Suherdjoko and Andi Hajramurni, Semarang/Makassar – The government's hard-line approach to sexual violence against children has failed to discourage the brutality as more rape cases have occurred t

Jakarta – Former vice president Try Sutrisno called on Wednesday for an addendum in the 1945 Constitution to ensure that communism, Leninism and Marxism were prohibited ideologies in the country.

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Edo Karensa, Jakarta – The son of Indonesia's second president Suharto, Hutomo Mandala Putra, better known as Tommy Suharto, is among the politicians announced to lead the new Golkar Party structur

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government says it will draft a recommendation on the settlement of the 1965 communist purge, combining input resulting from a government-sponsored national sy

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The National Police and the Indonesian Military (TNI) want more authority to launch preventive measures against suspected terrorists despite public concerns over po

Jakarta – Ideological tensions may heat up as some retired Army generals have organized an anti-communist symposium for Wednesday in response to an event in April when participants discussed the de

Jakarta – Several NGOs visited the Constitutional Court on Monday to demand the implementation of a court decree that recognized the rights of indigenous people to customary forests.

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Bad loans and weak demand are hurting the outlook for Indonesian banks' loan growth amid financial authorities pushing for a more affordable lending rate to help revive th

Jakarta – Activists and religious leaders demanded on Sunday that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo end the division among his aides over the events surrounding the 1965 communist purge, which they sa

Jakarta – The government's response to rampant sexual violence against children has been given a mixed reception by activists as well as by victims and their families.

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The controversial alcohol prohibition bill may have been seldom heard about lately, but the political will remains strong to pass it into law within the current sitting pe

Safrin La Batu and Corry Elyda, Jakarta – In 2012, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Gerindra Party, eager to burnish their underdog status, nominated political outsiders

Indonesian activist Adlun Fiqri could be jailed for wearing a t-shirt allegedly bearing a leftist logo, one of many caught up in a backlash against efforts to shine a light on military-backed, anti

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Rights activists have slammed the government's regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on sexual violence against children, saying it focuses on punishing offenders wit

Jakarta – The Election and Democracy Syndicate has suggested the government return to a proportional electoral system for the 2019 legislative elections.

Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – The government's intention to impose harsh punishments on perpetrators of child sexual abuse, as stipulated in a new regulation in lieu of law (Perppu), has gained wi

Jakarta – While law enforcers and experts have come out in support of the regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on sexual violence against children, others have proposed alternative solutions to curb

Purbalingga – Despite facing opposition from a number of mass organizations, the organizer of the Purbalingga Film Festival 2016 has decided to continue screening Pulau Buru Tanah Air Beta at the M

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia has some of the lowest cigarette prices in the world, with a pack costing just US$1.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Health Ministry is pushing for plain packaging on all cigarettes sold in Indonesia to reduce the alarmingly high smoking rate, especially among adolescents, which

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Thursday might have seemed just one of those regular days for most Jakartans, but to beer drinker Dwi Setianto, 27, it was a day of sunlit glory, for it was yesterday that he

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesia's harsh new punishments for child sex offenders – including the death penalty and chemical castration – represent something of a pyrrhic victory for women's adv

Syamsul Huda M. Suhari, Gorontalo – Gorontalo Police are dropping the investigation into the alleged gang rape of a 19-year-old woman from Manado, North Sulawesi, because of a lack of evidence.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The police have asserted their readiness to implement a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on sexual violence against children that includes tougher sentences f

Jewel Topsfield – Indonesia's former foreign minister has emphatically denied a link between the live cattle export ban and an increased flow of asylum seekers, saying it is "shocking" to suggest t

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – A team of public attorneys from the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute have spoken out against the arrest of three former members of the controversial Fajar Nusantara

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – The number of Indonesians aged over 65 years old is estimated to increase by between 7 to 14 percent from the current figure in 2050, leading to increasing budgetary

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – No one can deny that living life as a victim of a terrorist attack, or indeed of wrongful arrest, is heartbreaking, as efforts to heal psychological and hidden phys

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Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – A civil society group has called on the government to include sex education in the school curriculum starting from this year to prevent wrong and misguided information on

Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – A House of Representatives lawmaker has criticized the government's inaction on aiding the recovery of victims of sexual crimes, pointing out that the newly signed re

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Child sex offenders could be executed or chemically castrated in Indonesia under a crackdown following the brutal gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Oil imports will swell to more than US$40 billion in 2019 from the current value of $15 billion, as domestic supply continues to fall amid lack of exploration while demand

Thirteen species of Indonesian birds, including the country's symbolic Javan hawk-eagle, are at serious risk of extinction mainly due to the pet trade, a wildlife watchdog warned Wednesday.

Duncan Graham, Malang, East Java – Indonesia has been rightly promoting its many positives.

Haeril Halim, Ina Parlina and Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The ongoing reforms within the Supreme Court are in question after two judges in Bengkulu were arrested by the Corruption Eradication

Dr Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Honolulu, Hawaii – Late last week, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement rejecting the Solomon Islands Prime Minister's comments on the issue

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The first 20 months under President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo are looking "more ferocious than the New Order", one activist has said.

Jakarta – The Setara Institute, a human rights watchdog, released a report on the religious tolerance of high school students in Jakarta and Bandung, West Java on Tuesday.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Human rights activists are opposed to naming late dictator Soeharto a national hero and have urged the government to reject the idea, given the late president's tr

Jakarta – A father of a kidnapped pro-democracy activist during the country's turbulent 1997-1998 period under the dictatorship of Soeharto strongly demands the government reject proposals to name

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is fighting a losing battle against cigarettes and the health community has not one ally within the government or among other elected state officials, as all

Indonesia has rejected applications from scores of companies for new palm oil operations, an official said on Wednesday, as it cracks down on an industry whose expansion has been blamed for fuellin

Jewel Topsfield, Gelanggang, Lombok – Thirteen-year-old Ayu vomits every year while harvesting tobacco on her family's farm near Garut in West Java.

Lita Aruperes, Manado – Reclamation projects that had been started in Manado in the 1990s had not only had made hundreds of fishermen lose their jobs, but also destroyed mangroves along the city's

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Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – A political analyst has said Golkar newly appointed advisory board chief Aburizal Bakrie is likely to continue to play a leading role in the party, with a substantial

Bambang, Jakarta/Yogyakarta – Activists said on Monday that Indonesia could either maintain the spirit of democracy or return to the era of excessive restriction tantamount to what was seen during