M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The police's joint team specially formed to solve the case of Novel Baswedan said that the investigation was still afoot, and so it could not publish anything

Koran Tempo, Jakarta – Iriana Ekasari, Head of the Indonesian Tea Council's Internal and Foreign Affairs Division, said tea production has continued to decline since 2007.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Faisol Riza, a victim of the 1998 activist kidnapping, said that President Joko Widodo or Jokowi has responded to his letter on the 1998 activist kidnap

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan claimed that the current user of public transportation in the capital city declined to only 23 percent or a quarter of th

The 2014 Presidential Election revealed the schisms among Indonesia's three main trade union confederations.

Jakarta – National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) commissioner Choirul Anam says that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) could forcibly summon Agum Gumelar over his admission ab

An Indonesian man running as a regional legislative candidate for the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is now running from the law after grave accusations of sexual abuse inv

Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta – North Sumatra has suffered a sharp decline in its cabbage exports over the past two years, but is trying to revive exports of the produce with assistance fro

Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has heaped praise on 30 taxpayers – both individuals and corporations – whose total contribution to tax revenue amounted to Rp 418.73 t

Jakarta – The younger brother of missing radical street poet and labour activist Wiji Thukul, Wahyu Susilo, is urging presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto to go to the National Human

Jakarta – Chinese and Russian hackers are attacking Indonesia's voter data base in a bid to disrupt the country's upcoming presidential election, according to a senior election commiss

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Indonesia's biggest non-government environmental group on Wednesday launched a fresh legal bid to stop the construction of a controversial China-funde

While many animal activists inside and outside of Indonesia are working hard to save the country's increasingly endangered orangutans, there are still some in Indonesia who still see t

While the release of Siti Aisyah – one of the two women accused of assassinating Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un – was warmly welcomed in Indonesia, i

The spokespeople for presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto have been having to explain a lot of their leader's more outlandish behavior recently.

M Iqbal, Jakarta – Victims of forced land evictions at the Cikuasa Beach and Kramat Raya in Cilegon City, Banten province, have declared that they will golput or abstain from voting in

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan and Jakarta – The National Police have said the wife and children of suspected terrorist Husein, aka Abu Hamzah, blew themselves up early on Wednesday in the fam

Indri Maulidar, Jakarta – When end of fasting month Idul Fitri celebration arrived last year, Bandiyah (56) let out a sigh of relief.

Dimas Jarot Bayu – A recent survey by Concept Indonesia (Konsepindo) shows that only four political parties will gain seats in the national parliament in the 2019 general election (pem

With just a little over a month until Indonesia's presidential election on April 17, candidate Prabowo Subianto seems to be going from scandal to scandal on the campaign trail.

Muhammad Kurnianto, Jakarta – Industry Minister Airlangga Hartarto said that Indonesia would need as many as 17 million workers in the digital economy sector in 2030.

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Kurniawan Ulung – Travel agents in Indonesia are reporting an increase in outbound traffic to international destinations in the face of soaring domestic airfares.

Ryan Dwiky Anggriawan, Jakarta – Gerindra Party secretary general Andre Rosiade quipped the speech by Indonesia Solidarity Party's (PSI) chairman Grace Natalie in the Festival 11 event

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – Since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo assumed power in 2014, he has made infrastructure development one of his main programs, with many state-owned

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The issuance of foreign-denominated global bonds by the government has contributed to strengthening the country's foreign exchange reserve position, B

Jakarta – Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution has stressed that the trade war between China and the United States has badly affected and will continue to affect Indonesia's

Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry expects a decline in the export of mineral resources this year because of production cuts by large mining companies.

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Jakarta – With just over a month to go to an Indonesian election, President Joko Widodo holds a double-digit lead over his challenger, retired general Prabowo Subianto, according to an

Niniek Karmini – Relatives and neighbors of the Indonesian woman accused of killing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half brother in Malaysia are preparing an emotional welc

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After the mass mobilisation of conservative Muslims in late 2016 and early 2017 associated with the Jakarta gubernatorial election and the blasphemy allegations against former Jakarta

Following several scandals and multiple arrests involving women who were filmed telling lies about President Joko Widodo while campaigning door-to-door for rival candidate Prabowo Subi

Amid all the news stories about government misadministration leading to foreigners being registered in the voter database for April's presidential and legislative elections, one firebr

The Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) – one of the country's youngest and certainly its most liberal political party – does not yet have any members in parliament (their cadres will co

International Women's Day (IWD) was commemorated in the East Java provincial capital of Semarang on Friday March 8 by the Equality Alliance Front (Aliansi Barisan Kesetaraan, ABK) – an

Indah Mutiara Kami, Jakarta – The deputy chairperson of Prabowo Subianto's Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), Fadli Zon, has again met with fugitive Islamic Defenders Front (

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – The general election is still a month away but for some residents the voting has already begun, as on Sunday over a hundred members of the Jakarta Urban Poor N

Jakarta – Outspoken government critic Andi Arief has accused Karni Ilyas, a senior Indonesian journalist working for TV One, of "defaming him" on television following his recent illici

Jakarta – Heavy metal musicians teamed up with democracy campaigners to stage a free concert in Surakarta, Central Java, in a bid to get young people to vote in the elections next mont

Jakarta – Police arrested two suspected terrorists affiliated with the outlawed homegrown pro-Islamic State (IS) movement terror group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) in separate location

Jakarta – To commemorate International Women's Day, a coalition of women's rights organizations has reminded people that the country is still a nightmare for working women, who are oft

Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, who is facing off against incumbent President Joko Widodo at the polls soon on April 17, is facing a very hard path to the presidency, at least

Samsudhuha Wildansyah, Jakarta – Presidential candidate incumbent President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo personally attended an event on March 10 to hear a declaration of support from the Beta

Jakarta – The forest fire in Riau has expanded as haze spreads to more cities in the province.

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – The long-delayed oil and gas bill appears to be in limbo once again after the government avoided raising the matter at a forum intended to discuss

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Bambang Muryanto, Jakarta and Yogyakarta – The House of Representatives has once again pledged to expedite its deliberations over a sexual violence bill becau

Jakarta – What started as a toll road inauguration quickly turned into a melodramatic scene when a woman from the crowd barged onto the stage and knelt before President Joko "Jokowi" W

Fikri Arigi, Jakarta – Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission X Reni Marlinawati, said that the music draft bill could not be dropped.