Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As the reconciliation process between the two camps vying for leadership of the Golkar Party drags on, the camp led by Aburizal Bakrie has announced a plan to take ove

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Kupang – Against the background of recent claims that Australian authorities paid an Indonesian ship's crew to transport dozens of migrants back to Indonesia, the Indonesian Navy and the Royal Aust

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) was sticking to its stance that Ahmadiyah and Shia believers were deviant from mainstream Islam but nonetheless prosecuting them for follo

Jakarta – More than 30 tobacco brands put advertisements and promote their products in school areas, a survey by NGOs shows.

The Corruption Eradication Commission is on the verge of becoming merely a place where proxy wars between the National Police, Attorney General's Office and Indonesian Military take place.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has lambasted the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), which is now led by former police general Taufiequrachman Ruki, for transferr

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The Indonesian police have finally named the three generals they intend to nominate as commissioners of the national antigraft body, none of whom actually has any extensive

Jakarta – A hard-line Islamic group infamous for its violent brand of intolerance says it will continue efforts to expel Ahmadiyah Muslims practicing in Tebet, South Jakarta.

Jenny Denton, Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan – Residents of the village of Maruwei in Central Kalimantan claim they were tricked and intimidated in relation to BHP Billiton's acquisition of an are

Jenny Denton, Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan – Villagers in remote Central Kalimantan have lodged a claim for legal title to 1,000 hectares of land within BHP Billiton's vast IndoMet coal project

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has echoed Vice President Jusuf Kalla's claim that Indonesia's brand of Islam is a peaceful one, on the same weekend that hard-liners in Ja

Jakarta – Dozens of people blocked a group of Ahmadis from performing their Friday prayers at their own An Nur Mosque in Bukit Duri Tanjakan, Tebet, South Jakarta, on Friday.

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The National Police announced their plan on Friday to nominate three generals as candidates to fill positions on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – After being heavily criticized for failing to improve on the moratorium on new concession permits for primary forests and peat lands, the government is set to remedy t

Australia would have stooped to a "new low" if reports its navy paid people-smugglers bound for Australia thousands of dollars to turn back their boat are true, an Indonesian government official sa

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Ina Parlina and Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has finally signed a new Presidential Regulation that would make a policy to waive visa fees for 30 countries official,

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro has tinkered with fiscal policy as he relaxed the requirements for corporate tax allowances and eased luxury taxes on certain it

Daniel Hurst, Political correspondent – Tony Abbott has refused to rule out Australian officials paying people smugglers to turn back asylum-seeker vessels, saying the government was determined to

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Australia's prime minister on Friday sidestepped charges that officials from his country paid the crew of a boat carrying 65 migrants to return to Indonesian waters, but s

Women in Banda Aceh are now banned from being outside their homes after 11 p.m., with exceptions for those in humanitarian work, such as nurses and medical practitioners, and if they are accompanie

Under Indonesia's Constitution, the division of labor between the executive and legislative branches of governments when it comes to spending public funds is clear-cut: the administration allocates

Yustinus Paat, Markus Sihaloho & Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – Activists and experts continue to criticize attempts by the House of Representatives to introduce a pork barrel scheme, saying that it

Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry revealed on Friday that its plans to build 5,000-megawatt (MW) nuclear power plants in the country were still on.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has issued a fatwa, or religious edict, stating that only government-recognized Islamic organizations, such as itself, should be able to call any people

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Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Economists from Goldman Sachs to JPMorgan Chase have revised down their growth outlooks for Indonesia as foreign investors' confidence in President Joko "Jokowi" Wido

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Antigraft activists say they understand the purpose of the police's involvement in the selection process of new leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission, or

With Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan, agreeing to work under a Special Mining Business Permit, or IUPK, from its current Contract of Work, or KK, the governme

Public perception that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo tends to reserve strategic posts in his government for political parties that supported his election last year is difficult to deny, although a

Chris Brummitt and Rieka Rahadiana – Indonesia President Joko Widodo declined to pick an air force officer as his next military chief, a further sign he's concentrating power in the army as his pub

George Roberts, Indonesia – Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has denied claims by Indonesian police that Australian Customs officials paid thousands of dollars to people smugglers to take asylum seeke

Surabaya, East Java – The Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) are conducting a joint exercise named "Cassoary Exercise" (Cassuex) 2015.

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Jakarta – A senior legislator has demanded an explanation from President Joko Widodo for nominating the Army chief of staff, Gen.

President Joko Widodo's appointment of retired Army general Sutiyoso as State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief is against the principle of political neutrality and could even jeopardize our system o

Andreyka Natalegawa, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to beef up its fight against hunger and malnutrition as the government struggles to ensure the availability and affordability of food, after a United

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – After failing to obtain state funding for the down payment on their private cars, members of the House of Representatives (DPR) are pushing the government to inc

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – A recent study released by the Jakarta Transportation Council (DTKJ), reveals that the total number of passengers taking Transjakarta buses between January and April this y

Gayatri Suroyo, Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank confirmed on Tuesday that a rule taking effect on July 1 means that hotel rooms, airline tickets, property leases and most salaries must be paid i

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – The sell-off in the Indonesian financial market deepened on Monday as foreign investors began to move their funds to developed countries amid signs the Federal Reserv

Jakarta – Indonesia's Armed Forces, or TNI, has launched a new counterterrorism squad, with the head of Indonesia's military saying it is ready to fight terrorism "at any second."

Randy Fabi, Palembang, Indonesia – Indonesia's second-largest Muslim group plans to file a lawsuit challenging a decision by President Joko Widodo to scrap $20 billion worth of government fuel subs

Jakarta – The drafted bill on the protection of religious communities does not protect minorities that are under increasing persecution; the government is not showing progress in upholding religiou

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The legal team of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan has demanded that the Constitutional Court (MK) order the KPK to release recordings of

Jakarta – The Indonesian police force, widely perceived as the most corrupt institution in the country, is nominating its officials to fill the leading posts of the country's top anti-graft watchdo

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The spotlight has turned on the judicial system's lack of an appeal mechanism for pretrial rulings on criminal allegations, with judges exercising a binding say on cases bef