Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) on Monday delivered a verdict securing the public's right to file complaints with law enforcement authorities over alleged criminal acts committed by doctors

Syamsul Huda M. Suhari, Gorontalo – Dea, 32, sits in a circle with friends discussing her experience of being spurned by society.

Jakarta – The government has eliminated the age requirements for Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders in a regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) issued by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to

Jakarta – The House of Representatives officiated on Monday a new list of assignments for Golkar Party lawmakers proposed by Aburizal Bakrie's new committee.

Jakarta – Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's plan to hire military and police personnel to maintain security and public order in the city has drawn strong criticism from the public.

Kanupriya Kapoor & Randy Fabri, Jakarta – Indonesia's armed forces have launched a six-month anti-terrorism operation to crack down on militants with suspected links to Islamic State, the top g

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Former United Party Development (PPP) lawmaker Ahmad Yani still vividly recalls his unpleasant experience in September last year when dealing with angry protesters after

Hasyim Widhiarto, National – A survey released by the Jakarta-based Pol-Tracking Institute has shown that public approval of the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo-Jusuf Kalla administration has plunged below 50

Jakarta – The National Police say they are going to work with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology to block Indonesia-based websites facilitating prostitution."We will come up w

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – A moratorium on land conversion begun during former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration in 2011 has not yet been effective to save peat forests in Riau, a

Jakarta – As many as 18 people from the People's Struggle Front (FPR) were arrested by the Metro Jaya police at a protest action in front of the US Embassy in Gambir, Central Jakarta.

Jewel Topsfield – "A New Hope". The Time magazine cover on October 16, 2014 said it all.

Hamish McDonald – Here we are again, poised on the brink of another media frenzy as two Australian drug convicts come closer and closer to a firing squad in Indonesia, barring a late change of hear

Ina Parlina and Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo installed on Friday Comr. Gen.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With two major political parties currently embroiled in legal battles over leadership issues and local election organizers running on shoestring budgets, the General E

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Two prominent environmentalists criticized on Thursday President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's decision to protect small and medium furniture-makers and craft-producers, a se

Now that Gen. Badrodin Haiti has been installed as the new National Police chief, the controversy over Comr.

Natasia Christy Wahyuni, Jakarta – Activists on Friday criticized President Joko Widodo's silence on the beheading of two migrant workers in Saudi Arabia this week, arguing that his resumption of t

Charlotte Greenfield, Jakarta – Millions of Jakarta commuters will have to struggle through the world's most congested traffic for almost another decade, authorities believe, and they may have to w

Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo officially inaugurated Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti as the new chief of National Police on Friday.

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – The Trade Ministry's new regulation on alcoholic beverages, scheduled to take full effect on Thursday, will not be enforced on Bali as the ministry has decided that to

Jakarta – The war game that involved thousands of personnel from the Army, Navy and Air Force has concluded in Poso, Central Sulawesi on Friday with the stationing of 600 personnel from the Army's

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Bambang "Ho" Mulyono has the languid sexiness of Bob Marley – waist-length dreads, a T-shirt that says something unintelligibly hippy-dippy and a battered guitar plastere

Hizbul Ridho & Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Thursday endorsed the nomination of Comr. Gen.

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Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Thursday that the government would improve the welfare of military personnel by raising their salaries by 56 to 60 percent.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has expressed his concerns over the performance of the country's export sector, which continued to decline during the first quarter of this year despite the

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – About the mass killings of alleged leftists in 1965-1966 and their aftermath in the following years, there have been a few qualifications.

Indonesia has banned small retailers from selling beer, despite an outcry from the alcohol and tourism industries over the Muslim-majority country's latest offensive against drinking.

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – Indonesia on Thursday officially banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in convenience stores and other small shops, but senior officials

Yogyakarta – The Sleman District Court on Wednesday sentenced the chairman of the Central Java and Yogyakarta chapter of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), Bambang Teddy, to five months and 15 days

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Like many police generals, the candidate for the next top cop, Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – Activists are demanding police investigate a non-fatal shooting at a union headquarters in East Jakarta on Tuesday.

Jakarta has summoned the Saudi Arabian ambassador to protest against the beheading of an Indonesian domestic worker and complain that her family and consular staff were not given prior notice of th

Jakarta – A legal aid foundation has lamented that a 2004 Law on Domestic Violence Eradication has not been optimally implemented despite its enactment 10 years ago.

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Tuesday that it would soon hold a case reconstruction on the Bank Century case to determine the fate of former vice president Boediono

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court rejected on Tuesday another pretrial petition, this one filed by a former director of state oil and gas operator Pertamina, Suroso Atmo Mart

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Jakarta – Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Puan Maharani has won approval from President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla to keep her new position as Indonesia

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) will create an anti-terror task force comprising special personnel from the Navy, Army and Air Force who will support the National Police in dea

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has protested a lack of notice from Saudi authorities prior to the execution of a mentally ill Indonesian woman in the kingdom, prompting activists to point out

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The West Java Police have urged the public to participate in securing a series of events during the 60th anniversary of the Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung and refrain from h

No one seemed to know, or care, very much about Siti Zaenab when she was still alive.

Liam Gammon – If it achieved nothing else, last week's PDI-P party congress managed to confuse a lot of tourists.

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Two Islamic parties in Indonesia have proposed legislation that would ban all consumption of alcoholic drinks and bring jail terms of up to two years for offenders.

Jakarta – Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency, or BNN, has requested the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology block a website that has been selling marijuana brownies.

Jakarta – Amnesty International has welcomed naming of a street in The Hague after the slain Indonesian human rights defender Munir Said Thalib, the rights organization said in a press release.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Following the rejection of two other pretrial motions, former Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) chairman Hadi Poernomo withdrew his own motion during a hearing at the South Jakarta

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