Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The number of cases of sexual violence affecting children, or those under 18 years old, has continued to rise in Yogyakarta, showing that existing measures to protect

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has said Indonesia will see a significant increase in rice production this year, giving a push to the no-imports vision of Preside

Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla has justified the alleged use of a military plane that crashed on Tuesday for the commercial transportation of civilians, even as the Air Force chief denounced

Nilufar Rizki, Jakarta – An Indonesian military transport plane that crashed into a northern residential area of Medan on Tuesday was carrying 113 people, an air force spokesman said.

Ina Parlina, Dylan Amirio, Tama Salim and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta/Medan – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo renewed his pledge on Tuesday to modernize the country's aging weapons systems and military

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Jakarta – The chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Hafid Abbas has called for an end to discrimination and stigma against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LG

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's plan to pardon past financial crimes in exchange for repatriating dirty assets parked overseas by criminal offenders has been met with rejec

Jakarta – Indonesia will enter a new era in the fight for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people following a recent US Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage

Cory Rogers – A mysterious new partnership between Indonesia's spy agency and Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) to boost foreign investment has civil society wary of deepening agrarian conflict

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A new survey launched by an independent Jakarta-based pollster has found that the public wants President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to give more ministerial seats to professionals

Jakarta – Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has disclosed there is disharmony among the ministers in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's Working Cabinet.

David Robie – The Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders' summit in Honiara this week must go down as the most shameful since the organisation was founded two decades ago.

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published more than 60,000 secret documents from Saudi Arabia and said that it had more than half a million additional documents that it will be releasing in t

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) announced on Friday that Indonesia had been removed from the global money-laundering and terrorist-financing li

Haeril Halim and Tama Salim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has accused a number of lawmakers who had been put under its surveillance program of hijacking the House of Repres

National – Despite progress as one of the world's biggest democracies, Indonesia's law enforcement is still substandard and rampant with human rights violations, a report by the US government state

Jakarta – The US' latest report on human rights practices has listed the Indonesian police's alleged unlawful torture of suspects in the Jakarta International School (JIS) sexual assault case as a

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Jakartans, especially women, have no one but themselves to rely on for safety on public transportation amid messy management and an absence of law enforcers.

Jakarta – Nearly two decades after the fall of dictator Soeharto forced Indonesia's military out of politics, the army is inching back into civilian roles, risking a setback for democracy in this S

Jakarta – Indonesia is the most improved country in the Asia-Pasific region in terms of peace, according to the 2015 Global Peace Index (GPI) report.

Andreyka Natalegawa, Jakarta – Civil society organizations and education experts have called on the national government to employ a holistic plan of action in reforming the Indonesian education sys

Jakarta – The families of May 1998 tragedy victims filed a judicial review of the 2006 human rights tribunal law with the Supreme Court to seek justice.

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Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The families of the political activists who disappeared in connection to the May 1998 riots have asked the Constitutional Court, or MK, for a judicial review on the

Jakarta – The government appears to be seeking a compromise after rejecting the House of Representatives' proposed pork barrel scheme, by increasing government subsidies to political parties by at

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Although the government is still reviewing the House of Representatives' controversial constituency fund plan, it has pressed ahead with plans to increase funding for politic

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Lawmakers fuming over President Joko Widodo's decision to reject their proposed "aspirational funds" have played down criticism that the funds are vulnerable to

Beh Lih Yi in Pelabuhan Ratu, Indonesia – Business has been bad for Gandi, a fisherman who rides the waves off Indonesia's rugged southern Java coast.

Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament has voted to allow MPs use of nearly a billion dollars in state funds to develop their constituencies, which a minister said on Wednesday would on

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Jakarta – Indonesia has set up a new team to reduce noise from mosques, an official said on Thursday, as places of worship go into overdrive during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) has eased loan requirements for the purchase of property, cars and motorcycles in a move designed to spur the country's weak economy, which has been

The Constitutional Court on June 18 announced its ruling on the 1974 Marriage Law, rejecting requests to change the marriageable age for girls from 16 to 18 and to make it possible to legalize inte

Richard Bennett, Hong Kong – As far as Indonesia has come on human rights since the repressive Soeharto years, the authorities have stubbornly refused to deal with crimes of the past.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin has expressed his support for the recent Constitutional Court ruling that upholds a provision in the 1974 Marriage Law that

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Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has rejected the controversial "aspirational funds" proposed by legislators, an official announced on Wednesday, saying the scheme would "clash" with

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Female activists have called on women all across the country to be at the forefront of environmental movements, arguing that it is women who are affected the most from

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Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Increasingly infrequent service on most corridors of the Transjakarta bus network has contributed to falling passenger numbers, according to a think tank.

Jenny Munro, Guest Contributor – Jokowi's actions, whether those of the powerless or duplicitous, could lead to disaster in Papua.

Benny Wenda – For more than half a century, my people have suffered under a repressive military occupation that is estimated to have claimed 500,000 West Papuan lives.

Jakarta – Child abuse in Indonesia is on the rise and the majority of perpetrators are those close to their victims, data from the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has shown.

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Fadli, Batam – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) to investigate alleged foreign involvement in labor rallies in Batam, Riau Islands, that have led

Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – A bill to rein in the powers of Indonesia's vaunted antigraft commission will go before a parliament historically inclined to that end, after President Joko Widodo r