Ja'far Abdul Azis, Kilas Klaten, Yogyakarta – Hundreds of workers in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta took to the streets on Monday May 1 to hold a long-march from the Pal Putih Monu

Antara, Jakarta – Chairman of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) Prabowo Subianto and his brother, who is also the Deputy Chairman of Gerindra Hashim Djojohadikusumo, welcome

Ridwan Abdul Malik, Bandung – The Greater Bandung Labour Alliance (ABBR) held a demonstration commemorating International Labour Day or May Day which fell on Monday May 1.

Padang – Protesters from the Labour Party went to the North Sumatra governor's office and the North Sumatra Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) on Monday May 1 to commemorate Inter

Ali Mustofa, Denpasar – An International Labour Day demonstration in the Balinese provincial capital of Denpasar, which fell on Monday May 1, ended in chaos after a clash between Papuan

Makassar – A demonstration commemorating International Labour Day on May 1 by a group of Papuan students from the Democratic Struggle Alliance has been broken up by police.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on May Day that the government's endeavor to woo investors into the country was to fuel job creation, as recent statist

Agnes Valentina Christa, Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian workers from various unions took to the streets in Central Jakarta on Monday to voice opposition to the practice of subcontrac

Radhiyya Indra, Jakarta – The 2023 short film Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy is Indonesia's first short film to enter the official selection of the prestigious Cannes Film F

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is in talks to extend Freeport's permit as long as the mining giant agrees to give an additional 10 percent stake.

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri said on Sunday the ruling party needs time to pick a running mate for presiden

Antara, Jakarta – Eid al-Fitr, which fell on April 22, 2023, raised hopes of positive shifts in Indonesia's tourism sector.

Antara, Jayapura, Papua – The Papua Police confirmed that Joni Botak, a wanted armed criminal group (KKB) leader active in Central Papua Province has been killed by a rival group in a q

BTV, Jakarta – Golkar Party Chairman Airlangga Hartarto visited his Democratic Party counterpart Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono on Saturday night to explore possible collaboration ahead of th

Karuni Rompies and Chris Barrett, Simeulue, Indonesia – The chief of the village where an Australian man embarked on an alleged naked rampage after drinking from a bottle of vodka says

An Australian man is facing more than a year in jail after allegedly spitting in the face of an imam at an Indonesian mosque.

David Robie – As part of an Indonesian-backed disinformation and troll campaign against West Papuan pro-independence activists, a Facebook page has emerged making bitter and slan

Xiang Gao and Guy C. Charlton – The drawn-out hostage drama in West Papua over New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens has focused Western attention on this neglected area of the world.

Endy Bayuni, Jakarta – The Idul Fitri holiday this year came and went without the massive congestion that usually clogs the country's roads and ferry ports.

Kornelius Purba, Jakarta – Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto's third bid for the presidency will likely falter, this time because of Anies Baswedan, whom he helped win the 2017 J

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – A new survey by Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting indicated that Ganjar Pranowo regains the lead in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election after the

Vincent Fabian Thomas, Jakarta – Crude palm oil (CPO) producers will be required to supply more of their output to the domestic market next month, if they want to maintain their export

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies – A young Australian man has been arrested in Indonesia's ultra-conservative Aceh province, accused of an alcohol-fuelled, naked rampage outside a beach

Chris Barrett, Dili – It is election season across much of South-East Asia, but nowhere in these parts will the torch of democracy shine brighter than here in Timor-Leste (also known as

Jakarta – Indonesia will allow miners Freeport Indonesia and Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara to continue exporting copper concentrate until next year, despite a ban starting this June, to a

Jakarta – Misinformation is rampant in this digital era, but the lack of transparency on the part of the government regarding the ongoing attempts to rescue a New Zealand pilot who was

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The government announced Friday that Indonesia had amassed Rp 328.9 trillion ($22.4 billion) in investment in the first quarter of 2023.

Xie Chuanjiao, Beijing – The last three electric multiple units customized for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway in Indonesia started being shipped to the Southeast Asian country o

Jakarta – The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) announced on Thursday that one Indomie instant noodle variant that was banned in Taiwan and Malaysia for containing carcinogenic sub

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Indonesia may be better positioned than many of its peers to weather a possible wave of debt crises in developing nations, an economist has suggested.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia has only achieved half of what it had initially targeted for the so-called domestic market obligation or DMO for cooking oil in April, according

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Golkar chairman Airlangga Hartarto said on Thursday night that the United Indonesia Coalition – also known as KIB – would not interfere with the internal a

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – The president of the Labor Party Said Iqbal in a written statement on Thursday estimated that there will be up to 100,000 participants nationwide in the up

Mohammad Taufan, Palu, Indonesia – Two bodies have been recovered following the collapse of a nickel waste disposal site in Indonesia, in the latest of a series of deadly accidents at C

News Desk, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo held a meeting on Thursday with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairperson Megawati Soekarnoputri, the first enc

Bernadus Wijayaka, Jakarta – Former Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) chairman Mochamad Iriawan officially became a member of the Great Indonesian Movement Party (Gerindra) after h

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko issued a warning to separatist groups in Papua who have committed human rights violations against civilians, women, and c

They want an end to military operations in the crisis-hit province following the move to implement a 'combat alert operation'

Mutia Yuantisya, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia's climate and energy campaigner Bondan Andriyanu on Wednesday called the need to pay attention to the source of Jakarta's recent poor air

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investments Luhut Pandjaitan said on his personal Instagram post that the recent high temperatures in

Mirza Bagaskara, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has questioned a member of the Jakarta DPRD from the PDIP faction, Cinta Mega, regarding the alleged corruption ca

Made Supriatma – Indonesia's largest political party has finally ended the speculation on whom it will back for 2024's presidential race. Game on.

Fikri Harish, Jakarta – Marking the comeback of a vinyl-record pressing plant in Indonesia after a nearly 50-year hiatus, PHR Pressing is set to resume domestic vinyl production in the

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Indonesia has dropped in a ranking of countries as places to conduct business, scoring poorly in the assessments of political effectiveness and infrastructure, w

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – The Indonesian poultry industry is poised to see constrained growth this year as firms' bottom lines are eroded by a prolonged oversupply of live birds and higher

Jakarta – Highly educated Indonesians and conservative Muslims have often expressed condescending views on Megawati Soekarnoputri, the chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party of

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The North Sumatra Police have arrested officer Adj. Sr. Comr.

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Jayapura, Jubi – Church leaders across denominations in Papua urge President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to stop military operations in Papua and instead, promote a humanitarian approach and n

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – A police sector headquarters in South Sulawesi's Jeneponto Regency on Thursday dawn was attacked by a group of unknown people that reportedly reached 100.