The nomination as Golkar Party chairman of Hutomo 'Tommy' Mandala Putra, the youngest son of late former president Soeharto, will hamper the party's struggle to rebuild its image, an observer has o

Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo said Sunday that any military official proven to be a drug user or dealer would face dismissal from his or her duties.

Tens of thousands of workers from diverse unions in Greater Jakarta participated in a high-spirited rally in commemoration of International Labor Day, also known as May Day, on Sunday in the capita

Jogja – Hundreds of workers from various trade unions in the Central Java province of Yogyakarta commemorated International Labour Day or May Day by declaring the formation of a mass organisation c

Corry Elyda – Dian Riski Rosmayanti, a 25-year-old worker, already felt dizzy when she got to the women-only train car that would transport her from Depok to her office in Pasar Baru, Central Jakar

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia recorded monthly deflation of 0.45 percent in April, an impact of a cut in fuel prices and concurrent reduction in public transportation fares at the beginning of the mon

Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) spoke on Sunday against a revision of Government Regulation No.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Ni Komang Erviani – Workers and labor activists spent their Sunday celebrating International Labor Day, also known as May Day, staging rallies in major cities nationwide,

Banda Aceh – Scores of workers from the Aceh Labour Alliance (ABA) in Indonesia's northern most province of Aceh commemorated May Day by calling on the governor to set the provincial minimum wage (

Nafiysul Qodar, Jakarta – Demonstrating workers from a number of different labour alliances held huge rallies in several parts of Jakarta on Sunday May 1.

Prima Gumilang, Jakarta – The Internationale was sung at the close of a commemoration of International Labour Day or May Day in Jakarta.

Taufik Ismail, Jakarta – Thousand of protesting workers who commemorated May Day on Monday May 1 held a theatrical action in front of the State Palace in which they placed a giant puppet inside an

Workers' rights NGO Migrant Care says Indonesian workers are still facing restrictions in expressing their opposition to the vulnerability and oppression they face in their workplaces.

Indonesia is pushing to ban new palm oil operations after last year's haze-belching forest fires were partly blamed on the industry's expansion, but producers are warning the move could hit the eco

Fahrizal Syam, Makassar – Thousands of workers from various different trade unions in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar held a rally to commemorate Labour Day at the flyover on Jl.

Masfiatur Rochma – Thousands of workers held a protest action at the East Java Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) and the governor's office in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya on

Puji Sukiswanti, Denpasar – Hundreds of workers from the United Balinese Labour Alliance (ABBB) held a rally to commemorate International Labour Day which falls on May 1.

Andrian Salam Wiyono – A commemoration of International Labour Day or May Day was also held in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung where journalists from various different trade unions demo

Shinta Maharani, Yogyakarta – Hundreds of informal sector workers from the Yogyakarta People's and Worker Alliance (ARPY) called for the protection to ensure the rights of home-based and domestic w

Andrian Salam Wiyono – The commemoration of International Labour Day or May Day was marked by a protest action at the governor's office in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung on Sunday May

Under a democratic political system, people's aspirations are supposed to be channeled through government – in Indonesia's case, through the House of Representatives.

Thousands of hotspots have been detected by the government this year, an early warning sign of the rampant forest fires which have in the past caused massive losses in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

Corry Elyda – Saying that walking in Jakarta is a pernicious activity is not an exaggeration considering the poor condition of sidewalks or the lack of them in the capital.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives ended its current assembly period with a plenary session on Friday (29/04), as it goes into recess until May 17 without having passed a single bill.

About 17,000 security officers will be deployed to secure the commemoration of International Labor Day, or May Day, this coming Sunday, the same day when residents of Jakarta and its neighboring ci

Erika Anindita Dewi – The Golkar Party's central executive board (DPP) has outlined several rules ahead of the party's extraordinary national congress (Munaslub), which will be held in Bali in May.

The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) reported the State Secretary to the Central Information Commission (KIP) Thursday following the former's rejection to disclose t

Ayomi Amindoni – The government has unveiled a 12th economic stimulus policy package containing 10 points aiming to facilitate starting small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Prima Wirayani and Stefani Ribka – Indonesia's economy may recover more slowly than expected as the expansion of the manufacturing industry, which the government hopes will propel growth amid low p

The government is spending too much on logistics in prisons due to its repressive judicial system, experts say.

The government's plan to build more prisons will not solve overcapacity problems because the main cause of overcrowding is Indonesia's harsh judicial system, experts have said.

Lita Aruperes – Fifty fish-processing companies in Bitung, North Sulawesi, have sent thousands of workers home following the implementation of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministerial Decrees No.

Anton Hermansyah – Rating agency Moody's has given a warning about Indonesian corporate debt, which relies heavily on foreign sources, while choosing not to downgrade the sovereign rating of the co

Ayomi Amindoni – Bank Indonesia (BI) has called for structural reforms in the industrial sector to increase the competitiveness of local companies and strengthen downstream business activity.

Jewel Topsfield, Karuni Rompies and Tom Allard – A groundbreaking new penal code that would allow for prisoners on death row in Indonesia to have their sentences commuted to a jail term could be pa

Stephen Wright & Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's decision to investigate anti-communist massacres in 1965 is being met with wariness by rights groups, some of which are r

Elly Burhaini Faizal – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's efforts to start a reconciliation process around the tragedy of 1965 demands both domestic and international recognition and support, a right

Fedina S. Sundaryani – Oil and gas companies are increasingly reluctant to keep exploring for new deposits as oil prices remain at an all-time low.

Ati Nurbaiti – A national symposium on the bloodshed of 1965 has brought together the persecuted, the persecutors and their respective families.

Haeril Halim – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says its investigation into the multitrillion-rupiah Jakarta Bay reclamation megaproject has confirmed that the project contravenes the la

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani – The House of Representatives has almost achieved its mission to push the government to apply lower requirements for political parties for naming candidates in regional elect

Activists rallied on Wednesday in protest against the 2016 World Tobacco (WT) Process and Machinery Asia event at JIExpo, Jakarta, in the wake of the finalization of a controversial tobacco bill th

Ni Komang Erviani – The Sabha Pandita (high priests) of the Indonesian Hindu Religious Council (PHDI) have called on the government to review its decision over the controversial Benoa Bay reclamati

Lita Aruperes and Ni Komang Erviani – Reclamation off Manado beach, North Sulawesi, has forced fishermen in Daseng Panglima, Sario district, to switch occupations as they find it increasingly diffi

Nani Afrida – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered Coordinating Political, legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan to find any mass graves from the 1965 bloodshed, to allow a ver

Jakarta – A group of activists lodged a complaint against Harry Azhar Azis, the chairman of the Supreme Audit Agency, or BPK, to the body's ethics committee after Harry's name appeared in the so-ca

Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan denied any wrongdoing in relation to his involvement in a shell company as was reported in Tempo magazine.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – Activists from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have urged the government to immediately respond to reports of the existence of state officials in the Panama Papers.

Erika Anindita Dewi – The House of Representatives' Legislation Body (Baleg) has been quietly working to finalize the controversial tobacco bill that was already rejected by Health Ministry last De

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani – House of Representatives leaders dipped deeper into the internal conflict within the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) on Monday after they decided to scrutinize the dismissal