Wayne Palmer – In August 2022, there were 104,230 foreign workers in Indonesia.

Grace Sihombing and Claire Jiao – Indonesia's parliament passed a law tasking the central bank to directly finance the budget in times of crisis, just as it had been doing since the pan

Aliyyu Medyati/Magang_Merdeka, Jakarta – The commissioner of the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan), Alimatul Qibtiyah, stated that solving a sexual harass

Vitorio Mantalean, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has officially declared that 17 political parties will contest the 2024 legislative and presidential elections based

Reza Agustian, Jakarta – Protesters from the Labour Party and other trade unions held a demonstration near the Arjuna Wijaya or Horse Statue in Central Jakarta on Thursday December 15.

Ryan Dagur – The Catholic Church joined tourist operators in Indonesia's Catholic-majority Flores Island to welcome a government decision to revoke a drastic increase in ticket prices t

Jakarta – The Bandung Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) has revealed that scores of demonstrators protesting against the recently enacted Criminal Code (KUHP) in the West Java provincial capit

Yamin Kogoya – "We are part of them and they are part of us," declared politician Augustine Rapa, founder and president of the PNG Liberal Democratic Party, on the 61st anniversary of t

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – General Election Commission (KPU) Chairman Hasyim Asyari on Thursday indicated that he won't be so rigid about political parties seeking publicity before the

Henry Jom – East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta has urged Australian PM Anthony Albanese to publicly support the development of a gas pipeline in the Timor Sea following Woodside E

Kadek Melda Luxiana, Jakarta – The sole defendant in the Paniai gross human rights violation case trial being heard in the Makassar District Court in South Sulawesi, retired Infantry Ma

Whisnu Bagus Prasetya, Jakarta – Indonesia's external debt stood at $390.2 billion as of October, down slightly by 7.6 percent from the same month last year, Bank Indonesia reported on

Yudono Yanuar (Free Malaysia Today), Jakarta – Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo told the recent European Union-ASEAN Summit that no one should dictate over others as the two trading blocs marked their 45t

Tri S, Kenzu, Manokwari, West Papua – West Papua needs more forest rangers due to its expansive forest area, reaching 8.39 million hectares, while currently, the number of forest ranger

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – The government and state-owned enterprises, or SOEs, have spent a total of Rp 651.8 trillion or about $41.8 billion worth of local products for their proc

Vitorio Mantalean, Jakarta – A protest action by members and sympathisers of the People's Justice and Prosperity Party (Prima) in front of the General Elections Commission (KPU) in Cent

Trisnadi and Niniek Karmini, Tenggulun – Umar Patek – the Indonesian militant who was paroled last week after serving about half of his original 20-year prison sentence for making the e

The US$490 million-Tibar Bay Deepwater Port, in Timor-Leste was inaugurated last week by the President of Timor-Leste Jose Ramos Horta and high-ranking officials from the government.

BTV, Jakarta – The government on Wednesday handed the list of more than 205 million potential voters to the General Election Commission, of KPU, for Indonesia's historic elections in 20

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – YouTube personality Deddy Corbuzier must be stripped of his civilian privileges now that he has been recruited by the Army as an honorary service membe

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Thresa Sandra Desfika, Jakarta – The latest round of layoffs has hit the Indonesian startup industry with JD.ID, the local arm of Chinese JD.com, confirmed that a

Nesa Aqila, Jakarta – The Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD acknowledged the public discourse regarding alleged high-ranking law enforcers who acti

Febriyan, Jakarta – The Indonesian government through the Government Regulation in lieu of the General Election Law or Perppu Pemilu increased the number of seats for the House of Repre

Alfitria Nefi Pratiwi, Jakarta – Indonesia's Law and Human Rights Minister Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej stated that the ministry along with the Foreign Affairs Ministry has introduced the

We've seen plenty of stories about vigilante mobs in Indonesia taking the law into their own hands, with the targets often being members of the LGBT community or unmarried couples, but

Jakarta – A new political party founded by former People's Consultative Assembly Speaker Amien Rais fails to qualify for the 2024 general election, which will see as many as 17 parties

Christopher Warren – Look up. Look north. The hard-won democracy in Australia's most important neighbour is facing its most serious threat since independence.

Aloysius L, Fardah, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – The number of people crossing the border between Indonesia and Timor Leste has increased to an average of 200 people per day, according

Maeve McGregor – The quiet appointment of Indonesia's defence chief to the military division of the Order of Australia has been criticised by human rights organisations, who say the dec

Kerry Smith, Brisbane – Community members gathered on December 1 to raise the West Papuan flag in the lobby of weapons company Thales' Brisbane office.

Kaylana Mueller-Hsia, Kyra Jasper and Natalie Longmire-Kulis – Eight years after a deadly incident in Paniai, Papua, the Indonesian Human Rights Court in the Makassar District Court on

Jakarta (Antara) – Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej has said that a statement letter from the United Nations (UN) regarding the Indonesian Criminal Cod

After years or decades of living in Indonesia, thousands of foreign retirees have just days before they expect to find out whether they can remain in the country.

Agencies – Indonesia on Monday filed an expected appeal against a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel ruling that was in favour of the European Union (EU) in a dispute over Jakarta's b

Radhiyya Indra, Jakarta – Setelah Lewat Djam Malam recontextualizes the story of a man disillusioned by Indonesia's post-revolution society with gender sensitivity and compelling perfor

Pizaro Gozali Idrus (Benar News) – Rights activists in Indonesia have welcomed Washington's sanctions of Chinese companies accused of illicit fishing and labor abuses, which according t

Stefanno Sulaiman, Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament is expected to pass a bill this week that will allow former politicians to head Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank, and expand its

A planned auction to award exclusive license rights for more than 100 protected islands in eastern Indonesia was postponed until the end of January following protests from environmental

Jayapura, Jubi – Head of the Papua Office of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM Papua) Frits Ramandey said the Makassar Human Rights Court's decision to acquit the defe

Jayapura, Jubi – Head of the Papua Office of the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM Papua) Frits Ramandey said violence against children allegedly committed by Indonesian Mili

Jakarta – Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian has blasted a district head in the province of Riau for making verbal threats against the central government over dissatisfaction with the

Dion Bisara, Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The European Union Ambassador to Indonesia has expressed confidence that most palm oil companies in the country can meet the block's stricter

Sebastian Strangio – Indonesian police and soldiers have carried out at least 72 extrajudicial killings over the past year, in the context of a broader narrowing of the country's politi

An Indonesian court has acquitted a retired army officer in the fatal shooting of four teenagers in Papua in 2014, crushing hopes the military would be held accountable for alleged abus

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore/Jakarta – Indonesia has moved to avoid a costly blowback from new laws criminalising sex outside marriage, insisting that visitors need not b

Manokwari, Jubi – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) will file an appeal against the verdict on the Bloody Paniai case tried at the Makassar Human Rights Court, which acquitted the sol

Gafur Abdullah – At the recent G20 summit in Bali, Indonesian President Joko Widodo brought world leaders to the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park, a former fish-farming site being converted

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The European Union said that it was currently looking into the details of the Criminal Code which had drawn mounting criticisms at home and abroad.

Resty Woro Yuniar – Environmentalists are outraged over an Indonesian firm's decision to auction off the rights to develop a group of pristine, uninhabited islands, amid concerns that p