Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – Fifty asylum seekers, mostly from Afghanistan and Somalia, have been camping on the basketball court of the Jakarta Immigration Detention Center, Kalideres, West Jakarta, s

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Ninety-five disability rights groups across Indonesia have rejected the government's plan to issue only one government regulation (PP) to enforce Law No.

Ryan Kilpatrick – The managers of a temple in Tuban, a town in the Indonesian province of East Java, appear to have sidestepped a showdown with devoutly Muslim citizens over the recent installation

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – There are growing concerns in Indonesia the equivalent of a presidential decree used to ban hard-line Islamists could also be used to silence survivors of the 1965 mass

Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – For the umpteenth time fires have burned our forests and peatland, posing threats not only to people in the vicinity but also to our relationships with our neighbou

Jakarta – Some 1,700 luxury cars in Jakarta are not taxed, a city official has claimed.

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta, Central Java – It is estimated that 1,235 villages in 266 districts in Central Java will face water shortages as a result of drought.

Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has issued Ministerial Decree No.

Jakarta – The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has reopened access to the website version of encrypted messaging service Telegram on Thursday (10/08), following the company's e

Jakarta – Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has said that his ministry is coordinating with the police and regional administrations to disband more mass organizations considered against the state

Nithin Coca – They're unavoidable in much of the country. New billboards are popping up all over Indonesia, aimed at a young, increasingly progressive population.

Eveline Danubrata and Stefanno Reinard, Jakarta – Indonesian security companies have seen a surge in demand for guards to protect palm oil plantations from fruit thieves and land grabbers, amid a r

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo reiterated his message on Wednesday that he would not go down the authoritarian path as the country's constitution had a checks-and-balance system that coul

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) rejected on Tuesday claims by House of Representatives deputy speaker Fahri Hamzah that KPK senior investigator Novel Baswedan had received fun

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The police have stepped up their vigilance following reports of possible terror threats by the Islamic State (IS) network aimed at personnel deployed to secure the

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya, East Java – The recent demand of a group pushing for the demolition of a statue of war god Kongco Kwan Sing Tee Koen at the Kwan Sing Bio Chinese temple in Tuban, Ea

Andreas Harsono – The Indonesian government has been doing something remarkable over the past year with its political prisoners in Papua and West Papua provinces: Releasing them.

Jakarta – The government has promised to keep inflation low during the rest of the year so that consumer spending, the main driver of the country's economic growth, will increase in the second half

Phelim Kine – Today, Jakarta's police chief said that when dealing with suspected drug dealers, "sending them to God" would take priority over arrest and prosecution.

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) recorded 115 cases of physical abuse allegedly committed by police personnel against civilians over a period of 11 mon

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors plan to appeal the Jakarta Corruption Court's guilty verdict of Irman and Sugiharto, defendants in an e-ID graft case that has captured

Dave McRae – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's hard-line rhetoric in recent weeks on the fatal shooting of drugs suspects has prompted many to question whether Indonesia is contemplating a Rodrigo D

Jakarta – Workers at one of the operators of Indonesia's busiest ports ended their strike on Monday (07/08), sooner than planned, out of consideration for the "national interests," the chairman of

Scores of people from the Pancasila Youth (PP) paramilitary group have shut down a film showing and discussion about radical poet Wiji Thukul at the Lintas Kemukus Retreat in Sirau Village, Padurak

Jakarta – Responding to criticism that many of his recent policies had an authoritarian bent, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has said that he has no predisposition to turn into an autocrat.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Former Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama will not testify as a witness in a court hearing against defendant Buni Yani who is standing trial for all

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The newly appointed Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen.

Aman Rochman, Malang, East Java – Buawi, 39, a farmer from Baturetno village in SiNGOsari district, Malang regency, East Java, died after she was accidentally shot by Indonesian Air Force soldiers

Jakarta – The Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry is set to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Police (Polri) on the monitoring and use of village fu

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Rainfall has helped with firefighting efforts in the forests and plantations of Kalimantan and Sumatra, but new hotspots have emerged in Papua, in the eastern part

Jakarta – The State Palace has dropped a controversial plan to assign embattled House of Representatives Setya Novanto to read out the declaration of independence during an event on Aug.

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Jakarta – The Jakarta office of the National AIDS Commission (KPAP) has revealed that the number of people living with AIDS in Jakarta has increased by 563, rising from 8,093 people in December 201

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto, Central Java – Thousands of members of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Islamic organization, flocked to Purwokerto town square in Banyumas regency, Central Jav

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Indonesia's economic growth stagnated at 5.01 percent year on year (yoy) in the second quarter compared to the first quarter, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced

Jakarta – Indonesia's annual economic growth grew more slowly than expected in the second quarter, with growth in some key sectors slowing and pivotal private consumption remaining sluggish.

Jakarta – A military official in the Indonesian province of Jambi said on Saturday (05/08) he has ordered that anyone who deliberately sets fire to forest areas be shot, as authorities struggle to

Padang, W Sumatra – Around one million hectares of oil palm plantations are illegal in Riau, Director General of Ecosystem and Natural Resources Conservation of the Environment and Forestry Ministr

Jakarta – The filing of criminal charges with the South Jakarta Prosecutor's Office against a suspected tax evader by the tax office on Wednesday is only the first step in a massive crackdown on ta

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have completed a case dossier on a standup comedian who complained about Green Pramuka City apartments in Cempaka Putih and will submit the file to the C

Phelim Kine – Indonesian police and military personnel last week forced the cancellation of a public workshop on financial compensation for victims of the country's 1965-1966 mass killings.

Jakarta – The Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) management has issued a warning letter to demand the workers to end their strike, a senior JICT executive has said.

Jeffrey Hutton – Up until mid May, Fajar Prabowo supervised mobile HIV testing units that fanned out to Jakarta's gay saunas and bars in an effort to reach hundreds of closeted homosexuals who fear

Francis Chan, Jakarta – Indonesian satellites on Sunday (Aug 6) morning picked up 282 hot spots – believed to be the highest number across the country this year – as the dry season continues.

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Boyolali, Central Java – Hundreds of shooters had been deployed, but it was not enough to quell the enemy.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Within days of Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordering police to shoot drug dealers who resist arrest, the government last week announced a radical s

Jakarta – The head of the Nasdem faction at the House of Representatives, Viktor Bungtilu Laiskodat, has been reported to the National Police's criminal investigation department (Bareskrim) for all

Jakarta – Despite protests from fishermen and environmentalists, the Public Works and Public Housing Ministry and the Jakarta administration have resumed the construction of a sea wall along the no

Jakarta – Gerindra Party deputy chairman Ferry Juliantono said on Saturday the party supported a proposal to establish an independent fact-finding team to help investigate an acid attack on Corrupt

Jakarta – The military police have named an ex-Air Force officer as a suspect in a graft case related to the procurement of a VIP helicopter from Italian-British manufacturing company Agusta Westla