Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Former members of the now-defunct Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) plan to lodge a judicial review against the recently endorsed regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on

Francis Chan, Jakarta – The number of forest fires across Indonesia fell by more than 30 per cent this year as fire prevention and enforcement efforts, started after the trans-boundary haze crisis

Shannon Power – One of the hundreds of men rounded up in Indonesia's crackdown on its LGBTI community has shared his story from jail.

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has criticized governors, mayors, and regents for failing to make progressive budgetary allocations and for their lack of seriousness in a

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, who has typically remained tightlipped when asked about the Jakarta Bay reclamation project since assuming office, admitted on Tuesday that he had met wit

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Judges with the Jakarta Corruption Court have found former Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry officials Sugito and Jarot Budi Prabowo guilty of o

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said it arrested on Wednesday an East Java regent in connection to a bribery case.

An academic says recent violence near Papua's Grasberg gold mine could be connected to plans to divest half of the American-owned operation to Indonesian entities.

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government has delayed the establishment of the National Police's special anticorruption detachment because of the limited time it has to create such a body this yea

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Papua has received an additional 400 Mobile Brigade personnel to secure its two regencies, Intan Jaya and Tolikara, as security incidents related to the electi

An indigenous community in Indonesia's Papua region claim a house in the village of Utikini was razed to the ground by Indonesian Military Police.

Jakarta – Jakarta will be surrounded by more than 10 coal-fired power plants (PLTU) within a 100-kilometer radius, which could lead to premature deaths, Greenpeace Indonesia has reported.

Bogor, West Java – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his patron, the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Megawati Soekarnoputri, held a meeting over a traditional me

Paulina Quintao – Women's organizations urge political parties from the VII constitutional government to put away party interests and uphold the public interest in order to bring sensible developme

Scott Malone, Boston – New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is publicly calling on US President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, to halt an effort to deport 69 Indonesian Christians who fled viole

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has appointed Muhammad Sirajuddin "Din" Syamsuddin, the former Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) chairman and former chairman of Indonesia's

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – A 13-year-old girl from Walenrang district, Luwu regency, South Sulawesi, is psychologically unstable after being raped by 21 men in two separate locatio

Jakarta – According to a Committee for the Acceleration of Priority Infrastructure Delivery (KPPIP) estimate, the government will only be able to construct new power plants with a combined capacity

Bimo Wiwoho, Jakarta – The chairperson of the Institute for the Study of the 1965-1966 Massacres (YPKP 65), Bedjo Untung, claims that they have found 10 new mass grave sites containing the bodies o

Jakarta – The Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has asked Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan to allow his official residence on Jl.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Survivors and families of victims of the 1965 communist purge have urged the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to use the recently released declassi

Andreas Harsono – More than 530 people have been publicly flogged in Indonesia's Aceh province since a new Islamic criminal code was enacted in October 2015, new figures show.

Celestina Soares – Since 2016, the government through the Ministry of Education has distributed 1100 chairs and tables to schools throughout Timor-Leste.

Denny Indrayana – Newly installed Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan sparked a fracas last week when he said in his inaugural speech that it was time for pribumi ('native or indigenous Indonesians') t

Jakarta – Chief Security Minister Wiranto warned on Monday (23/10) against any "intervention" after the country enacts a stricter regulation on mass organizations amid Islamist protests.

Rakhmat Nur Hakim, Jakarta – Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 2/2017 (Perppu Ormas) has finally been passed into law by the House of Representatives (DPR) during a plenary session at the

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The Indonesian military chief Gatot Nurmantyo "chose not to travel" to the United States, according to the US Department of Homeland Affairs even after he was cleared to

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The United States is refusing to divulge why it denied Indonesian military chief Gatot Nurmantyo entry to the US as its own embassy in Jakarta scramble

Michael Leach – In 2015, not long after the formation of the unprecedented national unity government between Timor-Leste's two largest parties, CNRT and Fretilin, senior CNRT Minister Agio Pereira

Damien Kingsbury – Australia's agreement with Timor-Leste to settle a permanent maritime boundary in the Timor Sea may have hit a snag as Timor-Leste's politics is thrown into turmoil.

Jakarta – Since Jakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno decided not to live at the official residence on Jl.

Jakarta – Banners erected in South Jakarta protesting the United States' decision to bar Indonesian Armed Forcers (TNI) Commander Gen.

Indra Budiari, Clark, Philippines – United States Defense Secretary James Mattis has apologized and has guaranteed there will be no repetition of the incident in which Indonesian Military (TNI) chi

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – First. Brig.

Jakarta – Amnesty International has urged the government to use the information contained in recently declassified United States Embassy archives on the Indonesian mass killings of 1965 as new mome

Jeffrey Hutton – At the Orion Plaza in the North Jakarta suburb of Glodok, Along Jenggot solders a connector onto a satellite dish cable.

What is it like to be a nudist in a country that prizes modesty and where public nudity is strictly forbidden?

Jakarta – Recently declassified United States Embassy archives documenting Indonesia's 1965 mass killings may not be included in legal proceedings before their veracity can be established, Chief Se

The islands of Raja Ampat are set to be Indonesia's next tourism hotspot – but locals fear the government is failing both them and the environment in its development push.

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesia is demanding an explanation after its military chief Gatot Nurmantyo was refused entry into the United States moments before the plane departed from Jakarta on

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto has once again skipped a summons to testify as a witness at Friday's hearing on the e-ID graft case.

Jakarta – House Speaker Setya Novanto skipped a court hearing related to the misappropriation of funds in the electronic identity cards project, known as e-KTP, at the Jakarta Anticorruption Court

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Among a trove of chilling declassified documents that reveal the US government's knowledge and support of a campaign of mass murder against Indonesia's Communist Party in

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Suspicion that gay rights is a "Western agenda" aimed at destroying Indonesian culture has helped fuel an unprecedented crackdown on the nation's LGBT community.

Jakarta – A special service to observe the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, set to take place in Yogyakarta on Friday (20/10), had to be canceled amid threats of religi

Jakarta – Greater access by local communities to Indonesian forests marks progress in a push by the government for land reforms, officials said on Friday (20/10), despite criticism that the efforts

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Unidentified perpetrators shot at two vehicles in a gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) mining area in Tembagapura, Mimika, Papua, on Saturday.

Jakarta – Freeport Indonesia, a subsidiary of US mining giant Feeport-McMoRan, has confirmed that a shooting incident occurred near its mining site in Papua on Saturday (21/10), a company official

Vincent Bevins – A trove of newly declassified diplomatic cables reveals a surprising degree of American involvement in a brutal anti-communist purge in Indonesia half-a-century ago.

Indonesia's foreign policy under President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has become more visible regionally and globally, contrary to popular assumptions from the early days of his administration that saw h