Jakarta – A corruption watchdog said it had unearthed alleged corruption in the procurement of textbooks at some elementary schools in Depok, West Java, since 2015.

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James Massola & Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Facebook executives have endured a hostile grilling from Indonesian MPs, as the company faced threats of an audit or a shut down over the C

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The latest survey conducted by National Survey Media Institute (Median) on March 24 until April 6, 2018, shows the increase of electability rate of six national

Despite Gerindra chairman Prabowo Subianto's declaration at the party's national convention last week that he had accepted Gerindra's nomination to run as their presidential candidate.

Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), a traditional coalition partner of the Gerindra Party, has said that it was unlikely that Gerindra's presidential nominee, Prabowo Subianto

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – Pollster National Survey Media (Median) research director Sudarto revealed that economics has become one of the factors that drove people to request for the repl

Jakarta – Jakarta administration general affairs head Firmansyah said the Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) had gained permission from Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan to use

Paulina Quintao – Based on the results of monitoring activities conducted by the Office of the Human Rights and Justice Ombudsmen (PDHJ), high rates of violations against defined criter

Jakarta – Cars with red license plates, which denote government-owned vehicles, are exempt from the odd-even traffic policy currently on trial at three toll gates in Greater Jakarta, ac

Vigilante justice in the form of humiliating public shaming parades are disturbingly common in Indonesia.

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government has announced that it will slash the number of National Strategic Projects (PSN), mostly related to infrastructure, from 245 to 222.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has been ranked in the top 20 on this year's list of the world's most influential Muslim figures in the annual publicati

Police in the town of Jepara, Central Java, arrested two event organizers for a motorcycle community party in which at least three girls in bikinis were dancing amidst a raucous crowd o

Blaming victims of sexual harassment and assault is unfortunately still commonplace in Indonesia, with a recent case in Jakarta highlighting how victims can sometimes be subjected to ev

Lucy Marks – A new study has found children in East Timor have among the highest rates of rheumatic heart disease in the world, with researchers estimating up to 10,000 young people cou

Celestina Soares – The General Director of the Ministry of Education (ME) Antoninho Pires said many public schools are not in good condition and do not follow prescribed education stand

Paulina Quintao – At the end of 2017, the number of women in leadership roles including as part of the executive in the public sector is still low according to the data from the Integra

Paulina Quintao – The Ministry of Health (MoH) in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MSS) through the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) are discussing about the best

Oki Raimundos, Dili, East Timor – Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta has waded back into the young country's politics ahead of parliamentary

Jakarta – National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) vice chairman Hairansyah has called on the Home Ministry to expedite the e-ID registration process ahead of June's simultaneou

Mason Littlejohn – For followers of Indonesian national politics it will feel like deja vu, as Prabowo Subianto and the incumbent President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo look to re-face each oth

Jakarta – A majority of residents in religiously conservative West Java, home to approximately 47 million people, are unlikely to cast their ballots on candidates practicing polygamy, a

Ahmad Faiz, Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko has shrugged off the recent statement of the national coordinator for the Indonesian Dawn Prayers [GIS], Eggi Sudja

Jakarta – More than a year ago, senior antigraft investigator Novel Baswedan became a victim of a brutal acid attack, in which he became partly blind.

Jakarta – Amid campaigns to eradicate rampant child marriages in the country, a minister has called on the House of Representatives to prioritize a revision of the 1974 Marriage Law, se

An engagement between a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy in South Sulawesi province has once again sparked discussion about child marriage in Indonesia, prompting the government t

Dadang J Mutaqin – The fact that most Indonesian farmers smoke is perhaps unsurprising.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Administering the proper course of treatment for victims of methanol poisoning, such as those who fell ill or died after drinking oplosan (bootleg liquor

Moses Ompusunggu, Bambang Muryanto and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta/Yogyakarta/Medan – Indonesian state universities are welcoming the latest policy of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's admi

Bernadette Christina Munthe, Jakarta – The Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries, or CPOPC, a palm oil board led by Indonesia and Malaysia, said British supermarket chain Iceland's de

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Cyber Indonesia has filed an official police report against the National Mandate Party (PAN) senior politician Amien Rais for his statement on 'God's Party' a

Kate Lamb and Ben Doherty – It has been 58 days.

Adam Harvey – On a clear Jakarta morning near the city's airport, a group of VIPs stand solemnly in front of thousands of bottles of beer and spirits laid out on the roadway in front of

John McBeth, Jakarta – With opposition leader Prabowo Subianto declaring his candidacy in a horseback appearance before the uniformed ranks of his Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerind

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party Deputy Chairman Fadli Zon denied news that suggests Prabowo Subianto is in the process of lobbying President Joko "Jok

Jakarta – Ahead of this year's local and general elections, the police have started deploying officers to community units (RW) in Jakarta and Bekasi.

A group of people set fire to the residence of the head of Pegunungan Bintang regency in a riot in Indonesia's Papua province yesterday.

Fitria Rahmawati, Jakarta – Chairman of the United Development Party (PPP) Romahurmuzy, also known as Romy, said that Prabowo Subianto has expressed his interest to be a vice presidenti

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo had offered Gerindra Party leader Prabowo Subianto the chance to be his running mate in the 2019 presidential election, but the latter turned do

JOE Cochrane, Jakarta, Indonesia – Growing up on the Indonesian island of Java in the 1970s, Dewi Kanti practiced an ancient form of indigenous traditional beliefs whose origins predate

Chandni Vatvani, Majalaya, Indonesia – It's been called the world's most polluted river by the World Bank.

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Prisons in Indonesia are holding too many inmates, while at the same time having too few prison guards, leading to various disciplinary problems.

Daniel Peterson – On 30 March, Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, the third daughter of Soekarno, delivered a poem at Indonesian Fashion Week.

Thousands of booze bottles were destroyed by Indonesian police on Friday in a dramatic show as they crack down on bootleg alcohol blamed for killing close to 100 people in recent weeks.

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – Executive Director of Amnesty International Indonesia Usman Hamid called on the government to implement the moratorium on the death penalty this year.

Jakarta – Indonesia climbed to second place in the Global Muslim Travel Index (GMTI) 2018, from third place in the previous year.

Moral vigilantes who publicly shame those they accuse of adultery, premarital sex, or other "immoral acts" (even if such acts were carried out with consent) in Indonesia often go unpuni

Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Indonesia's conservative Aceh province will no longer allow canings for violations of Shariah law to be carried out in public, its governor said Thursday, appare

Jakarta – Police have raided bootleg liquor production sites in Cipondoh and Pondok Aren and destroyed more than 5,500 bottles, after two more people in South Tangerang died after consu