Jakarta – The director of the Makassar Legal Aid Foundation (LBH), Muhammad Haedir, has revealed that two participants of an action commemorating International Women's Day (IWD) in Maka

Jakarta – A bus carrying junior high school students, their parents and teachers plunged into a ravine in the West Java town of Sumedang on Wednesday evening, killing at least 22 people

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has urged the people, particularly Muslims, to take Ramadan this year as a month of self-revolution, including in receiving and resp

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has been earmarking Rp4 trillion-Rp5 trillion every year for disaster mitigation efforts in the country, director general of budget at the Fi

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has declared coal ash is no longer a hazardous waste product, despite containing heavy metals such as mercury, lead and arsenic, in a

David Robie – Asia Pacific Report, the Auckland-based independent news and analysis website, has been increasingly targeted by Indonesian trolls over the past three months, involving a

Jakarta – The special autonomy (otsus) status of Papua and West Papua has been at the core of the central government's claims that its policies in the provinces are on the right track.

Alexander Loen, Jayapura – Papuan People Council (MRP) released a book containing reviews of problems and achievements in the past 20 years of the special autonomy (otsus) implementatio

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While not necessarily a milestone for LGBTQ+ rights, Indonesia has legally accepted the sex change of a former athlete, which has nonetheless sparked a discussion for gender fluidity in

Jakarta's plan to ban vehicles 10 years or older from the city's roads has come to a screeching halt as a prohibition may come in direct collision with national regulations.

A 17-year-old youth has become the latest victim of Indonesia's six-decades-long colonisation of West Papua, alleges the United Liberation Movement of West Papua.

Indonesian children will have to continue to learn about their respective faiths until at least 2035 despite concerns that religious studies was going to be dropped from the national cu

Dedi Dinarto and Jefferson Ng Jin Chuan – Growing numbers of former military and police officers are running and winning regional elections in Indonesia.

Rory James – Papuans whose island has been offered up as a potential launch site for Elon Musk's SpaceX project have told the billionaire Tesla chief his company is not welcome on their

Keisyah Aprilia (BenarNews) – Risna recounted scrambling to save herself when dirt and rocks came tumbling into a 49-foot deep pit where she and other residents were mining for gold in

Koya Jibiki, Jakarta – Indomie, the half-century-old instant noodle brand that has been dubbed Indonesia's national food, has enjoyed an added boost from not only consumers cooped up at

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – State Intelligence Agency (BIN) supports the revision on the Information and Electronics Transactions Law (ITE Law) No. 11/2008.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The United Kingdom has agreed to help the Jakarta government achieve its ambitious target of electrifying 10,000 TransJakarta's public buses by 2030 to hel

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – A number of people who have yet been registered as Covid-19 vaccine recipients on Wednesday, March 10, flocked the 'Covid-19 Vaccine Center' that was

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy said the government planned to provide GeNose, the screening tool to detect Covid-19 usin

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) said the Covid-19 mortality rate of health workers in February 2021 decreased significantly by 63 percent.

Antara, Bogor – Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto said the Covid-19 vaccines injected into health workers in the city have started to work well which is evident from zero cases of coronavi

Erfan Maaruf, Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) is conducting 24 hour patrols for hate speech and hoaxes on social media (medsos).

Fana Suparman, Jakarta – Two high ranking police officers were found guilty of taking bribe from graft convict Djoko Tjandra during separate trials on Wednesday.

Tatang Guritno, Jakarta – The lawyer representing the families of victims of the Semanggi I and II tragedies, Muhammad Isnur, says that they will take their case to the Supreme Court fo

Jayapura – Citizens including a religious figure demand the Indonesian state to take responsibility for the displaced people who had left their homes due to fear of losing their lives a

Jakarta, Jubi – The Indonesian Military (TNI) and the National Police had been investigating a case in which "a stray bullet" hit a resident, Andres Bewarmbo, when the police and the mi

Antara, Jakarta – Chairperson of the Covid-19 Handling Task Force Doni Monardo called on all parties to comply with the traveling restriction during the upcoming holidays of Isra Miraj

Nelson Da Cruz, Kate Lamb, Dili – The tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor will put its capital city on a coronavirus lockdown for the first time, its government said on Monday, am

Muawwan Daelami, Jakarta – Waskita Toll Road, or WTR, a subsidiary of state-controlled construction company Waskita Karya, has announced a plan to divest all of its 30 percent interest

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Ombudsman Head Teguh Nugroho stressed that a request for the Covid-19 vaccination for families of the Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) members is ag

Bernadus Wijayaka, Jakarta – Aprilia Manganang, once was the key player in the Indonesian women's volleyball team, was confirmed to be a man on Tuesday after he underwent surgery.

Bisnis.Com, Jakarta – The Indonesian Private Hospital Association (ARSSI) Secretary-General Ichsan Hanafi said 700 private hospitals handling Covid-19 cases have not yet received incent

Jakarta – A video of a police officer warning that they will shot Papuan students gathered in front of the Malang municipal police headquarters in East Java has gone viral on social med

Tatang Guritno, Jakarta – Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (Safenet) Executive Director Damar Juniarto is questioning the government and the House of Representatives' (DPR)

Markeus FK/Suharto, Wamena, Papua – Thousands of families in Jayawijaya district, Papua province have been shifted to higher ground due to floodwaters submerging their homes, the Jayawi

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's deforestation rate hit a historic low in 2020, with the government crediting its various policies prohibiting forest-clearing, and experts attr

Bandung – Activists from the Women's Liberation Knot (Simpul Pembebasan Perempuan, Simpulpuan) held a parade (long-march) to the Gedung Sate building in the West Java provincial capital

Pradito Rida Pertana, Yogyakarta – Protesters calling themselves the People's Struggle Front (FPR) held an action commemorating International Women's Day (IWD) today in front of the gov

Muhammad Aminudin, Malang – A demonstration held near the Gajayana stadium in Malang city, East Java, ended in chaos and anarchy with demonstrators smashing a police truck window after

Kevin O'Rourke – The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social inequities worldwide, including in the administration of vaccines.

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – Constitutional law expert from Jentera School of Law, Bivitri Susanti, opined that the government should not remain silent in responding to the conflict of the D

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said in commemoration of the International Women's Day that both men and women have equal opportunity, as he wrote on his Instagram

Jakarta – Indonesia announced last week that it had identified two new cases of the B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant, which was first detected in the UK late last year.

Zurich, Switzerland – Swiss voters on Sunday narrowly backed a free trade agreement with Indonesia that would abolish duties on industrial products including palm oil.

Three days after the first suspected case of Covid-19 was announced last year in Tulungagung, East Java, 55-year-old Sutikno came up with a unique idea: As he harvested the dry, fan-sha

Sheany – The issue of privilege resurfaced on Indonesian Twitter over the weekend, after one user showed a photo of foreigners without masks when boarding a Citilink flight from Denpasa

The Health Ministry has announced an updated schedule for its COVID-19 mass vaccination program, with the general public now expected to begin receiving their shots in September.

Henry, Jakarta – The baton urging the enactment of the Draft Law on the Elimination of Sexual Violence (RUU PKS) into to law has been taken up.