In what was once a roadside food stall in Kampung Baru, a village in eastern Java, a group of housewives is preparing food for a wedding.

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Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – A top Democratic Party official has slammed presidential contender Prabowo Subianto over his remark in which he blamed the nation's economic ills on President

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo drew the curtain on his reelection campaign with a final rally at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium (GBK) in Jakarta on Sat

Ruslan Sangadji, Luwuk – The situation in Banggai Raya in Central Sulawesi has returned to normal following a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the province on Friday evening, as peopl

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – One thing vice-presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno loves to do during presidential debates, is relate anecdotes of the moms he has met on his campaign trail.

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has announced the names of his potential team to help him address the problems he deems plaguing Indonesia, such as wealth flowing out

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Just days before Indonesia's presidential election, three new electability surveys have shown conflicting results of who the likely winner would be.

Christian Lee, Jakarta – Pre-marked ballots for Indonesia's presidential and legislative elections found in Malaysia have sparked a war of words over what is seen as the latest attempt

Kate Lamb, Palembang – Prabowo Subianto is not the type of man you want to inadvertently enrage – especially not while seated directly across from him in his private jet, flying thousa

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and the Mining Advocacy Network (JATAM) have again warned that both presidential tickets – incumbent Pres

Indonesia issued a tsunami warning, urging people to evacuate to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of its island of Sulawesi.

Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) released on Thursday a report on the performance of the manufacturing sector in the first quarter of 2019, reflected in the prompt manufacturing index (PM

Jakarta – Several banks have said they have been able to reduce the number of nonperforming loans (NPLs) in the first quarter through various measures including more selective disburse

Jakarta – GDP growth that has been hovering around 5 percent in recent years has become a tool for presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to attack incumbent Jokowi "Jokowi" Widodo, w

Jakarta – Former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief Bambang Widjojanto says that the petition signed by KPK staff citing obstacles faced in indicting 'big fish' indicates an

David Lipson – Known as "preman" from the Dutch term for "free man," they can be seen at every political rally dressed in military fatigues, army boots and berets.

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Kanupriya Kapoor, Garut – When Wawan Setiawan, a volunteer for Indonesian President Joko Widodo's re-election campaign, goes door-to-door in this conservative p

Febriana Firdaus, Jakarta, Indonesia – When Robertus Robet, a human rights activist, joined the student protests to topple Indonesian dictator Soeharto nearly 30 years ago, he sang a s

Tip O'Neill, speaker of the US House of Representatives in the 1980s, famously declared that 'all politics is local'. The rule applies in Indonesia too.

Pichayada Promchertchoo, Banten, Indonesia – Pride and excitement fills the heart of many residents in Banten as they count down to the presidential election on Apr 17.

Olivia Tasevski – In January, during Indonesia's first presidential debate in the lead up to the Indonesian election next week on 17 April, Indonesian president, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo p

Crammed conditions on the KRL Commuterline on regular days can be suffocating, but today the commute between Bekasi and Jakarta Kota was reportedly a whole lot more nightmarish than us

Jakarta – A special task force authorized to take down all non-credible news portals was officially established on Friday after a long-standing plan.

Jakarta – Mikhail Gorbachev is running for office in Indonesian elections next week, but it's not the octogenarian ex-Soviet leader who helped bring an end to the Cold War.

Ian Morse – Indonesia is one of the world's agricultural and mineral breadbaskets.

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition is warning President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to comply with the call by thousands of people who want the acid attack on senior Corruption Eradication

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has released the names of 131 "environment-friendly" legislative candidates that the group is endorsing in the upcoming elect

Jakarta – At least 114 investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have signed a petition complaining over the obstacles they face when pursuing corruption cases.

The #JusticeForAudrey assault case, which has dominated Indonesian headlines this week and resulted in millions of Indonesians signing a petition demanding the prosecution of 12 high s

Announcing the March 2016 reactivation of negotiations on the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA), Indonesia's then-Trade Minister Tom Lembong ca

Natalie Sauer – Sandiaga Uno may have personally benefited from payments made by one of Indonesia's biggest coal miners to an offshore firm he owned, Global Witness says.

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Standing up through the sunroof of a van, Prabowo Subianto leans down to shake hands and accept cash - sometimes bags of it – from tens of thousands of cheering s

Marlinda Oktavia Erwanti, Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto has a simple way of detecting 'intel' (intelligence agents) claiming that he can differentiate between intel a

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Former United Development Party (PPP) chairman Muhammad "Romy" Romahurmuziy has filed a pretrial motion to challenge his suspect status in an alleged bribery

Jakarta – The Taxation Directorate General has seen tax revenues increase in the first half of 2019, triggered by the legislative and presidential elections on April 17.

Jakarta – Police have named three 17-year-old girls as suspects in the assault of a 14-year-old girl in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, in a case that sent shock waves across social media

M Rosseno Aji and Indri Maulidar, Jakarta – Two years has passed since the acid attack on Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan took place.

Irsyan Hasyim (Contributor), Jakarta – The Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) has examined a number of witnesses in the alleged money politics committed by Coordinating Minister for

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The economy division member of the Prabowo – Sandiaga campaign team, Anthony Budiawan, criticized the high figure of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indonesi

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – A video of people raiding an empty store in Selangor, Malaysia, and unpacking several bags containing marked ballots in favo

Jakarta – The website KawalPemilu.org has officially invited the campaign teams of incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto to use its platform to mo

Fadli, Batam, Riau Islands – Tourism Minister Arief Yahya has called on Transportation Minister Budki Karya Sumadi to issue a regulation that would require airlines to lower their pric

We're exactly one week off from Indonesia's presidential election and the vast majority of recent polling still shows President Joko Widodo to have a commanding double-digit lead of 15

James Massola – Indonesians are in the midst of a fierce electoral contest with potentially enormous consequences.

Markus Makur, West Manggarai – Local General Elections Commissions (KPU) in East and West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara, are putting forth local dialects and mascots to encourage peopl

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Surakarta, Central Java – The incumbent intends to repeat his 2014 performance in cities and regencies across Central Java to secure at least 70 percent of all

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The electoral gap between Prabowo Subianto and Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has narrowed amid a large number of undecided voters, a recent poll shows.

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Health advocates have urged the government to regulate the use of e-cigarettes to prevent non-smokers, particularly young ones, from taking up the habit.

Erwida Maulia and Shotaro Tani, Jakarta – The overflowing crowd of 200,000 gathered at Jakarta's Bung Karno Stadium roared as opposition leader Prabowo Subianto took the stage.