Jakarta – To ensure security for the 2018 Asian Games, which will see thousands of international athletes and officials descend upon the Indonesian capital, Jakarta Police chief Inspect

West Papuan students in the Indonesian city of Malang say police forcefully stopped them discussing an important date in their people's history.

The Indonesian rupiah is still in the midst of a weeks-long slide against the US dollar, with the exchange rate nearing IDR14,500 today – its worst performance since October 2015.

Rezki Alvionitasari, Jakarta – Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) offered Anies Baswedan and Ahmad Heryawan as presidential and vice presidential candidates to Gerindra party and others for

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Hundreds gathered on Monday morning to protest at a martabak food stall belonging to the President's eldest son in Solo, Central Java, where they held an

In just over a month's time, Jakarta will host the opening ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games.

Tangguh Chairil – Indonesia is aiming to meet its own defence needs and not be reliant on other countries for military equipment by 2029.

Craig Harris – In the jungle of West Papua the Indonesian military was on the move.

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – Logistic costs in Indonesia are higher than those in other countries.

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia's decision to raise its key rate by 100 basis points (bps) in the last two months in an aggressive move to stabilize the rupiah against

Jakarta – The government is expecting the prices of the main contributors to non-tax revenue – oil and coal – to increase next year.

Usman Hamid, Jakarta – The tactics used by the country's security forces may have changed since the fall of military rule in 1998, but in Papua – Indonesia's easternmost, restive region

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government, in agreement with the House Commission XI overseeing finance, has cut its gross domestic product (GDP) growth projection for 2019 to be

Erwin Prima, Jakarta – Sixth Indonesian president-cum-Democrat Party chairman Susilo "SBY" Bambang Yudhoyono has publicly complained about the way the military (TNI) and the police deal

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo honors the General Elections Commission's (KPU) decision to issue a regulation banning graft convicts from running in ne

Paul Karp – The attorney general has refused to elaborate on why he approved the prosecution of a former spy who revealed Australia had bugged Timor-Leste's cabinet rooms, describing it

Jakarta – A physical clash escalated on Sunday between sympathizers of sole candidate Munafri Arifuddin-Andi Rahmatika Dewi (Appi-Cicu) and "empty candidate" supporters during the vote

The President of the Board of Timor-Leste's Women's Network Timor-Leste Judite Dias Ximenes said women's representation within the divulged composition of the VIII Constitutional Govern

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Golkar Party advisory board head Aburizal Bakrie failed to meet a summons on Monday issued by the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) for questioning in

John McBeth, Jakarta – Barring any last minute changes, Indonesian President Joko Widodo is close to naming Golkar Party chairman and Industry Minister Airlangga Hartarto as his running

Reza Gunadha – Many academics, intellectuals and Indonesian youth can speak fluently on the historical ideas of ancient Greece and modern Europe.

Tria Dianti and Ika Inggas (BenarNews) – A plan by heads of Indonesian universities to begin surveillance on campuses in order to detect extremist ideology and behavior could threaten f

David Lipson – The marginalisation of Indonesia's LGBT community is fuelling an HIV "epidemic", with HIV rates among gay men increasing five-fold since 2007, according to a Human Rights

Viji Menon – Timor-Leste's second parliamentary elections in a space of 10 months have raised the prospect for a resolution to the young country's political gridlock; but challenges rem

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government will look into the details of a newly-released report that accused Indonesia of "unlawful killings" of nearly 100 people in Papua over t

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Indonesian female bureaucrats are still facing various hindrances in rising to the highest ranks in ministries, with researchers calling for the need of a se

Christie Stefanie, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko says that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is still serious about dealing with the problem of human rights in Papua.

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Police (Polri) have sent a Mobile Brigade (Brimob) company to hunt down the armed group that attacked policemen in Papua last week.

Jakarta – Indonesian security forces are behind the unlawful killing of at least 95 people in Papua since 2010, with most perpetrators never held to account, Amnesty International said

Jakarta – Indonesia's police and military are responsible for at least 95 unlawful killings in the easternmost Papua region since 2008, including targeted slayings of activists, Amnesty

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesian security forces have committed nearly 100 extrajudicial killings in Papua and West Papua since 2010, with little to no accountability, a new report from hum

Jakarta – The Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry has defended its decision to give money to journalists after an event, following criticism from the Alliance of Independent Journali

Philippa H Stewart – The men were nearly identically dressed.

Ahmad Rafiq, Solo – Approximately two thousand people followed the rally which took the start and finish at Solo West City Square on Sunday, July 1.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Gerindra Party Secretary-General Ahmad Muzani said his party insists to propose Prabowo Subianto as a presidential candidate.

David Dixon – They just couldn't leave it alone could they?

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua and two of its regencies, Nduga and Puncak Jaya, where deadly shootings by unknown assailants occurred last week in the wake of the gubernatorial el

Jakarta – An unidentified person threw Molotov cocktails at the office of Aceh-based tabloid newspaper Modus in Gampong Berauwe, Aceh, on Saturday.

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Mohammad Bernie – A group of protesters from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) have demanded that West Papua be free from Indon

Jakarta – The Golkar Party said it was grateful that graft suspect and party member Ahmad Hidayat Mus was leading the North Maluku gubernatorial election according to a quick count by t

Quinton Temby – A principle of social movements seems to be that once a movement is written about there's a good chance it is now over or changed in some fundamental way.

Jakarta – Millions of indigenous peoples in forested countries, including Indonesia, are continuing to suffer from harsh conservation policies despite having played a crucial role in pr

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to step up cooperation on governance, corruption eradication, connectivity and border issues during a meeting between the two countr

Anne Barker – When police in East Timor caught a large fleet of Chinese fishing boats last year, with thousands of dead sharks on board, the evidence of illegal fishing – on a massive s

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has said 110 million people turned out to vote during Wednesday's regional elections.

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The Makassar Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI) blasted police's decision to prevent journalists from reporting the vote recapitulation by the Makassar Gener

Jakarta – West Java deputy gubernatorial candidate Dedi Mulyadi said he believed the hashtag #2019GantiPresiden (#2019ChangePresident) was responsible for his camp's loss in the provinc

Jakarta – Robiatul Adawiyah, a teacher at private elementary school Darul Maza in Bekasi, West Java, went viral recently after news of her dismissal spread on social media.

Bantul, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Police arrested four people, members of youth organization Pemuda Pancasila (PP), and named them suspects for allegedly vandalizing the Bantul District C