Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta – Drivers working for Go-Car, a service under PT Gojek Indonesia, have been on strike since Wednesday, with the intention to continue it until Sunday.

Today, Thursday March 8, is commemorated as International Women's Day (IWD).

Hanif Mustafa, Bandar Lampung – International Women's Day (IWD) in the North Sumatra city of Bandar Lampung was commemorated in a number of different ways.

Rizki Halim, Yogya – Dozens of women held a rally at the Zero Kilometre point in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta to commemorate International Women's Day (IWD) on Thursday March 8.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Dozens of women and several men marched in Jayapura, Papua, to show their support for the fight against gender-based violence on International Women's Day

Lia Wanadriani Santosa, Jakarta – Women from the Social Coalition for Disabled People (KMPD) are calling on the public to stop the practice of forced contraception for people with disab

Almost one thousand women workers from the IndustriALL Indonesia Council Women's Committee commemorated International Women's Day (IWD) on the road in front of the House of Representati

Elise Dwi Ratnasari, Jakarta – There were still traces left over from the rain earlier in the morning. Although it was cloudy, it still felt hot under the intense heat of the sun.

Qadri Prartiwi, Jayapura – Commemorating International Women's Day (IWD), women activists and organisations in West Papua took to the streets in the Abepura area of Jayapura city and su

Eva Safitri, Jakarta – Women activists from a number of different organisations commemorated International Women's Day (IWD) with demands for equality and opposing discrimination, viole

Sheany, Jakarta – The number of reported cases of violence against women increased by 25 percent last year, according to an annual report by the National Commission on Violence against

The first few years of President Joko Widodo's administration saw the government pass sweeping new laws that made it much more difficult for Indonesian companies to hire foreign workers

Viva democracy and equality!

March 8, 2018, is exactly 118 years since the Women's Conference in Denmark which set March 8 as International Women's Day (IWD).

Though traffic police officers soliciting bribes is hardly a new thing in Indonesia, public outrage over the practice spiked recently after a video showing a cop calling a motorist a "d

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors have indicted Bimanesh Sutarjo, a doctor working at private hospital Medika Permata Hijau, for allegedly h

Jakarta – The Jakarta Social Agency has classified waria, or transgender women, as people with social dysfunctional traits, which has led to many waria being rounded up and sent to reha

Rachmadea Aisyah, Jakarta – The Downstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BPH Migas) has said it is investigating alleged abuses in the implementation of the single-fuel-price policy, P

Tsarina Maharani, Jakarta – Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, convicted of the murder of renowned human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, has joined Tommy Suharto's new Working Party.

Jakarta – A West Jakarta official has admitted to ignoring the requests of a mother who sought the release of her arrested transgender daughter from a social house.

Jakarta – An Indonesian state Islamic university faced criticism from Muslim groups and activists on Wednesday after it banned female students from wearing full-face veils citing fears

Shannon Power – A group of vigilantes raided the home of two men who they alleged were gay. They then turned them over to police in Indonesia.

Jakarta – Indonesia has blocked microblogging site Tumblr after complaints about pornographic content on hundreds of accounts, the communications ministry said on Tuesday.

Bagus Saragih, Jakarta – A string of fatal accidents is threatening to derail Indonesia's relentless infrastructure drive ahead of the Asian Games, a push seen as a key to revving up gr

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Members of several Muslim organizations descended on Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (UIN) in Yogyakarta to seek clarification over the campus' de

Yesterday, a video showing a traffic cop soliciting a bribe from a motorcyclist who was about to get ticketed for carrying excessive baggage went viral on social media in Indonesia.

Muhyiddin, Jakarta – Activist and writer Taufik Ismail says that although the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) no longer exists in Indonesia it is currently starting to be revived in or

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

Priska Sari Pratiwi, Jakarta – The issue of the alleged revival of the Indonesian Communism Party (PKI) has again reared its head with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo yet again being hit

'Virginity tests' are a form of violence against women – not a credible medical practice. – Nisha Varia, Women's Rights Advocacy Director

Jakarta (Antara) – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has said that there is no under-five year old child who is a communist.

Jakarta – Five Indonesians made the list of 2,208 billionaires from 72 countries and territories worldwide released by Forbes on Tuesday.

Pribadi Wicaksono, Jakarta – The burka ban that was introduced by Yogyakarta State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga (UIN Yogyakarta) was met with criticism from a representative of Isl

An Islamic university in the city of Yogyakarta is at the center of a religious controversy over its decision to ban the niqab (face-covering veil worn by Muslim women) on campus.

Fathiya Dahrul – With barely six months to go for Asia's biggest sporting event, the main challenge is not the readiness of venues or athlete villages – but Jakarta's notorious traffic.

Jakarta – Today marks the 47th anniversary of Tempo Magazine or Majalah Tempo.

Hendra Friana – "I was handcuffed and forced into a vehicle, and all before being shown an arrest warrant".

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesia has revoked 186 regulations in the energy and mineral resources sectors that were considered troubling, as the country seeks to improve the investment climat

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – A British diver has captured shocking images of himself swimming through a sea of plastic rubbish off the coast of the Indonesian tourist resort of Bali.

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – A researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Syamsudin Haris argues that a third alternative presidential candidate other than Joko Widodo

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Agus Rahardjo says his side is paying close attention to a number of candidates participating in the 2018 sim

Dias Saraswati, Jakarta – The Anti-Communist Youth Movement (GEPAK) plans to report the organising committee of a recent discussion titled "The Revival of the PKI: Reality or Propaganda

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Democratic Party executive Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono has said there is a possibility for the party to endorse President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as a presid

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a regional, non-governmental, human rights organization in Asia, has learned of the current situation on the war against terrorism in Indonesia

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – A rally against the construction of incinerators took place on the sidelines of the 2018 International Zero Cities Conference in Bandung, West Java, on M

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – The Indonesian government cannot entertain the request by the country's most influential militant cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, to be placed under home dete

Jakarta – The Election Advisory Board, or Bawaslu, on Sunday (04/03) annulled a decision by the General Elections Commission, or KPU, to bar the Crescent Star Party from participating i

Fitria Rahmawati, Jakarta – The Central Java Police released a statement confirming that they had apprehended three individuals involved in a protest launched against PT Rayon Utama Mak

Muh Syaifullah, Jakarta – The Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (UIN Suka) in Yogyakarta has barred its female students from wearing burkas during any campus activity.

The new policy by the Yogyakarta Islamic State University (UIN) banning students from wearing a niqab while studying on campus has attracted support and opposition from the public.

Jakarta – Three civil society organizations (CSO) have announced plans to legally challenge the government's mandatory phone registration policy, arguing that it compromised the safety