Jakarta – The National Police say they are going to work with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology to block Indonesia-based websites facilitating prostitution."We will come up w

Hasyim Widhiarto, National – A survey released by the Jakarta-based Pol-Tracking Institute has shown that public approval of the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo-Jusuf Kalla administration has plunged below 50

Jakarta – As many as 18 people from the People's Struggle Front (FPR) were arrested by the Metro Jaya police at a protest action in front of the US Embassy in Gambir, Central Jakarta.

Hamish McDonald – Here we are again, poised on the brink of another media frenzy as two Australian drug convicts come closer and closer to a firing squad in Indonesia, barring a late change of hear

Jewel Topsfield – "A New Hope". The Time magazine cover on October 16, 2014 said it all.

Bradford Theonomi – A West Papua independence leader was in the country for the past week rallying support for his home country to be part of the Melanesia Spearhead Group (MSG).

Now that Gen. Badrodin Haiti has been installed as the new National Police chief, the controversy over Comr.

Ina Parlina and Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo installed on Friday Comr. Gen.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With two major political parties currently embroiled in legal battles over leadership issues and local election organizers running on shoestring budgets, the General E

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Two prominent environmentalists criticized on Thursday President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's decision to protect small and medium furniture-makers and craft-producers, a se

Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo officially inaugurated Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti as the new chief of National Police on Friday.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua Police detectives have named five people as treason suspects for their alleged involvement in activities aimed at separation from the Unitary State of the Repub

Jakarta – The war game that involved thousands of personnel from the Army, Navy and Air Force has concluded in Poso, Central Sulawesi on Friday with the stationing of 600 personnel from the Army's

Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – Activists on Friday criticized President Joko Widodo's silence on the beheading of two migrant workers in Saudi Arabia this week, arguing that his resumption of t

Charlotte Greenfield, Jakarta – Millions of Jakarta commuters will have to struggle through the world's most congested traffic for almost another decade, authorities believe, and they may have to w

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Bambang "Ho" Mulyono has the languid sexiness of Bob Marley – waist-length dreads, a T-shirt that says something unintelligibly hippy-dippy and a battered guitar plastere

Civil Society Organisations are outraged at the escalation of brutal attacks and arbitrary killings of West Papuan people by the Indonesian security forces, as a result of the growing support for W

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – The Trade Ministry's new regulation on alcoholic beverages, scheduled to take full effect on Thursday, will not be enforced on Bali as the ministry has decided that to

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Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has expressed his concerns over the performance of the country's export sector, which continued to decline during the first quarter of this year despite the

A delegation of West Papuan representatives has been arrested after claiming they were told by an Indonesian minister that it is time for negotiation about West Papua.

Linda Yulisman – With its high food self-sufficiency target, the government is considering reviving the stalled "food estate" program of the prior administration by involving private and state-owne

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua Police investigators have named five people as suspects for allegedly taking arms against the government with an aim to separate Papua from the Unitary State of

Hizbul Ridho & Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Thursday endorsed the nomination of Comr. Gen.

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Like many police generals, the candidate for the next top cop, Comr. Gen.

Yogyakarta – The Sleman District Court on Wednesday sentenced the chairman of the Central Java and Yogyakarta chapter of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), Bambang Teddy, to five months and 15 days

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – Indonesia on Thursday officially banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in convenience stores and other small shops, but senior officials

Indonesia has banned small retailers from selling beer, despite an outcry from the alcohol and tourism industries over the Muslim-majority country's latest offensive against drinking.

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – About the mass killings of alleged leftists in 1965-1966 and their aftermath in the following years, there have been a few qualifications.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Thursday that the government would improve the welfare of military personnel by raising their salaries by 56 to 60 percent.

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Tuesday that it would soon hold a case reconstruction on the Bank Century case to determine the fate of former vice president Boediono

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court rejected on Tuesday another pretrial petition, this one filed by a former director of state oil and gas operator Pertamina, Suroso Atmo Mart

The chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, Victor Tutugoro, says a special summit is planned for May 21st to examine the membership bid of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

The Commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force is looking into an unauthorised excursion of Indonesian soldiers into the country last week.

Jayapura, Jubi – Nearly 1,600 people in 16 districts in Papua are suffering from leprosy, said Ary Pongtiku, a consultant of Leprosy and Framboesia in Papua and West Papua in Jayapura last week.

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Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) will create an anti-terror task force comprising special personnel from the Navy, Army and Air Force who will support the National Police in dea

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has protested a lack of notice from Saudi authorities prior to the execution of a mentally ill Indonesian woman in the kingdom, prompting activists to point out

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The West Java Police have urged the public to participate in securing a series of events during the 60th anniversary of the Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung and refrain from h

No one seemed to know, or care, very much about Siti Zaenab when she was still alive.

Jakarta – A legal aid foundation has lamented that a 2004 Law on Domestic Violence Eradication has not been optimally implemented despite its enactment 10 years ago.

Jakarta has summoned the Saudi Arabian ambassador to protest against the beheading of an Indonesian domestic worker and complain that her family and consular staff were not given prior notice of th

Jakarta – Activists are demanding police investigate a non-fatal shooting at a union headquarters in East Jakarta on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Puan Maharani has won approval from President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla to keep her new position as Indonesia

Liam Gammon – If it achieved nothing else, last week's PDI-P party congress managed to confuse a lot of tourists.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – A total of 2,500 members of the National Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) are ready to help secure Jakarta and Bandung during the upcoming Asian-African Conference, includin

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Two Islamic parties in Indonesia have proposed legislation that would ban all consumption of alcoholic drinks and bring jail terms of up to two years for offenders.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Following the rejection of two other pretrial motions, former Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) chairman Hadi Poernomo withdrew his own motion during a hearing at the South Jakarta

The numbers are in and they're not pretty.