Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – It has been a year since the government launched the national health insurance (JKN) program.

Jakarta – The youth wing of the Golkar Party has proposed a new congress to reconcile two conflicting factions in the party and has asked candidates from both sides to run for chairperson.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Legal experts have lambasted President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration for backing a Supreme Court's letter that places limits on criminal convicts filing case reviews

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Reconciliation efforts carried out by the two opposing camps in the United Development Party (PPP) have ended in another deadlock after the faction supporting the ruling

The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) regrets and condemns recent incidents around the country in which film screenings of the film Senyap (The Look of Silence) have been closed down by

Indonesian officials like to try to capitalize on disasters, hoping to get more popular out of the misery of people they are supposed to serve.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has rejected a request from 27 South Korean companies that they be exempt from immediately implementing Jakarta's 2015 minimum wage.

Slamet Susanto and Bambang Muryanto, Bantul, Yogyakarta – The sounds of people crying and sobbing as well as applause filled Bantul district courtroom after presiding judge Sulistyo M.

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Watching movies, hanging out in a shopping mall or chatting in a coffee shop – these are the perceptions most people have about the ways teenagers spend their weekend, but

Tatan Syuflana, Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia – Highlighting the depth of Indonesia's air safety problems, the transportation ministry revealed harsh measures Monday against everyone who allowed AirAsia

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia's fight against terrorism has left dead a total of 97 suspects and 34 police officers since 2000, the National Police chief said on Sunday.

Carlos Paath & Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo's recent appointment of former Army general Luhut Binsar Panjaitan as his chief of staff, an unprecedented position in Indonesian c

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Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta, previously dubbed the city of tolerance, has been ranked second for intolerance and violations of religious freedom by the Wahid Institute in its 2014 ann

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesians will enter a new era of free-floating fuel prices after the government finally decided to overhaul the country's high-cost fuel subsidies just before the

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Unlike previous years, 2014 was not an easy one for the country's manufacturing sector as low demand in the global market and the sharp depreciation of the Indonesian curr

Jane Wardell & Anshuman Daga, Sydney/Singapore – The sheer volume of flights in the skies over Southeast Asia is putting pressure on outdated air traffic control and on pilots to take risky uni

Fitri Wulandari, Eko Listiyorini & Sharon Chen, Jakarta – Indonesia will cap the diesel subsidy and scrap aid for gasoline beginning tomorrow, the biggest changes to a decades-old s

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – A total of 119 police officers have been fired in the past year, but Indonesia's most infamous cop – Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo – is still on the payroll.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The first half of 2015 is forecasted to be a period of political uncertainties in Indonesia, with the administration of President Joko Widodo reeling from decli

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo set a target on Tuesday to improve the capacity of the Indonesian Military (TNI) and defense industry not only to meet the Minimum

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The government will revise the government's newly issued regulation on the protection and management of peatland amid growing protests from the business community,

Jonathan Pearlman, London – Despite the multi-national air-sea search for the missing AirAsia jet, the wreckage was discovered by a 38-year-old Indonesian fisherman named Mohammed Taha,

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) lambasted the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Monday for failing to step up its investigations into several high-prof

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Slash-and-burn clearing of forests to make way for plantations topped Indonesia's list of environmental problems in 2014, with several major forest and

Dwi Atmanta, Jakarta – The Christmas gift came three days late for Papuans this year, but many in the easternmost territory did not seem to mind.

Laila Ramdhini, Hari Gunarto & Tabita Diela, Jakarta – The disappearance on Sunday of an Indonesian passenger jet with 162 people on board has put the country's aviation safety reco

Jakarta – In another landmark reform for the country's educational system, Culture and Primary and Secondary Education Minister Anies Baswedan announced on Monday that the ministry woul

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Events surrounding Indonesia's third direct presidential election in July have fueled internal conflicts within some parties, culminating in a schism now afflic

Hizbul Ridho, Jakarta – The National Development Planning Ministry has claimed Indonesia will be "slum-free" by 2019 as the government plans to improve the living conditions of some of

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The disappearance of Air Asia Flight QZ8501 carrying 162 people en route to Singapore from Surabaya remains a mystery, with aviation experts on Sunday saying tha

Terrence McCoy – For so many years, it came easy to Tony Fernandes, a man who now finds himself at the center of Southeast Asia's latest aviation saga.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The absence of major cases of violence stemming from religious intolerance in Indonesia this year by no means indicates that the issue has been resolved

Hans Nicholas Jong – Violence against journalists is on the rise thanks to the way the police handle journalists in the country, a year-end report from the Alliance of Independent Journ

Jakarta – Senior Golkar Party politician Muladi expressed pessimism on the possibility of ending the dispute between the two Golkar factions through the party's internal dispute committ

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The year 2014 was a milestone in Indonesia's young democracy, the country successfully holding one of the largest elections in the world.

Joko Widodo was always going to be the president that his predecessors were not, from his man-of-the-people ways to his love of heavy metal.

Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry's director general of penitentiaries, Handoyo Sudrajat, said that Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna was aware of the policy to give sente

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo reiterated on Friday his target for achieving rice self-sufficiency for the country in the next three years and said that his gover

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has made an overture to the country's two largest Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, asking them to join his administr

Sidoarjo – Dozens of houses of the victims of the Lapindo mudflow in Gempolsari subdistrict, Tanggulangin district, Sidoarjo, East Java, have been inundated with mud following damage to

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has highlighted weak labor protection in the country as it revealed that labor disputes were the cases most freque

Nani Afrida, Denpasar – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu has hinted that the government would allocate a fraction of the budget for procurement of weapons for the Indonesian Military

Bambang Muryanto and Suherjoko, Yogyakarta/Semarang – Christians across Indonesia celebrated Christmas on Thursday in different ways, although some could not conduct celebrations in the

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Voters who anticipated casting ballots in local elections in seven provinces and 181 regencies and municipalities in 2015 will likely have to wait longer b

Makassar – A civil servant, identified as Fadhli Rahim, 33, has been detained and brought on trial for criticizing Gowa regent Ichsan Yasin through social media Line.

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Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla has declared Indonesia the most tolerant Muslim-majority country in the world, in a Christmas Day message that came as authorities in Bogor, south o

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The country's two largest Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, have given their support to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's call for the s

Suherdjoko, Demak, Central Java – Fishermen in Demak, Central Java warmly welcomed the government's move to intercept and sink illegal fishing vessels, but have voiced their complaints