Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The Movie Censorship Agency (LSF) has admitted to being confused about censoring content on US-based streaming movie provider Netflix, because of a legal basis of obsole

Jambi – A considerable number of residents suffer from mental disorders in Merangin regency, Jambi, with local health agency data listing 205 people with psychiatric disorders across the province.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Factions of the House of Representatives agreed on Monday not to grant license revocation authority to the country's broadcasting body for sanctioning television st

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government should move away from its dependency on dirty coal to cleaner renewable energy if it is to meet its ambitious capacity target to install 35 gigawatts (G

Ligia J. Giay – A recent article by Sade Bimantara on how Papua is "already free and its rights protected" reeks of what it means to be privileged in Indonesia.

Jakarta – The government plans to form a joint team to examine mass graves allegedly used to bury victims of the 1965 communist purge as part of its commitment to resolving the tragedy that has bee

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed law enforcers to enforce the laws against the use of communist imagery, National Police chief Gen.

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Jakarta – An internal dispute at the Muslim-based Prosperous Justice Party has intensified with ousted lawmaker Fahri Hamzah calling for party president Sohibul Iman to step down from his post.

Dieqy Hasbi Widhana – Following the 1965 International People's Tribunal (IPT65) in The Hague and the National Symposium on the 1966 Tragedy in Jakarta, there has been widespread arrests of people

Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) labour activist Iswan Abdullah A Siata is paying close attention to the communist movement that has begun to reemerge in Indonesia of late.

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Nurul Hidayat, Mojokerto - Five members of a local band called Mesin Sampink in East Java have been arrested by the Mojokerto municipal police for playing the song Genjer-Genjer during a music perf

Mei Amelia, Jakarta – The Kebayoran Baru sectoral police have questioned a clothing trader in the Block M shopping district of South Jakarta for selling T-shirts with pictures of the hammer-and-sic

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Thirteen drug offenders on death row in Indonesia are listed to face the firing squad in a further round of executions expected within weeks.

Jakarta – Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace chairperson Hendardi believes that the recent spate of propaganda about the rise of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), which is being linked to

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Standard & Poor's (S&P), the only global rating agency that has yet to release an update on Indonesia's sovereign rating, says the country's economy is "fairly g

Helen Davidson – The Australian federal police should withhold information from foreign enforcement agencies if sharing it may lead to a person being subject to the death penalty, a parliamentary i

Jakarta – Literary forms like the short story and the poem nowadays feature less and less in printed media because of market conditions, an artist says.

Jewel Topsfield, Cirebon – It's hard to know for certain what a Muslim saint who was born in 1448 might have looked like, but for a reasonable price you can wear his portrait on a T-shirt.

Ayomi Amindoni – Most people born after 1965 only learn about the 1965 tragedy through school textbooks and the G30S/PKI movie that many historians deem a propaganda tool of the New Order regime.

Jakarta – Child advocates on Saturday (07/05) warned the government to take serious preventative action against child sex crimes, rather than focusing on law revisions imposing harsher personalitie

Indonesia saw its unemployment rate slightly fall in February, thanks to a higher absorption rate of workers by a number of sectors, including trade and services, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS

Agnes Anya – Residents have criticized the city administration for ignoring suburban development, accusing it of having prioritized specific projects in a bid to beautify the capital ahead of the 2

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Despite its hasty move to evict Pasar Ikan residents and plans to kick out residents of Luar Batang in North Jakarta, the city administration has not made a detailed plan on

Benny Giay – On Monday, Indonesian police arrested nearly 1,500 protestors in Jayapura, Papua.

Ayomi Amindoni – The ASEAN Literary Festival 2016 continues as its second day on Friday saw a varied discussion about voicing social issues despite protests from several groups at the festival's op

Indonesia and Russia will sign a purchase agreement for eight Russian-made Sukhoi SU-35 jets in May as part of Indonesia's plan to renew its primary weaponry system, or alutsista.

Bambang Muryanto – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will investigate alleged human rights violations in the recent shutting down of World Press Day celebrations by the police an

Liza Yosephine – The recent case of the gang rape and murder of a junior high schoolgirl in a remote village in Bengkulu has gathered hundreds of people in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, to speak up

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia's slow pace of economic growth in the first quarter of 2016 is mainly due to the limited growth in both government spending and investment, a Bank Indonesia (BI) official

Pito Agustin Rudiana, Shinta Maharani, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Sultan Hamengku Buwono X has defended the Yogyakarta metropolitan police for shutting down an event commemorating International Press

A local group is organizing demonstrations against this year's ASEAN Literary Festival (ALF), accusing the event's organizers of having "ulterior motives".

Siswanto, Welly Hidayat – Islamic demonstrators have protested against the 3rd Asean Literary Festival (ALF) 2016 which is to be held today Thursday May 5 at the Ismail Marzuki Cultural Centre in C

Thirty journalists, representing a variety of mass media outlets in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), staged a rally to demand guarantees for press freedom on Tuesday to commemorate World Press Fr

Bambang Muryanto – The Yogyakarta Police dispersed members of the city's Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) as they attempted to commemorate World Press Day on Tuesday.

Indra Budiari – Human rights activists deplored on Tuesday the city administration's decision to involve military officers in evictions, saying it was a violation of law and could potentially lead

Agnes Anya – The dispute between the Jakarta administration and Luar Batang residents of North Jakarta has grown more bitter with the residents violently showing their refusal toward the officials

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani – The country's antigraft agency has lambasted the Golkar Party's policy that imposes a Rp 1 billion (US$76,000) registration fee for each candidate contesting the party's upc

Erika Anindita Dewi – Reports of rampant sexual violence against women and girls have not motivated lawmakers to bring forward deliberations of a sexual violence bill, arguing that there are many o

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Survivors of Indonesia's anti-communist massacres in 1965 submitted a list of what they say are more than 100 mass graves to the government on Monday after the president c

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – Right activists visited the Office of the Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister on Monday to report their findings on 122 mass graves across Java and

Sukma Indah Permana, Yogyakarta – A film showing of the documentary "Buru Island My Homeland" (Pulau Buru Tanah Tanah Air Beta) at the offices of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in th

Joshua Oppenheimer – There has been tremendous concern over the ways climate change will affect human rights, but little attention to how human rights abuse affects our global climate.

Rights activists are calling on the government to immediately pass the sexual violence bill, having deemed the bill crucial to protect women from such crime.

Margareth S. Aritonang – Public ignorance and poor law enforcement have made children vulnerable to crime, particularly rape, a child protection activist has said.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya – Hundreds of North Jakarta residents held a rally in front of Jakarta City Hall on Tuesday to protest the frequent evictions by the Jakarta administration under the leade

Elly Burhaini Faizal – The sun shone brightly on the hundreds of fishermen occupying reclaimed Islet G in Jakarta Bay on Sunday, April 17.

Ayomi Amindoni – Manufacturing was under pressure in the first quarter of 2016, with a 1.41 percent quarter-on-quarter (qoq) decline, according to the latest reading of the Central Statistics Agenc

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya – Motorcycle riders mounting the sidewalk is a common practice across the city, particularly when roads are packed with other vehicles.