Jakarta – A special task force authorized to take down all non-credible news portals was officially established on Friday after a long-standing plan.

Tip O'Neill, speaker of the US House of Representatives in the 1980s, famously declared that 'all politics is local'. The rule applies in Indonesia too.

Febriana Firdaus, Jakarta, Indonesia – When Robertus Robet, a human rights activist, joined the student protests to topple Indonesian dictator Soeharto nearly 30 years ago, he sang a s

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Kanupriya Kapoor, Garut – When Wawan Setiawan, a volunteer for Indonesian President Joko Widodo's re-election campaign, goes door-to-door in this conservative p

Crammed conditions on the KRL Commuterline on regular days can be suffocating, but today the commute between Bekasi and Jakarta Kota was reportedly a whole lot more nightmarish than us

Jakarta – Former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief Bambang Widjojanto says that the petition signed by KPK staff citing obstacles faced in indicting 'big fish' indicates an

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and the Mining Advocacy Network (JATAM) have again warned that both presidential tickets – incumbent Pres

Jakarta – GDP growth that has been hovering around 5 percent in recent years has become a tool for presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to attack incumbent Jokowi "Jokowi" Widodo, w

Jakarta – Several banks have said they have been able to reduce the number of nonperforming loans (NPLs) in the first quarter through various measures including more selective disburse

Indonesia issued a tsunami warning, urging people to evacuate to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of its island of Sulawesi.

Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) released on Thursday a report on the performance of the manufacturing sector in the first quarter of 2019, reflected in the prompt manufacturing index (PM

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Standing up through the sunroof of a van, Prabowo Subianto leans down to shake hands and accept cash - sometimes bags of it – from tens of thousands of cheering s

Marlinda Oktavia Erwanti, Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto has a simple way of detecting 'intel' (intelligence agents) claiming that he can differentiate between intel a

Jakarta – The Taxation Directorate General has seen tax revenues increase in the first half of 2019, triggered by the legislative and presidential elections on April 17.

Jakarta – Thirty-nine out of the 40 districts in Jayawijaya regency, Papua, will vote using the noken system during the simultaneous general election on April 17.

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Former United Development Party (PPP) chairman Muhammad "Romy" Romahurmuziy has filed a pretrial motion to challenge his suspect status in an alleged bribery

Victor Mambor, Jayapura – Prosecutors have demanded 10 years in prison for Jakub Fabian Skrzypski, a Polish national who was arrested in Wamena in August last year, for his alleged rol

Natalie Sauer – Sandiaga Uno may have personally benefited from payments made by one of Indonesia's biggest coal miners to an offshore firm he owned, Global Witness says.

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesian prosecutors are demanding 10-year prison sentences for a Polish globetrotter and a Papuan student who were charged with treason after meeting with indep

Announcing the March 2016 reactivation of negotiations on the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA), Indonesia's then-Trade Minister Tom Lembong ca

The #JusticeForAudrey assault case, which has dominated Indonesian headlines this week and resulted in millions of Indonesians signing a petition demanding the prosecution of 12 high s

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has released the names of 131 "environment-friendly" legislative candidates that the group is endorsing in the upcoming elect

Ian Morse – Indonesia is one of the world's agricultural and mineral breadbaskets.

Jakarta – Police have named three 17-year-old girls as suspects in the assault of a 14-year-old girl in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, in a case that sent shock waves across social media

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition is warning President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to comply with the call by thousands of people who want the acid attack on senior Corruption Eradication

M Rosseno Aji and Indri Maulidar, Jakarta – Two years has passed since the acid attack on Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan took place.

Irsyan Hasyim (Contributor), Jakarta – The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) has examined a number of witnesses in the alleged money politics committed by Coordinating Minister for

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The economy division member of the Prabowo – Sandiaga campaign team, Anthony Budiawan, criticized the high figure of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indonesi

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – A video of people raiding an empty store in Selangor, Malaysia, and unpacking several bags containing marked ballots in favo

Jakarta – The website KawalPemilu.org has officially invited the campaign teams of incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto to use its platform to mo

Fadli, Batam, Riau Islands – Tourism Minister Arief Yahya has called on Transportation Minister Budki Karya Sumadi to issue a regulation that would require airlines to lower their pric

Jakarta – At least 114 investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have signed a petition complaining over the obstacles they face when pursuing corruption cases.

Jakarta – National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Commissioner Beka Ulung Hapsara says the prosecution of past cases of gross human rights (HAM) violations is being hindered by t

Fadli, Batam – Beaches near Nongsa resorts in Batam, Riau Islands, have been covered with a thick film of stinky, black oil since Tuesday, forcing foreign tourists staying at the resor

William Chalk – For the first time in Indonesia's history, the president, vice president, and constituents of the People's Consultative Assembly will be selected on the same day during

Erin Cook – With a week left until Indonesia's presidential election, polls are tightening and huge mass rallies show the 193 million voters keen to have their say.

Vikram Nehru – The runup to Indonesia's general election on April 17 has so far seen four revealing presidential debates.

Erwida Maulia and Shotaro Tani, Jakarta – The overflowing crowd of 200,000 gathered at Jakarta's Bung Karno Stadium roared as opposition leader Prabowo Subianto took the stage.

Erwida Maulia and Shotaro Tani, Jakarta – With less than a month to go before election day, a grinning President Joko Widodo stood inside a jammed subway car and touted the opening of

Izzan Fathurrahman, Jakarta – A new movement called "Indonesia without feminism" has started its online campaign through popular social media platform Instagram.

Among the many incidents of violence in the conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, the attack by Christian militants at Kilometre 9 in Lage subdistrict in May 2000 is the one that former j

James Massola – Indonesians are in the midst of a fierce electoral contest with potentially enormous consequences.

Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab is not welcome on Instagram, at least according to his supporters, as several of them have publicly claimed that the social media pla

An alleged case of abuse against a middle school student in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, continues to dominate the conversation on Indonesian social media today as police continue inves

We're exactly one week off from Indonesia's presidential election and the vast majority of recent polling still shows President Joko Widodo to have a commanding double-digit lead of 15

Jakarta – Mimika regency in Papua banned alcoholic beverage sales on Wednesday in an effort to maintain public order during the simultaneous presidential and legislative elections on A

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Health advocates have urged the government to regulate the use of e-cigarettes to prevent non-smokers, particularly young ones, from taking up the habit.

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The electoral gap between Prabowo Subianto and Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has narrowed amid a large number of undecided voters, a recent poll shows.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Surakarta, Central Java – The incumbent intends to repeat his 2014 performance in cities and regencies across Central Java to secure at least 70 percent of all

Markus Makur, West Manggarai – Local General Elections Commissions (KPU) in East and West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara, are putting forth local dialects and mascots to encourage peopl