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Hidayat Setiaji & Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Regional Indonesian leaders are withholding nearly $20 billion of government funds, including money for social assistance programs, while they wait f

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Newly inaugurated State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Sutiyoso, 70, and Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen.

Andreyka Natalegawa – Indonesia must strengthen its labor institutions and invest in skills development, the International Labor Organization said in a report released on Thursday, with officials w

Yustinus Paat & Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has come under heavy criticism after it revoked a provision in the Regional Elections Law that is meant to prevent the formation

Rieka Rahadiana, Jakarta – The flip flops have to stop.

Tangerang – South Tangerang municipality has begun to crack down on restaurants that have violated the city's regulation regarding opening hours during Ramadhan, in order to "maintain the holiness

Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – The House of Representatives wrapped up its fourth sitting period for 2015 on Tuesday with none of its scheduled bills being passed into law over the past six weeks.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – Land and forest fires have continued to spread in Sumatra and Kalimantan over the past several days in the midst of the dry season, prompting local authorities to go all-out to

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Forestry companies have raised concerns over a new ministerial regulation that requires them to allocate at least 20 percent of their existing concession areas to local peop

Novianti Setuningsih & Fana Suparman, Jakarta – Regional chiefs who break the law when pushing through infrastructure projects will soon be granted immunity from prosecution by Indonesia's anti

Jakarta – With his retirement less than a month away, Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Gen.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The central government's plan to encourage better regional budget absorption by providing more legal protection to public officials against graft convictions could lik

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – To deal with rampant land disputes involving indigenous communities, the government has unveiled a plan to allocate at least 20 percent of current concession areas ope

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Presidential Advisory Board (Wantimpres) told President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Monday that the President needed to replace politically-wired ministers in the next cabine

Jakarta – A transportation watchdog has bizarrely accused ride-hailing apps such as Go-Jek and GrabBike – which provide gainful employment to motorcycle taxi drivers and are registered tax-paying b

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has once again faced another terror threat with an unidentified assailant placing a bomb-like package at the house of one of its

Dylan Amirio, National – Lawmakers have reaffirmed their position of rejecting the sudden amendment of Government Regulation no. 46/2015 on pension funds.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Despite its pledge to conduct a transparent selection process, the committee tasked to select Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) commissioners hopes the public will not

Haeril Halim, Headlines – Labor unions have rejected the government's plan to revise the new pension scheme regulations and have urged it to protect the basic rights of workers across the country.

Surabaya – Retired TNI (Indonesian military) general Kivlan Zen says that a plan by the government of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla to apologise to former Indonesian

Business – The government's tax revenues slumped to a four-year low in the January to June period of 2015, falling short of the first-half target of this year's annual tax-collection target due to

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – It is a regular day in Tanah Abang market, the largest wholesale clothing market in Southeast Asia, thousands of customers squeeze into packed 4-square-meter shops sprawled

Carlos Paath, Jakarta – Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has named his loyalists as new members of his Democratic Party's leadership boards, ousting the outspoken former speaker of the Hou

A researcher from the Indonesia Study and Advocacy Center (PAS Indonesia) Taufik Riyadi has said the new Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders must prioritize conducting thorough investig

Jakarta – A district chief in West Java province has ordered a TV blackout for local children after sunset in favor of more Islamic studies and Koran recitals.

Erwin Sihombing, Jakarta – The Indonesian police are reluctant to crack down on hate speech, including by hard-line Islamic groups, because there are no "rewards" for doing so and they fear a backl

Andreyka Natalegawa, Jakarta – Government institutions on all levels still have plenty of work to do if they want to end religious intolerance in Indonesia, observers say in response to a new repor

Jakarta – Only workers who are dismissed and can no longer work with other employers, will be allowed withdraw their deposits from the old-age risk scheme, says president director of Workers' Socia

Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – The government has backed down on a controversial new regulation on a workers' savings scheme, saying it will now allow policy holders to cash out after five years instead of

Hans Nicholas Jong and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Hundreds of workers rallied on Friday along the capital city's main thoroughfares to protest against the government's new pension scheme regulat

Tama Salim and Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – The alcohol prohibition bill is one step closer to being passed into law, with political factions at the House of Representatives agreeing in a plenary sessio

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama said at City Hall on Friday that he did not mind outsiders moving to Jakarta, as long as they were rich or wanted to become domestic workers

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan/Jakarta – Family members of civilian victims of the C-130 Hercules military aircraft crash in Medan have urged the government to pay them compensation.

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Islamic Jihad Front (FJI), with police backing, has broken up a camping event of 1,500 Christian elementary and junior high school students at the Wonogondang cam

Dylan Amirio – Indonesia's alcohol prohibition bill is one step closer to becoming law with the House of Representatives agreeing on Friday to further discussion of the bill.

Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin has said that same-sex marriage is unacceptable in Indonesia because of the religiousness of its citizens.

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The government has said that a 15-member committee tasked with investigating past human rights abuses will be ready shortly after the Idul Fitri holiday.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Recent data from the government has shown that rampant environmental crime in Indonesia is posing an extraordinary threat to the country's ecological sustainability.

Local human rights law enforcement is not optimal, with law enforcers acting only in the name of security and public order, a report released by the National Commision on Human Rights (Komnas HAM)

Gregory B. Poling, Jayapura, Jubi – Ongoing troubles in the West Papua region, and the unwanted attention they have garnered, are a sore spot for Indonesian authorities.

Jakarta – Indragiri Hilir Police in Riau province revealed on Thursday that they had apprehended Sugito, 63, for allegedly molesting five underage girls who he taught as a religion teacher.

Kanupriya Kapoor & Randy Fabri, Jakarta – Exasperated by the performance of his economics team, Indonesia's president has personally taken on the job of promoting Southeast Asia's largest econo

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In a bid to increase company compliance with the National Health Insurance (JKN) program, from July 1, the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) will

Haeril Halim, National – The Supreme Court has defended South Jakarta District Court judge Sarpin Rizaldi following the Judicial Commission's recommendation that the judge be sanctioned for ethics

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives confirmed on Wednesday the nomination of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo to replace Gen.

Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesians have taken to the Internet and the streets in protest at a new government regulation requiring employees and former employees to wait until retiremen

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The interim leadership of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has denied reports that it has dropped the probe into the Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) case

Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) has recommended penalizing South Jakarta District Court judge Sarpin Rizaldi with a six month suspension because he has been found to have breached ethics in