Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity company PLN's net profit nosedived last year as a result of higher tax expenses and operational costs that had offset its higher incom

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's current account deficit narrowed in the first quarter of this year as imports fell and the deficit in services dwindled amid the coronavirus p

Eid is less than a week away.

The West Papua Liberation Army has stolen a number of weapons from an Indonesian police post.

Antara, Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Speaker Lestari Moerdijat on Monday reminded the government to loosen its coronavirus (COVID-19) large-scale social restri

Gravedigger Junaidi Hakim shouts "hurry up" as he summons his weary colleagues in a never-ending race to bury novel coronavirus victims at a Jakarta cemetery.

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – A critically endangered Sumatran tiger was found dead in a conservation area in the Siak administrative region of Riau on Monday with one of its legs caught

Jakarta – Pademangan district in North Jakarta has become the latest densely populated area in the capital to be declared a COVID-19 red zone after local authorities recorded a high nu

Asip Hasani, Surabaya – The East Java administration has revoked its permit that allowed Al Akbar Mosque in Surabaya to hold Idul Fitri mass prayers following criticism from experts wh

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Trade Union Rights Centre (TURC) is calling on the government to reallocate its funding for the preemployment training program as cash assistance while pus

Suherdjoko, Jakarta and Semarang – A total of 132,978 Indonesian citizens abroad – consisting of crew members, migrant workers and students – had arrived in the country as of Monday, t

Galih Gumelar and Marchio Irfan Giordano, Jakarta – After being criticized for undermining the rule of law in a series of COVID-19 pandemic response policies, the government is under s

Ramadani Saputra, Jakarta – The presence of agnostics and atheists is not often felt in conservative Indonesia, where society largely defines itself along religious lines.

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Jakarta – Indonesians are less likely to use hand sanitizer compared to citizens of other Southeast Asian countries, according to a recent survey by global public opinion and data comp

Harry Suhartono and Bruce Einhorn – In a country with one of the developing world's worst Covid-19 fatality rates, public health experts see a link between the new coronavirus and an o

Sri Krishnamurthi – Australian war correspondent and investigative journalist John Martinkus warns the West Papuan conflict is "reigniting" and "that's happening now with new weapons a

Pacific Media Watch – Following yesterday's parliamentary row in the national chamber of Timor-Leste, chaotic scenes were streamed live on social media today for more than half an hour

Lia Timson – East-Timor's Prime Minister has asked the Timorese people to "maintain calm" and allow the country's leaders to restore order, after Parliament devolved into pushing and s

Habib Bahar bin Smith, a firebrand cleric who was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting minors in 2019, has been sent back to prison briefly after he was released on probat

With Eid al-Fitr coming this Sunday, the Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) protocol currently in place in regions across the country seem powerless to stop Indonesians from shoppi

James Balowski – Rights groups have slammed a last-minute decision to deny parole to five Papuans jailed on charges of treason over a peaceful protest in August last year.

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The government is rolling out a Rp 641.17 trillion (US$43 billion) economic recovery stimulus, bigger than previous allocations, to soften the impact of C

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Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Indonesia's infamous red tape could dissuade investment from US pharmaceutical companies looking to relocate from China, experts say.

Hotman Siregar, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has decided to extend the city's large-scale social restriction, or PSBB, until June 4 for what he wished wou

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank has bought $1.6 billion worth of government bonds in the primary market, underlining its commitment to remain active in it as the coun

Yustinus Paat, Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan confirmed on Tuesday that the large-scale social restriction, or PSBB, in Jakarta will be extended until

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The COVID-19 crisis has exposed fundamental problems in the distribution of social assistance, particularly the lack of reliable recipient data, as th

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The government's COVID-19 task force explained the reason why it changed the way it presented the data of its coronavirus counter, especially those categorized

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's readiness to shift toward a clean energy economy took another step back last year because of fossil fuel subsidies and faces a monumental hurdle t

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Head of Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, reported that last week's number of new coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in the capital increased fr

Jakarta – New confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Indonesia have been consistently high by averaging 535 in the last eight days until Monday, more than double the daily average

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs is formulating a scoring system to determine if a region is ready for reopening under the coronavirus pandemic.

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry has projected the government to post its biggest deficit in at least three decades this year as a combined result of shrinking state reven

Herman, Jakarta – According to the latest data from market research firm International Data Corporation, or IDC, smartphone shipment to Indonesia reached 7.5 million units in the first

Erfan Dana – Last Friday, a refugee living in a shelter run by the International Organization of Migration, or IMO, in Makassar, tested positive for Covid-19.

Imam Hamdi, Dio Suhenda (Intern Translator), Jakarta – Chief of the Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP), Arifin, has admitted that numerous violations have occurred against the Lar

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Elisabeth Gunawan, 49, was worried when she opened her pork restaurant, Warung BeDua, in Batu, East Java, in 2014.

Asip Hasani, Surabaya, East Java – Epidemiologists from Airlangga University (UNAIR) in Surabaya have strongly criticized the East Java provincial administration's policy to allow mosq

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has decided to furlough around 800 contract workers for three months starting May 14 as the airline struggles to st

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Individual investors are showing growing appetite for government bonds (SBN) because the low-risk securities provide promising returns amid uncertain mark

Jakarta – The police have announced three suspects for human trafficking aboard Chinese fishing ship Long Xing 629.

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Indonesian companies have preferred to raise capital from the debt market in the first four months of this year as banks experience tight liquidity, according t

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Reports have emerged that numerous vendors have set up shop in Tanah Abang Market in Central Jakarta ahead of Idul Fitri despite the large-scale social re

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Communication and Information Minister Johnny G.

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – State-owned banks have restructured loans worth up to Rp 223.16 trillion (US$15 billion) to over 1.7 million borrowers as part of the loan-relaxation prog

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – At the age of 25, Second Lt.

Heru Asiprihanto, Adi Kurniawan, Depok, Indonesia – Alarmed by how the coronavirus pandemic has left many Indonesians destitute, a group of volunteers are providing free meals to vulne

Review by David Robie – The 4300-km Trans-Papuan Highway costing some US$1.4 billion was supposed to bring "wealth, development and prosperity" to the isolated regions of West Papua.