Jakarta – Allegations of political motives overshadow prosecutors' recent naming of former State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan as a corruption suspect, many of whose supporters believe him to b

Nobody should be above the law in a democratic country that upholds equality before law.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The different minimum marriage age for men and women in Law No. 1/1974 on marriage has been described as discriminatory.

Jakarta – Indonesia's security chief says there is no need for the country's next military commander to be vetted by the national human rights commission or the government's money-laundering watchd

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Padang – Five primate endemic species in Mentawai Islands regency, West Sumatra, are threatened with extinction, a researcher says.

Fana FS Putra, Jakarta – Opposition bloc leader Prabowo Subianto on Thursday said the party he founded, the Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra, was willing to unite with anyone – including

Jakarta – The Indonesian police force, widely perceived as the most corrupt institution in the republic, says it will be involved in the selection of new commissioners for the country's antigraft a

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Tabita Diela & Yosi Winosa, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to let corruptors, tax evaders, and forest and mining illegal poachers to put their money in government bonds, in a move that would repriev

Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta/Bogor – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has called on the government to clean up its land certification system, the source of numerous disruptive land disputes and tenure issu

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – The government's expected tax anomaly – in which tax revenues increase despite the weak economy – has yet to be seen almost halfway through the year, with tax takings remai

Jakarta – A representative of Kantar Worldpanel Indonesia, a market research company, says there has been a steep decline in consumer purchasing frequency this year amid the global economic slowdow

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The National Police have appointed Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian, 50, the National Police chief planning assistant, to lead the Jakarta Police. He will replace Insp.

Melissa Davey – The credibility of government data cited by the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, to support the country's punitive drugs policies has been criticised by a group of leading health

Ari Susanto, Solo – The Military Police announced on Friday that they have charged seven members of Army's Special Forces Command for their involvement in a brawl that killed one Air Force officer.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A group of respected figures has called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to stay on course with military reform by reining in the Indonesian Military (TNI), which in recent

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Ganug Nugroho Adi and Slamet Susanto, Surakarta, Central Java/Yogyakarta – The Surakarta Military Police (Denpom) have detained five members of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) for getting invo

Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu said Wednesday that Indonesia's defense priority should shift to protecting citizens in non-traditional threats, such as terrorism, natural disasters an

Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – The refusal of the National Police's chief detective, Comr. Gen.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Recent courtroom revelations that a graft suspect, the former energy and minerals minister Jero Wacik, allegedly spent money embezzled from the ministry to regularly pay for

Jakarta – Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) commander Maj. Gen.

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – One of the world's largest manufacturers of pulp and paper in Indonesia has announced it will immediately stop logging in all natural forests.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A new twist has emerged in the trial of the former secretary-general of the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry Waryono Karno with an accusation that graft money was partl

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Jakarta – The Indonesian police's chief of detectives, Comr. Gen.

Rangga Prakoso, Jakarta – Companies thinking of investing in smelters in Indonesia to comply with local mineral export regulations may have to reconsider their plans in light of a new bill set for

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Human rights activists are calling on the government to implement a number of internal reforms to balance out its efforts to provide better protection for Indonesian migrant w

Jakarta – The Indonesian Domestic Workers Training and Placement Association (APPSI) has compiled a code of ethics for its members in an endeavor to phase out child labor in the domestic work indus

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Jakarta – Simultaneous local elections set to take place on Dec. 9 are unlikely to lead to reform of regional democracy and could trigger political conflict, according to an expert.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – After months of bickering the two factions in the Golkar Party agreed Saturday to sign a temporary peace agreement to make sure that the country's second-largest politic

Jakarta – Nearly 20 million Indonesians, of a total population of 250 million, go to bed hungry every night, according to a regional overview of food insecurity in Asia and the Pacific, issued by t

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – With only a couple of weeks remaining before the kickoff of the initial stage of simultaneous regional head elections, individuals aspiring to run as independent candida

Coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Haris Azhar, criticized the chief of the police's Detective Corps, Comr. Gen.

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Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The National Police's chief of detectives, Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso, declined to report his wealth to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Friday.

Sandra Siagian, Jakarta – Every afternoon, Wahyu sets up his wooden food cart by the side of a busy road in Central Jakarta to sell sweet buns, known as bakpao, to people passing by.

Phelim Kine – It appears to be business as usual this week for Indonesian government officials intent on maintaining the decades-long restrictions on foreign media access to the far eastern provinc

Grace D. Amianti, Jakarta – The government has maintained its economic growth target for 2016, despite most factions at the House of Representatives insisting that the estimate is unrealistic.

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Moeldoko has said that the TNI would accept female military personnel wearing an Islamic headscarf (hijab) only in Aceh.

One by one, graft suspects are humiliating the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in court, capitalizing on the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) to not only escape the commission's enforce

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) commissioner Indriyanto Seno Adji lambasted judge Haswandi for issuing a ruling that contradicted his own earlier decisions on two ma

Another day, another controversy under President Joko Widodo's administration.

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Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Anti-tobacco activists have claimed Indonesia is walking away from the fight against nicotine addiction, thanks largely to the current government's reluctance to implement s

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – A proposal by the Indonesian government to ban the use of mobile phones by children has met with both support and criticism, with proponents claiming it can keep mi