Jakarta – The investigation into the shooting of six FPI members must not stop at the perpetrators on the ground. This nation still has a deficit in the upholding of human rights.

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – "Daasshh!" Mr Zakaria, a 90-year-old Indonesian pencak silat master exclaimed as he kicked his right leg high into the air, showing off his martial art skills.

Jakarta – The Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises has inaugurated Indonesia Battery Corporation or IBC, an electric battery holding company, paving the way for up to $22 billion partner

Jakarta – The ruling, or fatwa, from the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) that concludes the AstraZeneca vaccine haram – forbidden – should not be a consideration in the Covid-19 vaccina

Cheta Nilawaty P., Jakarta – The Indonesian Health Ministry announced that the cases involving shackling people with disabilities in the country have increased by 20 percent throughout

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan said on Friday (Mar 26) that Singapore and Indonesia should ideally have the "same level of control" over COVID-

Jakarta – The government removed the ash resulting from burning coal in power plants from the category of hazardous and toxic waste.

Arjuna Pademme, Jayapura – Escalating tensions between the Indonesian Military (TNI) and the West Papua National Liberation Army, which have caused the deaths of civilians, have led man

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo or Jokowi asserted the government would not import rice until June 2021 and called for a halt to lingering arguments on rice imports.

Jakarta – Muslim majority Indonesia on Friday (Mar 26) banned an annual exodus that sees millions travel across the vast nation to mark the end of Ramadan over fears of a surge in COVID

Antara, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Friday called on all regents in the country to provide exceptional services for exports and investments as he said both were key to t

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Key bilateral agreements, including expropriation protection and double-taxation prevention set to enter into force this year, would spur foreign direct in

Jakarta – The government has decided to extend the ban on 2021 Idul Fitri homecoming, one of the world's largest annual migrations, to Indonesia's entire population in its latest effort

Tokyo, Japan – Japanese and Indonesian foreign and defense ministers will hold talks next week in Tokyo, the Japanese government said Friday, as Tokyo hopes to forge closer ties with So

Jakarta – Indonesia's weather agency has predicted a delayed arrival of the dry season this year with La Nina weather conditions seen lasting until May in most parts of the country, wit

Kristianto Galuwo, Jayapura – The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has responded to comments by the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, who recently co

Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin says young people may soon be able to get their vaccines way ahead of schedule if they bring two senior citizens along with them, in a bi

Arjuna Pademme, Jayapura – The government appears to be at a loss as to how to quell the struggle by the Free Papua Organisation or OPM with its plan to designate Papua independence org

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – After halting forest-clearing operations in 2020, the Digoel Agri conglomerate has apparently restarted its activities in Indonesia's Papua province, raisi

Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – Muslim protesters stage a rally to protest against China's alleged oppression of Uighur Muslims in front of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China buildi

Benny Mawel, Jayapura – National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) is mulling over a plan to put West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) into a terrorist group category, a plan that ha

Indonesia's handling of the COVID-19 crisis may be remembered for its numerous missteps, but the same arguably can't be said about its mass vaccination program, with the government now

Friski Riana, Jakarta – The Sativa Nusantara Foundation (YSN), an organization that focuses on advocating for the use of Indonesian plants including cannabis, is pushing the House of Re

Antara, Jakarta – At least 10 people were found dead after several leased houses were fully engulfed in flame in Matraman, East Jakarta early on Thursday.

Heru Andriyanto, Maria Fatima Bona, Jakarta – A senior Indonesian health official claimed on Thursday that the number of active Covid-19 cases has plummeted after 9 million doses of vac

A Bali hotel owner has acknowledged that beaches are public property and that his staff shouldn't have kicked out a local who was sitting on the sand in front of the hotel.

Fred Pearce – Deep in rain-swept forests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, an environmental and human disaster is looming, at a zinc mine ready for digging in mountains considered th

Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia aims to kickstart President Joko Widodo's ambitious plan to relocate the capital city to the island of Borneo by offering property contracts to inves

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The United Arab Emirates has announced a plan to invest $10 billion in the Indonesia Investment Authority, or INA, the largest commitment from a single country to

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – An Indonesian forestry company with possible links to pulpwood and palm oil powerhouse Royal Golden Eagle has cleared forests the size of 500,000 basketbal

Marco Ferrarese, Jakarta – You know that the nightmare is not over when the Queen of Black Magic picks up her severed head and slots it back onto her neck as if nothing has happened.

Sheany – Bali Governor Wayan Koster says his administration is aiming to vaccinate at least 2.8 million people in 100 days, as officials seek to reach at least 70 percent of the provinc

Emma Connors, Jakarta/Sydney – Indonesia believes the promise of a population with herd immunity to COVID-19 and a zero-tolerance approach to health protocol violations will be sufficie

Claire Jiao and Grace Sihombing – Indonesia's finance minister sought to dispel concerns over the future independence of the country's central bank, saying proposals to increase the mon

Ryan Dagur – A court in Indonesia has thrown out an appeal by a former Church worker sentenced to a lengthy prison term earlier this year for sexually abusing two altar boys.

Dan Clarke spent a good part of 2020 on the Indonesian islands of Bali and neighbouring Gili, where he spent his days working on his laptop and his down time enjoying the picturesque be

Adi Renaldi, Banda Aceh, Indonesia – The health officials were racing against the clock.

Please fight that unrelenting urge to post your COVID-19 vaccine certificate online, Indonesia's COVID-19 Task Force said, as it contains your private information.

The Jakarta Provincial Government will soon prohibit the use of ondel-ondel as a means of busking in order to protect its status as a cultural icon in the Indonesian capital.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Puan Maharani said that the inclusion of the draft bill on sexual violence eradication or RUU PKS in the 2021

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – In relation to the national Covid-19 vaccine program, a survey conducted by the Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) shows that only 46 percent of their r

Claudia Geib – This is the story of how Indonesia is losing its spots.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Concerned by the mountain of discarded disposable masks, Indonesian researchers are now looking into recycling them.

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ombudsman on Wednesday's press conference announced that it found potential maladministration in the country's 1.5 million tons rice i

A so-called spiritual guru in Bekasi who is in the spotlight for a cash multiplier scam is now facing additional charges related to underage marriage, as it has been revealed that his w

A man from Central Lampung, Lampung province may face severe punishment, pending a psychiatric evaluation, after claiming that supernatural whispers led him to behead his father and par

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Plans for expansion by the pulp and paper industry in Indonesia threatens to reverse a declining rate of deforestation for pulpwood plantations, according

Arjuna Pademme, Jayapura – The National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) in Papua said one of the problems that made them worried was about illegal arms trade in Papua Land.

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Police Internal Affairs (Propam) on Tuesday claimed they had investigated the Malang Police Chief, Sr. Comr.

Erric Permana, Jakarta, Indonesia – The Indonesian government is considering adding an armed group in the easternmost province of Papua to the list of terrorist organizations, a senior