Janet DeNeefe – Twelve years ago, the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival was born of a terrorist attack in Bali; one that took many innocent lives in a tragedy that shocked us all.

Jakarta – Human rights groups have urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to drop a plan that would give the Indonesian Military (TNI) authority to get involved in security matters and civilian funct

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Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesian officials have threatened to shut down Bali's prestigious international writers festival, compelling organisers to cancel sessions discussing the bloody massac

Jakarta – Despite a threat from the management of state-owned toll road operator PT Jasa Marga, around 1,000 outsourced workers will go ahead with their plan to strike next week, on Oct.

Michael Safi – Indonesia's largest writers' festival has been forced to cancel a series of events marking the 1965 massacre of alleged communists, after threats by authorities to revoke its operati

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – South Jakarta District Court judge Sarpin Rizaldi, who ruled in favor of National Police deputy chief Comr. Gen.

Ni Komang Erviani and Erika Anindita, Denpasar/Jakarta – The annual Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) has been forced to cancel a series of panel discussions on the 1965 Communist repression

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Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Following mounting pressure to apply harsher penalties on child sex offenders, the government has given the green light to apply chemical castration on perpetrators in an e

Washington, DC – United States President Barack Obama and Indonesian President Joko Widodo should address increasing threats to women's rights and religious freedom in Indonesia when th

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Attorney General M.

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) reported the growth of Indonesia's labor-intensive sector investments declined by 11.74 percent throughout the first nine months o

Jakarta – The Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) calls on Muslims to conduct a prayer for rain to help manage the haze crisis in the country, a top official of the organization said on Wednesday.

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The Coordinating Investment Board (BKPM) said despite the gloomy domestic outlook, Indonesia's realized investments showed a significant increase up until September 2015 a

Fedina S. Sundaryani – A year-long internal survey conducted by the National Police has concluded that the West Java Police was the best performing provincial police branch among 31 nationwide.

Jakarta – The Defense Ministry's Defending the State directorate general, Muhammad Faisal, said on Thursday that the Defending the State program, through which the government aimed to recruit 100 m

Bandung – Twenty-nine couples in Purwakarta regency, West Java may be forced to marry for staying out past a dating curfew.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A Religious Affairs Ministry official testifying before the Jakarta Corruption Court on Wednesday said that graft suspect and former religious affairs minister Suryadharma A

Jakarta – The Jakarta city Manpower and Transmigration Agency has proposed using an old formula to decide the 2016 minimum wage by taking into account items in the cost of living [KHL] in the city,

Suherdjoko, Semarang – A campus magazine has been taken off the shelves and its journalists have been interrogated by police for publishing a report on the killings of supporters of the now defunct

Jakarta – The majority of buses operated by PT Transportasi Jakarta (Transjakarta) along the 12 busway corridors across the city have failed to pass roadworthy tests, an official says.

Edna Tarigan, Jakarta – Bonar Tigor Naipospos, deputy chairman of the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace, warned on Wednesday that the Defending the State program could be a strategy by Presi

Yogyakarta – Indonesian Islamic Front (FUI) members asked dozens of Afghan asylum seekers placed at Ambarbinangun Youth Hall in Bantul, Yogyakarta, to leave the country because of their Shia belief

Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch has given President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla a score of five out of 10 for their performance after one year in office.

Gorontalo – The Gorontalo District Court has sentenced Gorontalo governor Rusli Habibie to eight months in jail after being found guilty in a defamation case filed by former Gorontalo Police chief

Jakarta – The idea of injecting men who sexually abuse children with female hormones to reduce their sex drive has received support from many public figures, including President Joko "Jokowi" Widod

Jakarta – An additional sanction for child sex offenders, in the form of castration, has received support from the Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Yohana Yembise.

Jakarta – Indonesia's president will soon sign a decree authorising the use of chemical castration to punish paedophiles, the attorney general said, following a string of headline-grabbing child se

Jakarta – The sales of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) in Indonesia have grown at a snail's pace during the past several months as people have reduced their spending to cope with the impact of th

Neles Tebay, Abepura – This year has seen a new development in the Papuan struggle.

Jakarta – The National Police added on Tuesday five more foreign firms to their list of companies suspected of causing forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan that have produced haze over Singapore

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The government is set to cancel its plan to relax certification requirements for downstream timber products.

Paris – Reporters Without Borders is very disappointed by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's performance over freedom of information and media freedom during his first year in office.

Jakarta – The rift that has sheared Indonesia's oldest political party appears no closer to healing, despite a ruling by the highest court in the land on the polarizing issue of its leadership.

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – In the first year of his administration, furniture businessman cum politician Joko "Jokowi" Widodo still lacks the strong leadership necessary for realizing the progra

Samantha Hawley in Jakarta, staff – One year after he was inaugurated as Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo has disappointed the hopeful and angered the pessimists.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police has said it will appoint 10,000 spots across Jakarta to monitor child abuse, after several cases of violence against children made headlines recently.

Jakarta – Despite repeatedly dodging questioning and having to explain the mountain of irregularities surrounding their trip to the United States, two House of Representatives leaders who appeared

Jakarta – When President Joko Widodo came into office one year ago today, his Awesome Indonesia Coalition made up just 208 out of 560 seats at the House of Representatives, making his administratio

Jakarta – Today's first anniversary of the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo administration brought a common theme as supporters and detractors alike both lamented a year of "lost opportunities" and internal di

The joint ministerial decree on the building of houses of worship needs to be revised to avoid religious intolerance, said Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo on Tuesday.

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Jakarta – Public Works and Public Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono said that the ministry would still achieve its year-end targets despite lower-than-expected spending that barely reached 50 per

Jakarta – At least 30 asylum seekers hailing mainly from Afghanistan had to be relocated from their temporary shelter in Yogyakarta after an anti-Shiite mob stormed into their compound on Monday ev

National – Indonesia's second largest Islamic organization, Muhammadiyah, has rejected the government's plan to declare Oct.

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Hundreds of copies of a student magazine published by student publishing institution (LPM) Lentera at the Satya Wacana Christian University's (UKSW) School of Social and Comm

Jakarta – The Association of Semarang Communities for Human Rights (PMS-HAM) said on Tuesday it had reported the retraction of Lentera, a student magazine published by the Satya Wacana Christian Un

Jakarta – Over 50 percent of textile, electronic, toy and food imports are illegal, industry players say.

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers and students demonstrated in front of the State Palace on Tuesday to mark President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's first year in office, calling