Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta - The latest poll conducted by the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) showed three important findings regarding the level of radicalism in Indonesia.

The infamous Alexis Hotel in North Jakarta can no longer operate legally after the government chose not to renew its business license in October 2017.

Vast swathes of rainforest are destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, threatening endangered species and pushing indigenous people off their lands

Vincent Bevins, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia is placing prohibitive restrictions on the sale of e-cigarette materials, and Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita last week offered an easy solution fo

Maya Ayu Puspitasari, Jakarta - The release of sketches of two suspects allegedly involved in the attack against Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan did not deter th

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has declined to respond to a so-called reunion rally of Muslim protestors who staged a demonstration on Dec.

Alpen Martinus, Tondano – Scores of Manado State University (Unima) students from the Student Struggle Centre for National Liberation (Pembebasan), the Minahasa Progressive Women and individual pro

Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has elected Abdul Manan, a journalist with TEMPO, and CNN Indonesia journalist Revolusi Riza as its new chairman and secretary general, respe

Dias Prasongko, Jakarta – Hanta Yuda, executive director of pollster Poltracking Indonesia said the public satisfaction on President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) leadership is 67.9 percent.

Jeffrey Hutton – Susi Pudjiastuti shows off a copy of an application for a permit submitted one year before she was named Indonesia's fisheries minister in 2014.

Stephanie Zillman – Thousands of Indonesian seaweed farmers who say Australia's worst oil spill destroyed their livelihoods are to have their class action against a Thai-owned petroleum company hea

Amirullah, Jakarta – Indonesia's largest Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has called on the government to address radicalism issues by, among others, monitoring the development of religiou

Panca Nugraha, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – The national meeting (Munas) and major conference (Konbes) of Indonesia's largest Islamic organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), ended on Saturday with a c

Syafiul Hadi, Jakarta – The Presidium of Alumni 212 Rally announced a plan to held a reunion that will be attended by Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab.

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab reportedly will return to Indonesia to attend Maulid Nabi (the birthday of Prophet Muhammad) celebration and the Alumni 212

Sheany, Jakarta – As part of the government's effort to increase foreign investments to the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday (24/11) held an event in Jakarta to highlight and prom

Istman Musaharun Pramadiba, Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that Functional Group (Golkar) party would continue to support President Joko Widodo or Jokowi in the upcoming 2019 Presidentia

Jakarta – "Dear City Council, the PDIP [Indonesian democratic Party of Struggle], the PPP [United Development Party], the Democratic Party, the Hanura Party, the PKB [National Awakening Party] and

Alin Almanar, Jakarta – Police are close to identifying two men suspected of carrying out an acid attack on a prominent antigraft investigator seven months ago, a police chief said on Friday (24/11

Michael Taylor, Kuala Lumpur – Aida Widyawati boards a commuter train each day to travel from her home in South Tangerang, west of Jakarta, to her job as an office manager in the center of Indonesi

Jakarta – Celebrations are moments of joy to commemorate milestones in a person's life, or a nation.

Krithika Varagur, Jakarta – Indonesia's ongoing effort to arrest the Speaker of the House, Setya Novanto, for corruption has been playing out in headlines with melodramatic turns, from a hospital s

Polygamy is legal in Indonesia – each application subject to review by religious courts who have jurisdiction over marriage.

Chaula Anindya – Indonesian lawmakers are currently deliberating revisions to an existing anti-terrorism law which appears insufficient in facing the threat of Islamic State (IS).

Throughout the epic legal drama between Indonesia's House Speaker Setya Novanto and the Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) over the senior politician's role in the massive e-KTP corruption case

Arzia Tivany Wargadiredja – When police fatally shot a Taiwanese national accused of dealing drugs from a low-rent apartment complex in Central Jakarta earlier this week, it was just the latest dea

Jakarta – New York based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to order the chiefs of the National Police and Indonesian Military (TNI) to immediately ban v

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Golkar deputy treasurer Zulhendri Hasan on Thursday visited the party's chairman and graft suspect Setya Novanto, who has been detained at the Corruption Eradication Comm

John McBeth, Jakarta – As Golkar party chairman and speaker of Indonesia's House of Representatives, Setya Novanto clearly knows where all the skeletons lie.

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) Senior Economist Faisal Basri said that Indonesia's economic growth in the medium and the long-run is tending to s

Amal Ganesha, Jakarta – Indonesia has a long way to go before the country can fully embrace the so-called "Fourth Industrial Revolution," panel members at the 2017 Indonesia Economic Forum said in

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and his deputy Sandiaga Uno have been invited to the first anniversary of the 212 rally, a huge gathering of Muslims last year that pushed the prosecution

Panca Nugraha, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has said that the government appreciates the role of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) as Indonesia's biggest Islamic organization in

Jakarta (Jakarta Post/Asia News Network) – One might find the notion of a huge pork market in Indonesia laughable.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The city administration has said all religious institutions are welcome to ask for grants following the city administration's plan to grant billions of rupiah t

Recently inaugurated Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has been getting hammered with criticism this week after the reveal of his administration's proposed regional budget for 2018 was found to have

Jakarta – Thousands of protesters who took to the streets on Dec.

Indonesian law enforcement officials are constantly going on about the country's "drug emergency" and using shaky statistics about the number of people killed by narcotics each year as a justificat

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan invited the Interfaith Communication Forum (FKUB) to City Hall for the second time on Thursday morning to announce that he would support

In 2014 and 2015, Human Rights Watch released disturbing reports on the Indonesian military and police's use of "virginity testing" on female recruits, an abusive and anachronistic practice that ha

Cindy Silviana, Jakarta – Indonesia's speaker of parliament, who was arrested last week over his alleged role in a $170 million graft case, has sent a letter from his cell to house leaders pleading

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has proposed a working visit budget for next year at Rp 107.7 billion (US$7.9 million) – much higher than a similar allocation last year, which was Rp 28.7 bill

Jakarta – Jakarta Tourism and Culture Agency head Tinia Budiati has called on residents to be positive regarding the administration's plan to use the National Monument (Monas) for religious events.

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has allocated Rp 1.6 trillion (US$118.3 million) in grants for 104 non-profit mass organizations, mostly Islamic ones, next year.

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Jakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno has confirmed that the Jakarta regional government will allocate grants of some 1.7 trillion rupiah from the 2018 regional budget (APBD)

Jakarta – Indonesia needs more studies conducted by local researchers to reveal the impact of tobacco consumption on health and health care costs to the country.

Jakarta – Research conducted by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) has shown that East Java was top in ease of doing business (EoDB) this year, followed by West Java, Central Java and Jakarta

Jakarta – Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) deputy chairman for telematics, broadcast, research and technology Ilham Habibie has criticized the government for focusing too much on

In early November, police reported 1,300 people were "being held as hostages" by a "group of armed criminals" in the villages near Tembagapura, Papua, a district that holds one of the largest gold

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – The West Java administration has set Karawang regency's minimum wage at Rp 3.92 million (US$289.99), the highest in the country.