Adelia Anjani Putri, Jakarta – The lone minister to survive the cut in President Joko Widodo's cabinet from the previous administration has unveiled plans to draft a bill that would aff

Rizal Harahap and Indra Harsaputra, Pekanbaru/Surabaya – With several regions in the country having increased the 2015 provincial minimum wage (UMP) and others determining an appropriat

Herdaru Purnomo – Indonesian President Joko Widodo's government is walking a tightrope as a new minimum wage is negotiated for Jakarta, seeking to balance a pro-business pledge against

Jakarta – Newly elected Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said on Friday that losses from rampant fish theft in Indonesian waters were estimated to be in the tril

Margareth S.

Jakarta – Indonesia's porous prison system has once again come under scrutiny after the former mayor of Bekasi, ostensibly locked up in a Bandung jail on a six-year sentence for corrupt

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With the merging of the Forestry Ministry and the Environment Ministry in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's new Cabinet, newly-appointed Environment and For

Jakarta – After assuming the nation's highest office just a little more than a week ago, findings from a new survey reveal a high degree of public trust in its new leader, President Jok

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Two rival groups in the United Development Party (PPP) are striving for legitimacy after the government issued a decree confirming the contested appointmen

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – A small-time worker in East Jakarta has been arrested for allegedly posting a doctored pornographic picture which bears the faces of President Joko "Jokowi"

The description of the House of Representatives by late president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid is still fresh in people's minds – a "kindergarten", he called the rowdy legislature during

Jakarta – Workers earning the minimum wage in Jakarta may have to wait to find out how much they will take home in 2015 after the city's government admitted on Thursday that no deal had

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Authorities in Papua have arrested a police officer and are questioning three soldiers suspected of supplying ammunition to an armed separatist cell blamed f

Nic Maclellan – Writing in Crikey yesterday, Indonesia analyst Jim Della-Giacoma said the appointment of retired general Ryamizard Ryacudu as new Indonesian Defence Minister "could have

Jakarta – Indonesia's reformist new president Joko Widodo has come under fire for appointing a hardline ex-general as defence minister, with activists saying on Wednesday it marks a ste

Protestors staged a demonstration outside Indonesia's embassy in New Zealand today, calling for media freedom in West Papua.

Suherdjoko and Syamsul Huda M. Suhari, Jepara, Central Java/Gorontalo – Young people across the archipelago commemorated Youth Pledge Day, which falls every Oct.

Amy McQuire – In spite of the outcome, free press advocates are warning the charges laid against a pair of French journalists could make it even harder to report from the province.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In line with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's "mental revolution" campaign slogan, newly inaugurated Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy

Carlos Paath, Jakarta – Indonesia's House of Representatives forged ahead on Wednesday with the selection of commission and committee leaders, despite a boycott from the five-party Awes

Australia and East Timor have quietly begun talks towards a possible settlement of their boundary in the Timor Sea, an issue of immense importance to Timor-Leste.

Margareth S.

Farouk Arnaz, Ridho Syukra & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Retired Navy admiral Tedjo Edy Purdjianto will have his work cut out for him as Indonesia's new coordinating ministe

Jakarta – Activists hail President Joko Widodo's appointment of eight women in his cabinet – the largest number in Indonesia thus far, although they remain cautious as to calling this a

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Yohana Susana Yembise might have had a bitter pill to swallow when she was defeated as a candidate to become the 2014-2019 Biak Numfor regent in Papua, bu

Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – One slipped through the cracks.

Jakarta – Contrary to the tradition of his predecessors, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo kept the post of attorney-general and a top spy post empty during the new Cabinet's inauguration

Yuliasri Perdani and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Military experts have raised concerns that upgrades to the Indonesian Military's (TNI) weaponry system could be stalled under the leadership

Indonesia's new president, Joko Widodo, has held his first Cabinet meeting amidst criticism from human rights activists for picking a new defense minister who once defended military kil

Indonesia's new president, Joko Widodo, has held his first Cabinet meeting amidst criticism from human rights activists for picking a new defense minister who once defended military kil

Paulina Quintao – Three HIV/AIDS patients are receiving intensive treatment at the Bairo-Pite clinic for complications of their compromised immune systems.

Venidora Oliveira – The Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) has recommended the Ministry of Justice establish a mobile court to try sensitive cases such as the sexual abuse of min

Tom Allard – East Timor's parliament has authorised the "immediate commencement of negotiations" with Australia to establish a new maritime boundary between the countries.

Estevao Nuno – The National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) is overrun by gangsters involved in criminal behaviour, according to Member of Parliament David Dias Ximenes.

Farouk Arnaz & Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) says the appointment of a controversial former general to the new cabinet

Jakarta – For a government that was supposed to eschew political patronage, President Joko Widodo's cabinet lineup announced on Sunday carried all the hallmarks of an administration beh

Yuliasri Perdani and Margareth S.

Venidora Oliveira – Political party members lack knowledge of the Public Subsidy Budget which is provided by the National Electoral Commission to registered Timorese political parties.

Martinha Gusmao – National Director for Conflict Prevention Lidia Lopes says co-operation between Community Police (POLKOM) and local leaders is necessary to eliminate conflict in neigh

Sara Everingham – East Timor, a country that counts Australia as a major donor, is sacking all the foreign judges and advisers in its justice system.

Allan Nairn, Jakarta – General A.M.

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – And so it begins.

Allan Nairn, Jakarta – General A.M.

Jakarta – Workers at Freeport-McMoRan's giant Indonesian copper mine plan to go on strike for a month from next week, a union official said on Monday, after the company failed to make c

The first cabinet for Indonesia's new, 'reformist' president, Joko Widodo, is striking for how bad some of the appointments are, writes Edward Aspinall.

Nick Xenophon – Last Tuesday would have been journalist Gary Cunningham's 67th birthday.

President Joko Widodo has been hailed as the country's first leader who has no ties to the past corrupt regime.

Michael Bachelard – Indonesia's new foreign minister is a career diplomat who remembers well her first posting in Australia partly because she had her car vandalised in the furious prot

Jakarta – A flag-raising ceremony is usually the norm to commemorate the historical moment when a group of Indonesian youths proclaimed three ideals – one motherland, one nation and one

Jakarta – Human Rights Watch (HRW) deputy Asia director Phelim Kine says the arrest and conviction of two French journalists, Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat, reflects the Indonesi