Antara, Bogor – Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto said the Covid-19 vaccines injected into health workers in the city have started to work well which is evident from zero cases of coronavi

Erfan Maaruf, Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) is conducting 24 hour patrols for hate speech and hoaxes on social media (medsos).

Fana Suparman, Jakarta – Two high ranking police officers were found guilty of taking bribe from graft convict Djoko Tjandra during separate trials on Wednesday.

Tatang Guritno, Jakarta – The lawyer representing the families of victims of the Semanggi I and II tragedies, Muhammad Isnur, says that they will take their case to the Supreme Court fo

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – State Intelligence Agency (BIN) supports the revision on the Information and Electronics Transactions Law (ITE Law) No. 11/2008.

Muawwan Daelami, Jakarta – Waskita Toll Road, or WTR, a subsidiary of state-controlled construction company Waskita Karya, has announced a plan to divest all of its 30 percent interest

Tatang Guritno, Jakarta – Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (Safenet) Executive Director Damar Juniarto is questioning the government and the House of Representatives' (DPR)

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Ombudsman Head Teguh Nugroho stressed that a request for the Covid-19 vaccination for families of the Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) members is ag

Antara, Jakarta – Chairperson of the Covid-19 Handling Task Force Doni Monardo called on all parties to comply with the traveling restriction during the upcoming holidays of Isra Miraj

Bisnis.Com, Jakarta – The Indonesian Private Hospital Association (ARSSI) Secretary-General Ichsan Hanafi said 700 private hospitals handling Covid-19 cases have not yet received incent

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's deforestation rate hit a historic low in 2020, with the government crediting its various policies prohibiting forest-clearing, and experts attr

Bernadus Wijayaka, Jakarta – Aprilia Manganang, once was the key player in the Indonesian women's volleyball team, was confirmed to be a man on Tuesday after he underwent surgery.

Sheany – The issue of privilege resurfaced on Indonesian Twitter over the weekend, after one user showed a photo of foreigners without masks when boarding a Citilink flight from Denpasa

The Health Ministry has announced an updated schedule for its COVID-19 mass vaccination program, with the general public now expected to begin receiving their shots in September.

Three days after the first suspected case of Covid-19 was announced last year in Tulungagung, East Java, 55-year-old Sutikno came up with a unique idea: As he harvested the dry, fan-sha

Zurich, Switzerland – Swiss voters on Sunday narrowly backed a free trade agreement with Indonesia that would abolish duties on industrial products including palm oil.

Jakarta – Indonesia announced last week that it had identified two new cases of the B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant, which was first detected in the UK late last year.

Tiara Azzahra, Jakarta – On March 8 protesters held a long-march from the central business district on Jalan MH Thamrin to the State Palace in Central Jakarta to commemorate Internation

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said in commemoration of the International Women's Day that both men and women have equal opportunity, as he wrote on his Instagram

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – Constitutional law expert from Jentera School of Law, Bivitri Susanti, opined that the government should not remain silent in responding to the conflict of the D

While many Jakartans have gradually gone back to spending weekends visiting their favorite malls, the overall visitation rate has yet to return to pre-pandemic times, one year after Ind

Kevin O'Rourke – The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social inequities worldwide, including in the administration of vaccines.

Bandung – Activists from the Women's Liberation Knot (Simpul Pembebasan Perempuan, Simpulpuan) held a parade (long-march) to the Gedung Sate building in the West Java provincial capital

Henry, Jakarta – The baton urging the enactment of the Draft Law on the Elimination of Sexual Violence (RUU PKS) into to law has been taken up.

Novia Harlina, Padang – Women community members from the Women's Concern Network (JPP) held a peaceful action at the traffic circle in front of the West Sumatra Regional House of Repres

Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – Women in Jakarta participated in a march to commemorate International Women's Day on Monday, demanding that the government enact sexual violence eradication bil

Jakarta – Indonesia received 1.1 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine from the global vaccine procurement program Covax on Monday afternoon.

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – Ambassadors and foreign representatives in Jakarta's diplomatic circles have taken a diversity pledge to decline speaking engagements in all public discussions

Rizky Suryarandika and Nawir Arsyad Akbar, Jakarta – The executive director of Voxpol Center Research and Consulting, Pangi Syarwi Chaniago, suspects that there is a hidden agenda behin

Pradito Rida Pertana, Yogyakarta – Protesters calling themselves the People's Struggle Front (FPR) held an action commemorating International Women's Day (IWD) today in front of the gov

M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – Hundreds of Democrat Party cadres in the Capital City held a blood thumbprint event to declare their loyalty to General Chairman Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono or

Anne Barker, Indonesia – Indonesia is drawing up a plan that could allow foreign tourists to return to Bali within months if they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and return a nega

Devina Halim, Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) hopes that the requirements for independent candidates to take part in the election of regional heads (pilkada)

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Indonesia's Ministry of Religion Affairs has withdrawn a history textbook for Protestant students following a complaint by a Catholic priest who claimed the book c

Jakarta – Bank Pan Indonesia, or Bank Panin, the country's eighth-largest lender by assets, controlled by Indonesian billionaire Mu'min Ali Gunawan, is implicated in the latest tax corr

Jakarta – The decision by three ministers on school uniforms must be supported. The politicization of what students wear in school must be stopped.

Zakki Amali – The accusations by Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) have been proven true after the passing of several weeks.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The Democratic Party is facing the leadership duality after disgruntled members held an extraordinary congress and elected a presidenti

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesian palm oil producers have recorded higher export sale value in 2020 amid the global coronavirus pandemic than in the previous year thanks to stronger

Jakarta (Reuters) – A top aide of Indonesian President Joko Widodo was named chairman of an opposition party on Friday (March 5), in a move that could broaden the President's coalition

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Democrat Party Chairman Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) stated the extraordinary congress or KLB held in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, today was illegal and unconst

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) executive director Damar Juniarto argues that the existence of a cyber policing unit by the National Polic

Nathalie Olof-Ors, Zurich, Switzerland – Switzerland votes Sunday on a free trade deal with Indonesia but the agreement, which opens up a vast potential market, could slip up over the i

Ika Krismantari – A year into the pandemic, Indonesia has made no significant progress in containing COVID-19 since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced the first two cases on March

Sheany – An "orgasm retreat" initially scheduled to start this weekend in Ubud has been canceled, after it gained traction online and was castigated by Indonesians, with one local publi

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in an opening speech at the 2021 Trade Ministry national meeting on Thursday called for the development of local products to be han

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The National Police Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim) Director, Brig. Gen.

Antara, Jakarta – The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry (KKP) and the Attorney General's Office (AGO) will commence the sinking of 10 illegal fishing boats that were caught operat

An Indonesian man has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison after he was found guilty of sexually exploiting underage university students for his bondage fetish.

The National Police have charged six deceased members of the banned Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) over a deadly shootout in December, which one rights group said constituted unlawful ki