Antara, Jakarta – The National Anti-Narcotics Agency (BNN) has firmly rejected a suggestion raised by a lawmaker of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) to export cannabis, currently cat

Jakarta – Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly has apologized for provoking the ire of Tanjung Priok residents in North Jakarta following his negative description of the area.

News Desk, Jakarta – More than one hundred residents of Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, flocked on Wednesday to the Law and Human Rights Ministry on Jl.

Indonesia's most infamous alleged fraudster at the moment has owned up to his delusions as his imaginary kingdom crumbles as quickly as it ascended to its imaginary heights.

We've written about heartwarming stories involving app-based motorcycle taxi drivers (locally known as ojek online or ojol for short) before, but a recent viral thread on an elderly dr

Suherdjoko, Semarang, Central Java – The Central Java Police have named Totok Santoso Hadiningrat and Fanni Amanadia, who proclaimed themselves to be the "king and queen" of Keraton Ag

As Friday prayers wrap up at Suada mosque, worshippers turn their attention outside where Fakhry Affan steers a drone high above, snapping pictures of the building tucked in a corner o

Jakarta – The Purworejo Police arrested on Tuesday afternoon Totok Santoso Hadiningrat and Fanni Aminadia, residents of Purworejo regency in Central Java, who recently declared themsel

Jakarta – Totok Santosa Hadiningrat, a resident of Purworejo in Central Java, has declared himself king of Keraton Agung Sejagat (The World Empire), which he claims to be the "mother o

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – The North Sumatra Police have arrested a woman, her lover and a hired hitman for the murder of her husband in Medan, North Sumatra, last year.

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Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – The Majalengka District Court has sentenced Irfan Nur Alam, the son of Majalengka regent Karna Sobahi who also served as an official at the administration

Jakarta – A motorcycle taxi driver died after a billboard fell upon him when he stopped for a red light during heavy rain on Saturday on Jl. Daan Mogot in Cengkareng, West Jakarta.

Vela Andapita and Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – What happened in Indonesia over the past 365 days?

Antara, Jakarta – A Lamborghini driver was detained after he opened fire and threatened two high school students using his gun in a Jakarta road rage, police said on Tuesday.

An Indonesian Instagram influencer couple (locally known by the terrible portmanteau "selebgram," which combines the words "seleb" for celebrity and "gram" for Instagram) recently got

Eko Wahyudi L Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – President Jokowi's special staff of communications and spokesman, Fadjroel Rachman, congratulated Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati for

Jakarta – The terror of creeping cobras continues in the capital as residents of Kembangan district in West Jakarta made the terrifying discovery of tens of the venomous snakes appeari

Jakarta – As if managing waste on a daily basis was not enough, Public Facility Maintenance Agency (PPSU) officers in Jelambar, West Jakarta, have been apparently told to take a dip in

Jakarta – Cobras have caused a scare among people living in the Royal Citayem housing complex in Bojong Gede district, Bogor regency, West Java.

Imam Muzakir, Jakarta – Property company Lippo Karawaci has introduced its first Muslim cemetery project to be built in Karawang, West Java.

Jakarta – The police raided an illegal cell phone manufacturer in a shop house in Penjaringan, North Jakarta, on Monday.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan, North Sumatra – Two dog attacks in North Sumatra in the past week have killed a man and injured an 8-year-old boy.

Jakarta – A baby girl was found inside a cardboard box beside Jl.

A widely publicized shooting case in West Java's Majalengka regency saw a twist in which the shooter may end up reporting the victim to the police.

Devina Heriyanto and Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Indonesia's rank has fallen in the 2019 Expat Explorer to 31st out of 33 countries, whereas it ranked 13th out of 31 countries last year.

Ahmad Faiz Ibnu Sani, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo or Jokowi said that Prophet Muhammad is a role model because he was able to change society for the better.

Elle Hunt – At Karet Bivak cemetery in Jakarta, the neat rows of headstones extend as far as the eye can see, seeming to sprout into skyscrapers at the horizon.

Heru Andriyanto, Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – A soap opera actor will go on trial for saying in a video that his former wife "smells like salted fish" and that she takes a bath only onc

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Jakarta (Antara) – Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) Commander Air Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto and Indonesian National Police (Polri) Chief General Tito Karnavian attended an interreligious ass

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police are hunting attackers who threw Molotov cocktails at the Golkar Party central executive board (DPP) headquarters in Slipi, West Jakarta, on Wednesday.

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – Police in Palu, Central Sulawesi, have arrested a 14-year-old student, identified only as AP, and Sofyan, 43, for stealing an earthquake detector owned by the M

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who is celebrating his 58th birthday today, received well wishes from construction workers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangeran

Research has consistently shown that the theory that violent video games cause players to become more violent is wrong but the horrific mosque shooting that took place in New Zealand i

An elderly man's dream of visiting the holy land of Mecca went up in flames in a house fire, but Indonesian netizens have restored that dream, and then some.

Jakarta – A man disguised as a woman was caught red-handed as he tried to steal underwear and other personal belongings from a female nursing student at a kos (share house) in Tangeran

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – The fifth Congress of Indonesian Diaspora, or CID-5, will open with a one-day conference on Aug. 10 at Kota Kasablanka, South Jakarta.

Jakarta – Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers and firefighters in Agam, West Sumatra, recently shut down five orgen tunggal music performances at wedding parties for being held af

An Indonesian man may face up to 20 years in prison for premeditated murder, allegedly spurred by a truly warped idea of spousal commitment.

Police and military personnel in Meulaboh, West Aceh apprehended a man yesterday on suspicion of terrorizing a mosque and destroying its loudspeakers, an action that was allegedly trig

He's not exactly a beggar, but this man in Aceh is certainly a chooser, and an extremely ungrateful one at that.

Jakarta (Antara) – Former chief of the Army's Strategic Reserve Command Major General (ret) Kivlan Zen who has been banned from travelling abroad on treason charges is now in Batam, Ri

Ryan Dwiky And Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – Spokesman for the Prabowo Subianto – Sandiaga Uno campaign team (BPN) addressed the video of the salute Jokowi received from his campaign team man

Aisha Shaidra, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto's personal assistant Rizky Irmansyah, through his Instagram account, recalled the presidential candidate's attachment to animals.

"Hard-headed" is one term that people have been using recently to describe Prabowo Subianto, the former general who is still claiming victory in last week's election (despite clear and

The #JusticeForAudrey assault case, which has dominated Indonesian headlines this week and resulted in millions of Indonesians signing a petition demanding the prosecution of 12 high s

Jakarta – Police have named three 17-year-old girls as suspects in the assault of a 14-year-old girl in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, in a case that sent shock waves across social media

An alleged case of abuse against a middle school student in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, continues to dominate the conversation on Indonesian social media today as police continue inves