Jakarta (Antara) – The Election Commission (KPU) has completed the process of vote recapitulation of the 2019 general elections in 93 out of 130 regions overseas.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police arrested an alleged terrorist during a raid at a mobile phone store in North Bekasi, Bekasi City, West Java, on Wednesday, following a string of raids last

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Thursday that he would be able to give his best for the country during his second term, as he would no longer be burden

Fana Suparman, Jakarta – Executives of state-owned enterprises must approach any investment offer from China with extreme caution as Chinese investors tend to use bribes to get project

Indonesia is facing a crisis of "hyper-regulation".

Jakarta – Five out of 34 provinces in Indonesia have wrapped up vote tabulation for the April 17 general election, the General Elections Commission (KPU) has said.

Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta – Indonesian coal miners are facing regulatory and economic challenges that may potentially hurt their earnings, international rating agency Moody's Investor

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal, and Security Wiranto clarified his plan to establish a national legal team tasked to study words, actions, and ideolog

Jakarta (Koran Tempo) – Al-Chaidar, an observer of terrorism from Aceh's Malikussaleh University, said there are currently some 37,000 terrorists in Indonesia.

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Narcotics Agency (BNN) collaborated with ride-hailing app company Grab Indonesia to prevent illegal drug distribution.

We have seen plenty of videos of Indonesian students engaging in incredibly awful and disrespectful behavior at school, from smoking in class to harassing and even attacking their teac

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – The Indonesian coal price reference (HBA) has continued to decline this month due to shrinking market demand to US$81.86 per ton, or a month-to-mon

Jakarta – The Indonesian Air Force has announced that it will participate in the country's tradition of waking people up during the fasting month of Ramadan for sahur (predawn meal).

Jakarta – Early this year, the Immigration Office in Banda Aceh saw an unusual uptick in passport applications, with up to 200 being received daily, up from the usual 50.

A 67-year-old man from the East Kalimantan city of Samarinda has been accused of raping his teenage daughters, aged 19 and 16, for seven years.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) is urging Coordinating Minister for Security, Politics and Legal Affairs (Kemenko Polhukam)

Jakarta – The deputy chairperson of the Islamic based Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS), Hidayat Nur Wahid, says that he doesn't agree with the petition against the Islamic Defenders

Jakarta – Indonesia saw its foreign exchange reserves dip in April as the government continues paying off its overseas debts.

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named the regent of South Solok in West Sumatra, Murni Zakaria, a graft suspect for allegedly accepting bribe

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – The recent decision of the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) to suspend collaboration with hundreds of hospitals that have not rene

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has said that Bukit Soeharto (Soeharto Hill) in East Kalimantan is a suitable place for a new capital city, particularly because it would have

Jakarta – Indonesian anti-terrorism police have shot dead one Islamist militant and detained six suspected of planning attacks on officers with firearms or suicide bombings under the c

Ivany Atina Arbi and Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin went to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters on Wednesday to compl

Jakarta – The Indonesia Toll Road Authority (BPJT) has confirmed the toll road operator will increase the rates for the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport toll road or Sedyatmo toll

Jakarta – Padang Public Order Agency officers (Satpol PP) on Tuesday conducted raids on restaurants that were open during the day in the fasting month of Ramadan, media reports say.

Jakarta – The Directorate General of Taxation reports that only 768,000, 52.24 percent, of all companies and other institutions submitted tax returns (SPT) for 2018 by Thursday's deadl

Indonesia's most infamous hardline Islamist group, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), is, in many ways, Indonesia's equivalent to the rising alt-right movements in other countries.

The government may have warned hardline groups against conducting raids against restaurants and other businesses they think are disrespecting Muslims during Ramadan, but, as has been t

Stories about protests against Christian churches being built and opened have become depressingly common in Muslim-majority Indonesia, but members of the country's other minority relig

James Massola, Denpasar – The owners of the site where the Sari Club once stood are demanding $14 million, including $9 million in compensation, before they hand over land for the cons

Jimmy Daniel Berlianto Oley and Yudi Fajar M Wahyu – Is tolerance among different groups a prerequisite for democracy? Indonesia's case shows that it's not.

Jakarta – Following the recent acquittal of Malaysian woman S.

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – In trying to reduce Indonesia's decade-long oil trade deficit, the government is facilitating oil and gas companies that have won contracts to acce

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo arrived in Kalimantan island to survey possible locations for a new capital, fast-tracking a plan to move the admi

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The Research Institute of Socio-Economic Development (RISED) in Surabaya has released on Monday a survey on ride-hailing ojek (motorcycle taxi) customers, in

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan conducted a random inspection at Kramat Jati wholesale market in East Jakarta on Tuesday morning to ensure food supply and prices during Ramad

Jakarta – Jakarta Public Order Agency head Arifin has warned vendors of takijl (light breaking-of-the-fast snacks) to not sell on sidewalks in restricted areas.

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – The government is preparing a nationwide program to promote induction cooking, which uses electricity to heat pots and pans, and reduce household d

Made Anthony Iswara and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Indonesia's open unemployment rate slightly dropped to 5.01 percent in February this year from 5.13 percent in the same month

Jakarta – The government will decide on new price ceilings for airplane tickets within a week to force airlines to lower airfares, after two regulations that had been issued failed to

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has temporarily revoked the export permits of five mining companies after they failed to show any progres

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors have indicted a high-ranking official of the Youth and Sport Ministry, accusing him of receiving Rp 400 million (US$28,170

Rieka Rahadiana and Haslinda Amin, Fiji – Indonesian President Joko Widodo has an ambitious list of goals for his next term – improving education and health care, providing a social sa

Karlis Salna and Harry Suhartono, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to open up more sectors to foreign investors and reboot its stringent labor laws to become a regional manufacturing powerhou

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – Gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) president director Tony Wenas said the company was committed to completing its US$2.8 billion sm

Carlos Ky Paath & Christian Lee, Jakarta – Amid relentless accusations of foul play coming from presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's camp, which have resulted in political ten

Yesterday, presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto held a meeting for foreign journalists in Jakarta (no local media outlets, including the Jakarta Post, were invited apparently) to br

Fikri Arigi, Jakarta – Director of the Legal Aid Institute for the Press (LBH Pers) Ade Wahyudin gave his response to the statement expressed by Coordinating Minister for Political, Le

Budiarti Utami Putri (Koran Tempo), Jakarta – The Democratic Party criticized the government's plan on forming a national legal team tasked to prevent any acts or attempts to delegitim