Antara, Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Bambang Soesatyo encourages increased cooperation between Indonesia and Iran in various sectors, including trade, health a

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia will chair the 37th Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) that will be held in Bali on May 22-26, 2023, Indonesian repres

James M. Dorsey – Little did Elianu Hia know that a video he posted on Facebook in early 2021 would shape Indonesian policy and turn his life upside down.

Amelia Rahima Sari, Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The Alumni Brotherhood or PA 212 threatens to besiege the airport if Coldplay comes to Indonesia.

BTV, Solo, Central Java – Solo Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka said on Saturday he was summoned by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P, after he was seen at an informal g

Amy Heppy, Jakarta – Jakarta's acting governor Heru Budi Hartono participated in a tree planting activity in East Jakarta on Friday, May 19, 2023, on vacant land under the Becakayu toll

Solo, Central Java – Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) Chairman Prabowo Subianto has revealed his plan to build a football academy to follow in the step of President Joko "Jokow

Rina Ayu, Jakarta – Opposition to Coldplay holding a concert in Indonesia has again been raised by Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) Chairperson for Islamic cultural arts and civilisation,

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Chief Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD will temporarily take over Communications Minister Johnny G Plate's post after the latter got detained for graft.

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Survey institute Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC), issued its latest survey on how the public views the government's performance.

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Indonesia has put nearly a tenth of its national waters, the sixth-largest maritime jurisdiction of any country, under some form of protection.

Dicky Kurniawan, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko disclosed a number of problems that complicate the distribution of electric vehicle subsidies in Indonesia.

Dicky Kurniawan, Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia (BPS) released data on the total number of motorized vehicles in the country in 2019-2021.

Aisyah Llewellyn, Medan, Indonesia – In a TikTok clip posted on March 9, Indonesian influencer Lina Luftiawati, who uses the stage name Lina Mukherjee, sits in front of a plate o

Ruth Dea Juwita, Jakarta – Indonesia's vast maritime territory should play a greater role in spurring the country's economy, says a government agency tasked with drawing up long-term pl

Fadli, Batam – The Agricultural Quarantine Agency has limited the local supply of pigs following a finding of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in Batam.

Jakarta – Indonesia Ulama Council (MUI) Deputy Chairperson Marsudi Suhud is reminding all citizens who have the right to vote and not to "golput" or abstain from voting in the 2024 pres

Fana Suparman, Jakarta – Communication and Informatics Minister Johnny Plate goes down in history by becoming the first active minister to be named a corruption suspect by the Attorney

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – National Democratic Party (Nasdem) Chairman Surya Paloh said Wednesday a major corruption scandal that sees Information Technology Minister Johnny Plate as a ke

Investor Daily, Jakarta – State-owned telecom giant Telkomsel recently announced it would finish upgrading the 3G base transceiver stations (BTS) for the faster 4G networks in 31 cities

Trisha Husada & Silvano Hajid Maulana – The future of Indonesia's only Islamic community centre for transgender women is in jeopardy after its leader, Shinta Ratri, died in February

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Indonesian exports plummeted last month, yet the country maintained its trade surplus because imports dropped even further, as a feeble global economy takes its

Bambang Soesatyo, the Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), has been pushing for regulations that would allow civilians to own and carry guns for self-defense.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia and the European Union are aiming to wrap up the negotiations on their trade pact by the end of 2023, a Trade Ministry official said on Wednesday

Fikri Harish, Jakarta - When the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) suddenly announced its decision to nominate Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo as its presidential can

Muhammad Aulia, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office said on Wednesday the ongoing corruption investigation against Communication and Informatics Minister Johnny G.

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Wednesday announced the disbursement of Rp800 billion sourced from the central government to repair damaged roads and highwa

Antara, Jakarta – Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Minister I Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati on Tuesday reiterated the importance of women building their awareness on digita

Joniansyah, Jakarta – The Migrant Worker Protection Agency (BP2MI) and Soekarno-Hatta Airport Immigration Office prevented the departure of 10 illegal migrant workers to Saudi Arabia.

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Mutia Yuantisya, Jakarta – Acting Governor of Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono stated that the government is preparing Jakarta to be a global business city after it will no longer hold the sta

Danusha Jayawardana – An estimated 640 million girls and women in the world today were married in childhood, according to UNICEF.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Foreign investors will likely be in a wait-and-see mode leading up to the elections, and then go into full force once they get a better picture of Presiden

Andra Nasrie – Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI), the largest Islamic bank in Indonesia, was reportedly hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted its services for several days.

The cameras aren't enough – the Jakarta Metro Police is reinstating manual ticketing just seven months after going all but digital in traffic law enforcement.

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Jakarta – The life sentence recently handed down to a two-star police general for drug trafficking less than three months after another inspector general received the death penalty for

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The National Development Planning Agency, or Bappenas, on Tuesday predicted that Indonesia's population could reach 324 million people in 2045.

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – Minister of National Development Planning or Bappenas Head Suharso Monoarfa emphasized that the government needs to formulate a new family planning (KB) po

Eka Yudha Saputra, Bandung – The National Police's Security Preservation Agency (Baharkam) Chief Commissioner General Fadil Imran announced that the police program at the neighborhood u

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has revealed that land concessions for nickel mining in Indonesia reached 1,037,435.22 hectares in 2022.

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was tight-lipped when asked about the polemic surrounding the amendment of the Indonesian Armed Forces Law (UU TNI).

Hanifah Dwijayanti, Jakarta – Indonesia saw a year-on-year (YoY) decline in imports in April 2023 to US$15.35 billion, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) reported.

Amy Heppy, Jakarta – Jakarta Education Agency Acting Head Syaefuloh Hidayat stated that the agency will revoke the Jakarta Smart Card (KJP) of students who are caught smoking cigarettes

Sella P G, Fadhli Ruhman, Jakarta – The Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) remains committed to realizing the entrepreneurship ratio target of 3.95 percent

BTV, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, on Monday named the head of the Makassar Customs and Excise Office a suspect two months after he was first interrogated for

I Ketut Ari Wiantara, 53, was arrested by the Bali Police on suspicion of having performed thousands of illegal abortions from 2006 to 2023.

Stefanno Sulaiman and Fransiska Nangoy, Jakarta – Indonesia's April trade surplus came in slightly bigger than expected, even as exports and imports plunged amid declining prices of its

Jakarta – The World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 pandemic no longer a global health emergency, but it is too early to celebrate.

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto is shaping up as the candidate to beat in the presidential race on Feb.