Rachmadea Aisyah, Jakarta – Stakeholders are looking for domestic solutions to securing investments this year after global disruptions led to a weak inflow of foreign investment in 201

Indonesian firms owe at least $1.3 billion in unpaid fines for environmental damage caused by widespread forest clearing and deadly fires linked to tens of thousands of premature death

Maikel Jefriando, Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia will push back by as much as seven years an October deadline for halal labels on food, drugs and cosmetics, after industry voiced

Jakarta – A video clip posted to Twitter, showing two neighbors arguing in the street over the smell of cooking pork, has gone viral on Thursday.

Jakarta – The government will simplify requirements for oil palm smallholders to access assistance for the replacement of their old trees through the people's oil palm tree replanting

Beyond violating the rights and privacy of the country's gay and transexual individuals, experts warn that the LGBT moral panic gripping Indonesia is also exacerbating an HIV/AID epide

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), says it doesn't see West Sumatra's plan to ban LGBT behavior in the province as an infringement on the human rights of the persecu

Jakarta – The Supreme Court has rejected a case review petition filed by the now-disbanded Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) against the government's instruction to revoke its

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – State-owned companies in charge of infrastructure development are turning to creative financing to obtain funds for their projects as regular investors are relu

Devina Heriyanto, Jakarta – It was a hot bright day in August 2018 and the clock had struck one.

Eka Kurniawan, Jakarta – When Joko Widodo, the incumbent president of Indonesia, last year chose Ma'ruf Amin as his running mate for the general election this April, it became clear th

Another year, another Valentine's Day ban story in Indonesia.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) has denied rumors that they are deliberating a law to legalise Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activities.

Jakarta – Investment Coordination Board (BKPM) head Thomas Lembang said on Wednesday that the government was considering allowing foreign universities and hospitals to operate in the c

Jakarta – A florist in Bogor Regency, West Java, spoke out about the effect of the city administration's call for its residents not to celebrate Valentine's Day, which it said was not

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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

Bram Setiawan, Jakarta – The Tourism Ministry provides technical guidance and workshops to representatives from 10 provinces in Indonesia.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry has announced it will register 10 million new plots of land this year, one million more than the initial target of

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is requiring coal miners to increase their allocation of coal for the domestic market this year to 128 million tons, an increase of 5.79 percent ove

Jakarta – Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo says his ministry never issued a policy restricting any government offices from holding conferences and meetings at hotels, but he advised they be

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Environmental activist Heri Budiawan, popularly known as Budi Pego, is continuing his fight to prove his innocence as incarceration looms over him after the

Padang – National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik says that the move by the West Sumatra (Sumbar) provincial government to wage war on the deviant

Responding to Instagram's statement that it did not remove an account featuring web comics about being gay in Indonesia, after Indonesia's Ministry of Communication claimed that the co

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – As the nation prepares for the upcoming elections, issues relating to energy nationalism will spark debate among its supporters and detractors, esp

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Heri Budiawan had just returned to Sumberagung village in Banyuwangi, East Java around August 2010 after working in Saudi Arabia for 10 years, and he found t

Mike Ives and Muktita Suhartono, Hong Kong – An Instagram account featuring a comic strip with gay Muslim characters disappeared on Wednesday, days after Indonesian officials threatene

VP candidate Sandiaga Uno has made traveling around the country and meeting with the downtrodden – particularly those who say they feel economically hard done by by President Joko Wido

Indonesia's largest airport operator is looking to spend billions of dollars to build a new facility in Jakarta and upgrade the existing one to cater to an unprecedented travel boom an

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – Even under the most optimistic projections, Indonesia's economic growth in the next five years is unlikely to exceed 6 percent.

Jakarta – Social media platform Instagram has taken down an Instagram account featuring comic strips about the life of a Muslim gay man that has stirred national controversy, an offici

Jakarta – West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has been reported to the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) for allegedly campaigning for incumbent presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" W

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – In the lead up to the legislative and presidential elections in April, the country's second-largest Islamic organization, Muhammadiyah, is set to hold

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Ellya, a resident of Cempaka Putih, Central Jakarta, pays Rp 300,000 (US$21.38) a month for a water service of less than 40 cubic meters used by six adults and

Jakarta – While praised for its progressive efforts in preserving forests and stopping forest fires, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration still faces criticism for doing les

Jakarta – E-commerce is like a double-edged sword for the Indonesian economy.

Jakarta (DPA) – Instagram has taken down an account that featured comic strips about a Muslim gay man's daily struggles after Indonesia demanded its removal, an official said on Wednes

Jakarta – Jakarta Police are cracking down on electric bike-sharing app Migo, with a ban on the distinctive yellow electric bikes that have begun to gain popularity on the capital's st

Indonesia was hammered by some 2,374 natural disasters last year, the biggest and most deadly being the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Sulawesi in late September and kil

Some of Indonesia's most outspoken conservatives have long complained about cultural appropriation, particularly in regards to the adoption of certain Western celebrations such as Hall

Jay Akbar – Two politicians have recently joined the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the presidential campaign ticket of incumbent President Joko "Jokowi" Wi

Jakarta – House of Representatives (DPR) Commission III member Arsul Sani says that the government's planned revisions to the 2009 Narcotics Law could open the way for the involvement

Responding to the decision by Instagram to take down an account featuring comic strips about the life of a Muslim man, at the Indonesian government's request, Amnesty International Ind

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Social media platform Instagram has denied a government claim that it had taken down an Instagram account featuring a comic strip on the life of a gay Muslim

Leo Suryadinata – The ethnic Chinese constitute less than 2 percent of the Indonesian population, but their economic power is much stronger that the number indicates.1

Jakarta – The International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) has called on the government to continue tackling the gap between the rich and poor by providing more beneficial

Jakarta – The Bali administration is set to legalize traditional Balinese arak (liquor made from tuak, a sweet drink from coconut palm flower) with the hope that it will serve as a new

Jakarta – The government expects to raise Rp 22.5 trillion (US$1.6 billion) in revenue from the halal certification law, which becomes effective this year, an official has said.

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – The Central Sulawesi provincial administration plans to build memorial parks in areas affected by earthquake-triggered soil liquefaction in Palu and Sigi regenc

Jakarta – Some 10 percent of toddlers in West Jakarta suffer from health problems, most of which are related to nutrition, the municipality has announced.