Giacomo Tognini – Timor-Leste will go to the polls on May 12 for the second time in less than a year, with the country's politicians calling upon voters to break a stalemate that ended

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Pianist Ananda Sukarlan requested assistance from the Legal Aid Institute for Ansor Youth Movement (LBH GP) after he was reported by the Deputy Speaker of the Hous

Nurina Savitri and Erwin Renaldi – Indonesia is entering election season – this June the country will hold local elections across 17 provinces, 39 cities and 115 regencies.

The Indonesian government is considering house arrest or other forms of clemency for the ailing radical cleric who was the ideological leader of the Bali bombers and is now in prison fo

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – Former TNI Commander General Gatot Nurmantyo held dialogue with the congregation of Al-Azhar Grand Mosque, South Jakarta.

Jun Suzuki, Jakarta – Indonesia saw a jump in commercial vehicle sales last year as the government's push for infrastructure and tourism development lifted demand, as did a recovery in

Luke Hunt – Earlier this week, Australia and Timor-Leste finally reached an expected agreement that defined the maritime boundary between the two countries.

Sheany, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday (01/03) expressed approval toward recent steps taken by the Supreme Court to uphold justice in the archipelago and conveyed

Damon Evans – Reports that East Timor is set to bank tens of billions of dollars from the potential development of the Woodside Petroleum-operated Greater Sunrise oil and gas fields tha

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police traffic division's statement that listening to music while driving is a criminal act is an exaggerated interpretation of the law, experts say.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has called on the government to halt its plan to execute several more death row inmates this year, following statements issued by

Aji Nugroho, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Deputy Chief Basaria Panjaitan confirmed that the refund of corrupted money will not stop the investigation if her office

John McBeth, Jakarta – Indonesian society would undergo a dramatic and regressive transformation if Parliament goes ahead with proposed amendments to the country's colonial-era Criminal

Fiona Suwana – Google – a company with several data protection issues – recently invested more than US$1 billion in Indonesia's popular ride-hailing app Go-Jek.

Padang (Antara) – Head of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) Suhardi Alius warned the public about the outspread of radicalism on the social media.

Jakarta – A new policy to terminate a corruption case investigation if the alleged perpetrator is willing to return the embezzled money to the authority has drawn criticism from several

Jakarta (Bisnis) – The construction of 38 elevated infrastructure projects will resume after its moratorium has been lifted following the final evaluation towards contractors and toll-r

Dhania Sarahtika, Jakarta – This Saturday (03/03), women in Jakarta will march from a parking lot next to the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel on Jalan Thamrin to the State Palace, demanding the

Sheany, Jakarta – A human rights group said the so-called Muslim Cyber Army, which has allegedly been responsible for spreading fake news and hate speech on social media, is more harmfu

Jakarta – The Indonesian Anti-Slander Society (Mafindo) has set up a national anti-hoax force, which aims to tackle the spread of hoaxes in the lead up to the simultaneous regional head

Erin Cook – Long-running and increasingly controversial reforms of Indonesia's criminal code are threatening to set the tone for elections this year and next, with the country's progres

Grant Wyeth – Earlier this week Australia and Timor-Leste reached an agreement for a treaty on their disputed maritime border at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

Michael Sainsbury – In January, after half a year of political gridlock, Timor-Leste's president Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres set the date for its 730,000 registered voters to head to th

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The Pedestrian Coalition has criticized the Jakarta administration's move to allow street vendors to occupy sidewalks in Melawai, Kebayoran Baru, So

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is planning to revise a presidential instruction (Inpres) that prohibits the construction of buildings and other infrastructure, in

We're still a long way off from Indonesia's 2019 presidential election, but since incumbent Joko Widodo was (unsurprisingly) officially named the presidential candidate for the ruling P

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – West Java Police have investigated a caretaker at Al Istiqomah Mosque in Pamengpeuk district in Garut regency, West Java, who pretended to be the victim

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Women ulema from across Indonesia are calling on all parties to uphold unity ahead of the elections.

Juli Hantoro, Jakarta – Haris Azhar, the former coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), said the only way to uncover the assault on Novel Ba

Phelim Kine – Three undocumented Indonesian immigrants have taken sanctuary in a New Jersey church to avoid deportation from the United States.

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo or Jokowi started showing signal to establish a joint fact-finding team (TGPF) concerning the attack against KPK senior investigator Novel Baswedan.

Jakarta – The authorities have been called on to step up efforts to complete their investigation into the acid attack against Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) senior investigator

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The nephew of former House of Representatives speaker and graft defendant Setya Novanto, Irvanto Hendra Pambudi, has become the latest suspect in the multimil

Bogor – The constitutional law expert Mahfud MD said illegal sweeping acts which often done by certain groups were unlawful acts.

Michael Walsh and Nurina Savitri – Members of Indonesia's House of Representatives have come under fire for passing a law giving themselves powers to obstruct corruption investigations

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has issued a decree to extend the office term of the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) commissioners after the House of Represe

Jakarta – The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) is temporary closed as of Wednesday after the House of Representatives rejected to confirm any of the KPPU candidates, w

Chitra Paramaesti, Jakarta – Police Public Relations Division's Public Information Bureau Head Brig. Gen.

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Chairman of Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Maruf Amin asked President Joko Widodo or Jokowi to give clemency to terrorist convict Abu Bakar Baasyir.

Alexander R Arifianto – Since the Defending Islam rallies in late 2016 and early 2017, there is a perception of a growing ideological convergence between clerics and activists affiliate

Olivia Tasevski – A new requirement for foreign researchers to obtain a permit to enter museums run by the Indonesian military constitutes an attempt to bolster questionable Suharto-era

Jakarta – In a move that would further boost President Joko Widodo's standing in the 2019 presidential election, the Democratic Party (PD) has reportedly been laying the groundwork for

Roni Toldanes and Arie Firdaus – The United States is taking steps to resume training with Indonesian special forces unit Kopassus, American officials said, after suspending military ti

Jakarta – Authorities in Banda Aceh caned a non-Muslim married couple on Tuesday (Feb 27) after the two were arrested for gambling at an entertainment centre in the capital of Aceh.

Angela Macdonald-Smith – A deal struck between the Australian and Timor-Leste governments has opened the door for progress on Woodside Petroleum's long-stalled $US13 billion Sunrise LNG

Maire Leadbeater – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a snazzy theme to promote the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Indonesia: '60 years as friends f

Ambaranie Nadia, Kemala Movanita, Jakarta – The national police say that The Family Muslim Cyber Army (MCA) has not just been spreading provocative news on religion, ethnicity and race,

A recent fake news item shared on Facebook. It says "15 million members of the PKI armed to slaughter ulema (Muslim scholars)"

Last Friday, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) made no surprises by officially nominating President Joko Widodo to run for a second term in the 2019 election.

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Former general Prabowo Subianto is firming up as a candidate for Indonesia's presidential election, raising the prospect of a rerun of the bitter 2014 race that sa