Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – The Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by General Elections Commission (KPU) commissioner Evi Novida Ginting Manik against P

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim has come under fire after several organizations voiced their concerns over the involvement of private enterprises

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The long battle to end discrimination against women in Indonesia seems to be getting longer and longer as politicians remain at an impasse over passing pro-wome

Jakarta – The Indonesian Television Journalists Association (IJTI) has announced that at least 96 journalists and electronic media workers have contracted COVID-19, prompting the group

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Arnold Sianturi, Jakarta – Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the eldest son of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, blasted reports that his family is grooming a politi

Jessica Washington, Depok, Indonesia – In the city of Depok, West Java, a group of children gather together outside an old building.

Moch Faisal Karim – Over the past 20 years, Indonesia has developed its role as a country that fights for human rights and democracy at the regional level.

Jakarta – The percentage of infected people to die from Covid-19 has been steadily declining in Indonesia, the National Covid-19 Task Force claimed on Friday, despite a recent surge in

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – National Mandate Party (PAN) senior member Amien Rais on Friday claimed that he had been fired from the party that he founded, which he suspected was du

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The unequal burden of child care and housework on women has prompted a domino effect leading to violence against children as mothers juggle amid the COVID-19 h

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The majority of business players, from large companies to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), are of the view that Indonesia's economy is in

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – A recent survey of business players by Jakarta-based pollster Indikator Politik Indonesia awarded Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati the highest job approv

Tri Indah Oktavianti, Jakarta – The Jember Regional Legislative Council in East Java has voted to impeach, for the first time in the regency's 91-year history, a sitting regent.

Jakarta – In an incident that highlights how the pandemic has heightened economic disparities, a woman in Jombang, East Java, has resorted to selling her goat in order to buy a mobile

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Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The government's move to establish a new COVID-19 response team to handle the impact the pandemic has had on health and the economy has come too late, as the co

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia confirmed 1,906 additional COVID-19 cases and 117 deaths on Thursday, bringing the nation's official total to 93,657 infections and 4,576 deaths.

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) has urged the government to reassess the Juvenile Justice System Law as the vast majority of underage off

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Aditya Budiman, Jakarta – The national commission for human rights (Komnas HAM) research commissioner, Sandrayati Moniaga, revealed that the police institution had been the most compla

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Chairperson of the Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI), Abdul Manan, encouraged mass media corporations to be open regarding COVID-19 cases within its workpl

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – More than 300 children in Indonesia, including newborn babies and those below the age of six, are believed to have died from Covid-19, a phenomenon that could

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – SOS Children's Villages Indonesia, a non-profit organization that provides families for orphans and abandoned children, ramps up their commitment to prote

Almost five months after Indonesia confirmed its first COVID-19 cases, the coronavirus has now completely spread throughout the capital Jakarta, with all 267 sub-districts (kelurahan)

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – The Indonesian Deposit Insurance Corporation (LPS) says it is ready to place funds in banks that have liquidity problems by teaming up with the Financial

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – In the absence of a daily press briefing on the COVID-19 situation, the government is uploading the latest COVID-19 data on covid19.go.id at 4 p.m.

Alya Nurbaiti, Jakarta – More than 50,000 Indonesians will worry less than the rest of us about COVID-19, because they have already contracted and recovered from the disease.

Solo – A recommendation by the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) to back President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's eldest son Gibran Rakabuming Raka as a mayoral candidate

Jakarta – The shake-up of the government's Covid-19 task force was expected. The country has achieved little in its fight against the pandemic.

Jakarta – The South Sumatra Ombudsman has declared Ogan Ilir Regent Ilyas Panji Alam's dismissal of 109 medical workers from the Ogan Ilir Regional General Hospital (RSUD) a "maladmini

Rizki Fachriansyah, Jakarta – Steadfast commitment to the well-being of women and children is an essential aspect of the nation's COVID-19 response, the government has said, as many fa

The West Papua Liberation Army has defended its deadly attack on a mining company in which a New Zealander was killed.

Kade Newell – On June 25th, the Pew Research Centre released a report titled 'The Global Divide on Homosexuality Persists'. The survey that produced this report asked simply: "...

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Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will investigate five state institutions found to have used personal bank accounts to manage public funds.

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – False trading and stock price manipulation were among the most common violations found in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), according to the Financial S

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The government has committed to assisting citizens hit hardest by the COVID-19 outbreak until the end of the year, but persistent issues of data reliability hav

Jakarta – Indigenous faith group Sunda Wiwitan has said local authorities have committed a human rights violation by closing off a tomb built by the group's followers in West Java.

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Indonesia's exports of horticultural products such as fruit, vegetables and spices to Japan remain uncompetitive because of high prices, officials have said.

Jakarta – A female district head known for her charity works and anti-mining stance was impeached by local councilors in East Java on Wednesday in a rare concerted political maneuver i

Wintang Warastri, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) secretary, Anwar Abbas, urged people to refer to the council's past fatwa on meningitis vaccine following MUI's fears of

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Collaborative efforts are key to reducing stunting in Indonesia, as the COVID-19 pandemic may worsen the already high prevalence of stunted children, experts ha

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Indonesia reported 1,906 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, the second highest rise in a day, to take the country's total to 93,657 as infection rate in J

After launching a peaceful action on Tuesday July 15, the Alliance for the Enactment of the Draft Law on the Eradication of Sexual Violence (Aliansi Sahkan RUU PKS) in the Central Java

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Public trust in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto's handling of the COVID-19 outbreak has fallen in July as the country

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Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Indonesia's automotive industry players can breathe a sigh of relief as national car sales in June rebounded strongly, promising a smoother road for the rest

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – With the COVID-19 pandemic requiring an unprecedented scale of laboratory testing, Indonesia continues to face disparities in testing between regions in the

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia is estimated to lose between 10,000 and 15,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) from oil theft in several regions, according to the Upstream Oil and Ga