Hans Nicholas Jong – Activists have urged the government to revise its Intended National Determined Contribution (INDC), saying the emissions target is flawed and indicative of the government's lac

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by palm oil company PT Kallista Alam and ordered the company to pay fines totalling Rp 366 billion (US$25.6 million) for illeg

Jakarta – Up to 26,506 workers in Indonesia have been laid off while the rupiah has been weakening, said Manpower Minister Hanif Dhakiri on Saturday.

Jakarta – Business players and analysts have strongly criticized the central bank's recent policy that required all business transactions conducted in the Indonesian territory be carried out in rup

Jakarta – The United Nations Children's Fund's Indonesia office has been focusing on factors such as child development, social policy, education, communication and child protection, key objectives

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's child mortality has declined substantially thanks to government and civil society interventions, a new global UNICEF report says.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Ethics Council has launched a probe into potential violations committed by House Speaker Setya Novanto and his deputy, Fadli Zon, in what has been dubbed "th

Jakarta – City councilors from Jakarta have come under fire over the cost of their purported "study trip" to Bali, and their only response has been to complain that they don't get enough money to b

Jakarta – A rights group, the Commission for Missing Person and Victims of Violence (Kontras), warned that the newly inaugurated National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen.

Tassia Sipahutar and Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Economic analysts have been underwhelmed by the government's newly launched economic policy package, regarding it as lacking the fresh solutions needed

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said on Thursday that the National Police had yet to hand over suspended Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leader Bambang Widjojanto, who is a pe

Up to 134 regulations in 17 ministries and state institutions are set to be deregulated.

On Wednesday, the government announced what President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo called the first of a series of regulatory and bureaucratic reforms designed to boost business and economic activity and s

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Amid the country's economic slowdown, the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has urged the government to reduce its coal dependency in its plan to build powe

Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi, Jakarta – As Indonesian President Joko Widodo was preparing on Wednesday to present a grand package of measures aimed at restoring investors' faith in the competenc

Jakarta – The newly inaugurated chief of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), Comr. Gen.

Rizal Harahap and Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Pekanbaru/Padang – A day after being appointed the head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Willem Rampangilei pledged on Wednesday to clear up

Jakarta – Hundreds of university students from Jakarta and Banten organized rallies on Thursday to demand that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's government immediately act to ease pressures caused b

Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency may be forced to postpone its ambitious plan to recruit 1,000 agents and informants for this year's regional elections as the government looks set to slash i

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – People's decreasing purchasing power as a result of the downturn in the economy and increases in the prices of staple foods has affected demand for livestock ahead of I

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Ten plantation companies operating in Riau, South Sumatra, Jambi and Kalimantan provinces may see their licences revoked, and may be fined as investigators probe whether the

Jakarta – Women continue to be discriminated against in Indonesia through prevailing laws, despite progress on some fronts, according to a study by the World Bank.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court on Thursday granted a plea lodged by high-profile lawyer turned graft suspect Otto Cornelis Kaligis to receive additional visits from family and colleagu

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Responding to a planned defense budget cut, Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo said that he would order a reduction in the procurement of new weapons.

Jakarta – Indonesia has more than halved its child mortality rate in the past 25 years, but malnutrition remains a major hurdle, a new Unicef report shows.

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Syofiardi Bachyul Jb and Rizal Harahap, Padang/Pekanbaru – Thick haze produced by land and forest fires has continued to blanket several parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan, forcing local authorities t

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has issued an official apology for a publicity stunt involving House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto appearing at US presidential hopeful Donald Trum

Jakarta – Religious Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin has called on Indonesians to pray for rainfall as the archipelago continues to struggle with the extreme dry season due to El Nino.

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Jakarta – Indonesia's antigraft commission says it may pursue investigations into individuals said to have benefited from free hajj trips handed out by a former minister now on trial for corruption

Jakarta – The government says that it is paying close attention to the murder case of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib but stresses that it is not its responsibility to find the mastermind b

Ary Hermawan, Tucson, Arizona – At first it was funny, but then just sad.

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – For the first time in the past five years, the government is planning to cut budget allocation for the defense sector, commencing in 2016.

Fadli, Batam – Two British journalists detained by Indonesian authorities for making a documentary about piracy in the Malacca Strait without proper papers have asked to be deported soon, their law

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The wife of slain human rights defender Munir Said Thalib, Suciwati, on Sunday called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to establish an independent team to find the mastermi

Lani Pujiastuti, Bogor – Currently there are 10,922 companies holding Mining Business Permits (IUPs) in Indonesia. Of this total, only 29 percent pay tax.

Jakarta – Indonesian House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon has threatened to sue the prominent Indonesian imam of a New York City mosque after the latter accused him and House Speaker S

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Purwakarta regional administration in West Java has recently issued a regulation that bans premarital dating after 9 p.m., suggesting that those who break the curfew get ma

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Kanupriya Kapoor & Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia's 11th-hour decision to scrap plans for the nation's first high-speed railway has sown confusion among top investors from China and Japan,

Jakarta – Members of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the National Awakening Party (PKB) are set to report the House of Representatives (DPR) speaker Setya Novanto and DPR de

Regardless of the motives behind the latest major reshuffle within the National Police, there is a pressing need for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to stamp his authority over the law enforcement a

Ian Wilson, Murdoch, Western Australia – The violent evictions in Kampung Pulo have once again drawn attention to the politics of flood alleviation in Jakarta and the tenuous place of the city's po

Jakarta – The surprise appearance of Indonesia's House speaker at a Donald Trump campaign event in New York on Thursday has spawned a torrent of questions back at home, but perhaps none as beguilin

Jakarta – The work visit to the United States by leaders of the House of Representatives, during which some of them appeared in public with presidential hopeful Donald Trump, cost the Indonesian ta

Jakarta – Indonesia's police chief has revealed that the removal of his controversial chief of detectives was being considered since at least mid-July, following a public spat with a highly regarde

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office says it will not consider dropping a criminal case against the suspended chairman of Indonesia's antigraft commission, following the removal from office of t