From April 18th up until the 22nd 2016, the Indonesian President Joko Widodo will pay a visit to the EU and the Member States among others, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom and Germany.

Papang Hidayat – She was the only woman on the stage. On either side stood uniformed men, their stern gaze bearing down on her.

Prime Minister David Cameron must challenge Indonesian President Joko Widodo over the country's woeful human rights record during his visit to the UK this week, Amnesty International said today.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Islamic outfit in Indonesia, has called on the government to uncover the truth behind the violence and repression that wracked the nation

Jakarta – Indonesian activists boycotted a state-backed forum on the anti-communist purge of 1965 on Tuesday, a day after a senior minister said the government would not apologise for the one of th

Anton Hermansyah – President Joko Widodo's visit to Europe shows the government's concern over declining European Union (EU) trade with Indonesia.

Callistasia Anggun Wijay – A fisherman's group has demanded that the Jakarta administration repair the environmental damage done to Jakarta Bay by reclamation projects.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Agnes Anya – The central government and the Jakarta administration have agreed to suspend the multimillion-dollar reclamation of land in Jakarta Bay to allow officials tim

Joe Cochraneapril, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia's security minister said on Monday at a symposium devoted to the mass atrocities committed half a century ago during anti-Communist purges in the c

Tassia Sipahutar – Recent data suggesting an improvement to equality in the country has not impressed economists who believe that it merely reflects restrained consumption among the wealthy and ris

Erika Anindita Dewi – The Terrorism Law revision must include human rights protection to prevent incidents such as the recent death of terrorism suspect Siyono from reoccurring, House of Representa

Rizal Harahap and Severianus Endi – The general public were warned about the possibility of massive forest and land fires on Monday, after fires ravaged a total 700 ha in Meranti Islands regency, R

Anton Hermansyah – In a historic move, the Indonesian government has for the first time organized an official event to talk about the massacre of people accused of being communist sympathizers in 1

Niniek Karmini & Stephen Wright, Jakarta – Indonesia on Monday convened an unprecedented discussion of anti-communist massacres in 1965-66 that brought together survivors and representatives of

Anton Hermansyah – Survivors of the 1965 tragedy have called for reconciliation through the revelation of the truth behind the mass killing of members and sympathizers of the Indonesian Communist P

Lauren Farrow and Heru Rahadi – For years Svetlana Nyoto lived with the fear that someone would find out who she was.

Anton Hermansyah – Current economic policies have yet to show adequate support for the development of the manufacturing industry, which may lead the country further into the middle income trap, exp

Safrin La Batu – Huge banners were held and the rallying cry "stop reclamation" was chanted as hundreds of fishermen packed Muara Angke Port in North Jakarta on Sunday morning.

An alliance of civil society groups calling themselves People's Decree have called on the Jakarta administration to halt all planned evictions, stating that rights violations have been found to occ

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia's Gini coefficient ratio improved by 0.01 to 0.4 in September 2015. The Gini ratio is an indicator measuring income-distribution inequality.

Ayomi Amindoni – The vast, mineral-rich province of Papua has the worst income equality in the country, with a Gini ratio of 0.43 percent, exceeding the national ratio of 0.4, according to the Cent

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The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) administration has announced that a civil servant from Lembata regency has been dismissed for joining the Fajar Nusantara (Gafatar) movement.

The government has stressed that there are no plans for an official apology for the 1965 anti-communist purge, an official said Monday.

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Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Indonesia's chief security minister said the country must make peace with its past but ruled out a government apology to the victims of the 1965 anti-c

Despite the rising number of internet users, a digital gulf is dividing the archipelago with wildly unequal access, speed and proficiency between more developed western and poor eastern regions.

Michael Kodas, Kenyala, Indonesia – The orange-furred toddler survived one of the most destructive wildfires on record, but with a plastic tube leashing her neck to the porch of a small

Jakarta – Tensions flared during a discussion on Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purges on Monday (18/04), with the major point of contention revolving around how the government should address w

Elly Burhaini Faizal – A high school history teacher in Batam, Riau Islands, has brought alternative narratives of the 1965 to 1966 communist purge into class as a way to reveal the truth behind th

Ayomi Amindoni – The National Economic and Industry Committee (KEIN) has said industrialization should be the locomotive pulling Indonesia's economic growth.

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Elly Burhaini Faizal – Human Rights Watch (HRW) deputy Asia director Phelim Kine has said the critical issue of human rights should not get lost in the diplomatic mix during the visit of President

Human rights activists have warned the government not to use next week's national symposium on the 1965-1966 mass killings as a way to force a one-sided reconciliation that upholds the impunity of

Yenni Kwok – A half-century after at least half a million people were killed in a brutal pogrom against suspected communists and communist sympathizers, Indonesia is still unsure about whether it i

Anton Hermansyah – Indonesia registered a trade surplus of US$1.65 billion in the first quarter of this year, amid a 14-percent cumulative year-on-year (YoY) decline in exports to $33.59 billion.

Erika Anindita Dewi – The Islamic United Development Party (PPP) will submit a bill on the anti-propaganda of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) content to the House of Representati

Anton Hermansyah – Despite a slight month-on-month (MoM) increase in March, the daily income of low-wage laborers in the country's informal sectors are being eroded by inflation, a Central Statisti

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge, Jakarta – A recent three-day visit by Coordinating Security, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan to Papua, Indonesia's easternmost region, was n

Trade unions have called on the government to issue a regulation that protects the rights of homeworkers, including a decent wage and safety as they have been neglected for years.

Ary Hermawan – The sinister circumstances surrounding the death of suspected terrorist Siyono and the blatant cover-up attempts by the police are no trifles.

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Ni Komang Erviani – Following several large rallies against the planned Benoa Bay reclamation project, the Bali Police have called on people not to stage demonstrations on weekends as protests may

Siyono's wife Suratmi probably did the best thing she could when she asked for help from Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Islamic organization, to figure out why her husband died in the cus

Terror suspect Siyono's family continues to receive threats from the police, a defense team for the family has said.

Nine female protestors from Mount Kendeng in Rembang regency, Central Java, cemented their feet in the aim of not only to protest against cement plant developments in their hometown but also to rem

Ria Apriyani, Cianjur – Police have shut down a meeting by victims of the mass killings in 1965-66 that was to be held in Cipanas, Bogor, West Java on the grounds that members of the Pancasila Yout

Liza Yosephine – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said an apology over the atrocities of 1965 would be futile unless the whole truth was revealed.

Jakarta – The United States must disclose information contained in its confidential archives related to the 1965-66 anti-communist massacres, as high-ranking Indonesian officials repeatedly said th

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Calls for the Indonesian government to launch a truth and reconciliation process to address the slaughter of half a million suspected communists in the 1960s are growing ahead