Alifia Sekar, Jakarta – With registration for the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) next leaders closing soon on Monday, the number of candidates applying for the job is so far

Novie Fauziah, Jakarta – Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), denounced five Muslim scholars on Monday who recently visited Israel and met with President Isaac

Hendro D Situmorang, Jakarta – A pharmacists' advocacy group has pinpointed corruption and gratuity payments by certain doctors as key factors driving up medication costs in Indonesia.

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has joined a lengthy roster of world leaders to condemn an attack on former United States president Donald Trump that left the Repu

Jakarta – The Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy opposes the revisions to Law Number 4/2004 on the Indonesian Military (UU TNI) saying that they could reverse reformasi – the poli

Jakarta – The presiding judge of a high court in West Java painted a damning portrait of the state of law enforcement in the country when he recently proclaimed that police officers had

Muhammad Syarahil Mutianwar Efendi – Indonesia's gig workers – who navigate the digital marketplace as delivery personnel, ride-hailing drivers or online freelancers – are in an increas

Felix K. Chang (FPRI) – In February 2024, Indonesia elected Prabowo Subianto as its next president.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia recently denied claims of China having a monopoly on foreign investments in Indonesia.

Jakarta – The head of the TNI Information Center or Kapuspen, Maj. Gen. Nugraha Gumilar, said the recruitment for military cyber soldiers was still in the planning stage.

Reuters, Jakarta – Indonesia's President-elect Prabowo Subianto wants to give school children free meals, but the plan and his pledge to be 'daring' on spending have the country's debt

Ambaranie Nadia Kemala Movanita, Jakarta – Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) military observer Made Supriatma has highlighted the proposal for revisions to the TNI (Indonesia

Annisa Febiola, Jakarta – Minister of Investment Bahlil Lahadalia said Indonesia's economic growth in 2023 was one of the best in the world, supported by a strong investment rate.

Jakarta – Over the past two weeks, we have heard the bad news of the sudden dismissal of a medical school dean in Surabaya, East Java.

Shela Octavia, Jessi Carina, Jakarta – TNI (Indonesian military) Commander General Agus Subiyanto is considered to have been too hasty in concluding that there was no involvement of TNI

Zhulfakar, Jakarta – The Golkar Party will appoint a businessman as a running mate for Kaesang Pangarep, the youngest son of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, if he runs in the Jakarta gu

Jakarta – The water crisis in Weda Tengah subdistrict, Central Halmahera, North Maluku, is a sharp illustration of the difference between rhetoric and the reality of environmental polic

Riri Rahayu, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo or Jokowi issued Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No.

Ilona Estherina, Jakarta – Indonesia's government has no immediate plans to revise the latest import regulations, according to Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Harta

Ilona Estherina, Eka Yudha, Jakarta – Political observer Adi Prayitno doubts the future of Indonesia's new capital city project, or Nusantara Capital City (IKN), after the government tr

Putri Safira Pitaloka, Michelle Gabriela, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo or Jokowi emphasized that the new capital transfer from Jakarta to Nusantara Capital City (IKN) won't be forced

Antara, Jakarta – Ridwan Kamil, the curator of the new capital city Nusantara (IKN), announced that the core area, comparable in size to Jakarta's National Monument (Monas), is expected

Antara, Jakarta – The new Law No.

Alfi Dinilhaq, Jakarta – Cybersecurity expert Alfons Tanujaya has called for a decisive response from the government to online gambling operators who have hacked government websites in

Vinnilya Huanggrio, Jakarta – The government has cut off access to online gambling networks operating from Thailand and Cambodia, an official said in a recent interview.

Jakarta – Certain connecting roads in South Lampung regency, Lampung, appear to still be damaged despite President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's visit last year, following a viral video showin

Jakarta – Kaesang Pangarep, chairman of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI), suggested that his party would not be joining the Golkar-led coalition in the Banten gubernatorial electio

Australia's BHP Group will temporarily suspend its Nickel West operations and West Musgrave project from October, the miner said on Thursday, as it reels from a plunge in metal prices a

Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa – Consider yourself a "quality" tourist?

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Activists allege that two of the world's biggest pulp and paper companies have violated their zero-deforestation pledge by clearing natural forests and pea

Irfan Maulana, Padarincang, Indonesia – On a white-hot afternoon in June, people from Padarincang subdistrict gathered near a mountain lake to recite an istighosah, an Islamic prayer bl

Singapore – One of the companies behind the world's biggest carbon credit project won a key court battle in Indonesia as it attempts to resume activity at the vast site in Borneo.

Saskia E Wieringa – Despite a long history of acceptance of trans and same-sex practices, homosexuality in Indonesia is currently framed as deriving from the West, and as alien to the c

Nirmala Maulana Achmad, Aryo Putranto Saptohutomo, Jakarta – Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) Director Muhammad Isnur has questioned why a Presidential Letter (Surpres) on the Dr

Jakarta – Former agriculture minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo was jailed for 10 years on Thursday after he was found guilty of misappropriating more than $900,000 of public funds.

Anton Nilsson – The suspected killing by fire of an Indonesian journalist last month is just the latest case of reporters in the country being intimidated for their work, journalists an

Astrid Meilasari-Sugiana, Gunardi Endro and Siwage Dharma Negara – Public expectations for corruption eradication will never be met unless fundamental reforms are implemented within Ind

Jakarta – Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto will allow the nation's debt-to-GDP ratio to rise to 50 per cent provided his administration can boost tax revenues, the Financi

Jakarta – Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs stated that the Indonesian Armed Forces' (TNI's) dual functions contained in the TNI Bill will not bring the s

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – North Sumatra Police named on Thursday a third suspect allegedly involved in an arson attack that killed a journalist and his family in Karo regency in the prov

Radhiyya Indra, Jakarta – As public anger over the failure to prevent the ransomware attack on a temporary national data center facility in late June starts to wane, experts and civil g

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Authorities are investigating 11 faculty members at Lambung Mangkurat University (ULM) who have been accused of violating academic ethics to earn their professors

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo's decision to force through an allocation of Rp71 trillion to cover the costs of the free milk and nutritious meal program in the 2025 Draft State Budget

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – Indonesia has set its sights on ratifying a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Iran, with many expecting it to open doors for local products to markets in Ce

Muhammad Aulia Rahman, Jakarta – Former Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo offered an apology to National Democratic Party (Nasdem) Chairman Surya Paloh shortly after a court hear

Antara, Jakarta – Investment Minister and Head of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) Bahlil Lahadalia is advocating for the extension of gold miner Freeport Indonesia's (PTFI) Spe

Herman, Jakarta – In an effort to curb airfare hikes, the Indonesian government plans to implement duty exemptions and ease restrictions on specific imported goods vital to aviation, al

Bella Evanglista, Jakarta – Redma Gita Wirawasta, Chairman of the Indonesian Filament Yarn and Fiber Producers Association (Apsyfi), said that despite strong consumer demand for textile

Tempo.Co, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) reacted to the acquittal of former Langkat Regent Terbit Rencana Perangin Angin by the Stabat District Court in the case of human traffi

Ilona Estherina, Jakarta – Executive Director of the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (INDEF), Esther Sri Astuti, said the construction of Nusantara Capital City, or I