Jakarta – A number of human rights groups on Wednesday (30/08) called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to tell families of "Orang Hilang" – Indonesia's The Disappeareds – the truth about what happ

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Police have continued to investigate possible motives behind the operation of Saracen, a news syndicate accused of spreading hoaxes and fake news.

Curtis S. Chin – A decade ago, I traveled to East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, to look at the condition of roads and other infrastructure in Asia's newest country.

Jakarta – Indonesia's government left no doubts as to who it believes got the better deal in its landmark agreement with Freeport McMoRan on the future of the Grasberg copper mine.

Jakarta – Jakarta's so-called Bulan Patuh Trotoar (Orderly Sidewalk Month) program will be extended to the end of September, given that many people still violate regulations on pedestrian walks.

Jakarta – Non-governmental activists in Tegal, Central Java staged a protest on Wednesday to express their happiness over the arrest of Tegal mayor Siti Mashita Soeparno on allegation of corruption

Kuala Lumpur – In Sanita Rini's village on the Indonesian island of Java, child brides were so common that girls who were not married by the time they turned 16 were labelled "old virgins."

Jakarta =- Millions of people across Indonesia are facing failed harvests and a shortage of clean water as a result of worsening drought conditions.

Campaigners for improved human rights in West Papua are swimming to the United Nations in Geneva today carrying a petition calling for action in the Indonesian territory.

In her new book Crossing the Line Kim McGrath exposes Australia's brutal opportunism towards East Timor, and the atrocities we were willing to condone to serve our national interest.

A British team was today swimming a crushing 30 hours and covering 69 km straight across Lake Geneva to deliver a petition calling for self-determination in West Papua to the United Nations.

Stephanie Zillman – More than 15,000 Indonesian seaweed farmers who say Australia's worst-ever oil spill destroyed their livelihoods are about to learn if the Federal Court will hear their case.

Today, the 30th of August, is a bittersweet day for the Timorese.

Jakarta – Indonesians are losing confidence in the future of their health and well-being amid financial challenges, says a report by an Indonesian unit of US-based global health insurer Cigna.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua Police will monitor the use of village funds amounting to Rp 4.3 trillion (US$322 million) allocated for 5,420 villages in 28 regencies and one municipality

Auckland – The Australia West Papua Association has urged leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum to continue their support of West Papua.

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) projects the country's balance of payments (BoP) will reach a surplus of US$7 billion this year from $12 billion last year.

Jakarta – Indonesia and Freeport-McMoRan on Tuesday (29/08) reached an agreement to allow the US miner to keep operating its giant Grasberg copper and gold mine, though the timing and price of a 51

Theresia Sufa, Bogor, West Java – Bogor regency is home to the highest number of damaged schools in Indonesia, due largely to an insufficient budget for infrastructure development, inaccurate data

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Automotive Manufacturers Association (Gaikindo) chairman Jongkie Sugiarto said on Tuesday that the association had long lobbied the Finance Ministry to reduce the luxury ta

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – The Papua administration is stepping up efforts to prevent the spread of HIV by providing antibody tests to pregnant women seeking healthcare services at hospi

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Hundreds of students in Yogyakarta have conveyed their pledge to uphold tolerance and maintain unity amid growing religious tension and sectarianism.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police maintain that they will not drop the investigation into the pornography case involving leader of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) Rizieq Shihab.

Aman Rochman, Malang, East Java – Alleged corruption related to the use of village funds has hampered the absorption of the funds in Malang, East Java, according to reports.

Victor Mambor Jayapura – The Indonesian government's decision to allow one of the world's largest copper and gold mines to operate in Papua province through 2041 prompted local leaders to remind of

Jakarta – It is suspected that politicians on a House of Representatives inquiry committee intentionally spread misinformation about the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Indonesia Corruptio

Jakarta – Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara has indicated that online news syndicate Saracen would not be shut down until a police investigation had been completed.

Jakarta – The leadership of Golkar Party's youth wing held a meeting with former president BJ Habibie on Monday, calling for the veteran politician to intervene in the party's leadership stand-off.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Malcolm Turnbull's desire for a "high quality" free trade agreement with Indonesia will confront Jakarta's protectionist impulses, with chief negotiato

Produce and directed by Ash Brennan and narrated by Basia Bonkowski, Punks for West Papua is a documentary about how the United Nations betrayed the people of West Papua and how one man's selfless

In June 2017 labour historian and activist Jeff Rickertt visited Indonesia with Bob Carnegie, Queensland state secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – State-owned airport operator Angkasa Pura (AP) I has cleared a beach area, which will be the location of a new Yogyakarta airport in Kulon Progo, despite possessing n

Jakarta – Jakarta-based rights group Community Legal Aid Institute (LBH Masyarakat) has urged the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to stop all preparations for a fourth round of executions under the

Jakarta – A woman from Bekasi, West Java has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years jail for her involvement in an Islamic State-inspired plot to carry out a suicide bomb attack on the presidenti

Jakarta – Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly has defended the move to grant sentence reductions to a number of convicted terrorists, saying the decision was made after a thorough review th

Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati warned on Sunday politicians against abusing the annual funding for political parties, which had been significantly increased by the government.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced meat importer Basuki Hariman to seven years in prison on Monday for bribing former Constitutional Court justice Patrialis Akbar via a middleman and

Jakarta – Thousands of ATMs and electronic card payment machines in Indonesia went offline over the weekend, and it might take two more weeks before full service is restored, after an outage from a

Jakarta – The owner of a Padang restaurant in Central Jakarta reported the uploader of a video, showing a bouncing rice ball, to the police for defamation.

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration is looking to restart the controversial reclamation project in Jakarta Bay after the central government issued land certificates for islets C and D.

The outlook for the plantation industry in Papua has started to show signs of change recently, both because of a sustainability drive in the palm oil supply chain, which has forced many companies t

Jakarta – The Golkar Party has pledged to support the reelection bid of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in the 2019 presidential election and that it would deliver the bulk of votes for the incumben

Jakarta – The National Police are delving into some 100 gigabytes of data investigators seized from the Saracen group, an online "syndicate" accused of creating and spreading hoaxes and hate speech

It's been called the orangutan capital of the world, but the great apes in Indonesia's Tripa peat forest on the island of Sumatra are under threat by palm oil plantations that have gobbled up thous

Jakarta – After initiating training for Pak Ogah, the voluntary traffic attendants who regularly manage traffic congestion, especially on small streets where police personnel are usually absent, th

Jakarta – Several Japanese seafood processing companies plan to move their base of operations from Thailand to Indonesia to take advantage of abundant fish stocks in Southeast Asia's largest econom

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has stepped up its investigation into alleged irregularities surrounding the disbursement of Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) by summoni

Jakarta – Indonesian militants planned to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb", security sources said, highlighting the rising ambitions of extremists to wreak destruction in the world's largest Mus

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesian police are investigating alleged links between what they called a "fake news factory" and a handful of people believed to have played roles in protests a