Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is set to cancel some of his 245 National Strategic Projects, mostly in infrastructure and particularly those that would not to be completed in

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – The Indonesian Air Force will establish its third Operations Command [Koops 3] in East Indonesia.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – A Muslim preacher was on Monday (April 9) sentenced to nine years in jail by an Indonesian court for inciting the suicide bombing in East Jakarta in May

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – A 30-year-old man in Merangin, Jambi, will reportedly marry an elementary school student, identified only as AY, in Nalo district, Merangin regency, Jambi.

Jakarta – Nearly 50 people have died after drinking bootleg liquor in western Indonesia including the capital Jakarta in little more than a week.

Jakarta – International environmental group Greenpeace has demanded that state oil and gas company Pertamina take full responsibility and come up with a transparent and comprehensive pl

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Karina Tehusijarana, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will have an easier time in the 2019 presidential election if Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto decides not to run i

Karina Tehusijarana, Jakarta – The Gerindra Party's central executive board chairman Desmond Junaidi Mahesa said his party is open to the possibility of backing former Indonesian Milita

Jakarta – Democratic Party secretary-general Hinca Panjaitan has said the party is preparing its executive, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, to run for either president or vice president in th

Zigor Aldama – Ernawati made great sacrifices for the well-being of her family.

Jakarta – The area affected by an oil spill in Balikpapan Bay, East Kalimantan, has widened although it remains unclear what exactly is causing the spread, an official has said.

Adam Harvey – Environmental groups want the head of Indonesia's state-owned oil company to be fired over an oil spill that has killed five people and polluted an estimated 80km of Borne

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – The biggest problem currently facing the Muslim community according to Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla is economy.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Opposition leader Prabowo Subianto held a closed-door meeting with Luhut Pandjaitan, a key figure in the President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo administration,

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Voxpol Center Research and Consulting Executive Director Pangi Syarwi Chaniago believes that Prabowo Subianto's speech suggesting Indonesia would seize to

Banda Aceh – Five Rohingya stranded at sea for almost three weeks have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen but several others died during the harrowing ordeal, officials said Friday, w

Jakarta – The Save Pari Island Coalition has urged the Ombudsman to issue a recommendation saying that the North Jakarta Land Agency has committed maladministration in issuing 120 land

The controversy over a poem read last week by Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, daughter of Indonesia's first president and founding father Soekarno, has now become a divisive issue among many o

Bernadette Christina Munthe, Cindy Silviana, Jakarta – Indonesia's efforts to protect farmers from imports have sometimes gone spectacularly wrong, creating shortages of staples such as

James Massola & Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of central Jakarta to demand the daughter of the country's first president be jailed for

Jakarta – The people who reported Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, the daughter of the country's first president Sukarno, told the Jakarta Police during questioning that the use of the words sh

Jakarta – Several environmental activists grouped under the name OKP Ganespa from South Tangerang sealed the construction site of a toll road connecting Serpong and Cinere on Thursday,

Adinda Normala and Amal Ganesha, Jakarta – Last week's oil spill in East Kalimantan has killed five people and is destroying marine life in the waters off Balikpapan, East Kalimantan.

Jakarta – Several aspects of the Supreme Court's rejection of the case review petition filed by former Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama against his blasphemy conviction, i

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru, Riau – A panel of judges at Pekanbaru District Court has sentenced Jasriadi, the leader of hate-speech propagator network Saracen, to 10 months in prison for i

Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir & Andi Rahman Alamsyah – Two decades of democratisation in Indonesia has been marked by the presence of former civil society activists in formal politics.

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Evi Mariani Sofian, Jakarta – On the official spatial planning map of Jakarta, Arti Astati's neighbourhood on the coast is painted blue.

Adam Harvey – One of Indonesia's most respected Islamic clerics has issued a call for calm as religious conservatives attack the daughter of the nation's first president, Sukarno.

When Indonesia's Constitutional Court decided to allow followers of Indonesia's numerous indigenous faiths (collectively grouped under the term Aliran Kepercayaan) to declare their beli

Jakarta – The Association of Indonesian Retailers (Aprindo) has said last year's 50 percent drop in profit of PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya, the operator of Alfamart convenience stores, ref

John McBeth, Jakarta – It has been a decade since successive Indonesian governments began devoting 20% of the national budget to education.

Tabita Diela, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed his cabinet to open the university sector to 100 percent foreign investment, and allow overseas institutions to ope

Jakarta – The Jakarta Ombudsman says exams and answer keys were leaked prior to the administering of the national exams in Jakarta, Bekasi and Bekasi regency.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Dozens of residents opposed to the construction of the New Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA) in Kulon Progo occupied the Yogyakarta branch office of

Basten Gokkon – The Indonesian government has launched an investigation into a major oil spill in Borneo amid reports linking the incident to the deaths of four fishermen and an endange

Jakarta – A lawyer for former Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has questioned the Supreme Court's decision to reject his case review petition.

Persaudaraan Alumni 212 (PA 212), an umbrella group of Indonesian Islamic hardline organizations that was instrumental in staging mass protests against Ahok and influencing his eventual

James Massola & Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The daughter of Indonesia's former president Sukarno has apologised to all Indonesian Muslims after she was accused of reading a poem that

Ternate – The Sula Islands regency government in North Maluku has banned the leftist Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan) from conducting organisational activiti

James Guild – When Jokowi came to office in 2014, he promised to jump start Indonesia's lagging infrastructure development.

Indonesia's strict laws and heavy import duties on alcohol make it very difficult and prohibitively expensive for many people who want to get drunk to actually get inebriated, at least

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Chairman of the Indonesian Student Association (PPI) of China Guangzhou Branch, Respati Anintyo, said the information stating all the Indonesian students in China

Marlinda Oktavia Erwanti, Jakarta – Indo Barometer Executive Director M Qodari says that Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) chairperson Prabowo Subianto is pursuing the same el

Dinda Purnamasari – On April 2, the website muslimbersatu.info published an article titled "Polling Google: 86% don't agree with Jokowi for 2nd term".

Dion Bisara & Adinda Putri, Jakarta – Niken Larasati, 25, diligently saves money but it seems her bank savings will not grow as she had imagined.

Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, the daughter of Indonesia's first president and founding father Soekarno, is facing legal action over a poem she wrote that offended many after it was accused o

Political observer Faisal Basri has criticised the use of state foreign debt which according to the government narrative is being used to spur infrastructure development.

Jakarta – Consumer confidence rebounded 3.6 percent to 100.8 points in March from 97.3 in the previous month, according to a survey conducted by Danareksa Research Institute (DRI).