Golkar Party chairman candidate Priyo Budi Santoso plans to revive the party's tripartite structure, consisting of the military, bureaucrats and Golkar politicians, often called ABG in the New Orde

Elly Burhaini Faizal – A would-be candidate to be Golkar Party chairman, Priyo Budi Santoso, has expressed his willingness to abolish brokerage practices that have long tainted political parties in

Galuh Wandita – Last week an extraordinary thing took place in Jakarta.

Jakarta – Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator Haris Azhar has invited the government to examine its findings on mass graves of the victims of the 1965 affai

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta branch of the Indonesian Fishermen's Association (HNSI) strongly opposed on Tuesday the government plan to raise fuel prices as of June.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani – The revision of the Regional Elections Law has reached deadlock with the government and the House of Representatives at loggerheads regarding the minimum requirements that s

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo summoned Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan on Monday over reports citing the latter's name in the controversial leaked info

Apriadi Gunawan – Police are urging the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) to resolve a case involving Belawan Police narcotics division chief Adj. Comr.

Irine Hiraswari Gayatri – Growing up as a teenager in the 1990s was easier than today. You got to listen to high-quality rock bands, pop and other MTV hits that were considered original.

Suherdjoko – Having returned home from Jakarta to stage a protest against the construction of a cement factory in their area, farmers from Mount Kendeng in Central Java are still fighting to get th

Eighty-six children rode 27 becak (three-wheeled pedicabs) on a parade in Muara Baru, North Jakarta, on Friday.

Prita Riadhin, Den Haag – At least 200 people staged a protest when welcoming President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo at the front yard of Kurhaus Hotel on Scheveningen beach, the Hague, the Netherlands of

The recommendations from the national symposium on the 1965 tragedy will be given to the government in July, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says.

Ika Krismantari – Raising the topic of homosexuality in the theater may be a risky move for a director working in a conservative religious society like Indonesia.

Hundreds of residents of Pakraman village, Denpasar staged a rally on Thursday to oppose a planned reclamation project in Benoa Bay, Bali which they believe would destroy the environment and their

Human rights watchdog Imparsial has renewed its opposition to a proposal that active military and police personnel be granted the right to contest regional elections without having to resign from a

Mark Colvin: There's widespread scepticism among Indonesia experts after a top Indonesian cabinet Minister yesterday said there was no hard evidence of anti-communist massacres in the country in 19

The kidnapping of girls in Nigeria, who have been reportedly married off to their Boko Haram captors, remains a shocking crime; after two years, the girls are still missing.

Devina Heriyanto – G30S and PKI used to be a pair of infamous abbreviations in the Indonesian public sphere.

The Religious Affairs Ministry urged the House of Representatives on Thursday to revise the 1974 Marriage Law to prevent child marriage.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – The House of Representatives' special committee on the revision of the 2003 Terrorism Law has called for a supervisory mechanism to oversee the extended detention period fo

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – National Police chief Gen.

Keoni Marzuki – Indonesia's Military Commander, General Gatot Nurmantyo, has frequently articulated his concern over proxy wars that have the potential of ripping the country apart.

In little more than a decade, starting in 1965, Asia suffered four man-made catastrophes apart from the Vietnam war; altogether they cost millions of lives. China endured the Cultural Revolution.

The Hague, Netherlands – Indonesian President Joko Widodo paid an official visit to the Netherlands on Friday aimed at drumming up trade and investment from the country that long was Indonesia's co

The government must straighten out Indonesia's history by repairing the reputation of former president Sukarno who has been accused of being involved in the 1965 abortive coup that was blamed on th

Faiza Mardzoeki – In the early 20th century, a woman not yet 20 years old, named Kartini, thought a lot about the people of her time, especially women.

Jakarta – Indonesia is ranked 130th out of 180 countries in the 2016 World Press Freedom Index surveyed by Paris-based international media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia has been listed as one of the world's top 10 manufacturers by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

As part of efforts to reduce corruption at the regional level, activists have urged lawmakers to require incumbent local leaders to resign their posts before seeking re-election.

Erika Anindita Dewi – The steering committee of the Golkar Party's extraordinary national congress (Munaslub) has decided to collect contributions of Rp 5 billion (US$379,000) to Rp 10 billion from

Elly Burhaini Faizal – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has revealed that almost all reclamation projects in Indonesia, including projects in Jakarta, Bali and Makassar, have violat

Lawmakers have been warned not to drag the military nor the police into politics by allowing their respective personnel to take part in the upcoming regional elections.

Abraham Utama, Jakarta – National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Deputy Commissioner Dianto Bachriadi says that Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is lying about the 1965 tragedy.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya – The Jakarta city administration through its city bus management company, PT Transportasi Jakarta (Transjakarta), kicked off the operation of women-only buses when the co

Bambang Muryanto – Artists in Yogyakarta have used a creative way to protest the intolerance that continues to grow in a city that claims to be a dignified city of culture.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned about a symposium on the 1965 massacre, held on 18 and 19 April 2016 in Jakarta.

After more than half a century without clarity on the identity of perpetrators or those who orchestrated the event, some survivors and victims of the 1965 tragedy hope that the government will reha

Andreas Harsono – I've spent the last two days in a Jakarta hotel listening to more than 20 hours of recollections of Indonesia's most sensitive, taboo topic: the state-orchestrated 1965-66 massacr

Hans Nicholas Jong – While maintaining a rigid stance on the death toll and a refusal to apologize for the 1965 tragedy, the government on Tuesday softened its position on the settlement of unanswe

Anton Hermansyah – The two-day symposium on the 1965 tragedy ended on Monday, but historians could not reach any conclusions about this dark episode in Indonesian history, although the organizers t

Despite denials from the military, victims of the 1965 massacre have reaffirmed that the number of people killed in the tragedy could reach as many as 3 million, and the total number of those affec

Missiyah – For hundreds of years, women have been struggling to seize their rights, through organizing themselves and galvanizing a women's movement to push for better government policies, among ot

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – On April 21, Indonesian school girls will don the kebaya – a traditional blouse-dress – and firms will offer discounts to females, as the nation pays tribute to the woman

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Indonesian prison authorities have been told to prepare for another round of executions on the penal island of Nusakambangan almost a year after eight dru

Stephen Wright – A landmark commitment by one of the world's largest producers of tissue and paper to stop cutting down Indonesia's prized tropical forests is under renewed scrutiny as the company

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has declined to meet with fishermen protesting in front of City Hall on Tuesday and insisted that fish caught in the Jakar

Corry Elyda – The Jakarta administration had evicted more than 8,145 families and 6,283 small businesses last year and the number is increasing as the first four months of this year has already see

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Khoirul Amin – The tax amnesty bill, which was formulated by the government and business associations, is now being deliberated at the House of Representatives.