Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani said on Tuesday the Finance Ministry, together with the Industry Ministry and Trade Ministry, would team up to identify mo

Rachmadea Aisyah, Jakarta – High imports of oil and gas, consumer goods and raw materials dragged the trade deficit to US$2.03 billion in July; the largest deficit recorded this year, a

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo said the number of alleged corruption cases in his office rose during 2016-2017.

Jakarta – Indonesia remains a leading destination for international schools in Southeast Asia, according to ISC Research data announced on Tuesday.

Adinda Normala, Jakarta – Foreign direct investment in Indonesia declined by 12.9 percent to Rp 95.7 trillion ($6.66 billion) in the second quarter, compared with the same period last y

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has held the position for five years but made her first official visit to Timor-Leste, a country Australia helped found, only two weeks ago.

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's presence on social media far outweighs that of his sole opponent, Prabowo Subianto, barely a month before the republic's election campaign se

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Wonogiri, Central Java – At least 50,000 residents living in 31 villages across seven districts in Wonogiri, Central Java, have been affected by drought since July, a

Jakarta – The government is determined to carry out all necessary measures to prevent forest and land fires from spreading on the island of Sumatra, as the Asian Games are set to kick o

Budhy Munawar Rachman – A few days before President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was scheduled to announce his running mate in the 2019 presidential election, a statement made by respected scho

Cases of horrific mob violence are not that rare in Indonesia, and stories of alleged thieves being beaten to death and even burned alive have made many headlines in the past (though ra

Jakarta – Ride-hailing app Go-Jek has increased its per kilometer fare for ojek (motorcycle taxi) drivers in Greater Jakarta, says a company representative.

Stephen Wright, Jakarta – Indonesia is deploying 100,000 police and soldiers to provide security for the 2018 Asian Games, the biggest event ever held in its terror attack prone capital

Rachmadea Aisyah, Jakarta – The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) announced on Tuesday that investment growth was recorded at 3.1 percent year-on-year (yoy) in the second quarter, co

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government is determined to carry out all necessary measures to prevent forest and land fires from spreading on the island of Sumatra, as the Asia

Andreas Harsono – Indonesian authorities have moved six Moluccan political prisoners from a remote high-security prison island to an ordinary prison close to home, in Ambon, the provinc

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A Chinese-Indonesian woman of the Buddhist faith in Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, faces a possible 1.5-year prison sentence after she was charged with blasphemy

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Serang Police and the local chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in Banten are investigating a religious cult called the Jellyfish Kingdom, whic

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Asman Abnur, a National Mandate Party (PAN) politician, may have to resign or get fired in the near fut

John McBeth, Jakarta – Now that he is again the sole electoral rival to President Joko Widodo, the checkered past of retired special forces general Prabowo Subianto will likely come und

Max Walden, Jakarta – Indonesian civil society groups are expressing concern President Joko Widodo's choice of an influential Islamic cleric as his vice-presidential running mate, seen

John McBeth, Jakarta – In a country with the world's largest Muslim population of over 228 million adherents, it might seem odd that Indonesian President Joko Widodo is worried about th

Estevao Nuno – The executive director (CEO) of NGO Timor Aid, Florentino Sarmento, said the original culture of Timor, handed down from the ancestors will go extinct unless young Timore

Christopher Knaus – New South Wales Labor will move a motion to condemn the "entirely inappropriate" prosecution of former spy Witness K and his lawyer, breaking with the silence of the

Michael Leach – When the newly formed Change for Progress Alliance, or AMP, secured an outright majority at Timor-Leste's 12 May election, the prospects for stability seemed promising.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has appointed Yogyakarta-based Gadjah Mada University (UGM) legal expert Enny Nurbaningsih as a Constitutional Court jus

Vanuatu presented its draft UN Resolution for West Papua at the recent Pacific Islands Forum Officials Committee (FOC) Meeting and the Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting held at the Taumea

On Thursday, when President Joko Widodo announced that he had chosen Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) leader Ma'ruf Amin) as his running mate in next year's election, the surprise pick di

Alexander R Arifianto – The recent announcement of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's running mate in his re-election bid suggests the continued strong influence of conservative groups ov

Grant Wyeth – Indonesia has recently been lifting its presence in the Pacific, courting a number of Pacific Island countries in an attempt to quell the region's sympathies for the indep

Karthika Suresh Namboothiri, Jakarta – Indonesian shares plummeted on Monday (13/08) in their worst drop in nearly two years as emerging market currencies faced a deep selloff, causing

David Lipson – Dozens of "buzzers" are getting paid to spread propaganda to armies of followers as the political elite wage war in cyberspace in an attempt to maintain power.

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – In the first half of this year, Indonesia booked US$9.48 billion in investment in the energy and mineral resources sector, only 25 percent of the fu

Calum Stuart – Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed concern about the Indonesian president's running mate, who has a history of clamping down on LGBTI people.

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru, Riau – A spell of unusual heat in Riau has seen the number of hot spots rise from zero to 55 in only two days, according to official data.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papuan authorities have closed a gold mine in Korowai in the southern part of Papua, following uproar among residents who protested the hiring of newcomer

Hengky Yeimo, Jayapura, Jubi – Jayapura City, Tuesday, 7 August 2018, visitors crowded in Lokabudaya Expo Museum Waena, Heram sub-district to attend the Papua Film Festival held by a fi

Jakarta – The death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit the Indonesian island of Lombok a week ago has risen to 392, an official says.

Joe Cochrane, Jakarta – Indonesia's presidential election next year will be a rematch of the contentious 2014 contest, and analysts fear it will see a return of the smear campaigns and

Jakarta – The Jakarta Transportation Agency has banned minibuses from Jl. Sudirman and Jl.

Shotaro Tani, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo is deploying series of defensive tactics – some rather unconventional ones – to prevent the sell-off of the country's currency,

Jakarta – Last week, the Communications and Information Ministry announced its plan to filter pornographic content by utilizing the SafeSearch feature in search engine Google.

John McBeth, Jakarta – The iconic photograph of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Michel Camdessus standing over then-President Suharto with his arms folded like a dis

Alexander Rheeney, Apia – Vanuatu has asked Pacific Islands Forum member states to support its resolution to the United Nations General Assembly next year to grant West Papuans self-det

David G Rose – As a practising Muslim from a traditional Javanese heartland, President Joko Widodo's Islamic credentials should be beyond question.

Pribadi Wicaksono, Jakarta – The supporters of the incumbent candidate Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo have started to create teams in a bid to succeed the Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin pair in the 2019 Pres

Jakarta – The official announcement of the presidential candidates shows that the election in 2019 will be more or less a repeat of that in 2014, with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo fac

Tom Allard, Maikel Jefriando, Jakarta – Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, brandished his nationalist and religious credentials on Friday amid reports he had come under pressure from I

Yesterday's announcement that Gerindra chairman Prabowo Subianto had named Jakarta Vice Governor Sandiaga Uno as his running mate in the 2019 presidential election was already surprisin

Jakarta – Jakarta is pumping out between 1,900 and 2,400 tons of plastic trash every day, according to the city's environment agency.