Ina Parlina and Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – This year's May Day celebrations proceeded peacefully on Friday with workers mostly taking to the streets in festive moods.

Jakarta – Tens of thousands of workers from various labor unions in Greater Jakarta joined a peaceful, festive rally to commemorate International Labor Day – known as May Day – on Friday in Jakarta

Jakarta – An advocacy group has criticized a House of Representatives' early draft of the disability bill, demanding a revision because of what it deems to be a discriminatory approach.

Jakarta – More members of the Democratic Party have expressed their opposition to the reelection of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as party chairman ahead of the party's national congres

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Bandung - More than 3,000 workers demonstrated in front of the governor's office at the Gedung Sate building in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung demanding that companies pay more attenti

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Bayu Marhaenjati & Mikael Niman, Jakarta – Calls for a cabinet reshuffle as well as the enactment of key legislation were among workers' demands on May Day this Friday

Ihsan Dalimunthe - Workers are sick and tired of the empty promises made by the political elite and President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

Hari Istiawan, Malang - Hundreds of workers from the East Java city of Malang gathered at the monument traffic circle to commemorate International Labour Day on May 1.

Dwi Renjani, Bandung - Hundreds of workers held a rally in front of the governor's office at the Gedung Sate building in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung on International Labour Day wher

Edzan Raharjo, Yogyakarta - International Labour Day in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta was commemorated by thousands of workers from various different organisations who came together under the

Within a week of one-time graft suspect Budi Gunawan being inaugurated as deputy police chief, the boys in brown have tried to arrest three officials from the antigraft commission that initially ch

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies – Military strongman and former presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto urged Indonesian President Joko Widodo to indefinitely delay the executions of 10 drug fel

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – National Police chief detective Comr. Gen.

Tens of thousands of workers from various different factory units, trade unions and labour confederations packed the streets in front of the State Palace in Central Jakarta on May 1 to declare the

Avit Hidayat, Surabaya - Commemorating International Labour Day in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya, the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) held a silent protest at the Surabaya

Mei Amelia R, Jakarta - Tens of thousands of protesting workers have packed the Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic Circle in Central Jakarta this morning, Friday May 1, turning the Thamrin business distr

Subur Dani, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of workers from the Aceh Workers Alliance (ABA) held a peaceful action commemorating International Labour Day at the Simpang Lima traffic circle in the Achenese pr

Dwi Renjani, Bandung - Scores of people from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) joined workers demonstrating in front of the governor's office at the Gedung Sate building in the West Java provincial

Nurul Arifin, Surabaya - A protest action in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya by students from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) has ended in chaos with two demonstrators being arrested

Makassar - In commemorating May Day 2015, a number of different organisations from the group People's Solidarity (SORAK) held a peaceful rally underneath the Jl.

Puji Sukiswanti, Denpasar – Hundreds of workers from the Balinese United Labour Alliance (ABBB) held a rally at the Bali Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) building in the provincial capital

Jakarta – A group of labor unions is planning to declare a new political party after a May Day rally on Friday.

Abraham Utama, Jakarta – International Labour Day or May will be commemorated tomorrow on Friday May 1 in a number of different countries.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Former rebels and their family members have applauded the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) for inviting them to join celebrations of the unit's 63rd anniversary at its h

Jakarta – Zainal Abidin, the sole Indonesian among a batch of eight drug offenders executed on Wednesday, may have been denied justice because of a bureaucratic blunder, the Supreme Court has revea

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta) has said Indonesia's legal system is at risk of arbitrarily taking away people's right to life through capital punishment.

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – As a mother of two boys and a migrant worker subjected to domestic abuse, convicted drug trafficker Filipina Mary Jane Veloso was the only figure scheduled to be executed this

Australian taxpayers spend millions of dollars every year training Indonesian military and police officers.

Jakarta – Millions of more hectares of forest across the country are likely to be destroyed in the near future despite a decline in the deforestation rate over the past decade, according to the Wor

Andri Yunarko, Jakarta – On Monday April 27 the Indonesian People's United Resistance (PPRI) held a press conference at the offices of the Jakarta Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) to declare i

The execution has been carried out and the damage is done. We have to live with that.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Army's Special Forces, Kopassus, has taken a brave and unprecedented move to celebrate its 63rd anniversary – the force's anniversary actually falls on April 16 – by

Jakarta – Indonesian trade union leaders felt enormously flattered to be invited by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to join him on the presidential plane to visit the Central Java provincial capital

Jakarta – Indonesia carried out the execution of eight drug convicts by firing squad on Nusa Kambangan prison island off Central Java early on Wednesday despite multiple efforts from human rights a

Cilacap – Indonesia on Wednesday staunchly defended its execution of seven foreigners including two Australians as a vital front of its "war" on drugs as testimony emerged of how they went singing

Jakarta – Police forcibly dispersed a peaceful rally held by a group of human rights activists in front of the State Palace on Monday night.

Judging from the statement by the Attorney General's Office, the nine drug convicts on death row may be dead by now or may still be alive as Indonesia continues to defy calls from human right activ

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has yet to sign a presidential regulation (Perpres) that would allow the House of Representatives to construct a new multi-storey building in the legislativ

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A protest rally by hundreds of vendors who refuse to be evicted from the Sutomo Market in Medan, North Sumatra, descended into a riot on Monday.

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama is recommending that the city administration legalize prostitution in certain areas.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Susno Duadji, a former chief detective with the National Police convicted for his role in two graft cases, has been released on parole to allow him to reintegrate into socie

Jakarta – The Indonesian Consumer Foundation (YLKI) revealed on Tuesday that the pictorial health warning on more than half of the tobacco product packages it surveyed were covered by excise bands.

Pat Walsh – I am writing this with a heavy heart. I grieve for Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and their loved ones, and the others executed by firing squad in Indonesia early this morning.

Tom Allard and Jewel Topsfield in Cilacap – Indonesian authorities have refused Bali nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran the right to have a pastor of their choice to witness their executions

Tom Allard – Indonesia's judicial commission has maintained it has completed its investigation into bribery allegations involving the judges who sentenced Bali nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Suku

Michael Buehler – A firing squad in Indonesia has shot Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran together with six out of seven other alleged narcotics traffickers.

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has recommended the city legalize prostitution in certain areas, an official stated Monday.

Jakarta – Agencies and organizations have come to an agreement to support the city administration's policy on limiting activities on Car Free Day (CFD), usually held on two major streets in Central

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Criticism mounted of the government ahead of its impending second round of executions expected on Tuesday, as civil society groups demanded it respect all the legal processes