Michael Leach – Relations between Australia and Timor-Leste appear to be back on track following the March 2018 treaty which created permanent maritime boundaries between the two state

Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Researcher for the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), Kurnia Ramadhana was openly discontent by the exoneration of graft defendant and former president director o

Dion Bisara & Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy expanded at its slowest pace in two years in the third quarter as investment continued to taper and economic acti

Indonesia posted another quarter of slowing growth Tuesday, its weakest pace in two years, as Southeast Asia's biggest economy feels the sting of slumping commodity prices.

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – A volunteer for former presidential and VP candidates Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno, Lieus Sungkharisma said that he is able to accept the fact that the op

Andita Rahma and Friski Riana, Jakarta – The police stated that they did not set a deadline for the investigation of the attack on Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – The reappointed Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H.

Jakarta (Bisnis) – Retail businesses have voiced concerns about involving Bekasi's minimarket parking service management woes, which allegedly is controlled by local thugs.

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Senior Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan firmly denies the Twitter allegation accusing that he staged his own attack, which h

Karlis Salna, Rieka Rahadiana and Viriya Singgih – Indonesia's economic growth has barely moved in three quarters, prompting some analysts to cast doubt about the data.

Primus Dorimulu, Jakarta – Newly-appointed Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto says he welcomes a greater role from the private sector in providing healthcare, given that most hospit

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Indonesia's economic growth reached 5.02 percent in the third quarter, the lowest level in more than two years, with investment failing to contribute

Jakarta – Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has banned employees of the ministry from wearing niqab at the office, reasserting his stance that all staff mus

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The government plans to build more than 5,000 kilometers of new roads in the next five years to improve connectivity to seaports, industrial zones, touris

Beh Lih Yi, Kuta, Indonesia – Standing on her surfboard as it was lifted by a wave, Zahwa Ardika Utami is one of a small but growing number of girls breaking with Indonesian tradition

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's national election organizing agency said it has received budgetary approval for Rp 9.8 trillion ($701 million) to hold next year's regional elections in n

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an independent investigation to identify the perpetrators and instigators of the brutal murders of two journalists who reported allegations of

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia campaigner Arifsyah Nasution assessed that the government had failed to tackle lead or metal waste contamination in Jakarta Bay albeit

A second and final term can free a leader, as Joko Widodo has acknowledged. The question is how he will use his new liberty.

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Eva Fitriani, Jakarta – Indonesia and Australia are committed to speeding up the ratification of a bilateral free-trade agreement signed early this year, a minister said.

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Fish stocks in a marine national park in Indonesia increased significantly in the years after a ban on the use of coral-destroying nets was imposed, a recent s

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's economic growth is expected to slow to 4.9 percent in the third quarter of this year as weak global demand affects trade and weakens manufactu

Jakarta – A group of allegedly illegal miners are being accused of attacking Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers during a raid on a tin mining area in Sijuk village on Belitung Is

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court has cleared Sofyan Basir, the former president director of state-owned electricity company PLN, of all charges for his alleged r

Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – Indonesia has reasserted its stance to reject shipments of hazardous and toxic waste from abroad and called for its peers in East Asia to establish an official

A story about a girl's sexual naivete prompted a discussion about the importance of sex education in Indonesia recently, because apparently she didn't know what semen was.

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – A poll done by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) found that the country's Pancasila (five state ideologies) together with the 1945 Constitution (UUD 1945) h

Vindry Florentin, Jakarta – The IHS Markit report on the Indonesian manufacturing industry's Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) showed a dropping trend in the manufacturing industry's dem

Fikri Arigi, Jakarta – The newly-inaugurated Chief of the National Police, General Idham Azis, visited the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Monday, November 4.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) asserted it would not meddle with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's decision on a government's regulation in lieu of l

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Golkar Party senior politician Agun Gunandjar Sudarsa was openly worried about his party's internal dynamics in the wake of Golkar's national deliberati

Bangkok – Human Rights violations by one of the world's biggest palm oil suppliers, Wilmar International, and its subsidiaries and suppliers in West Sumatra have been revealed in a new

Jakarta – The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) says that civil freedoms under the administration of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo have tended to worsen.

Jakarta – Two journalists who mediated a protracted land dispute between local residents and an oil palm plantation were found dead in Labuhan Batu regency, North Sumatra, their bodies

Jakarta (Antara) – The Jakarta Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded a decrease in the number of foreign tourists visit to Jakarta from 253,176 tourists in August, to 212,912 tourists in Se

Muhammad Fida Ul Haq, Jakarta – State Secretary Pratikno says that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo respects the judicial review of the new Corruption Eradication Commission Law (UU KPK)

Diana Mariska, Jakarta – Local and international storytellers gathered together to entertain children and educate parents about the importance of storytelling during the two-day Indone

Nur Yasmin, Nusa Dua – Indonesia's B30 biofuel plan, which will become effective at the beginning of January next year, will further increase domestic consumption of palm oil and prop

Nur Yasmin, Nusa Dua – Djoko Siswanto, secretary general of the National Energy Committee, said Indonesia is developing green fuel as an end-product of palm oil, to reduce the country'

Yulida Medistiara, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will personally select the members of the new Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) oversight committee.

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – State Administrative Law expert Bivitri Susanti expressed her disappointment when President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo stated that he is reluctant to issue Governmen

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Fachrul Razi has triggered a debate about Muslim attire after saying that the government may issue a regulation banning anyo

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – As soon as a group of customers walked in, Mr Boy Alfian, 55, swiftly lifted a piece of red cloth covering two large metal bowls at his open-air stall in South

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The head of Jakarta's Regional Development Planning Agency, or Bappeda, Sri Mahendra Satria Wirawan, and the head of the city's Tourism and Culture Depa

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) is disappointed with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo because he has failed to issue a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) to annul L

Ramadani Saputra, Jakarta – Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – University of Indonesia (UI) lecturer Ade Armando has been reported to the police for allegedly circulating an insulting meme of Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan on Facebook.

Antara, Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – A police general was elected chairman of the Indonesian Football Federation, or PSSI, in a heated "extraordinary congress" at a Jakarta hotel, where

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – A move to have Indonesia revert back to the 1945 Constitution, which would end the current practice of people directly electing a president, appears to