Dian Septiari, Jakarta – The government has aired its "deep concerns" about the execution of Indonesian migrant worker Tuti Tursilawati, which was carried out on Monday without the prio

Dian Septiari, Jakarta – The Migrant CARE advocacy group has called on the Manpower Ministry to cancel a recent agreement with Saudi Arabia to send Indonesian migrant workers to the kin

Jakarta – Indonesian officials should uphold the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the face of renewed anti-LGBT statements and discriminatory policy pr

The Bekate Color Run was scheduled for October 21 in the West Sumatra city of Bukittinggi, but no runner crossed the finish line because the race event never happened.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto, the presidential candidate number 02, met with a number of religious leaders at Asshodiqiah Islamic Boarding School, Kaliwage, Semarang

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Taufik Kurniawan a suspect in a graft case surrounding the delib

Kate Lamb in Jakarta and agencies – The Lion Air Boeing 737 Max jet that crashed in Indonesia on Monday flew erratically the previous evening and its air speed readings were unreliable,

James Massola, Karuni Rompies & Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – The Lion Air flight that crashed into the ocean on Monday, killing 189 people, had suffered problems on the previous day's fli

Brigid Delaney – The 15th Ubud Writers and Readers festival wrapped up on Sunday, after five days of panels featuring more than 150 speakers.

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Jakarta – Chairman of the East Java branch of youth organization Pemuda Pancasila (PP), La Nyalla Mattalitti, 59, has apologized to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for spreading rumors t

Tsarina Maharani, Jakarta – The coordinating spokesperson for the Prabowo Subianto-Sandiaga Uno election campaign team, Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak, says that God Almighty and militancy ar

Keith Loveard, Jakarta – The local government in West Java's Cianjur regency told mosques in the region that their Friday sermons on Oct.

Depok – A labor union in Depok, West Java, has demanded an increase of 25 percent to the current minimum wage of Rp 3.58 million (US$241).

One of the (many) reasons why Indonesia has such infamously high smoking rates is that cigarettes are so incredibly visible and available here – it's hard to walk more than 100 meters i

James Massola, Karuni Rompies, Amilia Rosa & Jenny Noyes, Jakarta 00 Indonesian authorities have predicted there will be no survivors after a passenger plane carrying 189 people, op

Indonesian government officials made a series of anti-LGBT comments, resulting in proposals of laws which pose a serious threat to the rights and safety of LGBT Indonesians.

Surabaya (Antara) – The chief of the steering board of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi)-Ma'ruf Amin national campaign team, Jusuf Kalla, called on the team members on Saturday to not be o

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – The Central Sulawesi Police are investigating a recent attack against the Palu secretariat office of GP Ansor, the youth wing of the country's largest Muslim org

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru, Riau – Thousands of people in Rokan Hilir regency in Riau had to flee their houses after the Bangko River overflowed following heavy rains.

Jakarta – Indonesia's anti-graft agency has arrested seven people, including a senior executive of palm firm Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology, in connection with a bribery case,

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Ganug Nugroho and Sri Wahyuni, Jakarta/Klaten/Yogyakarta – The uproar surrounding a recent flag-burning incident reached new heights on Friday, with thousands of

Devina Heriyanto, Jakarta – The word "sontoloyo" has enjoyed a prolonged five-minutes of fame since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo uttered it on Tuesday.

Harry Pearl, Jakarta – Indonesia's quake-tsunami battered city of Palu is facing a public health crisis as torrential rains threaten to spread malaria and dengue fever to the devastated

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) has recommended a medical audit as an option to solve a perpetual deficit in the national health insurance (JKN) t

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – A number of articles contained in the Islamic Boarding Schools (Pesantren) and Religious Education Draft Bill (RUU) was met with protests from the Indonesian Co

Yulia Savitri, Palembang – The latest death toll allegedly by the hands of police officers prompted non-governmental organization the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Viole

Kharishar Kahfi & Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) arrested 14 people for alleged bribery linked to the issuance of a plantation permit in s

Audrey Santoso, Jakarta – A group of people who were part of a Defend the Tauhid [Oneness of God] action at the Poso regency House of Representatives (DPRD) in Central Sulawesi have tak

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – Following the Islamic flag burning incident that has led to protests by thousands of people around the country, Muslim leaders assembled on Friday night to

Jakarta – The Jakarta Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) has declared that several videotrons displaying campaign advertisements for the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Ma'ruf Amin preside

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Hundreds of protesters took to the street on Friday against the recent burning of a black flag bearing an Islamic creed written in Arabic, demanding th

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The Tamansari Police in West Jakarta are looking for people who sold bootleg liquor to a group of men on Sunday, two of whom died after consuming fa

Jakarta – Hundreds of protesters dubbing themselves as the Tauhid Words Defending Action Movement staged a protest in front of the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Securit

Organisers of an Indonesian movement to promote a moderate brand of Islam cancelled a mass rally after its youth supporters burned the flag of an outlawed hard line Muslim group, sparki

Ika DefiantiIka Defianti, Jakarta – A Defend the Tauhid [Oneness of God] action in Jakarta on Friday by a group of people angered over the burning of the Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) f

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) head spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said throughout January to September 24, 2018, as many as 1,999 disaster

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Participants of the Global Unity Forum (GUF) II, an international interfaith forum jointly hosted by Nahdlatul Ulama's youth wing GP Ansor and the Bayt Ar Rahm

Jakarta – The Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister has announced that the government's agrarian reform program distributed 188,000 hectares of land to the people over four years.

Medan – A High Court on Thursday upheld an 18-month prison sentence for a woman convicted of blasphemy in Indonesia after complaining about the volume of a mosque's loudspeakers.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has once again upheld the threshold for political parties in nominating presidential candidates, in the latest and perhaps the

Like many other countries throughout the world, Indonesia is struggling with the issue of hoaxes, fakes news and misinformation being spread online, primarily through social media.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto gave his response upon being asked about the latest LSI Denny JA poll result which suggested Prabowo-Sandiaga's ele

Many of us probably expected the more conservative of Indonesia's politicians to rally behind Malaysian opposition leader Zahid Hamidi's attempts to score cheap political points by blam

Andreas Harsono – Last month, I visited Meliana, an Indonesian woman jailed for blasphemy, in a prison in Medan, North Sumatra. The security was tight. No mobile phones. No pens.

Jakarta – Indonesia's second largest Islamic organization, Muhammadiyah, has urged Muslims across the country to remain calm over the flag-burning incident that occurred on Monday at a

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Indonesia's religious harmony index declined following a rise in negative religious sentiments ahead of the 2019 elections, Coordinating Political, Legal and Secur

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) lamented the House of Representatives' proposal to regulate Sunday schools and catechism in a draft bill on pe

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) called on the government on Thursday to protect three HIV-positive orphans who currently face the threat

Jakarta – State-owned railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) will evaluate cigarette advertisements, including billboards, at train stations nationwide, the company's spokesperso