Puti Aini Yasmin, Jakarta – The Jakarta provincial government (DKI) through the company PT Food Station Tjipinang Jaya is importing garlic from China.

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Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry and the General Elections Commission (KPU) have agreed to bar ex-corruption convicts from taking part in the 2019 legi

Jakarta – The management of national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has asked the airline's pilots to return to the negotiation table after the latter renewed their threat to strike foll

Jakarta – The captain of a sinking Indonesian ferry managed to steer his ship onto a reef to enable the evacuation of more than 100 passengers, but 31 people drowned as the vessel floun

Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kemkominfo) has confirmed that they have officially blocked access to Tik Tok, an app used for making and sharing short

Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Rising government and public hostility toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Indonesia is threatening the battle against AIDS

Jakarta – To ensure security for the 2018 Asian Games, which will see thousands of international athletes and officials descend upon the Indonesian capital, Jakarta Police chief Inspect

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed his aides to review corruption-related articles in the Criminal Code bill and has set no deadline for the

Jakarta – Expansion in the manufacturing sector has begun to slow down, as indicated by Indonesia's decline in the Nikkei and Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) in June.

The Indonesian rupiah is still in the midst of a weeks-long slide against the US dollar, with the exchange rate nearing IDR14,500 today – its worst performance since October 2015.

Rezki Alvionitasari, Jakarta – Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) offered Anies Baswedan and Ahmad Heryawan as presidential and vice presidential candidates to Gerindra party and others for

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Hundreds gathered on Monday morning to protest at a martabak food stall belonging to the President's eldest son in Solo, Central Java, where they held an

Tangguh Chairil – Indonesia is aiming to meet its own defence needs and not be reliant on other countries for military equipment by 2029.

Jakarta – The government is expecting the prices of the main contributors to non-tax revenue – oil and coal – to increase next year.

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia's decision to raise its key rate by 100 basis points (bps) in the last two months in an aggressive move to stabilize the rupiah against

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – Logistic costs in Indonesia are higher than those in other countries.

In just over a month's time, Jakarta will host the opening ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games.

Christie Stefanie, Jakarta – Presidential Chief of Staff Moeldoko says that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is still serious about dealing with the problem of human rights in Papua.

Erwin Prima, Jakarta – Sixth Indonesian president-cum-Democrat Party chairman Susilo "SBY" Bambang Yudhoyono has publicly complained about the way the military (TNI) and the police deal

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government, in agreement with the House Commission XI overseeing finance, has cut its gross domestic product (GDP) growth projection for 2019 to be

John McBeth, Jakarta – Barring any last minute changes, Indonesian President Joko Widodo is close to naming Golkar Party chairman and Industry Minister Airlangga Hartarto as his running

Usman Hamid, Jakarta – The tactics used by the country's security forces may have changed since the fall of military rule in 1998, but in Papua – Indonesia's easternmost, restive region

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Indonesian female bureaucrats are still facing various hindrances in rising to the highest ranks in ministries, with researchers calling for the need of a se

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo honors the General Elections Commission's (KPU) decision to issue a regulation banning graft convicts from running in ne

Jakarta – A physical clash escalated on Sunday between sympathizers of sole candidate Munafri Arifuddin-Andi Rahmatika Dewi (Appi-Cicu) and "empty candidate" supporters during the vote

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Golkar Party advisory board head Aburizal Bakrie failed to meet a summons on Monday issued by the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) for questioning in

David Lipson – The marginalisation of Indonesia's LGBT community is fuelling an HIV "epidemic", with HIV rates among gay men increasing five-fold since 2007, according to a Human Rights

Tria Dianti and Ika Inggas (BenarNews) – A plan by heads of Indonesian universities to begin surveillance on campuses in order to detect extremist ideology and behavior could threaten f

Reza Gunadha – Many academics, intellectuals and Indonesian youth can speak fluently on the historical ideas of ancient Greece and modern Europe.

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Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Gerindra Party Secretary-General Ahmad Muzani said his party insists to propose Prabowo Subianto as a presidential candidate.

Ahmad Rafiq, Solo – Approximately two thousand people followed the rally which took the start and finish at Solo West City Square on Sunday, July 1.

Philippa H Stewart – The men were nearly identically dressed.

Jakarta – The Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry has defended its decision to give money to journalists after an event, following criticism from the Alliance of Independent Journali

Indonesian authorities are fueling an HIV epidemic through complicity in discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to step up cooperation on governance, corruption eradication, connectivity and border issues during a meeting between the two countr

Jakarta – Robiatul Adawiyah, a teacher at private elementary school Darul Maza in Bekasi, West Java, went viral recently after news of her dismissal spread on social media.

Jakarta – West Java deputy gubernatorial candidate Dedi Mulyadi said he believed the hashtag #2019GantiPresiden (#2019ChangePresident) was responsible for his camp's loss in the provinc

Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta – The Makassar Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI) blasted police's decision to prevent journalists from reporting the vote recapitulation by the Makassar Gener

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has said 110 million people turned out to vote during Wednesday's regional elections.

Jakarta – Millions of indigenous peoples in forested countries, including Indonesia, are continuing to suffer from harsh conservation policies despite having played a crucial role in pr

Jakarta – The Golkar Party said it was grateful that graft suspect and party member Ahmad Hidayat Mus was leading the North Maluku gubernatorial election according to a quick count by t

Bantul, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Police arrested four people, members of youth organization Pemuda Pancasila (PP), and named them suspects for allegedly vandalizing the Bantul District C

Quinton Temby – A principle of social movements seems to be that once a movement is written about there's a good chance it is now over or changed in some fundamental way.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo must pay close attention to his electability in four provinces ahead of the 2019 presidential election, a Jakarta-based pollster has said.

Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank on Friday raised interest rates for the third time in six weeks as it moves to shield the rupiah from a selloff in emerging market currencies.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court ruled unanimously on Thursday to scrap a number of controversial articles in the 2018 Legislative Institutions (MD3) Law that

When former house speaker Setya Novanto was sentenced to 15 years in jail in April for his role in the massive electronic ID card (e-KTP) graft scandal, activists heralded it as a major

Jakarta – Indonesia's elite counterterrorism squad Densus 88 plans to arrest more than 100 suspected militants in a bid to prevent retaliatory attacks after a radical cleric linked to I