Asni Ovier, Jakarta – Even though the second presidential election debate on Sunday (17/02) was widely considered to be uneventful, one question from incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo did

Ainur Rohmah, Jakarta – Fake news and hate speech are inundating Indonesia on and offline with the country's general election just two months away and with presidential candidates Prab

Rabul Sawal – Scores of students from the 2019 (Bourgeois) Election Boycott Committee (Komite Boikot Pemilu (Borjuis) 2019), held a protest action rejecting the 2019 presidential and l

Erwin Renaldi and Farid Ibrahim – Gayatri, who only wants to be referred to by her first name, considers herself a "normal" practising Muslim woman.

Annabel Bowles, Jakarta – Like many Indonesians, Australians have aired their concerns over the rise of political Islamism.

Jakarta – Online marketplace behemoth Bukalapak experienced a steep ratings drop on the Apple and Google app stores over the weekend in the latest case of social media backlash that ex

Jakarta – An emergency team at Supadio International Airport in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, hauled a Lion Air plane back onto the runway on Sunday after it skidded off on Saturday afte

Marguerite Afra Sapiie and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The second election debate is a few days away and the teams of both incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and challenger Prabowo Su

Sidoarjo (Antara) – Indonesian Vice Presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno expressed deepest sympathies to prominent musician Ahmad Dhani by visiting him at the Medaeng Prison in Sidoarjo

Jakarta (Antara) – Indonesia's steel industry would need an additional 15 thousand workers to reach its production target of 10 million tons by 2025, Industry Minister Airlangga Hartar

Jakarta (Antara) – Ace Hasan Syadzily, a spokesman for the Joko Widodo (Jokowi)-Ma'ruf Amin National Campaign Team, stressed that the incumbent President Jokowi had never politicized h

Jakarta (Antara) – The Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution reiterated that the decline in Indonesia's exports was due to the economic slowdown in the main export

Jakarta – Sunday evening's second presidential debate was a slightly livelier affair, which saw the two candidates trading blows on land reform policies.

Jakarta – Democratic Party chairman Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will not participate in any campaign events ahead of the 2019 general election as he has decided to stand by his wife Krist

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Indonesia's export value recorded on January 2019 had experienced a decrease compared to last year. The condition resulted in a trade deficit.

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – "I don't think it will be like before," 21-year-old Hussain Badavi says, as he contemplates the idea of taking a boat to Australia – something the young Iranian re

Pichayada Promchertchoo, Jakarta – Anyone who's visited Jakarta will know just how horrific its traffic congestion can be, with a simple journey from the airport to downtown potentiall

Jakarta – The grenade that exploded killing two boys and injuring another in Bogor, West Java, on Thursday is believed to have been used in military exercises, a senior Army officer ha

Ivany Atina Arbi, Bengkulu – Sectarianism is exacerbating political divisions in the country as voters now view politics as "a matter of life and death" and not a "worldly" issue in wh

Jakarta – The National Police said on Friday that a hundred people lost tens of millions of rupiah in a sextortion scheme in which victims were tricked into sending sexual images that

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry has admitted to jumping the gun when it announced on Wednesday that social media platform Instagram had fulfilled its request to s

Jakarta – The presidential campaign of incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has reported Indopos to the Press Council for allegedly spreading misinformation in a report concerning the incumb

Indonesian firms owe at least $1.3 billion in unpaid fines for environmental damage caused by widespread forest clearing and deadly fires linked to tens of thousands of premature death

Jakarta – The government will simplify requirements for oil palm smallholders to access assistance for the replacement of their old trees through the people's oil palm tree replanting

Jakarta – A video clip posted to Twitter, showing two neighbors arguing in the street over the smell of cooking pork, has gone viral on Thursday.

Jakarta – Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) researcher Aisah Putri Badriati is surprised that neither presidential candidate raised the issue of West Papua in first presidential d

Beyond violating the rights and privacy of the country's gay and transexual individuals, experts warn that the LGBT moral panic gripping Indonesia is also exacerbating an HIV/AID epide

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), says it doesn't see West Sumatra's plan to ban LGBT behavior in the province as an infringement on the human rights of the persecu

Rachmadea Aisyah, Jakarta – Stakeholders are looking for domestic solutions to securing investments this year after global disruptions led to a weak inflow of foreign investment in 201

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – State-owned companies in charge of infrastructure development are turning to creative financing to obtain funds for their projects as regular investors are relu

Jakarta – The Supreme Court has rejected a case review petition filed by the now-disbanded Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) against the government's instruction to revoke its

Maikel Jefriando, Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia will push back by as much as seven years an October deadline for halal labels on food, drugs and cosmetics, after industry voiced

Another year, another Valentine's Day ban story in Indonesia.

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – As the nation prepares for the upcoming elections, issues relating to energy nationalism will spark debate among its supporters and detractors, esp

Indonesian state media is reporting that hundreds of students have fled violence in Papua's central Highlands.

Devina Heriyanto, Jakarta – It was a hot bright day in August 2018 and the clock had struck one.

Eka Kurniawan, Jakarta – When Joko Widodo, the incumbent president of Indonesia, last year chose Ma'ruf Amin as his running mate for the general election this April, it became clear th

Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) has denied rumors that they are deliberating a law to legalise Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activities.

Jakarta – Investment Coordination Board (BKPM) head Thomas Lembang said on Wednesday that the government was considering allowing foreign universities and hospitals to operate in the c

Jakarta – A florist in Bogor Regency, West Java, spoke out about the effect of the city administration's call for its residents not to celebrate Valentine's Day, which it said was not

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Marguerite Afra Sapiie and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The second election debate is a few days away and the teams of both incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and challenger Prabowo Su

Bram Setiawan, Jakarta – The Tourism Ministry provides technical guidance and workshops to representatives from 10 provinces in Indonesia.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry has announced it will register 10 million new plots of land this year, one million more than the initial target of

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is requiring coal miners to increase their allocation of coal for the domestic market this year to 128 million tons, an increase of 5.79 percent ove

Padang – National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik says that the move by the West Sumatra (Sumbar) provincial government to wage war on the deviant

Jakarta – Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo says his ministry never issued a policy restricting any government offices from holding conferences and meetings at hotels, but he advised they be

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Heri Budiawan had just returned to Sumberagung village in Banyuwangi, East Java around August 2010 after working in Saudi Arabia for 10 years, and he found t

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Environmental activist Heri Budiawan, popularly known as Budi Pego, is continuing his fight to prove his innocence as incarceration looms over him after the

VP candidate Sandiaga Uno has made traveling around the country and meeting with the downtrodden – particularly those who say they feel economically hard done by by President Joko Wido