The Catholic Church in Timor-Leste will assist to ensure upcoming parliamentary elections are peaceful after previous polls were marred by violence, says the country's top Catholic lead

Melbourne – Woodside Energy Group and its partners on Monday formally committed to working rapidly to pick the best option for developing the Greater Sunrise natural gas field, factorin

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy grew 5.31 per cent in 2022, the highest in almost a decade, marking a return to its growth patterns before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jakarta – Indonesia will suspend some palm oil export permits to secure domestic supply amid rising cooking oil prices ahead of upcoming Islamic festivals, senior cabinet minister Luhut

Dwi Argo Santosa & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – It took three days for the police to announce that one of their own was found dead at the official residence of Police General Ferdy Sa

Fransiska Nangoy, Gayatri Suroyo, Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Armed with the world's largest reserves of nickel and a ban on the export of nickel ore, Indonesia is making itself ind

News Desk, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo praised on Monday the electoral performance of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) and said that the party could in fact wi

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – Kaesang Pangarep, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's youngest son, is planning to embark on a political career, following in the footsteps of his father, ol

Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Fikri Harish, Surabaya/Jakarta – Inviting clerics from all over the world, Nahdlatul Ulama's central executive board is set to discuss the legitimacy of the Uni

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Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – Head of Statistics Indonesia (BPS) Margo Yuwono announced in a virtual press conference on Monday that the country's trade balance in 2022 logged a surplus

Jakarta – Protesters from the Labour Party and the Indonesian Metal Trade Workers Federation (FSPMI) held a rally in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Jakarta on M

Ridwan, Jakarta – On Feb. 5 each year in Papua, people commemorate the day the Gospel was spread in Papua and the declaration of Papua Tanah Damai (Papua as Land of Peace, or PTD).

Jakarta – Nearly empty thoroughfares in Jakarta in the early months of the pandemic were a sight to behold, and the relatively pure air in a city that normally ranks abysmally on pollut

BTV, Jambi – The parents of Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat are holding out for tougher sentences for all the defendants accused of murdering their son ahead of the sentencing hearing, afte

Anastasia Ika, Fadhlan Aulia Akbar. Jakarta – This Sunday marks the celebration of the Cap Go Meh festival for 2.8 million Chinese-Indonesians.

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Indonesia is heading to the polls in February next year to elect a new president, with political parties starting to rev up their machinery to prepare for a show

Apriadi Gunawan, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra – The Environment and Forestry Ministry is looking to designate North Sumatra coastal areas for reforestation location in an effort to r

Jakarta – Indonesia told major powers not to use Southeast Asia as a "proxy" for their rivalries Friday at the start of two-day talks between regional foreign ministers, while also call

Jakarta – A Sumatran tiger believed to have attacked and injured farmers in Aceh was captured on Saturday after a days-long hunt.

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – President Director of State Logistics Agency (Bulog) Budi Waseso a.k.a.

Beritasatu, Jakarta – The Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency, or Bappebti, is under the suspicion of maladministration in its process of building the country's crypto ecosystem

Oliver Dixon, Jakarta – The Polish embassy has sent a team to the site of Indonesia's yet-to-be-built new capital city Nusantara in East Kalimantan to get a better understanding of the

Anita Permata, Raka Adji, Jakarta – From as many as 2,522 cases of online lending recorded in 2021, most of the victims are women, according to an official from the Ministry of Women's

Hariz Baharudin, Jakarta – Asean members are supportive of observer Timor-Leste's participation in the bloc, but full membership comes with heavy responsibilities and obligations which

BTV, Jakarta – Two men in their 60s accused of killing at least nine people in West Java gave the gruesome details on Thursday of how they eliminated some of their victims, including a

Investor Daily, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry is drafting a new incentive program for electric vehicles and supporting industries including companies that provide

A fresh scandal may be brewing in Indonesia with a very multi-layered single-vehicle accident in the city of Jambi.

A pedicab driver named Gufron has become a hero in his hometown of Lamongan, East Java, after he went out of his way to fix potholes in the regency that the government had long failed t

Douglas Kammen – Nothing grabs headlines quite like the announcement that a country intends to build a new national capital.

Jayapura, Jubi – International Spokesperson of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) Victor Yeimo, who is a defendant of an alleged treason, underwent another hearing on Tuesday, Jan

Jayapura, Jubi – It was 128 years ago when Catholicism entered Papua in Skuru, Fak-Fak.

Jakarta – Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Panjaitan has said the government will be making a deal with Tesla very soon as negotiations have entered their fin

Jakarta – As expected, the torching of a copy of the Quran by Swedish far-right activist Rasmus Paludan in Stockholm, Sweden, has ignited anger across the Muslim world.

Jayapura, Jubi – The Bishop of Jayapura Diocese, Msgr. Yanuarius Theofilus Maatopai You has asked all Catholics in his region to never sell their land to anyone for any purpose.

Kate Newsome, Jakarta – Australia has an Indonesian language problem; or rather, the lack of it.

Dicky Kurniawan, Jakarta – Bambang Soesatyo, chairman of the Indonesian Motor Association (IMI), said that the government's plan to incentivize electric vehicles, or EV, could boost sal

Muhammad Farrel Fauzan, Jakarta – The Indonesian Labor Party in a statement on Thursday announced a plan to hold massive simultaneous demonstrations at the House of Representatives (DPR

Xinhua, Jakarta – At least two people were reportedly killed in floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rain in the eastern Indonesian province of South Sulawesi, an official s

Len Garae – A West Papua Delegation led by United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) Interim President, Benny Wenda, West Papua Interim Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Morris Ka

Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said on Friday that the 2023 state budget had earmarked Rp 25.01 trillion (US$1.7 billion) to fund the election process leading up to th

BTV, Tangerang – Affordable cooking oil brand Minyakita, initiated by the Trade Ministry last year to cope with nationwide shortage, has gone scarce in some public markets across the co

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Timor Leste, which finally got the green light to join ASEAN "in principle" last year, made its ASEAN meeting debut on Friday hosted by neighboring Indones

Wisma Atlet in Kemayoran, North Jakarta has served many useful purposes.

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in a statement on Thursday pledged to evaluate Indonesia's corruption eradication system after the country's corruption per

Nur Janti, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld ambiguous provisions in the Marriage Law that often hinder interfaith marriages and make it hard for couples of different

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday inaugurated the Tamblang Dam located in Buleleng, Bali.

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – Head of the New Capital or IKN Authority Bambang Susantono stated that more than 100 investors expressed interest in investing in the new capital city in E

Lily McCure, Jakarta – Two cities starkly different in their appearance, Melbourne and Jakarta share a large commonality, coffee.

Whisnu Bagus Prasetyo, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Wednesday night made an impromptu visit to Balinese locals in Keingetan hamlet in Singakerta, Gianyar.