The city of Medan no longer welcomes sexual minorities (this country's constitution notwithstanding) according to its mayor Bobby Nasution, who declared the North Sumatra capital "anti-

Now that we've established that there will practically be no Bali boink ban under Indonesia's revised Criminal Code (KUHP), let's take a look at how current and future iterations of the

Jakarta – Indonesia's state-owned railway firm KAI said on Tuesday it has received a 3.2 trillion rupiah (S$273 million) capital injection from the government to help a consortium of In

Investor Daily, Jakarta – Indonesia's 2022 budget has recorded a deficit of 2.38 percent of the gross domestic product against the projected 4.5 percent, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani In

Asni Ovier, Jakarta – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Herry Wirawan, an Islamic boarding school teacher who was found guilty of systematically raping 13 young students and i

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The Indonesian Workers Union Association (Aspek) on Monday once again asserted its position against the government regulation in lieu of law on Job Creatio

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – The All-Indonesia Workers Union Confederation (KSPSI) in a written statement on Tuesday accuses President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo of betraying the constitutio

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – The Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS) economist Bhima Yudhistira believes that the issuance of the government regulation in lieu of law on Job Cr

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Makassar – Law authorities in South Sulawesi have been investigating the disappearance of some 500 tons of rice from a warehouse belonging to the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) for more

Investor Daily, Jakarta – Indonesia-Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, commonly shortened as IK-CEPA, has finally entered into force, thus paving the way for Indonesia

Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – While congratulating her newly appointed Chinese counterpart Qin Gang on Sunday, Foreign Minister Retno L.P.

Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman, Jakarta – Higher domestic demand spurred a December rebound for Indonesian factories as core inflation rises to within the central bank's target, indicating an o

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo did not let a single day of 2022 go to waste.

Aninda Dewayanti, Maria Monica Wihardja – There is high awareness among Indonesians about the urgency of climate change and the adoption of environmentally friendly habits but until eve

Editorial Board, ANU – The G20 presidency in 2022 presented diplomatic and substantial challenges that threatened to blow the forum apart, or at least to semi-permanently incapacitate i

Jakarta – The COVID-19 pandemic is no longer deemed a major health crisis as on Dec.

Desca Lidya N, Resinta S, Jakarta – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that the PeduliLindungi application will be used as an individual health data bank and to see the populati

Antara, Imaji Lasahido, Purwokerto – The flood on several roads in the Semarang area and its surroundings began to recede and the train routes to the northern Java area gradually return

Ima Dini Shafira, Jakarta – Member of the Central Sulawesi Regional Representatives Council (DPD) Abdul Rachman Thaha on Tuesday said the issuance of the government regulation in lieu o

Ima Dini Shafira, Jakarta – Commission IX House Legislator from the Democrat Party Lucy Kurniasari expressed her concern against government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on Job Cre

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The Financial Services Authority or OJK recently announced that the Indonesian capital market wrapped up 2022 on a high note, doing much better than other

Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Indonesia will tighten export rules for palm oil from Jan.

News Desk, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Monday visited Tanah Abang Market in Central Jakarta, meeting with traders and customers in the country's biggest textile trading

Hendro Situmorang, Jakarta – State-Owned Enterprise Minister Erick Thohir said on Monday his office will team up with the State Development Finance Controller and the Corruption Eradica

Medan (Detik Sumut) – Bobby Nasution, the mayor of the North Sumatra city of Medan, has stressed that they reject Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) behaviour.

Jakarta – Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance Confederation (KASBI) Chairperson Nining Elitos says that Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 2/2022 on the Job Creat

Events of 2022

Liam Gammon – The calendar will tell you that Indonesia's presidential election is due in February 2024 – but make no mistake, Southeast Asia's biggest democracy is firmly in election s

Zubi Mahrofi, Raka Adji, Jakarta – The number of recipients of the third dose or first booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine reached 68.51 million as of Friday, according to the COVID-19

Jakarta – Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance Confederation (KASBI) Chairperson Nining Elitos has criticised President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's policy of issuing a Government Regulat

Tiara Aliya Azzahra, Jakarta – The Labour Party has declared that it agrees with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's move to issue Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 2/20

Muhammad Aulia & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – The National Police claimed on Saturday they had wiped out the notorious East Indonesia Mujahedin which has terrorized civilians in the C

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – It is not a New Year's eve celebration without the iconic paper trumpets.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) has slammed a move by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to issue Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) Number 2/2022 on the Jo

Manokwari, Jubi – The Manokwari Police on Saturday, December 24, 2022, arrested AG, a financier of an illegal gold mining in Waserawi, Masni District, Manokwari Regency, West Papua Prov

Isabel Esterman – Home to the world's third-largest expanse of tropical forest, the world's fourth-biggest population, and frequently ranked among the world's top 10 greenhouse gas emit

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Much of the mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs in Indonesia lie outside protected areas, which could thwart efforts at effective marine conservation, a ne

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Friday removed all remaining measures to control the spread of COVID-19 effective immediately, saying that most of the country's population a

Jakarta – Saying that the financial distress faced by Indonesia's media industry has reached a disastrous level, Vice President Ma'ruf Amin called for global tech giants to strike a fai

Jakarta – Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has signed an emergency regulation to replace a controversial job creation law, his ministers said on Friday, legislation that a court had ru

Deni Ghifari, Jakarta – Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) chairman Arsjad Rasjid said on Wednesday that the government needs to pay more attention to its decision to i

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya – The Indonesian Navy sent hospital-ship KRI Soeharso-990 to bring logistics and to evacuate hundreds of residents and tourists stranded on Bawean Island

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – While 2022 saw a reduction in the occurrence of natural disasters, the death toll nonetheless ranked the highest in four years as a result of the deadly Cianjur,

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Friday inked an emergency regulation on job creation law, about a year after the Constitutional Court declared the so-cal

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo formally annulled the Covid-19 restrictions on Friday, nearly three years after they were imposed in the wake of the pandemic in 2020.

BTV, Serang, Banten – Controversial actress Nikita Mirzani praised judges at the Serang District Court as "honest" after she was acquitted of defamation during a hearing in the Banten c

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Heather Chen – When Indonesia passed controversial amendments to its criminal code earlier this month, one aspect above all others dominated the headlines: the criminalization of sex ou