Ridwan Max Sijabat and Hotli Simanjuntak, Jakarta/Banda Aceh – An alliance of NGOs and individuals has called on the government to protect a lecturer at Ar-Raniry State Islamic University in Banda

Michael Bachelard, Banda Aceh – Last November, a young pregnant woman we'll call "Yasmeen"* was led onto a high platform in a city square in the Indonesian province of Aceh and prepared herself to

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) announced on Thursday another foreign debt regulation involving a stricter reporting system for local companies planning to borrow US dollars amid

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Jayapura – The Papua Police have nabbed 13 members of an armed separatist group led by Ayub Waker following the deaths of two Mobile Brigade personnel and a Freeport employee in Utikini village, Mi

Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan could have started a revolution within his own ministry – in the directorates general of land, sea and air transportation – by, for instance, punishing corrup

Singapore – Dutch brewer Heineken said on Thursday it will begin building a beverage plant in East Timor this year that will manufacture a range of drinks including beer.

Jakarta – The Supreme Court said 117 judges received administrative punishment for misconduct in 2014.

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesia and the United States have stepped up their defense cooperation with the signing of an agreement under which the former will get more support and assistance from th

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of tourists have reportedly canceled trips to Weh Island in Sabang, Aceh, as the result of recent violence allegedly committed by locals against tourists ce

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – An alliance of 34 NGOs and a group of individuals called on the government and security authorities to provide protection for a lecturer of Ar Raniry State Islamic Uni

Indra Budiari and Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have handed over a blasphemy case implicating The Jakarta Post editor-in-chief Meidyatama Suryodiningrat to the Press Council.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Farouk Arnaz & Yerema Sukoyo, Jakarta – Indonesian Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan's move to set a price floor for airfares, citing ostensible safety concerns, has

Linda Yulisman and Tama Salim, Jakarta – Indonesian exporters may well struggle again this year as the global economic slowdown is likely continue to have an impact on their business.

West Papua Action Auckland is urging the government to do more to protect people from ongoing security force violence in Indonesia's Papua region.

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Jakarta – Gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia has appointed former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief Maroef Sjamsuddin as its new president director to replace Rozik B.

Jakarta – Muhammad Nasir, the research and technology minister, says construction is ongoing for an experimental nuclear power reactor on the outskirts of Jakarta, to pave the way for Indonesia's f

Jakarta – Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, the Nahdlatul Ulama, says it is ready to mediate talks between the Bogor administration and the GKI Yamin congregation over the sealing of a churc

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency, or BPS, last week released Indonesia's latest poverty data, which found that 27.73 million people, or about 11 percent of the country

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo decided on Tuesday to pick I Dewa Gede Palguna, a constitutional law professor at Udayana University in Bali, as the new Constitutional Court (

Dominic Diongson, Jakarta – Indonesia's most prominent antigraft advocacy group called on Monday for law enforcers to insist on the revocation of corruption suspects' political rights and their rig

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The city administration evicted almost 14,000 people from their homes last year and put an end to the businesses of more than 2,000 street vendors, paving the way for river

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Citing signs of foul play in allowing AirAsia flight QZ8501 to operate without proper permits, the Transportation Ministry ordered on Monday the suspensions of severa

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The recent crash of Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in the Java Sea will not deter Indonesia's aviation industry from embracing the opportunities offered by the Asean Open

Michael Bachelard – AirAsia has been banned from flying five of its key Indonesian domestic services out of Surabaya airport as part of a government crackdown on previously unenforced regulations i

Brasilia – The Angolan state-owned oil company, Sonangol, has been invited to carry out prospecting and exploration for oil in Timor Leste.

Hizbul Ridho & Erwin Cristianson, Jakarta – Human rights groups in Indonesia have condemned on Monday the issuance of a Supreme Court letter instructing all judiciaries to reject case reviews f

Jakarta – Pilots have protested against government officials' recent actions, which suggest that Indonesia AirAsia was at fault for alleged procedural violations, prior to the ill-fated flight that

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Police have arrested a man suspected to be behind the killings of two policemen and a security guard in Utikini, near Freeport's Grasberg mine in Papua, last week.

Jakarta – The youth wing of the Golkar Party has proposed a new congress to reconcile two conflicting factions in the party and has asked candidates from both sides to run for chairperson.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – It has been a year since the government launched the national health insurance (JKN) program.

Tatan Syuflana, Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia – Highlighting the depth of Indonesia's air safety problems, the transportation ministry revealed harsh measures Monday against everyone who allowed AirAsia

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Legal experts have lambasted President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration for backing a Supreme Court's letter that places limits on criminal convicts filing case reviews

Indonesian officials like to try to capitalize on disasters, hoping to get more popular out of the misery of people they are supposed to serve.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Reconciliation efforts carried out by the two opposing camps in the United Development Party (PPP) have ended in another deadlock after the faction supporting the ruling

The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) regrets and condemns recent incidents around the country in which film screenings of the film Senyap (The Look of Silence) have been closed down by

Slamet Susanto and Bambang Muryanto, Bantul, Yogyakarta – The sounds of people crying and sobbing as well as applause filled Bantul district courtroom after presiding judge Sulistyo M.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has rejected a request from 27 South Korean companies that they be exempt from immediately implementing Jakarta's 2015 minimum wage.

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Watching movies, hanging out in a shopping mall or chatting in a coffee shop – these are the perceptions most people have about the ways teenagers spend their weekend, but

Jayapura – The Papua Police were hunting an armed group led by Ayub Waker who is believed to be responsible for the recent fatal shootings of two Mobile Brigade (Brimob) officers.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia's fight against terrorism has left dead a total of 97 suspects and 34 police officers since 2000, the National Police chief said on Sunday.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Unlike previous years, 2014 was not an easy one for the country's manufacturing sector as low demand in the global market and the sharp depreciation of the Indonesian curr

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesians will enter a new era of free-floating fuel prices after the government finally decided to overhaul the country's high-cost fuel subsidies just before the

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – The bloodied bodies of two policemen and a security officer were found in Utikini, near the Grasberg mine in Papua, on Thursday night.

Carlos Paath & Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo's recent appointment of former Army general Luhut Binsar Panjaitan as his chief of staff, an unprecedented position in Indonesian c

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta, previously dubbed the city of tolerance, has been ranked second for intolerance and violations of religious freedom by the Wahid Institute in its 2014 ann

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Jane Wardell & Anshuman Daga, Sydney/Singapore – The sheer volume of flights in the skies over Southeast Asia is putting pressure on outdated air traffic control and on pilots to take risky uni

Jonathan Pearlman, London – Despite the multi-national air-sea search for the missing AirAsia jet, the wreckage was discovered by a 38-year-old Indonesian fisherman named Mohammed Taha,