Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – A 13-year-old girl from Walenrang district, Luwu regency, South Sulawesi, is psychologically unstable after being raped by 21 men in two separate locatio

Jakarta – According to a Committee for the Acceleration of Priority Infrastructure Delivery (KPPIP) estimate, the government will only be able to construct new power plants with a combined capacity

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government has delayed the establishment of the National Police's special anticorruption detachment because of the limited time it has to create such a body this yea

Scott Malone, Boston – New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is publicly calling on US President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, to halt an effort to deport 69 Indonesian Christians who fled viole

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has appointed Muhammad Sirajuddin "Din" Syamsuddin, the former Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) chairman and former chairman of Indonesia's

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The Indonesian military chief Gatot Nurmantyo "chose not to travel" to the United States, according to the US Department of Homeland Affairs even after he was cleared to

Bimo Wiwoho, Jakarta – The chairperson of the Institute for the Study of the 1965-1966 Massacres (YPKP 65), Bedjo Untung, claims that they have found 10 new mass grave sites containing the bodies o

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Survivors and families of victims of the 1965 communist purge have urged the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to use the recently released declassi

Jakarta – Since Jakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno decided not to live at the official residence on Jl.

Jakarta – Banners erected in South Jakarta protesting the United States' decision to bar Indonesian Armed Forcers (TNI) Commander Gen.

Indra Budiari, Clark, Philippines – United States Defense Secretary James Mattis has apologized and has guaranteed there will be no repetition of the incident in which Indonesian Military (TNI) chi

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The United States is refusing to divulge why it denied Indonesian military chief Gatot Nurmantyo entry to the US as its own embassy in Jakarta scramble

Jakarta – Recently declassified United States Embassy archives documenting Indonesia's 1965 mass killings may not be included in legal proceedings before their veracity can be established, Chief Se

Jakarta – Amnesty International has urged the government to use the information contained in recently declassified United States Embassy archives on the Indonesian mass killings of 1965 as new mome

What is it like to be a nudist in a country that prizes modesty and where public nudity is strictly forbidden?

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesia is demanding an explanation after its military chief Gatot Nurmantyo was refused entry into the United States moments before the plane departed from Jakarta on

Governor Anies Baswedan
Jakarta City Council
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Jakarta 10110
Indonesia
Tel. +62-21-3456058
Fax. +62-21-3848653

Jeffrey Hutton – At the Orion Plaza in the North Jakarta suburb of Glodok, Along Jenggot solders a connector onto a satellite dish cable.

Jakarta – Greater access by local communities to Indonesian forests marks progress in a push by the government for land reforms, officials said on Friday (20/10), despite criticism that the efforts

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Suspicion that gay rights is a "Western agenda" aimed at destroying Indonesian culture has helped fuel an unprecedented crackdown on the nation's LGBT community.

Jakarta – House Speaker Setya Novanto skipped a court hearing related to the misappropriation of funds in the electronic identity cards project, known as e-KTP, at the Jakarta Anticorruption Court

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto has once again skipped a summons to testify as a witness at Friday's hearing on the e-ID graft case.

Jakarta – A special service to observe the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, set to take place in Yogyakarta on Friday (20/10), had to be canceled amid threats of religi

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Among a trove of chilling declassified documents that reveal the US government's knowledge and support of a campaign of mass murder against Indonesia's Communist Party in

Newly-released US government documents on mass killings in Indonesia in 1965 have provided new momentum for the authorities to reveal the truth about the atrocities that have been ignored for decad

Jakarta – Chief Security Minister Wiranto said the government does not have the capacity to interfere in the ongoing dispute between the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, and the House of

Jakarta – The business partner of Jakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno, Andreas Tjahjadi, who together with Sandiaga was reported to local authorities on land embezzlement allegations, has been nam

Jakarta – Despite his high approval ratings, according to recent surveys, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo still needed a right running mate to boost his chances for reelection in the 2019 race, Poll

Indonesia's foreign policy under President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has become more visible regionally and globally, contrary to popular assumptions from the early days of his administration that saw h

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Vincent Bevins – A trove of newly declassified diplomatic cables reveals a surprising degree of American involvement in a brutal anti-communist purge in Indonesia half-a-century ago.

Vedi Hadiz – The past year or so has seen conspicuous setbacks to Indonesian democracy's capacity to protect many social rights, including of some of the more vulnerable members of soci

Jess Melvin – There is much outrage in the United States that a foreign state might have attempted to influence its 2016 Presidential Election.

Jakarta – The government is unlikely to meet its target of distributing 5 million land certificates this year as part of its land-reform program because by October it had distributed less than half

By Max Lane

Executive summary

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Some 400 participants attending the International Conference of Al Azhar Alumni at the Islamic Center in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), have discussed topics ranging fr

Abraham Utama – The Indonesian Military (TNI) says that it will not changes its policies or views on the September 30 Movement (G30S) in 1965 regardless of the release of 39 secret US documents tha

Max Walden – Newly declassified documents have reaffirmed that the United States government knew about and provided support for the killings of an estimated 500,000 to a million Indonesians in 1965

Jakarta – Some 1,000 people who intended to demand the closure of North Jakarta's Alexis Hotel, widely believed to be a high-class brothel, have canceled their protest plans for Thursday afternoon

Jakarta – Jakarta's Public Order Agency took down on Wednesday a banner that read "The rise of Pribumi Muslims" on Jalan Raya Menteng, Central Jakarta.

Jakarta – The government has said it will ban organizations it believes promote anti-Pancasila values while claiming to be defenders of the state ideology.

Craig P. Oehlers – Controversial website nikahsirri.com exploded onto the Indonesian online dating scene in September 2017.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso said that investigators would continue to shoot on site suspected drug dealers who refused to surrender.

John McBeth, Jakarta – As calculated as it may have been, newly-inaugurated Jakarta Governor Anies Baswaden has started off on just the wrong foot by re-igniting the religious and ethnic controvers

Erwin Dariyanto, Jakarta – Following the September 30 Movement (G30S) movement in 1965 there were tensions between the military and then Indonesian President Sukarno.

Moh. Nadlir, Jakarta – The government says there are still groups of social organisations (ormas) and individuals that explicitly want to replace the national ideology of Pancasila.

Jakarta – Twenty-seven political parties have registered with the General Elections Commission, or KPU, to compete in the legislative election in 2019, an official said on Tuesday (17/10).

Joko Panji Sasongko, Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu says he will meet with the US Secretary of State to request an explanation about the publication of secret documents related to the

Riva Dessthania Suastha, Jakarta – The Indonesian government will check the validity and accuracy of scores of recently declassified US documents on the September 30 Movement affair in 1965 and the

Stephen Wright, Jakarta – Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civil