Jakarta – Palm oil corporations, nongovernmental organizations and farmers are engaged in constant tugs-of-war in resolving land disputes.

Jakarta (Antara) – Both incumbent presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Prabowo Subianto failed to talk about the root cause of natural resources and energy issues in the sec

Jakarta (Antara) – The Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) has expressed disappointment with Indonesia's presidential candidates for failing to mention the climate change impacts an

Jakarta – The North Jakarta Police fired six officers on Tuesday who abused drugs and were absent from work.

Tondano – District police officers have "secured" protesters from the Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan) who were holding a rally at the God Bless Minahasa Pa

Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan expects that active TNI (Indonesian military) and Polri (National Police) officers will maintain their neut

Imam Suhartadi, Jakarta – In two lukewarm rounds of the presidential debate, both the incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his challenger Prabowo Subianto seemed happy enough to stick to

Jakarta – The administration of Bogor in West Java has significantly reduced plastic waste through a policy banning plastic bags at many retailers, which has been in place since Dec.

Joy Muchtar, Bali – Tirta Investama, the company that produces Indonesia's oldest and most popular bottled water product Aqua, has just launched the first water bottle in Indonesia mad

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The chairman of the Democratic Party Jansean Sitindaon has revealed that a quarrel had occured between the Jokowi and Prabowo camps inside the venue for the se

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition has launched a petition opposing the revival of the TNI's (Indonesian military) dual socio-political function (dwi-fungsi ABRI).

Chen Toisuta, Ambon – Scores of student from the Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have called on the public not to vot

Jakarta – Presidential challenger Prabowo Subianto may have missed an opportunity to give incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo a run for his money on environmental issues in the second presi

Muhamad Al Azhari & Dion Bisara, Jakarta – Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his sole challenger, Prabowo Subianto, both put forward policies based on resource nationalism, a known "vote-ge

Asni Ovier, Jakarta – Even though the second presidential election debate on Sunday (17/02) was widely considered to be uneventful, one question from incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo did

Ivany Atina Arbi, Bengkulu – Islamic group Muhammadiyah is planning to mobilize its members to campaign for wasatiyyah (religious moderation) in a renewed attempt to stem the tide of r

Jakarta – The Taxation Directorate General saw a significant increase in tax disputes in 2018 following a government tax amnesty held from July 2016 to March 2017.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's digital economy has soared over the past five years, but the government's restrictions on investment and innovation could stifle growth, experts h

Jakarta – The Rooftop Solar Power Users Forum (PPLSA) has called on the government to revoke a ministerial regulation that has discouraged PLN users from installing photovoltaic (PV) c

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo has responded to the recent expulsion of 14 elementary school students with HIV/AIDS in Surakarta, Central Java, calling on

Jakarta – Unlicensed mining of bauxite continues on the islands of Angkut, Dendang and Bukit Batu in Bintan, Riau Islands, despite a government call to end the activities.

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – Last December, East Kalimantan Governor Isran Noor was criticized for dismissing offhand the possibility that a landslide in the province's Kutai K

Jakarta – Amid concerns about pervasive smoking among minors in the country, the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has set the stage for confronting PT Djarum, saying the c

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The new Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA), located in a coastal area of Kulon Progo regency, will start operating its international terminal in Apr

Shotaro Tani, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo defended his signature infrastructure spending on Sunday in the second televised debate ahead of presidential elections in Apri

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – A Malaysian disability NGO has responded to a viral video posted by a wheelchaired man who was prohibited from entering a mosque in Padang, West Sumatra, be

Ben Bland – With the slick presenters, questions pulled out of a fishbowl, and baritone voice-overs, the casual viewer might have thought this was a game show rather than a political b

James Massola and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – An explosion outside a south Jakarta stadium complex has sent hundreds of people watching a presidential election debate scrambling for safe

James Massola, Jakarta – The second Indonesian presidential debate was so boring it increased the chances of people not voting in the election on April 17, according to Australian Nati

Rabul Sawal – Scores of students from the 2019 (Bourgeois) Election Boycott Committee (Komite Boikot Pemilu (Borjuis) 2019), held a protest action rejecting the 2019 presidential and l

Jakarta – Democratic Party chairman Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will not participate in any campaign events ahead of the 2019 general election as he has decided to stand by his wife Krist

Ainur Rohmah, Jakarta – Fake news and hate speech are inundating Indonesia on and offline with the country's general election just two months away and with presidential candidates Prab

Erwin Renaldi and Farid Ibrahim – Gayatri, who only wants to be referred to by her first name, considers herself a "normal" practising Muslim woman.

Annabel Bowles, Jakarta – Like many Indonesians, Australians have aired their concerns over the rise of political Islamism.

Jakarta – Online marketplace behemoth Bukalapak experienced a steep ratings drop on the Apple and Google app stores over the weekend in the latest case of social media backlash that ex

Jakarta – An emergency team at Supadio International Airport in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, hauled a Lion Air plane back onto the runway on Sunday after it skidded off on Saturday afte

Marguerite Afra Sapiie and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The second election debate is a few days away and the teams of both incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and challenger Prabowo Su

Sidoarjo (Antara) – Indonesian Vice Presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno expressed deepest sympathies to prominent musician Ahmad Dhani by visiting him at the Medaeng Prison in Sidoarjo

Jakarta (Antara) – Indonesia's steel industry would need an additional 15 thousand workers to reach its production target of 10 million tons by 2025, Industry Minister Airlangga Hartar

Jakarta (Antara) – Ace Hasan Syadzily, a spokesman for the Joko Widodo (Jokowi)-Ma'ruf Amin National Campaign Team, stressed that the incumbent President Jokowi had never politicized h

Jakarta (Antara) – The Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution reiterated that the decline in Indonesia's exports was due to the economic slowdown in the main export

Jakarta – Sunday evening's second presidential debate was a slightly livelier affair, which saw the two candidates trading blows on land reform policies.

Pichayada Promchertchoo, Jakarta – Anyone who's visited Jakarta will know just how horrific its traffic congestion can be, with a simple journey from the airport to downtown potentiall

Jakarta – The presidential campaign of incumbent Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has reported Indopos to the Press Council for allegedly spreading misinformation in a report concerning the incumb

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry has admitted to jumping the gun when it announced on Wednesday that social media platform Instagram had fulfilled its request to s

Jakarta – The grenade that exploded killing two boys and injuring another in Bogor, West Java, on Thursday is believed to have been used in military exercises, a senior Army officer ha

Jakarta – The National Police said on Friday that a hundred people lost tens of millions of rupiah in a sextortion scheme in which victims were tricked into sending sexual images that

Ivany Atina Arbi, Bengkulu – Sectarianism is exacerbating political divisions in the country as voters now view politics as "a matter of life and death" and not a "worldly" issue in wh

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – Indonesia's export value recorded on January 2019 had experienced a decrease compared to last year. The condition resulted in a trade deficit.

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – "I don't think it will be like before," 21-year-old Hussain Badavi says, as he contemplates the idea of taking a boat to Australia – something the young Iranian re