Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – As the country celebrates the birth of Pancasila, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called for the country to strengthen collective unity and further

Jakarta – Addressing concerns over the monthly allowance given to members of the Agency for the Implementation of the State Ideology of Pancasila (BPIP), which critics have called exces

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has signed a decree to give former president Megawati Soekarnoputri an allowance for promoting Pancasila that is almost twice his own income as

President Joko Widodo has always been perceived by the public as a loyal cadre of his political party, PDI-P, and its leader, Chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri.

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – The Islamic organization Muhammadiyah Youth Center Chairman Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak demanded Ministry of Religious Affairs call off the determination of national

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – Amien Rais, the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN)'s consultative board, has called on the Religious Affairs Ministry to revoke the list of 200

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Former president and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri visited the National Police headquarters on Wednesday t

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called on the youth wings of Indonesia's two largest Islamic organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, to continue stre

Amirullah, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo or Jokowi says that the Pancasila Youth (Pemuda Pancasila, PP) are a special social organisation (ormas) and he is calling on the group to be the bulwark

Bayu Ardi Isnanto, Solo – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo attended the keynote event of the Pancasila Youth's (PP) 58th anniversary in the Central Java city of Solo.

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) presided over a ceremony to mark Pancasila Sanctity Day here on Saturday morning.

Bambang Muryanto, Jakarta – Amid growing sectarian and religious conflicts, the head of the presidential working unit on the implementation of the state ideology of Pancasila (UKP-PIP), Yudi Latif,

Jakarta – Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi on Saturday (19/08) expressed his disappointment over a misprint in the Indonesian flag in the promotional materials distributed at the 2017 Southeast Asian G

Djemi Amnifu, Kupang – Four lecturers and students at the state-run Nusa Cendana University (Undana) in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, have been identified as being connected with the disbanded Islami

Jakarta – The Bogor police have named a man identified as M, 25, as a suspect of allegedly burning red and white umbul-umbul (decorative flags) placed by residents around Ibnu Mas'ud pesantren (Isl

Bagus Saragih, Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu has warned new university students about the "threat" of liberalism, communism and radicalism.

Ivany Atina Arby, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat has warned his staff to resign from office if they feel the state ideology Pancasila is irrelevant to the country.

Jakarta – Islamic boarding schools, or pesantren, should be at the forefront of guarding the state ideology Pancasila and the principle of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity) amid the growing

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Hundreds of Islamic scholars and preachers from the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization, will convene in Jakarta on Thursday and Friday to find

Haeril Halim, Wonosobo, Central Java – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo told students in Wonosobo and Temanggung regencies, Central Java, on Saturday to study hard, pray and respect differences as pa

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Hundreds of doctors from across Bali gathered in Denpasar on Saturday to pledge allegiance to the national ideology of Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution.

Jakarta – A daughter of founding president Sukarno, Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, has reported Islam Defenders Front (FPI) chairman Habib Rizieq Shihab to the police for allegedly insulting the state id

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency (Fitra) antigraft group has urged the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) to cease its public relations campaign to promote "the

Jakarta – As politicians from the older generation call for the strengthening of the state ideology Pancasila, members of the younger generation believe the sanctified five principles h

Margareth S.Aritonang, Jakarta – A Constitutional Court justice candidate, Arief Hidayat, said on Monday that atheism and same-sex marriage should be prohibited in Indonesia because th

Pitan Daslani – Indonesia must do everything possible to prevent the state ideology of Pancasila from being replaced by a doctrine that promulgates an Islamic caliphate or nationwide im

Candra Malik& Hangga Brata – A Central Java official has threatened to shut down two Islamic schools where the principals refuse to hold flag-raising ceremonies, saying the practice

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday said that he would not let a ideology based on religion replace the current national ideology of Pancasila.

Elisabeth Oktofani & Camelia Pasandaran – Most people still see Pancasila as relevant and believe there is a need to apply the values of the state ideology in their daily lives, a s

Camelia Pasandaran & Arientha Primanita – In response to rising radicalism in Indonesia, the heads of eight state institutions agreed to strengthen Pancasila within the country.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the official national ideology, Pancasila, by calling on all Indonesians to put country before race and religion.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday called on the Indonesian people to end the debate on the place of Pancasila as the country's state ideolog

Erwida Maulia and Slamet Susanto, Jakarta, Yogyakarta – Several social events held to commemorate the birth of Pancasila on Monday saw experts renewing calls for the national ideology t

Jakarta – The ongoing campaign to revitalize the state ideology, Pancasila, has put some Muslim hard-liners, currently working to turn Indonesia into an Islamic state, on the defensive.

Jakarta/Bandung – The much-maligned Pancasila state ideology, now championed as the cure-all for societal conflicts, should not be returned to its once sacrosanct status in society, pol

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Jayapura – Forty-two rebels in Indonesia's eastern Papua province surrendered Monday, vowing to end their struggle for independence, police said.

Jakarta – In a sign of the changing times, the country commemorated on Monday what used to be called Pancasila Sanctity Day but has been renamed Commemoration of the National Tragedy du

Jakarta – A group of some 80 people Monday protested at the gates of the parliament, demanding that political parties be freed from the obligation to adhere to the state ideology "Panca

In a speech to mark the anniversary of 'Pancasila Day', 1 June, Megawati Sukarnoputri said she is feeling deeply troubled to hear the terrible things people are now saying about former