Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The Indonesian National Police (Polri) announced that it has named PT Bumi Hijau Lestari and one of its board of directors as suspects of the land and forest fi

Halida Bunga, Jakarta – The anti-corruption civil society coalition announced that it plans to meet the Indonesian representatives to the United Nations upon discussing crimes that inv

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – Humanitarian Senior Advocacy Manager of Save the Children Indonesia, Rinsan Lumban Tobing, said the future of the children who are exposed to haze from the fore

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo received Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi's resignation on Thursday, a day after the national antigraft agency declared him a bribery suspect.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Constitutional law expert Refly Harun said the existence of an article about insulting the president/vice president in the Criminal Code Bill or RKUHP i

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Indonesia is set to pass a new criminal code that could outlaw living together outside marriage, extramarital sex and insulting the president, among a raft of chan

Nicola Smith – Indonesia is poised to update its penal code to impose jail terms or steep fines on anyone having consensual sex outside of marriage.

Helen Regan and Masrur Jamaluddin – Indonesia is set to pass a highly controversial new penal code that would criminalize consensual sex outside of marriage and effectively outlaw same

Jakarta – Indonesia will prioritizes imports of buffalo meat, rice and raw sugar from India after the South Asian country adjusted crude palm oil (CPO) tariffs for its top two importer

Journalists covering the demonstration in front of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in Jakarta, on Friday, September 13, were harassed, blocked and had their equipment damag

President Joko Widodo – who has long faced accusations that he and his government are puppets serving the interests of foreign countries and corporations – today spoke about the virtue

Indonesia has selected the controversial coming-of-age drama Memories of My Body as its submission for the international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars.

Helen Regan – Dozens of people have been arrested over suspected involvement in massive forest fires in Indonesia, where thousands of hectares of ecologically rich land have been burne

Gayatri Suroyo and Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Indonesia is facing a backlash over an online campaign backing palm oil at a time when forest fires, often linked to slash-and-burn l

Pacific Media Centre – Thousands of forest fires have been burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, disrupting air travel, closing schools and sickening thousands of people, repor

For at least a decade, national legislators have threatened to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

James Massola and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Indonesia has announced it will send 100 containers of contaminated plastic waste back to Australia to make it clear the country does not wi

The government and the House of Representatives (DPR) have agreed on a draft revision to a law governing corrections that would make it much easier for corruption convicts to gain earl

Massive forest fires in Indonesia that have caused a toxic haze to spread as far as Singapore and peninsular Malaysia are also seriously affecting endangered orangutans and their habit

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) is still calculating the number of losses caused by forest fires in several regions of Sumatra and Kalimantan

Among the many, many concerns activists have about a draft revision to Indonesia's Criminal Code (RKUHP), which is set to be passed by the House of Representatives (DPR) later this mon

Jakarta – The Draft Criminal Code (RKUHP) includes jail sentences for anyone who spreads communist, Marxist and Leninist teachings in public.

Jakarta – The Papua Students Advocacy Team from the Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) has reported alleged ethical violations committed by the East Java regional police (Polda) and th

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesia's rapid passage of a revision to a law governing its anti-graft body has sparked concerns that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is going soft on fighti

Jakarta – The Indonesian parliament should substantially revise the proposed new criminal code to meet international human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said today.

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – WWF Indonesia said that the land and forest fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra were caused by among others, landowners deliberately setting their property on

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Laode Muhammad Syarif argues that the new KPK Law has far gone beyond the instructions of President Jok

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Director of West Kalimantan's Environmental Forum (Walhi) Anton Wijaya asserted that land and forest fires are the responsibility of concession landowners.

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi a suspect in a bribery case involving the National Sports Committee (KONI).

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy head Laode Muhammad Syarif is irked by Legal and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly's claim that the governme

The House of Representatives (DPR) today ratified revisions to the law governing the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) that have been met with widespread public resistance over f

Ahmad Faiz, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal, and Security Affairs Wiranto said three planes for cloud seeding operation are ready to be deployed as an effort to put

Andhika Prasetia, Pekanbaru – A state of emergency has been declared in Riau province due to the haze from forest and land fires (karhutla).

A major revision to Indonesia's national criminal code (RKUHP) has been heavily criticized by activists who warn that the bill contains several severely problematic articles, but, rath

Bernama – Indonesian environmental activists have criticised the government for its apparent lack of seriousness in tackling forest fires, resulting in the bad haze, and affecting publ

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Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday approved changes to a law governing the country's anti-corruption agency, sparking alarm among act

Peter McCawley – Bacharuddin Jusuf "BJ" Habibie, Indonesia's third president, died last week at age 83. Habibie was an unexpected president.

James Massola and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – A coalition of environmental and human rights groups has accused the Indonesian government of being in denial about the severity of the fire

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – The Legal Aid Institute for the Press (LBH Pers) director Ade Wahyudi affirmed that the cover illustration of Tempo Magazine's September 16-22 edition which dep

Fikri Arigi, Jakarta – Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) urged the House of Representatives (DPR) immediately postpone discussions on the draft of cybersecurity la

Dias Prasongko, Jakarta – The secretary-general of a global graft watchdog Transparency International Indonesia, Dadang Trisasongko, said that the existence of supervisory board as sti

Jakarta – The Trade Ministry will revise its newly implemented Ministerial Regulation No.

Ibnu Hariyanto, Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition and employees of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) held a funeral procession at the KPK building in Jakarta on Tuesday.

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Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Forest and land fires in Indonesia's Sumatra and Kalimantan provinces are spreading, disrupting hundreds of flights and sparking a blame game with officials fr

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia posted a trade surplus of US$85.1 million in August in a reversal from the trade deficit it recorded the previous month, according to the latest dat

Marvela, Jakarta – Over a thousand cars categorized as luxury cars in the Jakarta area are reportedly in tax arrears amounting to Rp2.4 trillion.

James Massola, Jakarta – It's not every day that protesters take to the street to support a government agency.

A four-month-old infant reportedly died in the city of Palembang, South Sumatra yesterday, with the suspected cause of her death being haze from forest fires that have choked the regio