The West Java Police have arrested a preacher named Rahmat Baequni for his alleged role in perpetuating a hoax positing that hundreds of election workers in last April's election died

Almost all of the recent drama surrounding the election lawsuit by losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has taken place within the walls of the Constitutional Court (MK) this

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Deputy Head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Saut Situmorang, denied rumors about radicalism in his agency.

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has gone abroad to an unidentified country while his legal team is busily engaged in the election dispute trial at the Constitutional

Jeis Montesori & Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – About 8,000 people, including representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, regional governments and residents of 33 subdistri

Angel Riadi & Egna Setiawan, Jakarta – "Race for Water," a solar-powered hybrid catamaran, arrived in Jakarta this week as part of a global campaign to raise awareness of the impac

Apriadi Gunawan, Langkat, North Sumatra – Twenty-seven adults and three children who died in a fire at a lighter factory in Binjai district in Langkat regency, North Sumatra, had appar

Jakarta – Every member of the Cilincing and Koja district election committees (PPK) in North Jakarta have been named suspects of vote rigging during the 2019 Jakarta legislative electi

Linda Yulisman and Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh,ljakarta – Lawyers for Indonesia's defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto spent the past four days trying to cast doubt on the o

Yogyakarta – It is widely known that Indonesia was once ruled by a Hindu kingdom.

Friski Riana, Bandung – Presidential Chief of Staff, Moeldoko, hoped that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Prabowo Subianto could meet anytime soon.

Adam Prireza, Jakarta – Kivlan Zen, who is suspected of illegal firearms possession, has filed for a pre-trial.

Kuala Lumpur (Reuters) – Less than half of the garbage produced on Indonesia's resort island of Bali is recycled, with thousands of tonnes burned or dumped in rivers and the ocean, res

Haris Fadhil, Jakarta – One of the witnesses that was to be presented by the legal team representing the loosing 02 presidential ticket of Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno, Haris Azhar, h

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration will receive a total of Rp 100.47 billion (US$6.257 billion) in dividends from publicly listed beer firm PT Delta Djakarta, in which

Gayatri Suroyo, Maikel Jefriando, Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank held its policy interest rate unchanged on Thursday, but moved to cut the reserve requirement for banks and said it

There are an estimated 14,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia.

Jakarta – The Central Jakarta Environment Agency has spoken about its struggle to clean up the Krukut River in Kebon Kacang subdistrict, Tanah Abang, citing the lack of awareness on pr

One of Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's main campaign promises was stopping the land reclamation project in Jakarta Bay, but he has effectively reneged on that promise and blamed his

Yesterday's session of the Constitutional Court hearing on the election fraud lawsuit filed by Prabowo Subianto's campaign appeared to go quite badly for the failed presidential candid

Dion Bisara & Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – The government is prioritizing revisions to the corporate income tax law, seeking to cut the tax rate from 25 percent to 20 percent to attrac

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Three miners died after a landslide hit an illegal tin mine in a village in Central Bangka, a district in the Bangka Belitung Islands province, on Tuesday.

Yudha Baskoro – A tiny alley just around the corner from the United Nations' refugee agency, the UNHCR, on Jalan Kebon Sirih in Central Jakarta, has become a home in transit for a grou

Irsyan Hasyim (Antara), Jakarta – An expert witness presented by the Election Commission (KPU) Marsudi Wahyu Kisworo, explained that the vote counting information system website or Sit

Halida Bunga, Jakarta – The legal team representing Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan mentioned about the alleged involvement of police in the attack

Hendartyo Hanggi and Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta (Bisnis) – Member of Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) Agung Firman Sampurna said that the agency discovered a number of issues in state

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Expert on terrorism and intelligence Harits Abu Ulya questioned the motive behind Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu's statement where he announced 3 percent Mi

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The number of people who signed the Change.org petition inhibiting the permit extension of Islam Defenders Front (FPI) has yet to reach its goal as the governm

Mochamad Zhacky, Jakarta – The Alumni Brotherhood 212 (PA 212), the National Movement to Safeguard the Indonesian Ulema Council's Fatwa (GNPF-MUI) and a number of other Islamic groups

Jakarta – The Indonesian police plan to conduct cyber patrols of WhatsApp groups.

Antara & Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – MRT Jakarta, the operator of the capital's first underground and overground metro system, said the Jakarta MRT's second line, from the Hotel Indonesi

Robertus Wardi & Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – A study by Indonesia's Defense Ministry has revealed that 23.3 percent of high school and university students in the country agree with the i

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The producers of Bumi Manusia, or This Earth of Mankind the movie, a long-awaited adaptation of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's 1980 classic leftist novel based on the li

Herman, Jakarta – Tokopedia, Indonesia's largest e-commerce platform, booked a record $1.3 billion in sales last month, marking an important milestone for the company.

Jakarta – In this year's school enrollment, each state-run junior high school (SMP) in Bekasi, West Java is to allocate 2 percent of their total number of seats to candidates who displ

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The legal battle over the presidential election result is continuing at the Constitutional Court, with the General Elections Commission (KPU) and incu

An elderly man's dream of visiting the holy land of Mecca went up in flames in a house fire, but Indonesian netizens have restored that dream, and then some.

Though it is not eaten widely throughout Indonesia, dog meat is popular in certain regions and demand for it fuels an industry that animal rights activists have denounced as not just c

Indonesia is all but certain to move its capital city from Jakarta, with the Ministry of National Development (Bappenas) already outlining plans to start the process within the next fe

Jakarta – Indonesia said on Wednesday it has raised the price threshold at which luxury sales tax is applied to houses and apartments to support the property sector and encourage home

Jakarta – Investors who are counting on Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo unleashing a wave of economic reforms in his second term may be sorely disappointed.

Syafiq Hasyim – Shariatisation?

Jakarta – Indonesia asked the South Korean government to invite K-Pop stars to campaign for Indonesian forests in a bilateral meeting in Incheon, South Korea, a top official said in a

Research has consistently shown that the theory that violent video games cause players to become more violent is wrong but the horrific mosque shooting that took place in New Zealand i

Thresa Sandra Desfika, Jakarta – The government has decided that all domestic flights to Bandung, West Java, have to land at Kertajati International Airport by July 1.

Robertus Wardi, Jakarta – The government's old plan to build new prisons on the country's remote islands resurfaced this week, following a high-profile graft convict's escapade from hi

Christian Lee, Jakarta – Communications and Information Technology Minister Rudiantara said the police should be given the power to monitor group chats on the WhatsApp messaging platfo

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu argues that Indonesia's ideology known as Pancasila is starting to erode among society and partially attributes it to the cal

Jakarta (Antara) – For security reasons, the Communication and Informatics Ministry will require social media operators to make it mandatory for customers to provide cellular numbers w

Indonesian authorities have taken some controversial steps to limit the rampant spread of hoaxes and fake news, such as temporarily limiting access to social media during last month's