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Galih Gumelar, Jakarta – Most Indonesians disagree with the government's decision to hold the 2020 simultaneous regional elections on Dec.

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police has ruled out a murder case in the death of Metro TV editor Yodi Prabowo, saying on Saturday he had committed suicide using a knife he ap

Pacific Media Centre – When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the country had managed to stamp out the coronavirus, it was met with much fanfare – with many experts l

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Arnold Sianturi, Jakarta – Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the eldest son of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, blasted reports that his family is grooming a politi

Jakarta – The government may deploy more troops in Papua if it deems the escalation necessary to maintain security, Home Minister Tito Karnavian has said, amid reports of tensions betw

Jakarta – The Indonesian Television Journalists Association (IJTI) has announced that at least 96 journalists and electronic media workers have contracted COVID-19, prompting the group

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The long battle to end discrimination against women in Indonesia seems to be getting longer and longer as politicians remain at an impasse over passing pro-wome

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim has come under fire after several organizations voiced their concerns over the involvement of private enterprises

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by General Elections Commission (KPU) commissioner Evi Novida Ginting Manik against P

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – North Sumatra University (USU) in Medan will suspend all activities for a week starting July 27 after five lecturers tested positive for COVID-1

Amelia Wynne for Mailonline – An Indonesian prisoner has been left with gruesome injuries after being whipped for violating Sharia law.

James Massola, Karuni Rompies and Amilia Rosa – The Indonesian government has decided to scrap its daily coronavirus briefings, a move labelled "suspicious" and designed "to hide some

Jonathan Mitchell – Two new training centres have opened in Timor-Leste to help locals gain trade skills, as the country remembers a fallen New Zealand soldier.

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The majority of business players, from large companies to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), are of the view that Indonesia's economy is in

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Jakarta – The percentage of infected people to die from Covid-19 has been steadily declining in Indonesia, the National Covid-19 Task Force claimed on Friday, despite a recent surge in

Moch Faisal Karim – Over the past 20 years, Indonesia has developed its role as a country that fights for human rights and democracy at the regional level.

Jessica Washington, Depok, Indonesia – In the city of Depok, West Java, a group of children gather together outside an old building.

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – National Mandate Party (PAN) senior member Amien Rais on Friday claimed that he had been fired from the party that he founded, which he suspected was du

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The unequal burden of child care and housework on women has prompted a domino effect leading to violence against children as mothers juggle amid the COVID-19 h

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's instruction for the military and the police to hunt down armed separatist rebels responsible for the 2018 Nduga massacre in Pa

Victor Mambor, Jayapura – The largest PCR testing lab in Papua has announced that it will stop accepting new samples for COVID-19 testing on July 25 because of a lack of reagent and si

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – A recent survey of business players by Jakarta-based pollster Indikator Politik Indonesia awarded Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati the highest job approv

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The Jember Regional Legislative Council in East Java has voted to impeach, for the first time in the regency's 91-year history, a sitting regent.

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Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The government's move to establish a new COVID-19 response team to handle the impact the pandemic has had on health and the economy has come too late, as the co

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia confirmed 1,906 additional COVID-19 cases and 117 deaths on Thursday, bringing the nation's official total to 93,657 infections and 4,576 deaths.

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) has urged the government to reassess the Juvenile Justice System Law as the vast majority of underage off

Jakarta – In an incident that highlights how the pandemic has heightened economic disparities, a woman in Jombang, East Java, has resorted to selling her goat in order to buy a mobile

Aditya Budiman, Jakarta – The national commission for human rights (Komnas HAM) research commissioner, Sandrayati Moniaga, revealed that the police institution had been the most compla

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Chairperson of the Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI), Abdul Manan, encouraged mass media corporations to be open regarding COVID-19 cases within its workpl

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – More than 300 children in Indonesia, including newborn babies and those below the age of six, are believed to have died from Covid-19, a phenomenon that could

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – SOS Children's Villages Indonesia, a non-profit organization that provides families for orphans and abandoned children, ramps up their commitment to prote

Almost five months after Indonesia confirmed its first COVID-19 cases, the coronavirus has now completely spread throughout the capital Jakarta, with all 267 sub-districts (kelurahan)

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The Indonesian Deposit Insurance Corporation (LPS) says it is ready to place funds in banks that have liquidity problems by teaming up with the Financial

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – In the absence of a daily press briefing on the COVID-19 situation, the government is uploading the latest COVID-19 data on covid19.go.id at 4 p.m.

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – More than 50,000 Indonesians will worry less than the rest of us about COVID-19, because they have already contracted and recovered from the disease.

Solo – A recommendation by the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) to back President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's eldest son Gibran Rakabuming Raka as a mayoral candidate

Jakarta – The shake-up of the government's Covid-19 task force was expected. The country has achieved little in its fight against the pandemic.

Kade Newell – On June 25th, the Pew Research Centre released a report titled 'The Global Divide on Homosexuality Persists'. The survey that produced this report asked simply: "...

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Ian Cunliffe – Anyone who is interested knows in their heart that the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, on behalf of the government, bugged the cabinet room and other offices of

Engelbert Wally, Sentani – Papua should become a sovereign territory following the end of the autonomy policy era. The claim has aligned with the wishes of the people of Papua.

Jakarta – The South Sumatra Ombudsman has declared Ogan Ilir Regent Ilyas Panji Alam's dismissal of 109 medical workers from the Ogan Ilir Regional General Hospital (RSUD) a "maladmini

By Dr Susanna Barnes, Teresa Hall, Dr Balthasar Kehi, Quintiliano Mok and Associate Professor Lisa Palmer, University of Melbourne.

The West Papua Liberation Army has defended its deadly attack on a mining company in which a New Zealander was killed.

After launching a peaceful action on Tuesday July 15, the Alliance for the Enactment of the Draft Law on the Eradication of Sexual Violence (Aliansi Sahkan RUU PKS) in the Central Java

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will investigate five state institutions found to have used personal bank accounts to manage public funds.

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – False trading and stock price manipulation were among the most common violations found in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), according to the Financial S