Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The Indonesian Tobacco Farmers Association (APTI) has urged the government to implement a policy to control the importation of tobacco to protect local farmers.

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Refugees in Indonesia are being told the devastating news that most will never be resettled in Australia or any other country.

Jakarta – The Workers Federation staged a rally demanding an increase in the minimum wage in front of City Hall on Tuesday.

Max Walden – A file released by the United States government last week among those pertaining to the assassination of former president John F Kennedy has revealed that the Central Intelligence Agen

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the three years Indonesia has been under President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's administration, October 2014-October 2017,

Jakarta – The government will launch massive village infrastructure projects worth up to RP 60 trillion in 2018 that will be so labor intensive they could create as many as 14 million jobs.

Restidia Putri and Richard C. Paddockoct, Tangerang – At the age of 14, Surnah was done with school, and a month ago she took a full-time job packaging fireworks at a new factory near her home.

Rachmadea Aisyah, Jakarta – The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) announced on Monday that investments had reached Rp 513.2 trillion (US$37.79 billion) by the end of the third quarter, or 75.6 p

Danielle Long – Starbucks Indonesia is encouraging women to break their silence about breast cancer in a bid to generate awareness of the disease in a new campaign.

Bagus Prihantoro Nugroho, Jakarta – The recently enacted Law on Social Organisations (UU Ormas), which was previously the Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 2/2017 (Perppu Ormas), was the

Phelim Kine – Indonesia's Vice President Jusuf Kalla last week praised religious tolerance in Indonesia as "better than in other countries" and a model "for other countries to learn [religious] tol

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – For Tracy Bantleman it has been a long battle to free her husband, who she says, without a skerrick of doubt, is innocent of the most damning of charges.

Hellena Yoranita Souisa and Primatia Romana Wulandari – After banning Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) through a decree in July 2017, Indonesia has now moved to codify in law go

Jakarta – Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Saturday (28/10) announced that the Indonesian government does not recognize Catalonia's declaration of independence.

Jakarta – The government is preparing a plan to integrate Jakarta with Bandung, in effect establishing a massive urban area on the eastern end of Java, a minister said on Sunday (29/10).

Amirullah, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo or Jokowi says that the Pancasila Youth (Pemuda Pancasila, PP) are a special social organisation (ormas) and he is calling on the group to be the bulwark

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan inaugurated the Filadelfia Batak Protestant Church (HKBP) in Semper, North Jakarta, on Sunday, the first house of worship he inaugurated since assuming off

Bayu Ardi Isnanto, Solo – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo attended the keynote event of the Pancasila Youth's (PP) 58th anniversary in the Central Java city of Solo.

Arthur Neslen – Nestle, Mars and Hershey have been accused of breaking pledges to stop using "conflict palm oil" from deforested Indonesian jungles, just days before the annual Halloween confection

Jakarta – Three suspects have been named in connection to a deadly blaze at an Indonesian fireworks factory that killed 48 workers and was caused by sparks from welding equipment, police said Satur

Muhammad Nur Abdurrahman, Makassar – The commemoration of Youth Pledge day on Friday October 28 at the Muhammadiyah University (Unismuh) campus in Makassar, South Sulawesi, has ended in a clash bet

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – The Medan District Court has declared Democratic Party politician Ramadhan Pohan guilty of fraud and sentenced him to 15 months in prison.

Joe Cochraneoct, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia's troubled legal system is again coming under scrutiny, after rulings in two high-profile cases that have alarmed both Western expatriates and local

Jakarta – Golkar Party, the second-largest party in West Java with 17 legislative seats, officially endorsed on Friday popular Bandung Mayor Ridwan Kamil for the 2018 West Java gubernatorial electi

Indonesia's House of Representatives has passed a presidential decree into law that empowers the government to disband organizations even without a prior court order, amid warnings from legal exper

Jakarta – Rights groups have accused Indonesian President Joko Widodo of reneging on an election promise to improve the country's human rights record, saying after three years in power the situatio

Jakarta – Jakarta's new governor, Anies Baswedan, should act to protect and promote human rights in the Indonesian capital, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the governor.

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration has accepted the Central Jakarta District Court's ruling that granted the lawsuit filed by Bukit Duri residents in South Jakarta regarding the forced eviction c

Jakarta – Depok Police are conducting a cyber patrol to find the suspects behind the circulation of a porn video allegedly involving an alumna of University of Indonesia in West Java.

Jakarta – According to one member of the House of Representatives, the rise of identity politics in Indonesia must be countered to preserve the country's rich diversity and warm relations between a

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – The Democratic Party is prepared to file a petition against the government if the latter does not revise the 2017 Mass Organizations Law, party chairman Susilo Bambang Yud

Jakarta – Lawmakers passed a bill offering more protection for Indonesian migrant workers in Jakarta on Wednesday (25/10).

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – More than 40 people were killed after a fire ripped through a fireworks factory in a satellite city of Jakarta with bodies incinerated as they tried to es

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Activists of women's rights groups have called on National Police chief Gen.

Jakarta – The Defense Ministry will get a Rp 107.7 trillion allocation, the largest figure among the allocations for the Cabinet Ministries as stated in the 2018 state budget approved by the House

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has praised the strong performance of the capital market so far this year, and expects that similar developments will follow in the real e

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Former members of the now-defunct Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) plan to lodge a judicial review against the recently endorsed regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has criticized governors, mayors, and regents for failing to make progressive budgetary allocations and for their lack of seriousness in a

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The US has now claimed an "administrative error" was the reason why Indonesia's military chief was told he could not board a flight in an incident that caused a diplomati

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, who has typically remained tightlipped when asked about the Jakarta Bay reclamation project since assuming office, admitted on Tuesday that he had met wit

Francis Chan, Jakarta – The number of forest fires across Indonesia fell by more than 30 per cent this year as fire prevention and enforcement efforts, started after the trans-boundary haze crisis

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Judges with the Jakarta Corruption Court have found former Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry officials Sugito and Jarot Budi Prabowo guilty of o

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said it arrested on Wednesday an East Java regent in connection to a bribery case.

Shannon Power – One of the hundreds of men rounded up in Indonesia's crackdown on its LGBTI community has shared his story from jail.

Jakarta – The Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has asked Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan to allow his official residence on Jl.

Rakhmat Nur Hakim, Jakarta – Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 2/2017 (Perppu Ormas) has finally been passed into law by the House of Representatives (DPR) during a plenary session at the

Jakarta – Chief Security Minister Wiranto warned on Monday (23/10) against any "intervention" after the country enacts a stricter regulation on mass organizations amid Islamist protests.

Denny Indrayana – Newly installed Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan sparked a fracas last week when he said in his inaugural speech that it was time for pribumi ('native or indigenous Indonesians') t

Bogor, West Java – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his patron, the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Megawati Soekarnoputri, held a meeting over a traditional me

Jakarta – Jakarta will be surrounded by more than 10 coal-fired power plants (PLTU) within a 100-kilometer radius, which could lead to premature deaths, Greenpeace Indonesia has reported.