Yogyakarta – Mount Merapi unleashed a torrent of hot clouds, turning the sky a fiery red, as molten lava flowed down its slopes on Thursday with the eruption forcing over 250 people to

Jakarta – How soon should Indonesia declare the transition of COVID-19 from being pandemic to endemic? Not a moment too soon, we believe.

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – A man was hacked to death and three others injured in two separate attacks by a rebel group in Indonesia's restive Papua province, police said on March 10.

Jakarta – Indonesia, the largest producer of crude palm oil, has decided to stifle its palm oil export over the next six months in a move designed for taming the cooking oil scarcity wi

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Catholic-majority Timor-Leste is to provide humanitarian assistance "in a show of solidarity with Ukrainians" following the Russian invasion of the Eastern Europea

Jubi TV – Executive Director of the Manokwari Institute for Research, Assessment, and Development of Legal Aid (LP3BH) Yan Cristian Warinussy has called for an investigation of the alle

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) said it will keep monitoring young people who love to flaunt their wealth on social media.

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Indonesia's former fisheries minister has had his jail sentence for corruption slashed by nearly half after an appeals court ruled that he had "done good work"

Aditya Laksmana Yudha, Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo officially appoints Bambang Susantono – former deputy transport minister and Asia Development Bank su

Radityo Dharmaputra – Almost two weeks in, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been condemned by most countries around the world, including Indonesia.

Jakarta – State-owned oil company Pertamina retains the price of subsidized fuel product Pertalite below Rp 8,000 (55 US cents) per liter despite surging crude oil prices and a major di

Jakarta – Harsh words and phrases like "unprofessional, ill-intentioned and one-sided" chosen by the Indonesian Mission at the United Nations in Geneva recently in response to the repor

Yogi Eka Sahputra, Natuna, Indonesia – A fishing vessel seized by authorities in Indonesia for a zoning violation was doing more than just fishing out of bounds, local fishers allege: i

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia will expand its mandatory domestic sales of palm oil to 30 per cent of planned exports by companies from 20 per cent currently starting from Thursday (Marc

Katharina R. Lestari, Jakarta – Violence against women in Indonesia rose sharply by nearly 50 percent last year, according to the National Commission on Violence against Women.

Sebastian Strangio – This morning on my Twitter feed, amid the flow of depressing news from Ukraine, I came across two fascinating articles on how the nation's war with Russia is

Asep Firmansyah, Nabil Ihsan, Jakarta – Interfaith marriages could not be recognised and registered in local religious affairs offices, Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Zainut Tauhid S

Moh.

Kornelius Purba, Jakarta – My conversations several years ago with three former foreign ministers on East Timor (now Timor Leste) suddenly came to mind when I read an article in this pa

Thresa Sandra Desfika & Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – A number of airlines have removed the antigen or polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test requirement for fully-vaccinated domes

Fana Suparman, Jakarta – A panel of three justices has reinstated a sentence of five years' imprisonment for former maritime affairs and fisheries minister Edhy Prabowo, a Supreme Court

Vitorio Mantalean, Jakarta – National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik hopes that peace talks between Papua and Jakarta can begin to be held this ye

Francisca Christy Rosana, Hendartyo Hanggi, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati as she submitted her annual tax returns (SPT) on March 8 mentioned a coordinating minister s

Ahmad Syarif Syechbubakr – The swearing-in ceremony for the leadership team of Indonesia's largest Islamic organisation, Nahdatul Ulama (NU), under its new chair, Yahya Cholil Stafuq (o

Katharina R.

Sultan Ashori, Denpasar, Bali – Bali on Monday welcomed its first foreign tourists under relaxed coronavirus rules that no longer require arrivals to quarantine, part of a broader easin

Julia Winterflood, Jakarta – If you've traveled through Tuban on East Java's northern coast, 100 kilometers west of Surabaya, you might have sampled the delicate sweetness of the regenc

Interfaith marriage is a grey, if controversial, area in legal and cultural terms in Indonesia.

Niken Nurcahyani, Td, Jakarta – A number of women's organizations staged a rally, pushing for the ratification of the sexual violence crime bill or RUU TPKS at the Arjuna Wiwaha Horse S

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan emphasized the importance of system integration between ministries

Antara, Jakarta – Executive director of election watchdog, Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem), Khoirunnisa Nur Agustyati urges President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, to prove

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The establishment of large-scale agriculture under the Indonesian government's "food estate" program is harming local farmers in Sumatra, a study has found

Zely Ariane – CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) have expressed their deepest concern about the ongoing trial against Papuan human ri

John McBeth, Jakarta – Coming in the middle of a heated exchange between the Indonesian government and United Nations rapporteurs over alleged military human rights abuses, the March 3

Jakarta – Municipal land transport operator TransJakarta began to operate 30 electric buses on Tuesday in a landmark move to shift its fleets to emission-free vehicles.

Herman, Jakarta – The government on Tuesday launched an integrated information system called Simbara, which is set to help them keep a close eye on coal and mineral producers.

Sudirman Wamad, Bandung – An alliance of women's organisations held a protest action in front of the Gedung Sate building (governor's office) in the West Java provincial capital of Band

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers held a demonstration in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Jakarta on Tuesday in the context of commemorating International Women's Da

Anggi Muliawati, Jakarta – Protesters calling themselves the Women's Organisation held a rally at the Horse Statue in Central Jakarta commemorating International Women's Day (IWD) 2022

Jakarta – Papua Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) Director Emanuel Gobay says that hundreds of Cendrawasih University (Uncen) students took to the streets on Tuesday March 8 to hold actions op

The commemoration of International Women Days (IWD) was marked by a peaceful action in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya on Tuesday March 8.

The issue of sexual violence is still encountered in every layer of society, including the office environment and educational institutions.

Jakarta – Workers from the Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance Confederation (KASBI) urged the government to pay attention to working women during a commemoration of International

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – The government has said it will file a complaint against what it has called an "unprofessional, ill-intentioned and one-sided" report by three United Nations hu

Jakarta – The government has decided to drop the antigen and polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test requirement for domestic travels as the country's latest Covid-19 wave receded, a se

Indonesian miners may struggle to reach a 2022 output target of 663 million tonnes because of export restrictions imposed unexpectedly in January, Indonesia Coal Miners Association exec

M Baqir I A, Mecca Yumna, Jakarta – Cooperatives and SMEs Minister Teten Masduki attached utmost importance to the government's collaboration with stakeholders, especially business acto

Jakarta – Circulating reports about 18 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine that may have expired at the end of February 2022 have triggered safety concerns, hence damaging public trust in

Putu Indah, Raka Adji, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) recorded 338,496 cases of gender-based violence (GBV) against women in 2021 based o

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – A Timor-Leste court has acquitted a priest and several of his staff over writing a report in favor of a defrocked priest jailed for sexually abusing young girls.