Previous polling has indicated fairly consistently that Gerindra chairman Prabowo Subianto has to overcome a huge double-digit lead for incumbent President Joko Widodo in order to win I

Maire Leadbeater – Indonesia is becoming increasingly frantic about the Pacific Island states who speak up for West Papua.

Jakarta – State-owned lender PT Bank Mandiri has given out Rp 165 trillion (US$10.9 million) this year for infrastructure projects within Indonesia for the construction of, among other

Jakarta – Indonesia's fruit exports increased by 24 percent in September from the same month last year, according to the Agriculture Ministry.

Desy Setyowati – Civil society organisations will hold a People's Summit on Alternative Development on October 8-10 in Sanur, Bali.

A Muh Ibnu Aqil, Jakarta – Serving for almost a year as governor, Anies Baswedan and his administration has been applauded by the city's urban poor groups for involving them more in pol

Arya Dipa, Bandung, Indonesia – The Bandung District Court postponed on Monday a pretrial hearing on the termination of an investigation into firebrand cleric Rizieq Shihab's alleged de

Hellena Souisa – Over the past week, two incidents have revealed what a serious problem hoaxes have become in Indonesian politics.

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Kate Lamb in Palu – About 5,000 people are still missing, feared death, after an earthquake and tsunami hit Sulawesi just over a week ago.

Vannessa Hearman – When the earthquake and tsunami hit the city of Palu, Central Sulawesi, last weekend, they not only brought wreckage and death.

Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto and running mate Sandiaga Uno were on the campaign trail with visits to different pesantren (Islamic boarding school) over the weekend.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Vice Presidential Candidate No.

Jakarta (Antara) – Presidential Candidate number 02 Prabowo Subianto denied the notion that he was hungry for power.

Jakarta – Police have named seven suspects over forest fires that plagued the province of South Sumatra over the past week.

David Lipson, Palu – For tens of thousands of Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami survivors, home for the next few months, if not years, will be one of the many camps springing up all ov

Jakarta – Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) executive director Djayadi Hanan says that the Prabowo Subianto camp was the worst hit by the negative impact of Ratna Sarumpaet's

Yulia Savitri, Palembang – Rain poured down on Palembang, South Sumatra, on Sunday afternoon, clearing the view in a city that had been blanketed by smoke from forest fires for the past

Jakarta – Jakarta saw a 40 percent drop in traffic violations on the fifth day of the Electronic Traffic Law Enforcement (E-TLE) system trial run, according to police.

David G Rose – The Asian financial crisis may have occurred two decades ago, but it continues to cast a long shadow over Indonesia.

Jakarta – The National Police have arrested over 90 suspected looters in disaster-hit areas in Central Sulawesi following a strong earthquake and a killer tsunami that swept the region

James Massola & Amilia Rosa – He was in a car in Balaroa, a suburb on the outskirts of Palu, driving his mum and aunt home from the family's shop, when the magnitude 7.5 earthquake

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has said it welcomes applications from anyone or any group seeking sponsorship for attending overseas events amid the recent brouhaha surrounding th

Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh, Jakarta – The anti-government activist who lied about being assaulted to cover up a cosmetic operation was detained by Jakarta police on Friday night (Oct 5)

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo, as the highest commander in the Indonesian Military (TNI), said he would eliminate communism.

Jakarta – The Gerinda Party remains optimistic that the recent fake news scandal involving opposition activist Ratna Sarumpaet – a former member of presidential challenger Prabowo Subia

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Vice presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno said he was ready to provide a statement to the police regarding the case of spreading hoax that ensnared the ac

Jakarta – Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) advisory board deputy chairperson and younger brother of Gerindra chairperson Prabowo Subianto, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, claims that

Vindry Florentin, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has admitted to sponsoring Ratna Sarumpaet's trip to the 2018 "The 11th Women Playwrights International Conference" event in Santi

Jakarta – Following a scandal in which she lied to the public about undergoing cosmetic surgery, political activist Ratna Sarumpaet was arrested on Thursday evening at Soekarno-Hatta In

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – President hopeful Prabowo Subianto planned to address his concern on state condition and recent economy agenda in a press conference today, October 5, sa

Vindry Florentin, Jakarta – Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) deputy coordinator Feri Kusuma says that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's statement on the b

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has reminded the personnel of the Indonesian Military (TNI) to guard the state ideology of Pancasila and fight against c

Busrah Hisyam Ardans, Denpasar – The People's Global Conference Alliance (Aliansi Konferensi Rakyat Global) held a peaceful action in front of the Bali regional police office on Septemb

Hannah Ellis-Petersen – International aid has finally started to arrive in disaster-hit Sulawesi as emergency teams cleared roads and restored power to parts of the island devastated by

John McBeth, Jakarta – Battered by two earthquake-triggered disasters in quick succession, another volcanic eruption and a currency that keeps heading south, luck seems to have deserted

Thomas Paterson – The announcement that prominent Indonesia Ulema Council chairman and cleric Ma'ruf Amin will be President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's vice-presidential running mate for the

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – National coal production up to August has already reached 311 million tons, or 64 percent of this year's total target of 485 million tons, according

Scores of students from the People's Movement Against the IMF-World Bank have held a protest action in front of the Bali regional police headquarters to protest policies that restrict p

Sheany, Jakarta – Human Rights Watch says thousands of people with mental illness remain either shackled or locked up in confined spaces in various institutions across Indonesia, and ca

Jakarta – The Jakarta Council (DPRD) has announced the resignation of five members planning to run for different political parties in the 2019 legislative elections.

Kartika Anggraeni and Chitra Paramaesti, Jakarta – The government stated it had a strong reason to conclude that the photo recently circulated in the public related to humanitarian acts

Ryan Dwiky Anggriawan, Jakarta – Deputy of the National Campaign Team of Jokowi and Ma'ruf Amin, Johnny G.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Presidential contender Prabowo Subianto has apologized for amplifying a false claim made by his campaign team member, Ratna Sarumpaet, that she had been

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Aboeprijadi Santoso – "My wife was burnt alive in Kutaradja (now Banda Aceh) in the mid-1960s along with 11 members of Gerwani (woman association affiliated with the now-defunct Indones

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and agencies – The humanitarian crisis in Sulawesi has continued to worsen as organisations struggle to bring the millions of dollars in international aid that has

Raymond Samuel – Despite being embroiled in an economic crisis and even being depicted as a "failed state" by the Western media, Venezuela is still able to show empathy and solidarity w

The Venezuelan government announced Wednesday that it'd be donating US$10 million from its "solidarity fund," Vice President of the country Delcy Rodriquez confirmed on her Twitter acco

Jakarta – Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Idham Azis has issued circulars urging Jakartans to keep law and order in mind during the Indonesia 2018 Asian Para Games.

James Massola & Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia's Sulawesi island has risen to 1407, the disaster mitigation agency sa