M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Amnesty International Indonesia requested the police to perform assertiveness upon the intimidation shown by members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in the

A group calling themselves the Revolutionary Islamic Forum (FUIR) held a small demonstration in front of Jakarta City Hall yesterday afternoon demanding that Jakarta Governor Anies Basw

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A joint statement supported by 39 individuals and institutions has called on Yogyakarta Governor Hamengkubuwono to revoke a Yogyakarta regional head instr

Jakarta – A crowd of activists protested in front of the Energy Building in the Sudirman Central Business District in Senayan, South Jakarta, on Monday to demand that garment company PT

Jakarta – Child sexual abuse targets more to boys than girls, the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) said on Monday.

Prabowo Subianto, the former general and current Gerindra Party chairman, seems set to challenge President Joko Widodo once again in 2019 after losing to the one-time mayor of Solo in t

Jakarta (Antara) – A protest action against the execution of migrant worker Muhammad Zaini Misrin was held at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Jakarta on Tuesday March 20.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Indonesia's constitutional court to overturn an article in a new law under which anyone, including journalists, could be prosecuted and jailed i

Damar Juniarto – On 1 March, the Indonesian National Police announced the arrest of 14 members of the so-called Muslim Cyber Army (MCA) network for defamation, spreading hoax news and h

Saifuddin Hafid – The Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan) held a protest action at the offices of PT. Huddleston on Jl.

Stephen Sherlock – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) was recently reported in the media as stating that he would refuse to sign the controversial legislation on Indonesia's legislative ins

Arkhelaus Wisnu Triyogo, Jakarta – Democratic Party Chairman Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono or SBY expressed his respect to President Joko Widodo or Jokowi administration that was able to red

Ed Davies and Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – The youngest son of former Indonesian president Suharto, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, is making a new push to launch a career in politic

Anne Barker – The battle to control hungry and mangy animals, re-home them and keep the city rabies free is confronting, but a weekly necessity for a group of Indonesian cat catchers.

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan issued on March 12 decree No.

Last Friday, Islamic hardline groups headed by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) protested at the offices of national news outlet Tempo over a political cartoon published in their magaz

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Saudi Arabia has beheaded an Indonesian migrant worker for murder despite President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's repeated pleas that the man be granted clemency.M.

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Around 50 people calling themselves members of the Revolutionary Islamic Community Forum (FUIR) staged a rally on Monday, demanding Jakarta Governor Anies Ba

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – An Islamist group calling itself the Revolutionary Islamic Community Forum (FUIR) plans to stage a rally on Monday against Governor Anies Baswedan, who it accus

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – A land execution in Karaton, Luwuk district in Banggai regency, Central Sulawesi, ended in a skirmish between residents who refused to move with the police and t

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Minahasa – Indigenous people have been given a glimmer of hope as President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has signed a presidential letter permitting the House of Represent

Aisyah Llewellyn Medan, Sumatra – "We aren't allowed to talk about the ghosts anymore" explains Ernest Siregar, a guide at Tjong A Fie Mansion while giving a tour of the famous heritage

Ed Davies and Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – The youngest son of former Indonesian president Suharto, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, is making a new push to launch a career in politic

Jeffrey Hutton – The former special forces general and presidential candidate in Indonesia's last election, Prabowo Subianto, will make another bid for the top job when the country goes

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Gerindra Party is seeking a potential candidate to be paired with its chairman Prabowo Subianto in the 2019 presidential race.

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Attorney General M.

Sydney – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has praised President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for his success in developing a multicultural society in Indonesia, calling him one of the

Dias Prasongko, Jakarta – Jakarta Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI) stated FPI misunderstood about the Press Law by conducting a protest against Tempo caricature at Tempo office in

Jakarta – Indonesia's foreign debt reached US$375.5 billion in late January or a 10.3 percent growth compared to the same month last year, Bank Indonesia (BI) said on Thursday.

Wataru Suzuki, Jakarta – The debt of Indonesia's four major listed state-owned construction companies jumped 57% by the end of 2017 from a year earlier to 156.2 trillion rupiah ($11.3 b

Tim Lindsey and Dave McRae – At the weekend, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will meet with President of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on the margins of the Australia-ASEAN Special Sum

A mass of Islamic hardliners, comprised of groups such as the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and its paramilitary wing the Islamic Defenders Army (LPI), are staging a protest at national

Sheany, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women, or Komnas Perempuan, highlighted cyber-violence as a growing trend in violence against women in Indonesia in its ann

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Minahasa, North Sulawesi – Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) secretary general Rukka Sombolinggi has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to fu

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Minahasa, North Sulawesi – Around three million indigenous people in areas across Indonesia may not be able to participate in the 2018 regional elections and 2019

Arkhelaus Wisnu Triyogo, Jakarta – Gerindra Party Gen. Secretary Ahmad Muzani criticized the order issued by Police Chief Gen.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups is pushing President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to issue a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) in response to controversial

Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has warned the government about the trade deficit.

Jalelah Abu Baker, Singapore – Falsehoods are created and spread online in Indonesia for economic and political reasons with no regard for the consequences, said the founder and chairma

James Massola, Amilia Rosa & Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – It's 5am at the gates of Jakarta's presidential palace, and our minibus has just been waved into the compound by a couple of s

Arkhelaus Wisnu Triyogo, Jakarta – In a hearing with the House of Representatives (DPR), Jakarta Metro Police Chief General Inspector Idham Aziz assured that the investigation on the at

Julia Lovell – Joshua Oppenheimer's 2012 documentary The Act of Killing follows a cabal of ageing hoodlums around the city of Medan, in north-west Indonesia.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid was the only president after the Reform Era to have publicly insulted the House

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – After huffing and puffing over the past few weeks, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has decided not to sign the new Legislative Institution (MD3) Law, ci

Dhania Sarahtika, Jakarta – In 1953, a woman won the literature award from Indonesia's Badan Musyawarah Kebudayaan Nasional, one of the most prestigious awards in the country at that ti

The existence of the long banned Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) still remains a highly controversial political topic more than 50 years after the country's bloody anti-communist purge

John McBeth, Jakarta – If the difficult talks between the Indonesian government and American-owned Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold over the future of Papua's Grasberg mine drag on be

Harry Pearl – Indonesia is battling a wave of fake news and online hate speech ahead of presidential elections in 2019, as a string of arrests underscore fears it could crack open socia

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Gadjah Mada University sociologist Arie Sujito said that hoax and hate speech that commodifies issues of ethnicity and religion has intensified heading t

James Massola & Peter Hartcher, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo will push to sign off an Australia-Indonesia free trade agreement when he meets Prime Minister Malcolm Tur