Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Hundreds of Yogyakarta residents gathered at Tugu Monument on Sunday to pray and show their solidarity following suicide bombings that hit three churches

Riza Roidila, Jakarta – Hundreds of Surabaya residents in East Java flocked to the city's Heroes Monument on Sunday night to hold a candlelit vigil against terrorism and mourn the victi

Karlis Salna, Viriya Singgih and Rieka Rahadiana – A wave of deadly bombings in Indonesia has put the spotlight on lawmakers and anti-terrorism laws that give police enhanced powers to

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Kate Lamb – A family of five, including an eight-year-old child, has carried out a bomb attack on a police headquarters in Surabaya, killing at least four peop

Jakarta – State-owned railway operator PT KAI has heightened security at several train stations in Jakarta following Sunday's suicide bombings in Surabaya, East Java.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya, East Java – The National Police's Densus 88 antiterror squad arrested six suspected terrorists allegedly linked to the pro-Islamic State (IS) group Jamaa

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – General Secretary of the Indonesian Churches Alliance (PGI) Golmar Gultom urged all political and community elites to stop commenting that further distorts the s

Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, the nation's largest Islamic organizations, have condemned a series of alleged suicide bombing attacks at three churches in Surabaya, Ea

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – No group has claimed responsibility so far for suicide bombings at three churches in Surabaya, East Java, on Sunday morning.

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – At least eleven people have been killed and dozens injured in multiple suicide bombings at three churches in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, in the worst

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Four suspected terrorists shot dead by members of the nation's elite Densus 88 counterterrorism squad in Cianjur, West Java had reportedly been training to la

Sheany and Adinda Putri, Jakarta – Indonesian civil groups condemned the church bombings in Surabaya, East Java, on Sunday (13/05), and called for a unified rally behind the government

Jakarta – The West Java Police arrested three individuals, identified only as Anang, Abid and Mulyadi, in Caringin village, Ciawi subdistrict in Bogor, West Java, on Friday for allegedl

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Following complaints from road users over unusual traffic congestion in Jl. Sudirman-Jl. M.H.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – A Muslim preacher was on Monday (April 9) sentenced to nine years in jail by an Indonesian court for inciting the suicide bombing in East Jakarta in May

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a regional, non-governmental, human rights organization in Asia, has learned of the current situation on the war against terrorism in Indonesia

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – The Indonesian government cannot entertain the request by the country's most influential militant cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, to be placed under home dete

The Indonesian government is considering house arrest or other forms of clemency for the ailing radical cleric who was the ideological leader of the Bali bombers and is now in prison fo

Friski Riana, Jakarta – Chairman of Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Maruf Amin asked President Joko Widodo or Jokowi to give clemency to terrorist convict Abu Bakar Baasyir.

Riani Sanusi Putri, SSN, Jakarta – Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) demanded police to investigate the cause of death of terrorist suspect Muhammad Jefri

Jakarta – Indonesia's overcrowded prisons are ill-equipped to deal with militant inmates, hampering efforts to prevent the spread of violent radicalism in institutions that have become

Indonesia is beefing up its elite Detachment 88 (Densus 88) unit in light of increased threats from local and international terror networks, says National Police Chief General Tito Karn

Jakarta – Indonesia is beefing up its elite Detachment 88 unit in light of increased threats from local and international terror networks, National Police Chief General Tito Karnavian said today (D

Sapri Maulana, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has provided compensation for the victims of terrorism for the first time.

Sheany, Jakarta – Indonesian women migrant workers in Hong Kong have been targeted by extremist groups to raise funds for acts of terrorism through social media, experts said on Tuesday (19/12).

More than a dozen people have been arrested by Indonesian anti-terrorism police, authorities said Monday, as they beef up security in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country ahead of the Christ

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru, Riau – Densus 88, the National Police's counterterrorism squad, supported by Riau Police personnel, have arrested four suspected terrorists in separate locations.

Aman Rochman, Malang, East Java – The National Police's counterterrorism squad, Densus 88, arrested three men alleged to be involved in a local terrorism network in East Java on Saturday.

Jakarta – The National Police's antiterror squad, Densus 88, arrested a suspected terrorist in Surabaya, East Java, on Saturday morning.

Prashanth Parameswaran – Last week, Singapore and Indonesia carried out a new exercise in counterterrorism, an area of growing concern for the two sides.

Jakarta – Two suspected militants were shot dead on Sunday morning after allegedly setting fire to the main building of the Dharmasraya Police headquarters in West Sumatra.

Resty Woro Yuniar – Robbing banks, dealing drugs, stealing motorcycles – these are the kind of activities popularly associated with the world of terrorist group funding.

Jakarta – The rise of radical narratives across different institutions in Depok, West Java, has been perpetuated by anti-Western concepts, notions of Muslim inferiority and hatred toward "enemies o

Jakarta – A controversial article on preventive detention under a proposed anti-terrorism bill expected to be passed later this year has been dropped, lawmakers said on Friday (06/10).

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – She's too young to realise it, but in November last year the life of a four-year-old Indonesian girl changed forever.

Jewel Topsfield – Heru Kurnia, an Indonesian who joined Islamic State in Syria, is describing watching children kick around the head of someone decapitated by IS militants.

Ali Kotarumalos and Stephen Wright, Jakarta – An Indonesian militant linked to the Islamic State group smiled and raised one finger toward heaven after a court on Wednesday sentenced him to 11 year

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia's national police plan to get 15,000 more pistols to ensure officers are armed and are able to protect themselves amid threats against them from terrorist

Francis Chan, Jakarta – Police in Indonesia's West Java on Monday (Sept 18) foiled a plot to attack President Joko Widodo and his security detail, after they arrested a 31-year-old militant with fi

Jakarta – Students at an Islamic school that Indonesian authorities have linked to Islamic State returned home after villagers nearby demanded its closure, a school spokesman said on Sunday (17/09)

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Muhammad Syafii, the chairman of the House of Representatives committee on the deliberation of the 2003 Counterterrorism Law's draft revision, said that President

Jakarta – Ibnu Mas'ud pesantren, or Islamic boarding school, near Bogor in West Java is facing closure as residents plan a protest on Sunday (17/09) to shut down the premise after rumors went aroun

Jakarta – A woman from Bekasi, West Java has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years jail for her involvement in an Islamic State-inspired plot to carry out a suicide bomb attack on the presidenti

Jakarta – Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly has defended the move to grant sentence reductions to a number of convicted terrorists, saying the decision was made after a thorough review th

Jakarta – Indonesian militants planned to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb", security sources said, highlighting the rising ambitions of extremists to wreak destruction in the world's largest Mus

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Tenggulun, East Java – The first thing former terrorist Ali Fauzi Manzi does when he meets Fairfax Media is apologise to Australia and the 88 Australian victims of

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The police have stepped up their vigilance following reports of possible terror threats by the Islamic State (IS) network aimed at personnel deployed to secure the

Anne Barker – A small but alarming number of Indonesian maids working in Asia are becoming radicalised and supporting the Islamic State (IS) group. Some have volunteered as suicide bombers.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The government will soon unblock the web version of messaging application Telegram following a meeting between Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara an

Indonesia correspondent Samantha Hawley and Ake Prihantari – Dozens of mosques across Indonesia are under surveillance for supporting the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, spreading its ideology