Jakarta – Indonesia's President Joko Widodo on Wednesday launched the construction of a $2.6 billion hydropower plant that would be linked to a planned industrial park in North Kalimant

Jakarta – Indonesia's annual inflation picked up slightly in February, but its core inflation decelerated more than expected, data from its statistics bureau showed on Wednesday.

Jakarta – Indonesia's rice output is estimated at 13.79 million tonnes for the January to April harvest period this year, up 0.56 per cent from a year earlier, data from the country's s

Jakarta – Foreign visitors to Indonesia in January were down 18 per cent from the previous month, data from the statistics bureau showed on Wednesday, a fall attributed to a seasonal tr

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore/Jakarta – In Kupang, in Indonesian West Timor, the first school bell of the day is now sounding far earlier than in the rest of the country.

The government's health and mobility tracking app PeduliLindungi – a pandemic staple – has transformed into Satu Sehat (meaning "one health"), but all is not well with the app's relaunc

Tika Ayu, Jakarta – The Indonesian Teachers Union Federation (FSGI), through a statement issued by secretary general Heru Purnomo on Tuesday, criticized the latest policy introduced by

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – An Indonesian court has sentenced palm oil tycoon Surya Darmadi to 15 years in prison and fined him a record 41.9 trillion rupiah (S$3.71 billion) – the

Antara, Jakarta – The Coordinating Minister of Economics Airlangga Hartarto in an economic outlook event on Tuesday highlighted the competitiveness of Indonesia's electric vehicle ecosy

Tika Ayu, Jakarta (Antara) – The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Legislative Council (DPRD) is set to hold a meeting with the local education agency which comes after the local government issu

Joniansyah Hardjono, Tangerang – The Soekarno-Hatta Airport customs and excise office on Tuesday managed to foil a smuggling attempt of liquid cocaine that was carried by a Brazilian na

Antara, Jakarta – United Nations Resident Coordinator (UNRC) in Indonesia, Valerie Julliand, on Tuesday highlighted the importance of education for the lives of Indonesians and for ensu

Antara, Jakarta – Many traffic accidents that occurred in Bali involved foreign tourists.

Ni Komang Erviani, South Kuta, Bali – Local police announced they had arrested of a French national on suspicion of robbing a convenience store in South Kuta, Badung regency, Bali, in J

Hans Nicholas Jong, Tonggo Simangunsong, Batang Toru, Indonesia – With fewer than 800 individuals remaining in the wild today, the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan isn't just th

Adi Warsono, Bekasi – Bekasi Regency Government has declared a state of emergency in the region following massive flooding and landslides in the past few days.

Faisal Rachman, Jakarta – Indonesia, being one of the world's largest producers and exporters of natural resource commodities, has been positively impacted by the global commodity windf

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian government received grants amounting to US$5.5 million (equivalent to 7.2 billion South Korean won or around Rp84 billion) from South Korea to increase

News Desk, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has issued a warning for potential heavy rains across the archipelago for the next seven days.

Catholic leaders and teachers' bodies in Indonesia have decried a Christian-majority province's decision to start senior high school classes at 5 a.m.

Jakarta – Why change a winning macroeconomic management team?

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, said on Tuesday that it is not just Rafael Alun Trisambodo, the unusually rich taxman that has been in the spotli

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Taiwan seeks to attract 150,000 Indonesian tourists this year after it finally scrapped its Covid-19 entry restrictions, according to a representative of i

Musthofa Bisri, Sumenep – Storms lingering across the waters of Masalembu Island in Sumenep Regency, East Java for the last three weeks triggered a shortage of staple goods since boat t

Antara, Jakarta – Darmaningtyas, an observer from the Institute for Transportation Studies (INSTRAN), asked Jakarta-owned bus operator TransJakarta to add a special fleet for women in i

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M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Anwar Usman is reportedly set to be questioned by the court's honorary council over an alleged court verdict falsificati

Hanifah Dwijayanti, Jakarta – A National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) steering committee member Marsudi Wahyu Kisworo on Monday said Indonesia's food security is faced with fiv

Antara, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has announced that PeduliLindungi will undergo a complete change and transform into an integrated health service called Satu Sehat Mobile.

Surya Dua Artha Simanjuntak, Nancy Junita, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society activists calling themselves the Indonesian People's Protest demonstrated in front of the House of Repr

Jakarta – The Labour Alliance held a demonstration in front of the parliamentary complex in Senayan, Jakarta, on Tuesday February 28, rejecting plans to enact the government regulation

Tria Sutrisna, Jakarta – Demonstrators opposing the government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) replacing the Omnibus Law on Job Creation brought "sesajen" (special food with spiritua

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – Over 100 neighborhoods in Jakarta and parts of its satellite cities of Tangerang and Bekasi have been inundated following heavy downpours in recent days.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia is building the world's largest green industrial park in Bulungan, North Kalimantan, which will eventually produce batteries for electric vehicle

john McBeth, Jakarta – Indonesia may have a tax-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of only 11.9%, one of the lowest in the Asia-Pacific region, but nothing gets up the nose of the ci

Vitorio Mantalean, Jakarta – Representatives of an alliance of non-government organisations (NGOs) calling themselves the Civil Society Coalition for Safeguarding Clean Elections visite

Jakarta – Two former high-ranking police officers were found guilty on Monday of obstruction of justice in relation to the initial police investigation into the July 8, 2022 murder of B

Jakarta – When President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo began his first term in 2014, boosting the country's electricity supply was one of his priorities.

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – Here is what the court has established in the murder case of Brig.

Jakarta – The government has called on health officials across the country to increase vigilance over a potential bird flu outbreak amid concerns that the swift mutation of the H5N1 vir

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd inaugurated its largest factory to date on Thursday in Karawang, West Java, with the aim of serving the domestic and Southeast Asian markets

Whisnu Bagus Prasetyo, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani recently ordered the disbandment of the tax directorate general's big motorbike group, the Belasting Rijder DJP, after a ph

Septia Ryanthie, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati along with Minister of Public Works and Housing (PUPR) Basuki Hadimuljono monitored the development of the Solo-Yogyaka

Wahyuni Diahsari, Jakarta – Jakarta areas hit by floods expanded from 82 neighborhood units (RT) to 104 RT as of 13:00 hours local time.

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry in the February edition of the State Budget report revealed that the government's foreign debt as of January 2023 reached Rp7,754.98 t

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia is gearing up for the upcoming general elections in 2024 and the founder of a foreign policy think tank is urging candidates to put climate actio

BTV, Semarang – The National Mandate Party, or PAN, gave persistent pressure on Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo to consider appointing Erick Thohir as a running mate for the 2024 p

Eko Listiyorini and Norman Harsono – The value of Indonesia's nickel exports surged tenfold in five years after it forced buyers to set up refineries in the country.

Joe Brock, Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Joseph Campbell, Singapore – At a rundown market on the Indonesian island of Batam, a small location tracker was beeping from the back of a crumbling

Seth Mydans – Shinta Ratri, the leader of an Islamic boarding school that offers a haven for transgender women in Indonesia, died on Feb.