Felix Nathaniel – Social media has been abuzz after the TNI's (Indonesian military) official Twitter account carried a cartoon about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) pract

Karuni Rompies, James Massola and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have cancelled a tsunami warning about two hours after a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off th

Jakarta – The sudden death of a South Tangerang national flag-hoisting team (Paskibraka) member on Thursday with bruises found on her body has raised allegations that she had been abus

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Police HQ recorded there are 236 cases of child sexual assault occurred in January to May this year; yet only 50 percent of the total case was hand

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – At least 64 percent of Indonesian professionals are confident that China and India will overtake the United States as "global hubs of tech innovation" by 2035

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – State electricity firm PLN has estimated that the coal use for electricity generation in Indonesia will increase by around 12 percent this year due

Jakarta – Rape suspect Sugeng Slamet, 44, sustained bruises during his first day at the Lumajang detention center in East Java following an attack by his cellmates.

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia's crackdown on waste imports is backfiring, with its plastic recycling industry in disarray and hundreds of containers of used materials clogging its po

Jakarta – The TNI's (Indonesian military) information centre has verified that @Puspen_TNI uploaded a comic strip on its Twitter account explaining the risks of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual

Jakarta – The South Sumatra Police have arrested and named 16 people suspects for their alleged involvement in assaults against police officers on two separate occasions in the provinc

Amy Chew – Indonesia's largest moderate Muslim organisation Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is poised to expand its influence in President Joko Widodo's new government, following the country's di

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan yesterday signed a Gubernatorial Instruction (Ingub) instructing the provincial government to adopt several measures related to carbon emissions in the

Johnny Blades – Papua's provincial government is frustrated over a lack of action by Indonesia's central government to open up direct international flights to Papua.

Abah Grandong, the man who appeared in a disturbing viral video this week in which he was depicted eating what looked like the carcass of a freshly killed cat, has fulfilled his promis

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) says that the deployment of the TNI (Indonesian military) and Polri (Indonesian police) personnel to help extinguish forest a

Ade Tri – The presidential and legislative elections are over and the noise of the strident sound of the "festival of democracy" is no longer to be heard.

Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is open to the idea of giving taxpayers a second chance to come clean about assets kept abroad amid calls from the public, particularly

Jakarta – Emergency services have said they were alerted only three days after a fishing boat carrying 37 people sank on Tuesday off Matasiri Island in Kotabaru regency, South Kalimant

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities lifted a tsunami warning late Friday after a powerful earthquake struck off the southern coast of Java – the most densely populated isl

Bayu Marhaenjati & Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is mulling over a plan to extend its limited road ban on cars based on their number plates, known as t

Jeremy Siregar & Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta – AmCham Indonesia and the US-Indonesia Society hosted an exclusive lunch meeting in Jakarta on Thursday for a delegation of American le

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.

Jakarta (Antara) – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said that their latest satellite observation on Thursday morning today shows 264 hot spots indicating fore

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The first civil lawsuit hearing on the city's air pollution is postponed.

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – A Muslim organization in Makassar, South Sulawesi, has protested against two local restaurants for selling dishes that contain pork.

Jakarta – The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) commended the authorities' policy response in the face of strong external headwinds in 2018, which supported posi

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Papua – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe has issued a regulation to help boost the involvement of Papuan businesspeople in procurement projects and speed up develop

In mid-July, the male head of a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in the ultraconservative province of Aceh, as well as one of the school's male teachers, were arrested by police for

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has arrested five employees of state-owned enterprises and seized Rp 1 billion (US$70,847) worth of Singapore dollars.

Byniniek karmini, Jakarta – Forest fires burning throughout Indonesia have prompted six provinces to declare a state of emergency and deploy thousands of security forces, a disaster of

In conservative Indonesia, public displays of affection (aka PDA) are not just frowned upon, they could potentially land you in legal trouble, particularly if somebody decides to recor

Nivell Rayda, Karawang, West Java – The high tide was coming but fishermen in the remote village of Sedari, in the northern coast of Indonesia's West Java province, had no plans of ven

Lhokseumawe – Three people were publicly whipped 100 times each in Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province on Wednesday (Jul 31), with one woman pleading for the masked sharia of

Surya Fachrizal, Iqbal Musyaffa, Jepara, Indonesia – Farmers look forward to the harvest season as a time to reap the rewards from a year of hard work, but unfortunately this does not

Jakarta – Jakarta's air quality is the worst in the world again on Thursday (Aug 1) morning, according to air quality index monitor AirVisual, the second time in a span of two months.

A 44-year-old man named Sugeng Slamet from Lumajang, East Java, was violently assaulted in jail by other inmates, with police saying that they were repulsed by allegations that Sugeng

Jakarta – Indonesia plans to relax bank merger rules to encourage more consolidation in the sector in Southeast Asia's biggest economy crowded with dozens of small lenders, a senior of

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said he will have a talk with Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan regarding the city's handling of the constant air quality d

Victor Mambor, Gisela Swaragita and Ardila Syakriah, Jayapura and Jakarta – Despite government efforts to distribute aid for civilians who escaped armed conflict in Nduga regency, Papu

Danu Damarjati, Jakarta – TNI (Indonesian military) commander Air Martial Hadi Tjahjanto conveyed his hope for closer military ties with Australia at the annual 2019 Australia-Indonesi

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) says that 2,087 out of 4,258 hotspots recroded between January and July were located on concession land.

Jakarta (Antara) – In the midst of several countries legalizing marijuana for medical use, Indonesia remains unfazed to follow suit as the country never used the substance as a form of

Jakarta – Indonesia's annual inflation rate rose slightly to 3.32 percent in July, as raw food prices maintained an upward trend due to the dry season, the national statistics agency s

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) faction on Depok city council in West Java will oppose the controversial "religious city" draft bylaw to guarantee the fre

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Volunteers grouped under the Nduga Solidarity Civil Society Coalition reported in a statement on Thursday the deaths of 182 civilians who were taking refuge

Khoo Ying Hooi – More than eight years have gone by since Timor-Leste's formal membership application to the ASEAN on March 4, 2011.

Galuh Wandita – An older woman spoke haltingly into a microphone, her hands trembling from the memory: "They beat my whole body, my eyes and hands were tied.

One woman begged for mercy and another sobbed uncontrollably as Indonesia's Aceh province flogged nearly a dozen people Thursday, including a Buddhist man, charged with breaking local

Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri may retain her position as the longest-serving party leader in the country, as party officia

Jakarta – Tempo.co is to become part of a rapidly expanding global network of media organisations that have joined the BBC's 50:50 Project – an initiative that aims to inspire and assi