a holistic plan of action in reforming the Indonesian education sys

Jakarta – Indonesia is the most improved country in the Asia-Pasific region in terms of peace, according to the 2015 Global Peace Index (GPI) report.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Although the government is still reviewing the House of Representatives' controversial constituency fund plan, it has pressed ahead with plans to increase funding for politic

Jakarta – The government appears to be seeking a compromise after rejecting the House of Representatives' proposed pork barrel scheme, by increasing government subsidies to political parties by at

Jakarta – The families of May 1998 tragedy victims filed a judicial review of the 2006 human rights tribunal law with the Supreme Court to seek justice.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The families of the political activists who disappeared in connection to the May 1998 riots have asked the Constitutional Court, or MK, for a judicial review on the

Mark Colvin: For the first time a coalition of West Papuan nationalist groups has been given formal diplomatic recognition.

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has expressed gratitude for progress made but still intends pursuing full membership of the Melanesia Spearhead Group.