Marcelo Rochabrun, Lima – LGBT activists in Peru held a protest on Friday questioning how their government handled the death of a Peruvian transgender man in Indonesia earlier this month who was detained at the airport upon arriving to celebrate his honeymoon.

Denpasar, Bali – The National Police on Thursday denied accusations of violence from the family of a Harvard University transgender activist who died after being arrested on his honeymoon in Bali.

Jayapura – Public prosecutor Achmad Kobarubun made a response to the defense memorandum of the defendant's lawyer, the Papua Coalition of Law Enforcement and Human Rights, in the trial of alleged treason by seven Morning Star flag raisers at the Jayapura District Court on Wednesday, August 24, 2022.

Sorong – Due to heavy rains from Monday, August 22, 2022, until Tuesday morning, a landslide claimed two lives in Sorong City, West Papua Province. In addition, a total of two people were injured and two houses were severely damaged in the incident, according to the Sorong City Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD).

A member of the House of Representatives (DPR) is calling for a divine solution to Indonesia's looming subsidized fuel crisis.

A member of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) in Palembang, South Sumatra may be booted out of his party and face criminal charges after he was filmed assaulting a woman at a gas station.

Jakarta – Indonesia's transportation officials have launched the "Train to Apocalypse," an impressive attraction featuring zombies in a dilapidated station. The initiative is designed to convince young people to use public transport more often. Even if they won't often encounter any undead on their journeys.

Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman, Jakarta – One of the strategic infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the capital's MRT North-South construction, succumbs to ballooning costs, mimicking similar issues that have happened in other public transportation projects.

Jakarta – Education, Culture, Research and Technology Minister Nadiem Makarim needs to immediately evaluate the university student admission system following the arrest of Lampung University (Unila) rector Karomani by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) last week, in light of the fact that the alleged bribery case that has implicated the professor could be just the tip of th

Stevani Wijaya, Jakarta – Disgraced police general Ferdy Sambo has submitted his resignation letter while awaiting trial as the suspected mastermind in the murder of a subordinate, National Police Chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo said on Wednesday.

Liam Scott – New regulations and revisions introduced in Indonesia this summer will likely have a devastating impact on freedom of expression for all Indonesians, experts say, with the country's journalists facing distinct risks as a result.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesian police are investigating possible negligence in the death of a Chinese construction worker at the site of a controversial hydroelectric dam in the only known habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan.

Jayapura – Chairman of the Special Group of the Papua Legislative Council (DPRP) John NR Gobai said the central government should not be afraid or hesitant to establish a Human Rights Court in Papua. Indeed, such a court is urgently needed because there are many unsolved cases of human rights violations in Papua.

Jayapura – Emanuel Gobay of the Papua Coalition for Law Enforcement and Human Rights, the legal counsel for the seven Morning Star raisers charged with treason, read out their defense memorandum in a trial at the Jayapura District Court on Monday, August 22, 2022.

Dwi Argo Santosa, Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – A low-ranking policeman accused of fatally shooting fellow officer Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat has been told by alleged mastermind Ferdy Sambo that he would walk away from the murder without any legal consequence, the National Police chief told lawmakers on Wednesday.

Antara, Jakarta – Packaged sweetened drinks are flooding the market. The Health Ministry's Director of Non-Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control dr. Elvieda Sariwati said the ease of obtaining sweetened beverages causes the call to reduce sugar intake ineffective.

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) objected to the Jakarta government's plan to regulate office working hours in the capital. The Apindo's head of manpower division, Anton J. Supit, said the government has no authority to determine the office hours but the company.

Moh. Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – Labor Party President Said Iqbal said labor unions, farmers' unions, and civil organizations planned to go on a massive strike over the government's plan to hike the price of subsidized fuel, Pertalite and Solar.

We needn't worry too much about monkeypox, Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said, as the disease mostly causes unsavory cosmetic changes and not fatalities.

During a recent press conference on global health issues, Budi gave his frank assessment on monkeypox, calling on the nation to not be alarmed about the disease.

State-owned train company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) has filed a police complaint against a passenger after he was caught on camera defiling a female employee's religious attire.

Timor-Leste's president, Jose Ramos-Horta, has warned his nation will seek Chinese support if Australia and corporate giant Woodside Energy fail to back a gas pipeline between the resource-rich Timor Sea and his country's southern shore, rather than Darwin.

Dicky Kurniawan, Jakarta – The Metro Jaya Police on Tuesday said that Jakarta's traffic congestion has reached a level that is no longer sustainable and is uncomfortable to live by. Due to this reason, the police officially pitched the idea of regulating office hours to help reduce congestion.

Claire Jiao and Grace Sihombing – Indonesia's central bank unexpectedly raised borrowing costs for the first time since 2018 as policy makers conceded that inflation pressures have risen, revising their price forecasts higher.

Wasisto Raharjo Jati – While travelling with colleagues to East Kalimantan to do fieldwork in the Indonesian capital city (IKN) in mid-July 2022, we collected 180 responses from people affected by the new capital site.

Endy Bayuni, Jakarta – Indonesia can rightly be proud of its economic record, and thanks to the combination of its monetary and fiscal policies, the government of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has helped to ensure economic stability and more importantly, political stability.

