Shannon Power – Tech giant Google has followed requests from the Indonesian government and removed the gay dating app Blued.

John McBeth – With opposition parties threatening to play the Islamic card on a broader scale, the appointment of National Intelligence Agency (BIN) director Budi Gunawan to a leading p

Adinda Normala, Jakarta – Indonesia's annual inflation rate eased in January as a rise in raw food prices – the biggest inflation contributor – was offset by more subdued increases in t

News reports and surveys seem to show a steady rise in religious intolerance in Indonesia over the last few years.

Anthony Furci, Jakarta – Indonesia's ranking in the 2017 Democracy Index, published on Wednesday (31/01) dropped 20 places to 68th, thanks to the highly divisive Jakarta gubernatorial e

Jakarta – The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) argues that the draft law (RUU) on wiretapping is not necessarily needed.

Indonesia failed to address past human rights violations. The rights to freedom of expression, of peaceful assembly and of association continued to be arbitrarily restricted.

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Nine social media and messaging app companies signed an agreement on Wednesday initiated by the government to combat fake news and hate speech on their platfor

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara said on Wednesday that the government would use an artificial intelligence tool to crack down on websites co

Stephen Wright, Jakarta, Indonesia – Riding a tsunami of moral conservatism and anti-gay prejudice, Indonesia's Islamic political parties appear on the cusp of a major victory: outlawin

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – To mark Primate Day, which falls on Jan.

Presidium Alumni 212, a union of Islamic hardline groups which formed after the December 2, 2016 mass protest against former Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama (yes, apparen

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Speaking during the opening of a Trade Ministry meeting, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo expressed his disappointment over export figures, which fell behind o

Given fears about increased tensions between the Islamic majority and minority groups in Indonesia, many people want to know who can help turn back the tide of intolerance and return th

Naila Rizqi Zakiah – Over the last two weeks, the bitter debate over whether lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Indonesians should be criminalised has reached new heights of

Sheany, Jakarta – Roichatul Aswidah, former member of the National Commission on Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, said last week that efforts to boost the economy and strengthen national se

Ryan Dagur – Most Indonesian lawmakers want to criminalize homosexuality, according to a leading member of the country's parliament.

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Amid widespread reports of legal persecution under the draconian Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law, a district court in Poso, Central Sulawesi

Jakarta – Of the government's 35,000 megawatts (MW) program, power plants with a combined capacity of 1,358 megawatts were in operation as of Jan.

Jakarta – Andi Firmansyah, the man officially registered as the owner of a Ferrari California car with outstanding tax owing of Rp 364 million (US$27,227), has denied that the car belon

When Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced that he would allow becak (bicycle taxis) to once again ply their trade recently, many criticized the idea of letting the long-banned vehi

The Indonesian military should deter abuses by its personnel and hold human rights violators accountable, Human Rights Watch said in a letter made public today to the new Indonesian Nat

Jessi Carina, Jakarta – Indonesian Trade Union Confederation (KSPI) President Said Iqbal continues to heap praise on Jakarta Deputy Governor Jakarta Sandiaga Uno.

David Lipson – As Indonesia prepares for provincial elections, a moderate Muslim mayor is refusing to bow to hard-line Islamist clerics who insist he has taken his town down a sinful pa

Erin Cook – Last week's cabinet reshuffle in Indonesia follows months of speculation and is President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's third, and likely final, of this term.

Nicola Smith – A young Indonesian woman has recounted how she tracked down a man who groped her on the street in broad daylight, in what has become one of the Muslim nation's most high

Jakarta – Semarang Police questioned two vocational school students who allegedly spread a porn video that featured students.

The cities of Tomohon and Langowan in North Sulawesi are currently in the global spotlight after campaigners from the organization Dog Meat-Free Indonesia released disturbing video foot

Yovinus Guntur in Banyuwangi, Indonesia – An Indonesian court has convicted and sentenced an environmentalist to 10 months in prison on a charge of spreading communism by carrying a ham

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Shannon Power – It has been an unusual week in politics in Indonesia as major political parties clamor to prove they're not pro-LGBTI.

Jakarta – State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) Minister Rini Soemarno has invited investors from a number of countries to invest in various infrastructure projects at an investor gathering in

Sheany, Jakarta – The Institute of Criminal Justice Reform, or ICJR, warned on Thursday (25/01) that current draft revisions of the criminal code reflect tendencies for over-criminaliza

Jakarta – Indonesia has won a biodiesel dispute against the European Union (EU) at the World Trade Organization (WTO) that will pave the way for the Southeast Asian country to revive it

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan is seeing a pushback against some of his populist policies three months into his tenure amid claims from his critics that they are harming the

Karlis Salna, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo is still chasing some $150 billion to fund his ambitious nation-building agenda, almost half-way into a five-year infrastructure

Anies Baswedan can thank relentless media scrutiny for his cardiovascular fitness since it looks like the governor will still need to take the stairs to go between the two floors of the

Jakarta – Indonesia's government is cracking down on poor-quality flying schools as part of efforts to address the lack of competency among newly graduated pilots – a crucial factor in

Jakarta – Indonesian authorities are preparing measures to prevent vote-buying and corruption as the 2018 simultaneous regional elections draw near.

Jakarta – Saiful Mujani Research Consulting (SMRC) stated that the electability of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) for the 2019 presidential election has improved bas

Jakarta – Experts and activists from various institutions lambasted the Criminal Code bill on Thursday, saying articles regulating immoral behavior in the draft law went too far into th

Jakarta – Human rights violations committed throughout 2017 would likely continue this year, largely due to the government's failure to consider the rights of the people in deliberating

Steve Jacobs – Sickening footage has been released of animal cruelty at Indonesian markets where dogs and cats are bludgeoned and blowtorched to death.

Jakarta – Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) Media Director Ade Armando said that the majority of Indonesian public is against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGB

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The majority of Indonesian people still perceive the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community negatively, but many of them believe its m

Jakarta – Deputy House Speaker Taufik Kurniawan said the pros and cons on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) should be stopped. He assessed that it is useless.

Jakarta – Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR) Bambang Soesatyo supports the prosecution of Lesbian, Gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) deviant behavior and is optimistic tha

Jakarta – The Agriculture Ministry has said it expects rice production to exceed projected consumption in January, February and March, as the harvest season had commenced across the cou

Two Indonesian men have been arrested for allegedly uploading a video of themselves having sex to social media, police said Tuesday, amid a crackdown on the LGBT community in the world'

Banyuwangi – An Indonesian environmentalist has been sentenced to 10 months in prison under a tough anti-communism law, a legacy of one of the darkest chapters in its history.