Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Jakarta's police chief has revealed the key role the Australian embassy bomber played behind bars in masterminding this year's Jakarta terror attacks a

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Hefty capital streaming into Indonesia may become a double-edged sword that triggers another episode of massive reversal as experienced in mid 2013.

Safrin La Batu and Nani Afrida, Jakarta – A police officer from the East Jakarta Police was shot in the thigh on Tuesday night after he and three of his friends exchanged gunfire with an officer fr

Nethy Dharma Somba, Sorong – Indigenous communities in Klamono district, Sorong regency, West Papua, have called for the formulation of a regency bylaw on customary forests to provide greater legal

Jakarta – The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, known as KontraS, on Wednesday (02/03) urged President Joko Widodo to form a presidential team to resolve past human rights abu

Jakarta – The House Of Representatives is set to allow former convicts to run in local elections through an amendment to the Regional Elections (Pilkada) Law.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has been criticized for issuing a circular to broadcasting institutions prohibiting the appearance of "feminine men

The ghost of New Order has haunted this nation ever since pro-democracy movements made a mark back in 1998.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Efforts to combat chronic and widespread malnutrition have started to bear fruit as the percentage of children under five who suffer from stunted growth experienced th

Jakarta – The chief of Jakarta Police has blamed a Tuesday night gunfight between a navy officer and four police officers in East Jakarta was caused by a misunderstanding.

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – The struggle of Jakarta's residents who oppose water privatization is back to square one after the Jakarta High Court overturned the lower court's decision and granted the ce

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Observers say that an internal Cabinet rift involving two ministers over the fate of an important gas block has stained the government's credibility and cast doubt on it

Jakarta – After being evicted from the Kalijodo red-light district in North Jakarta, sex workers have started to move to the Dadap Cheng In red-light district in Tangerang regency.

Ayomi Amindoni – Indonesia has recorded a 0.09 percent month-on-month deflation in February, with a modest year-on-year inflation at 4.42 percent amid lower food and electricity prices.

Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who is also a former chairman of the Golkar Party, said the democratic process was costly, but not all political expenses could be directly categorized as "mon

Jakarta – A lawmaker from the House of Representatives' Commission I overseeing defense and foreign affairs, Tubagus Hasanuddin, said the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission's (KPI) policy to ban TV

Indonesia's human rights body has demanded lawmakers include the supervision of antiterror squad Densus 88 in the ongoing revision of the Terrorism Law.

Jakarta – The National Intelligence Agency (BIN) plans spend Rp700 billion (US$54 million) to recruit more agents in response to concerns over personnel constraints, a lawmaker has said.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Diverging from the government's planned amendments of the 2003 Terrorism Law, the country's spy agency demanded on Monday that intelligence officers be bestowed wit

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Jakarta – A leftist festival dubbed "Belok Kiri Festival" or "Turn Left Festival," scheduled to start last weekend in Taman Ismail Marzuki, Central Jakarta, has been relocated to the Jakarta Legal

Jakarta – Indonesia's government will back controversial revisions to the law governing its top anti-graft agency, a senior cabinet minister said in a statement on Monday.

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Ayomi Amindoni, Business – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered members of his administration working in the energy sector to immediately increase fuel stocks to maximize benefits from the pl

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – Poultry industry players have denied the allegation from an antimonopoly agency that they have acted like a cartel by controlling production, leading to an oversupply and f

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) decided over the weekend that it would not directly take part in the upcoming Golkar Party national congress slated for April.

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Kalijodo – one of Jakarta's most notorious red light districts since the days of Dutch colonialism – ended not with a bang but with a whimper.

Haeril Halim, Syofiardi Bachyul Jb and Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Padang/Pekanbaru – The Home Ministry has ordered local administrations in Kalimantan and Sumatra to launch preventive measures to conta

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Consumer prices are expected to have dropped in February, providing more room for Bank Indonesia (BI) to further cut its key rate to help revive the country's sluggish e

Arkhelaus W., Jakarta – The Preparatory Committee-All Indonesia United Workers Confederation (KP-KPBI) condemned Jakarta Police's action banning the Belok Kiri.Fest event to be held at Taman Ismail

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Al Fatah Islamic School for transgender people in Yogyakarta has ceased all activity and its owners and students are keeping a low profile after the school was shut d

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The shutdown of Jakarta's Kalijodo red-light district in North Jakarta reveals a lack of fairness in the way the Jakarta administration clears areas for develop

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions (KSPI) has reinstated its support for the newly passed public housing savings (Tapera) program, pinning its hopes on the new

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Facebook has suspended an Indonesian woman's account after she posted a series of historical photos of local women, based on numerous reports of "nudity" and "expl

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Michael Neilson, Jakarta – On the University of Indonesia campus in Depok, south of Jakarta, there is a group that gets together twice a month over a "pot-luck" dinner to discuss topics generally c

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY), the external judicial supervisory body, has elected its commissioner Aidul Fitriciada Azhari as its new chairman and Sukma Violetta as deputy ch

Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP) agreed to appoint Emron Pangkapi as interim party chairman during its national meeting (Mukernas) on Thursday.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Local authorities of Kotagede district in Yogyakarta have decided to shut down the Islamic Al Fatah School for transgender students and ban any religious activities f

Tama Salim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has officially opened the legislation process for revising the 2003 Terrorism Law to strengthen measures to thwart growing radical

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – In response to public complaints with regard to poor quality programs, the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has demanded stronger legal measures to enable t

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The National Awakening Party (PKB) is at the center of a bribery investigation related to infrastructure projects in Maluku as more of its lawmakers have been implicated in

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Indonesia has a great potential to become a hub for manufacturing industries but poor infrastructure and an unpleasant business climate remain the major challenges that the

Indonesia's gay community has come under attack, with the country's Defence Minister labelling the community a "threat" and likening fighting it to "a kind of modern warfare".

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Jewel Topsfield – Two former teachers at the prestigious Jakarta Intercultural School have been re-sentenced to jail for allegedly sodomising three preschool boys, in a decision that will send shoc

Jakarta – When the police started investigating a number of abortion clinics in Cikini, Central Jakarta, the immediate question from local residents was: "Why only now?" as they had known about the

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