Jakarta – The late president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid once quipped that the only police figures he could trust for a non-compromised attitude were the fifth National Police chief Hoegeng Iman Santoso, police statues and polisi tidur (literally sleeping police in Indonesian, which refers to speed bumps).

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo denied that freedom of speech in the country is somewhat restricted under his rule and used his own experience to describe how the actual situation is indeed "very liberal" as he responded to a question from media personality Karni Ilyas.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Tuesday admitted that he struggled to get Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy to have a dialogue during his peace mission to the warring countries in late June.

Antara, Jakarta – Floods struck Sorong City, West Papua following heavy rains from Monday until early today, August 23, 2022. Other than 1,5-meter-high flooding, landslides also hit the area, killing two people.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo believes that the democratic climate in Indonesia at the moment is very liberal. According to Widodo, a sign of this is freedom of expression which is increasingly free.

Widodo expressed this view while at the same time denying that under his leadership, the public believes that freedom of expression is lacking.

Ilham Rian Pratama, Jakarta – Activists from the National Alliance for Criminal Code Reform held a lively protest during a socialisation event titled "Draft Criminal Code Kick Off" (RKUHP Kick Off) at the Ayana Hotel in Central Jakarta on Tuesday August 23.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Tuesday reiterated Indonesia's plan to ban exports of raw mineral ores, including bauxites and tins, as the government seeks to only send out processed minerals overseas for added value.

Jakarta – Bank Indonesia, the country's central bank, has decided to raise the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.75 percent on Tuesday in a preemptive move to mitigate rising inflation ahead of the government's plan to increase fuel prices.

Hamdan Cholifudin Ismail, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH) on Monday strongly condemned a statement made by Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD who publicly forgave policemen who violated the police code of discipline. The policemen were incriminated in the ongoing investigation of the murder of another policeman.

Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta has come under criticism for his decision to confer an award to a retired Indonesian army general, who allegedly violated human rights during the country's independence struggles.

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Presidential Staff office Deputy V, Jaleswari Pramowardhani, in a written statement on Monday confirmed that the government would continue to judicially pursue investigating severe human rights violations in the past.

A university in Makassar, South Sulawesi has apologized to a freshman after faculty members discriminated against the student after they identified as non-binary.

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia is set to investigate 13 cases of unresolved human rights violations from the Suharto era and possibly even earlier, marking an attempt by President Joko Widodo to fulfil a pledge to provide justice and accountability to the victims.

Laurens Ikinia, Auckland – Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia's Melanesian province of Papua has expressed support for a call from the Papuan Student Association Oceania (PSAO) for a New Zealand-Papuan scholarship.

Jakarta – Lawyer Yones Douw said that his clients, families of victims of the Bloody Paniai gross human rights violations were disappointed that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) only named one suspect in the case. Douw said the victims' families let the trial at the Makassar Human Rights Court proceed but they declined to attend.

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – The former Jemaah Islamiyah member who claims to have reformed Umar Patek says he can guarantee the Bali bomb maker won't return to extremism and wants Australia to know Patek can be a key player in fighting the "seduction" of terrorism when he is released.

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto officially confirmed his bid to run for president in 2024 at the Gerindra Party's national leadership meeting (Rapimnas) last weekend. This will be Prabowo's third attempt to become the leader of the world's third-largest democracy.

Jakarta – A new presidential team tasked to look into nonjudicial resolutions to serious cases of past human rights violations may just be what the country needs to break the impasse, with a caveat: It should not preclude the pursuit of justice in court, even if it takes forever.

Muhammad Aulia, Jakarta – Indonesia prosecutors have seized two luxury hotels in the resort island of Bali as part of the ongoing corruption and money laundering investigation against palm oil tycoon Surya Darmadi, the Attorney General's Office announced on Monday.

Ika Karlina Idris and Dyah Pitaloka (The Conversation), Jakarta – The Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Information's (Kominfo) plan to merge around 24,000 government apps into just eight apps, which they call 'Super Apps', is worth closer scrutiny.

Suherdjoko, Purbalingga– Police have arrested 34 illegal gambling suspects in two raids on Thursday and Friday in Central Java, including six suspects of an alleged online gambling ring in Bojongsari district, Purbalingga regency.

Kiki Siregar, Banjarmasin – With a huge nose and reddish-brown skin, the proboscis monkey is not everyone's favourite animal.

But Indonesian Amalia Rezeki, conservationist and founder of the friends of proboscis monkey voluntary group, has made it her mission to save the endemic species.

Jakarta – Indonesia has recorded its first case of monkeypox in a 27-year-old man who returned from traveling overseas, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.

The World Health Organization last month designated the outbreak of the virus an emergency, something it reserves for diseases of highest concern, like COVID-19.

Muhammad Aulia, Jakarta – The chancellor of the University of Lampung (Unila) has been arrested for allegedly taking illegal payments from students at enrollment for his personal gains, the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, said on Sunday.

Jakarta – Social Affairs Minister Tri Rismaharini earlier this week submitted Indonesia's report on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The minister, better known as Risma, on Thursday spoke at the 27th session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) dialogue forum.