Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – Indonesia's trade surplus hit the highest level in over a year in September due to a "temporary" spike in iron, steel and tin exports.

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Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – A sign warning cables had snapped on a rickety suspension bridge connecting two islands off Bali was erected four days before it collapsed on Sunday night

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Religious figures have made a joint statement to call for peace and tolerance for the regional elections.

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry is set to increase the capacity of penitentiaries nationwide by 5,000 by the end of the year in an effort to help ease overcrowding in

Jakarta – A massive demonstration against Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama on Friday cost the agency around Rp 60 million (US$4,620) to restore a pocket park in front of City Hall acc

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – The government will likely need to review its strategy in promoting its priority tourist destinations, as data shows that recent tourism investment mainly headed to just tw

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With Indonesia facing land and forest fires every year that are mostly man-made disasters that have degraded the health of its citizens as well as that of its neighbor

Arya Dipa, Jakarta – Press freedom in the country is in relatively good shape, however, the independence of media organizations is threatened by growing interference by certain groups in society as

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – As the Jakarta gubernatorial election draws near, social media has increasingly turned into a hotspot for smear campaigns with internet users posting a large amount of inv

Fadli, Batam – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it will support whatever decision the Indonesian government takes concerning refugees and asylum seekers in Batam so lo

Jakarta – National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) called for the public and the media to focus on more important matters like transparency, flood mitigation and forced evictions, rather t

Jakarta – Human rights activists have slammed the president saying he has not fulfilled campaign promises of investigation past cases of rights abuses, rights leaders said on the two year anniversa

Jakarta – Government officials could face criminal charges if they are unable to find missing investigation files on the 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, activists say.

Hans Nicholas Jong and Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has begun searching for the whereabouts of a fact-finding team's report of the investigation into the murder o

Jakarta – The Supreme Court must be cautious in selecting the next ad hoc judges for corruption courts, as most applicants were mediocre or unqualified, antigraft watchdogs said.

Jakarta – The Tangerang administration will demolish thousands of houses to make way for the construction of three runways at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Indonesian Textile Association (API) has urged local players in the industry to regularly upgrade their production facilities to maintain the competitiveness of the country

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – With limited funding in hand, the government thinks it's time for philanthropists to assist in the Herculean task of developing a country of more than 250 million people, 1

Jakarta – The National Police will conduct internal reform in an effort to stamp out the practice of "illegal levies" that continues to plague the institution, a top police officer has said.

Cianjur – Scores of workers employed at the beverage company PT Tirta Sukses Perkasa in Cianjur, West Java, are calling for an end to the involvement of the TNI (Indonesian military) in an industri

Jakarta – Amnesty International calls for the Indonesian government to revoke provisions of chemical castration and the death penalty as punishment for sex offenders following the recent endorsemen

Marguerite Afra Sapiie and Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – A lawmaker from Democratic Party, Benny K.

Twelve years ago the prominent human rights defender Munir Said Thalib was assassinated aboard his flight to the Netherlands, with investigators blaming juice laced with arsenic.

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Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Non-performing loans (NPL) in the banking industry worsened in August to 3.22 percent compared to 3.18 percent in July, as a result of slow credit restructuring in the m

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen.

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the two largest Islamic organizations in the country, have made it clear that they are neutral in the Jakarta gubernatorial election

Jakarta – Spending by the Defense Ministry and the Indonesian Military (TNI) next year is set to be much lower than proposed by the government, despite plans to establish military bases in Natuna,

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru, Riau – Dozens of hectares of peatland in the Rangsang Timur district of Meranti Islands regency, Riau, are on fire despite the recent onset of the rainy season.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government's attempts to deny the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the country with the world's largest Muslim population h

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Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – Qatar has expressed its interest in looking into the development of military equipment manufactured by three Indonesian state-owned enterprises, namely PT Pindad, PT Dirga

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Indonesia's authorities must immediately repeal provisions that allow sex offenders to be punished by forced chemical castration and even the death penalty, Amnesty International said today.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Activists seeking justice for the 1965 anti-communist purge victims are planning to hold a discussion about Indonesian history to verify events that led up to the

The Indonesian government has posted an advert for a new youth ambassador position that orders members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community not to apply.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – The Orang Rimba in Terap, a forested plot of land that borders Sarolangun and Batanghari regencies, Jambi, claim it has since Saturday faced intimidation by a plantation compan

Jakarta – Gerindra Party leader Prabowo Subianto said differences in politics did not always have to be resolved in a serious manner, but could be ironed out over a plate of fried rice.

I met Eka (not her real name) in 2014. After traveling for hours on pothole-filled road, I finally reached her village in Cianjur, in West Java.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – A senior minister has ensured that the government would pursue the case of the "lost" investigation report created by a fact-finding team on the murder of prominen

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Employers and workers have yet to reach an agreement on the 2017 provincial minimum wage as the two parties are using different calculation methods.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has called on the state secretary to make efforts to find the "lost" investigation report created by a fact-fi

Kyle Knight – The Indonesian government has done it again.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Jakarta-based Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) has deplored the passage law (Perppu) on child protection into law by the House of Representatives that stipulates

Stefani Ribka and Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – As global trade remains under pressure, Indonesian exporters are being forced to rack their brains to keep their businesses going.

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – Local steel producers are calling on the government to provide a mechanism that will protect domestic players from unequal competition from overseas firms seeking market sl

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Supreme Court has requested the House of Representatives Commission III overseeing legal affairs to scrap the so-called Guantanamo article from the draft revis

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's role in pushing for both judicial and non-judicial processes to resolve historic human rights abuses, particularly the 1965 traged