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Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – Despite the potential the Golkar Party has because of its stance on the government, the party needs to be cautious in the run up to the 2019 general election after co

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama on Tuesday criticized the prohibition of books on communism and the raids against various left-wing-related activ

Edo Karensa, Nusa Dua, Bali – The Golkar Party has officially announced it will support President Joko Widodo administration and leave the opposition Red and White Coalition as the country's oldest

Fadli, Batam/Jakarta – The nationwide crackdown on activities and symbols related to communism continues.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A coalition of human rights groups made an urgent call to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to end capital punishment on Monday after it was revealed that the government was pre

Edo Karensa, Yogyakarta – Bootleg liquor has claimed more victims, this time killing at least nine people in Banguntapan, a subdistrict of Bantul in Yogyakarta, police said on Sunday (16/05).

Selfy Momongan (Magang), Jakarta – The recent raids against Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) related paraphernalia and books have attracted the special attention of the National Library (Perpusnas)

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – It was not anticipated that a vibrant celebration of 2016 World Press Freedom Day in Yogyakarta on May 3 would lead to chaotic scenes and scuffles between journalist

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Police are planning a crackdown on the sale of bootleg liquor, locally known as "oplosan", after 13 people died over the weekend after consuming the illicit

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, and Vice President Jusuf Kalla attended the opening of Golkar Party's extraordinary congress in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Saturday evening (14/0

Jakarta – Indonesia's most prominent antigraft watchdog urged the Corruption Eradication Commission to launch an investigation after a recent audit found irregularities surrounding some of the work

Surabaya – The second-largest city in Indonesia, Surabaya, has approved a bylaw that bans the production, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Calls are mounting for the government to introduce sex education into schools nationwide with the legislature throwing its support behind the cause, as anger and frust

Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu was in full battle mode when he spoke of a need to counter what he saw as "the rise of communism" to hundreds of retired generals and members of several

Jakarta – A number of writers and literacy activists have condemned the recent bans on leftist books ordered by the military in an apparent attempt to prevent a feared revival of communism.

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Eighteen years have passed since May 1998, when the capital saw more than 1,000 people killed and dozens of female residents raped over three days of total chaos, a tragedy th

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Dozens of families members of the victims of the May 1998 riots staged a mass prayer and flower-laying ceremony at the front of Citra Mall on Jl.

Jakarta – A seminar to counter the recent government-sponsored symposium on the 1965-66 anti-communist purge will be staged soon in Jakarta, leaders of anti-communist organizations in the city said

Jakarta – Pressure from intolerant people and the sealing-off of Ahmadis' Annur mosque in Bukit Duri, South Jakarta, by the local administration last year, have not discouraged the mosque's members

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John Martinas – The harassment, beating and jailing of independence protesters by Indonesian authorities in Papua continues, while Australia turns a blind eye.

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Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has admitted that military (TNI) and police officers have overreacted to his order to uphold the law against any efforts to spread communist

Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has denied allegations made in a Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) 2015 report on the House's secretariat general, that some lawmakers' work vis

Jakarta, Indonesia – The government sponsored national symposium on 1965 was held in April although reverberations over the forum, which for the first time brought together victims and perpetrators

Jakarta – Retired Indonesian military (TNI) officers are planning to organise an anti-PKI (Indonesian Communist Party) symposium on July 2.

Jakarta – The owners of books related to communism have been asked to hand them over the government.

Benny Wenda – A historic step on the road to freedom for West Papua took place in London last week.

Jakarta – Students from Trisakti University in Jakarta have held a peaceful rally in commemoration of the 1998 shootings, urging the government to settle the unresolved case soon.

Jakarta – Activists are decrying the increasing involvement of the military in Indonesian public affairs, which they say is accompanied by rampant human rights violations and attempts to prevent a

Jakarta – Logos bearing the hammer and sickle, recognized as a communist symbol worldwide, have suddenly become popular in Indonesia.

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The government, spurred by a recent sexual abuse case, will submit a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on sexual violence against children that contains harsher punishmen

Jakarta – People are afraid of communism because they do not understand it and just accept the single narrative of history provided by the government over the past 50 years, an expert has said in t

Jakarta – A panel holding an ethics hearing on the case of two Densus 88 counterterrorism squad members involved in the arrest of terror suspect Siyono has ruled that the agents only breached proce

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – For train commuters in Greater Jakarta, dozens of makeshift huts and tiny houses huddled along the railway are a common sight.

Jakarta – The Environment and Forestry Ministry has told the Jakarta city administration to prevent developing companies from continuing their land reclamation work, while the ministry carries out

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Commuters will have to revise their strategies to get to and from Jakarta during the week as the city administration is set to fully revoke the three-in-one traffic policy nex

Jakarta – The number of drug convicts keeps rising despite the implementation of the death penalty, showing that capital punishment is not that effective in fighting drug-related crime, activists h

Jakarta – Traditional market sellers and buyers may find the latest statistics intriguing, with prices of many food commodities on the rise despite recent data showing that consumer prices have def

Benny Wenda – Earlier this year, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held its extraordinary summit in Jakarta with the theme "Independence is the right of all nations".

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Two fingers on Lim Jit Wee's right hand are ugly stumps; a legacy, he says, of the torture that led to him falsely implicating a man he had never met in a crime punishabl

Jakarta – The upcoming election of new members to the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) should be used to elect more credible commissioners who are able to impose tougher punishment against

Jakarta – Corruption and judicial watchdogs joined forces on Tuesday (10/05) to admonish the Supreme Court for judicial corruption which has engulfed the body and its subaltern courts with at least

Jakarta – Jakarta citizens care more about track records and programs offered by candidates in the upcoming gubernatorial election than sectarian or racial issues, researchers find.

Jakarta – Amnesty International on Wednesday (11/05) slammed Indonesia's plans to execute death-row inmates, following recent reports of inmates being moved to Nusakambangan prison, where prisoners

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government should exclude mining permit (IUP) holders as potential beneficiaries of a planned tax amnesty, NGOs have demanded, arguing that hundreds of them had evad

Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – The Golkar Party's ethics committee will organize a hearing on Thursday to investigate the alleged bribery of regional party officials by a chairman candidate.

Padre James Bhagwan – Last week I ended my column drawing a correlation between the writing of JW Burton, Totaram Sandhya and CF Andrews on the indenture system and the recent report of the Catholi

Jakarta – More than 50 years after the 1965 anti-communist purge, Indonesia has seen a reemergence of communist symbolism and debate through social media, pushing authorities to take serious action