Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ) condemned on Tuesday the Jakarta Police's move of issuing it a letter pressuring the council to cancel a discussion on the 1965 t

Today, celebrating international human rights day, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) expresses its concern about various forms of human rights violations still occurring in Indon

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have banned a reading and discussion of a drama script titled "Family Album: #50years1965" at the Jakarta Theater Festival (FTJ) that was scheduled to take

Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – Communications and Information Technology Minister Rudiantara says a draft of the revision of the controversial clause 27 of the Electronic Information and Trans

Jakarta – The Jakarta Art Council (DKJ) released a statement on Tuesday saying that a drama dealing with the events of 1965 at the Jakarta Theater Festival (FTJ) will be staged despite

Padang – Dozens of journalists affiliated with the West Sumatra Anti-violence Journalists Coalition (KWAK) staged a rally on Monday at the temporary Padang headquarters of the West Suma

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Provided with a limited allocation from the state budget, the government may only have the capacity to restore less than 5 percent of the total peatland ar

Ganug Nugroho Adi – A week after the world commemorated 'World AIDS day' on Dec 1, nine children living with HIV have been rejected from their new house in Surakarta, the home-town of P

Jakarta – A LIPI researcher has recommended that the Jakarta administration limit construction on coastal areas in North Jakarta as a measure to prevent worse land subsidence and floodi

Nicholas Jong, National – The Constitutional Court (MK) rejected on Monday a judicial review filed by a civil society organization that had sought to strip the House of Representatives

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors have called on Jakarta Corruption Court judges to sentence former NasDem party secretary-general Patrice Rio

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Indonesia is at risk of leaving its poor and vulnerable behind as the nation's income inequality continues its rapid rise, a World Bank official has said.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Legal activists on Sunday slammed a contempt of court draft bill for limiting reports on court proceedings and judges.

Jakarta – House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon has accused PT Freeport Indonesia president director Maroef Sjamsoeddin of intentionally causing conflict between the legisla

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – As world prices continue to plunge, oil-and-gas companies operating in Indonesia are expected to further lower spending next year amid a slowdown in explorat

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Djemi Amnifu and Apriadi Gunawan, Surakarta/Kupang/Medan – As election day nears, candidate pairs are worrying about the possibility of cheating and vote-buying by th

Jakarta – An accident involving a commuter train and a Metro Mini bus that killed 18 of the bus' passengers in Tambora, West Jakarta, on Sunday and the skidding of a Kopaja bus that kil

Jakarta – Tumiso Lukas still remembers the morning of Dec.

Paris – The Indonesian government has introduced a monitoring system named the Indonesian National Accounting Carbon System (INCAS) in a bid to reduce national carbon emissions.

Edna Tarigan, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has annouced that the city's transportation department has suspended route permits for more than a thousand Metro

Jakarta – The Bogor City administration's plan to relocate a church belonging to the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin congregation faces strong opposition from congregation memb

Jakarta – Legal experts and activists have slammed a bill that proposes penalizing anyone criticizing court proceedings, including journalists, with contempt of court.

Jakarta – Indonesian Women Against Corruption (PIA) activists have called on House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto to remember the promises he made as a people's representative

Pekanbaru – Police in Pekanbaru, Riau, have come under fire for clashing with university students and beating a journalist at a congress for the Islamic Students Association.

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The popularity of several local leaders set the stage for election campaigning ahead of this year's local elections.

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has recently updated its outlook on Indonesia, forecasting moderate gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 4.8 percent in 20

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – Should the sanctity of an investment contract always be honored and should business contracts be held sacred? Not always, assert Louis T.

Jakarta – Dozens of environmental activists grouped under the Alliance of Earth Our Home held a street rally on Saturday

Jakarta – Indonesia is home to the most wildlife crime involving illegally traded endangered species in Southeast Asia, in both the domestic and export markets, according to the Nationa

Jakarta – More than 32,000 Indonesian women experienced unwanted pregnancies between 2010 and 2014, one of the highest figures among ASEAN countries, according to data from the World He

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Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has accused certain parties of politicizing fishermen to oppose a reclamation project in Jakarta Bay and has stressed that no Ja

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is gearing up for the simultaneous regional elections, slated for Dec. 9 in 269 regions throughout Indonesia.

Janis Hooper – Over four days in November, the voices of survivors of the 1965 Indonesian massacres were heard by a hushed crowd of several hundred people, mainly Indonesian exiles, gat

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Pekanbaru – About 1,000 workers of PT Beasco Housing Maintenance, a subcontractor of PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia (CPI), rallied on Thursday at the entrance of CPI's Minas Field in Siak

Jakarta – Indonesia is expected to master military technology and produce military equipment to meet its own needs, Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu stated.

Fergus Jensen & Wilda Asmarini, Jakarta – The operator of one of the world's biggest copper and gold mines was at the center of a major political scandal in Indonesia after confirmi

Jakarta – The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) has proposed income tax cuts to support the labor-intensive footwear and textile industry.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Amid growing concerns over safety standards in the country's aviation industry, the government will tighten regulations on aircraft maintenance and flight

Thanks to the House of Representatives ethics council members who voted for an open hearing of a misconduct case implicating House Speaker Setya Novanto, the people have seen for themse

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Human rights and judicial watchdogs have claimed that a child abuse case that led to the imprisonment of teachers and janitors at the Jakarta Intercultural Scho

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Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) has claimed that owners of rice mills and large-scale traders in rice production provinces are resp

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI-Indonesia) in strongly criticizing the actions of

Jakarta – Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Yohana Susana Yembise has urged lawmakers to include articles mandating access to public facilities for disabled people as th

Jakarta – Balinese customary law does not recognize same-sex marriage as it is against Hindu beliefs, an expert said recently.

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Inside Indonesia, a magazine focusing on Indonesia created by academicians and scientists living in Australia has digitized its archives, including articles

Kai Thaler – Fifty years ago today, the US Embassy in Indonesia sent a cable to the State Department asking for funding to help civilian groups that the United States knew were engaged

Joe Cochrane, Jakarta – The pilots of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed off Indonesia last year appear to have reset the circuit breaker of a computer system that regulated the airc