Haeril Halim and Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) declared on Tuesday National Police chief hopeful Comr. Gen.

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) will review leadership in the force on account of a high number of desertion cases last year.

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Moeldoko has said the country's military still needs foreign-made weapons.

With the House of Representatives' legal affairs commission approving in acclamation Comr. Gen.

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Yeremi Sukoyo & Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – Intervention from President Joko Widodo is needed to a resolve dispute between two ministries fighting over control of annual village funding to the tu

Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – The selection of a new leader to fill a vacancy at Indonesia's anti-graft agency has been delayed until December in order to appoint all five leaders simultaneously.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – For air traffic control (ATC) official Dio Resnu Aditya, dealing with a lack of personnel has become a day-to-day challenge.

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesian police shot dead a man linked to one of the country's most dangerous terrorist fugitives in a crackdown in which seven terror suspects have been arrested since

Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta) has warned that if President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo presses on with his choice of Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – The government will start implementing a 12-year compulsory education program next June, according to Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Puan Maharani.

Our grave concerns over President Joko Widodo's nomination of Comr. Gen.

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – A number of activists and legal experts have questioned a panel of judges who have denied attempts to access information in a high-profile child abuse case implicating two

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council has announced plans to set up a hotline for victims of domestic abuse.

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Jakarta – The West Jakarta Social Affairs Agency raided at least 30 street singers donning punk attire, locally known as punkers, during an operation held over the weekend.

If there is any hope that the National Police will be reformed under President Joko Widodo then we should bury it deep for at least another five years after the nomination of Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – Arief Hidayat, a law professor, was on Monday appointed the new chief justice of Indonesia's troubled Constitutional Court.

Jakarta – Critics in Indonesia have slammed President Joko Widodo's decision to nominate Budi Gunawan as the next National Police chief, citing his political affiliation and lingering suspicions ov

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Jess Melvin, Melbourne – On Dec.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has urged the North Sumatra provincial administration and police to get involved and uphold the rights of members of th

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry announced on Friday the suspension or transfer of at least 11 aviation officials at the ministry for their alleged involvement in allowing severa

Nani Afrida and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has been urged to involve the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the country's money-laundering watchdog in his choice

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – With a significant cut in the fuel subsidy, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will be able to double the government's capital expenditure (capex) in the revised 2015 sta

Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – Megawati Soekarnoputri announced her own appointment on Saturday as the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle for another five-year term, extending her

Jakarta – Political observers are predicting the National Mandate Party's congress, scheduled for Feb.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) announced on Thursday another foreign debt regulation involving a stricter reporting system for local companies planning to borrow US dollars amid

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Hayat Indriyatno & Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Dewi has been saving up for the past year and a half to buy a car.

Jakarta – The National Intelligence Agency (BIN) and security authorities are keeping an eye on radical groups in anticipation of potential incidents following the recent bloody attack on satirical

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An interview with Allan Nairn on Indonesia and Guatemala

Kennial Caroline Laia, Farouk Arnaz & Yerema Sukoyo, Jakarta – Indonesian Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan's move to set a price floor for airfares, citing ostensible safety concerns, has

Indra Budiari and Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have handed over a blasphemy case implicating The Jakarta Post editor-in-chief Meidyatama Suryodiningrat to the Press Council.

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesia and the United States have stepped up their defense cooperation with the signing of an agreement under which the former will get more support and assistance from th

Jakarta – The Supreme Court said 117 judges received administrative punishment for misconduct in 2014.

Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan could have started a revolution within his own ministry – in the directorates general of land, sea and air transportation – by, for instance, punishing corrup

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo decided on Tuesday to pick I Dewa Gede Palguna, a constitutional law professor at Udayana University in Bali, as the new Constitutional Court (

Jakarta – Muhammad Nasir, the research and technology minister, says construction is ongoing for an experimental nuclear power reactor on the outskirts of Jakarta, to pave the way for Indonesia's f

Jakarta – Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, the Nahdlatul Ulama, says it is ready to mediate talks between the Bogor administration and the GKI Yamin congregation over the sealing of a churc

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency, or BPS, last week released Indonesia's latest poverty data, which found that 27.73 million people, or about 11 percent of the country

Linda Yulisman and Tama Salim, Jakarta – Indonesian exporters may well struggle again this year as the global economic slowdown is likely continue to have an impact on their business.

Hizbul Ridho & Erwin Cristianson, Jakarta – Human rights groups in Indonesia have condemned on Monday the issuance of a Supreme Court letter instructing all judiciaries to reject case reviews f

Michael Bachelard – AirAsia has been banned from flying five of its key Indonesian domestic services out of Surabaya airport as part of a government crackdown on previously unenforced regulations i

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The recent crash of Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in the Java Sea will not deter Indonesia's aviation industry from embracing the opportunities offered by the Asean Open

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Citing signs of foul play in allowing AirAsia flight QZ8501 to operate without proper permits, the Transportation Ministry ordered on Monday the suspensions of severa

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The city administration evicted almost 14,000 people from their homes last year and put an end to the businesses of more than 2,000 street vendors, paving the way for river

Dominic Diongson, Jakarta – Indonesia's most prominent antigraft advocacy group called on Monday for law enforcers to insist on the revocation of corruption suspects' political rights and their rig

Jakarta – Pilots have protested against government officials' recent actions, which suggest that Indonesia AirAsia was at fault for alleged procedural violations, prior to the ill-fated flight that