Lindsay Murdoch – East Timor could receive up to 80 per cent of revenue from the $50 billion Greater Sunrise oil and gas field in the Timor Sea under a still-secret agreement with Austr

Padang (Antara) – Press Council chairman Yosep Adi Prasetyo claimed that Indonesia holds world's highest number of mass media with 47,000 mass media including print, radio, television a

Ramadani Saputra, Jakarta – The Indonesian Asian Games Organizing Committee (INASGOC) has called attention to the biggest problem observed during the ongoing Asian Games Invitational To

Jakarta – Indonesia's overcrowded prisons are ill-equipped to deal with militant inmates, hampering efforts to prevent the spread of violent radicalism in institutions that have become

Meka Beresford – An Indonesian MP has said that he believes LGBTQ+ people should be sentenced to death or a life in prison for their acts.

Adinda Normala, Jakarta – Japan Credit Rating Agency, or JCR, has upgraded Indonesia's sovereign debt to "BBB with a stable outlook," a notch above investment grade, from BBB-on Thursda

The Turnbull Government will be watching with interest and angst for a soon-to-be-released book which sheds light on an extraordinary chapter of Australian-East Timor history, writes Al

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Foreign researchers can no longer freely enter museums run by the Indonesian Military (TNI) without permission from the TNI headquarters, in a new policy tha

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is set to continue the river restoration program this year by relocating residents living along the banks of the Ciliwung, Sunter and Pesanggrahan r

Aisyah Llewellyn – Indonesia is currently gripped by news about plans to revise the country's criminal code (RKUHP).

Jakarta – Jakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno has called on the flood-affected residents of Bidara Cina in East Jakarta to hand over their lands to the city administration to help move

Vincent Bevins, Jakarta – Prodded by religious conservatives, Indonesia is moving toward outlawing gay sex – and even sex outside marriage – in a jarring change for a country long seen

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – It is easy to go to jail in Indonesia. If you say anything wrong about someone's religion, you could go to jail.

Kanupriya Kapoor, Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Zulfikar Fahd, an openly gay man, says he flew from Indonesia to Canada late last month and claimed asylum on grounds that he faced d

Devandy Ario Putro – LGBTI people have always existed in Indonesian culture and society – long before the genesis of the nation itself.

Greater Aceh regent Mawardi Ali has again issued a circular. This time the regional government has banned beauty salons from being run by or employing transgender women (waria).

Konradus Epa – Indonesia has persuaded Google to pull 73 applications and shut down 169 websites related to the country's LBGT community.

Jakarta – Hundreds of residents of Kapuk Poglar in Cengkareng, West Jakarta, staged a rally on Thursday to protest a plan to evict them from their homes to make way for a police boardin

The deputy house speaker of Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR), Fadli Zon, has been an adamant critic of President Joko Widodo's administration, especially recently while stumpi

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors have indicted Fredrich Yunadi, a former attorney of graft defendant Setya Novanto, for obstructing the ant

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court rejected on Thursday a petition to invalidate the House of Representatives' right to launch an inquiry into the Corruption Era

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) has said Indonesia needs to boost its exports as the country's foreign debt continues to increase as the government seeks to accelerate i

Amanda Hodge – The UN Human Rights chief has urged Indonesia not to go "backwards on human rights" by introducing laws banning sex outside marriage and gay sex, and warned of "rising le

Kyle Knight – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein is urging Indonesia's government to scrap clauses in a new draft criminal code that would discrimin

The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner says his office has been invited by Indonesia's government to visit Papua region, or West Papua.

Back in September 2015, when he was inaugurated as the head of Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency (BNN), Budi Waseso said that rehabilitation was the wrong solution to the country's

Wataru Suzuki, Jakarta – Clarks and Gap are among the fashion retailers counting their last days in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

Jakarta – The notification about the cancellation of a meeting to approve the draft of the Criminal Code (KUHP) on Thursday last week came quite suddenly." I was only informed last nigh

Depok – The Depok city Indonesian Underground Social Movement (GMBI) has held a rally in front of the Depok Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) opposing the legalisation of lesbian

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo voided late on Tuesday a much-maligned regulation aimed at screening research projects that carried "negative impacts" on the cou

Sheany, Jakarta – The United Nations high commissioner for human rights said on Wednesday (07/02) that he will send a mission to Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, following rep

Krithika Varagur, Jakarta – Twin crises of measles and malnutrition have recently afflicted Indonesia's easternmost province, Papua, inciting foreign and media scrutiny as well as inter

Prayudha, Makassar – Rezki Ameliyah, known by her friends as Melia, has had to swallow a bitter pill.

Authorities in Indonesia have issued four new palm oil permits in its Papua provinces despite a moratorium on palm oil expansion declared by president Joko Widodo in 2016.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein did not talk about unresolved se

Indonesia must clamp down on rising intolerance against the LGBT community, the UN human rights chief warned Wednesday, as the persecuted minority face a wave of arrests and parliament

Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday criticised proposals in Indonesia's parliament to criminalize gay sex and extramarital sex, saying such la

Sheany, Jakarta – The United Nations human rights chief said on Wednesday (07/02) that the proposed revisions to the Indonesian criminal code are "inherently discriminatory" and chided

Luke Hunt – ASEAN aspirant Timor-Leste is being democratically tested today, with new elections slated after the minority government formed just last year failed to get its budget and p

Jun Suzuki, Jakarta – Indonesia's gross domestic product grew 5.07% in 2017, falling short of the government's 5.2% target, as President Joko Widodo's industrial reforms failed to pick

Many in Indonesia have been concerned about a conservative new revision to the country's criminal code (RKUHP) that's currently under discussion by the House of Representatives (DPR).

Siktus Harson, Kupang – For nearly two decades, life has never been a celebration for Maria Pereira.

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Jakarta – The special committee of inquiry on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has dropped its recommendation on the formation of a supervisory council for the anti-graft bod

Robertus Belarminus, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has expressed its appreciation to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'

Indonesia's government representatives say the deadly measles outbreak in Papua province has been brought under control.

Andreas Harsono – Last week, Indonesian authorities arrested a BBC correspondent for tweets she made while reporting from Papua.

Jakarta – Senior Adjunct Commissioner Ahmad Untung Surianata alias Untung Sangaji, Chief of the North Aceh District Police Department, feels that the threat posed by transvestites is wo

Denpasar – It is estimated that economic disruption will result in the loss of between 45-50 million jobs in Indonesia in the near future.