Tiara Maharani – With rising airfares in Indonesia impacting the local travel and tourism industry, the Indonesian government is strongly urging Indonesian air carriers, especially the

Jim Zarroli – When a friend texted him the news that a Lion Air plane carrying 189 people had crashed off the coast of Java early on the morning of Oct.

Jakarta – The government has decided to keep discounts on trans-Jakarta toll roads in place until the Idul Fitri holiday season, as the relevant parties are still calculating the tolls

Jakarta – The government on Monday announced the various fares for app-base ojek (motorcycle taxis) in a bid to end the disputes between the drivers and ride-hailing providers that hav

Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono, Jakarta – As the seconds ticked by on the doomed Lion Air flight, the pilot handed the controls to his co-pilot and flipped through the pages of a t

Khairul Imam Ghozali, Jakarta – IBB Astra UD Trucks Regional Head Hendro Priyo Purnomo revealed that more than 50 percent of trucks across Indonesia are operating illegally, he believe

Cindy Silviana, Jamie Freed and Tim Hepher, Jakarta/Singapore/Paris – The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was

Raini Hamdi – As it turns out, it isn't just Traveloka and Tiket.com that are allegedly being arm-twisted by Garuda Indonesia and Lion Air to stop selling AirAsia Indonesia's tickets,

Kurniawan Ulung – Travel agents in Indonesia are reporting an increase in outbound traffic to international destinations in the face of soaring domestic airfares.

Jakarta – The government will start operating the 140.9-kilometer Bakauheni-Terbanggi Bedar toll road in Lampung on Friday, after which it will be free for motorists for a month.

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry is conducting an investigation into the safety of low-cost carrier Lion Air following reports in recent weeks that its flights

The implementation of a government-mandated prepaid SIM registration effort in Indonesia had a heavy impact on the two largest operators in the country, as they shed a collective 69 mi

Jakarta – City-owned busway operator PT Transjakarta has suspended the operation of 60 buses following a fire that engulfed one of its buses on Monday evening in Central Jakarta.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The new Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA), located in a coastal area of Kulon Progo regency, will start operating its international terminal in Apr

Jakarta – An emergency team at Supadio International Airport in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, hauled a Lion Air plane back onto the runway on Sunday after it skidded off on Saturday afte

Indonesia's largest airport operator is looking to spend billions of dollars to build a new facility in Jakarta and upgrade the existing one to cater to an unprecedented travel boom an

Jakarta – Jakarta Police are cracking down on electric bike-sharing app Migo, with a ban on the distinctive yellow electric bikes that have begun to gain popularity on the capital's st

Jakarta – After lowering fuel prices for land transportation, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will likely call on state-owned oil and gas holding company Pertamina to lower the price of

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – A planned increase in the rates of online-based motorcycle taxis may reduce demand for ride-hailing services by more than two-thirds, potentially paring drivers'

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – The Express Couriers Association of Indonesia (Asperindo) has spoken out against a price hike on cargo services, saying it increased operational costs for

Jakarta – The government has said 10 new airports started operations in 2018, but it recorded a decrease in the number of airplane passengers.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has ruled that checking the GPS on a mobile phone while driving is punishable by up to three months' imprisonment, as stipulated in the 2009 Traffic

Indonesian drivers must continue to rely on their memory and intuition (or dedicated GPS devices) to get around after the country's courts upheld a law making the use of GPS apps on sm

Jakarta – City-owned PT MRT Jakarta and the Jakarta Military Command on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding that stipulates for support from the military for the MRT's operati

Jakarta – The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) is investigating alleged price fixing behind airfare increases.

Jakarta – Indonesian National Air Carrier Association (INACA) chairman Ari Askhara has called on the government to provide protection to national aviation companies from the inflow of

Jakarta – The National Transportation Safety Committee announced on Monday that the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from last year's Lion Air crash had been found.

Wahyu Pratomo Hariyono, Jakarta – Last Dec. 26 marked one year since the opening of Railink, a dedicated railway system connecting Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and Jakarta.

Jakarta – Ships at the Makassar Container Terminal in South Sulawesi are having to wait for five or seven days before they can load and unload cargo.

indy Silviana, Fanny Potkin, Jakarta – Lion Air has ended its search for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from its Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, but Ind

Sheany, Jakarta – The family of an Indonesian man who was killed in the crash of Lion Air flight JT-610 sued Boeing this week, alleging that the Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet was "unreasonably d

Ramadani Saputra, Jakarta – Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi might have been considered the happiest person in the country following Indonesia's success in hosting the Asian Games

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya – A giant sinkhole has appeared in the middle of a busy road in Surabaya, East Java, on Tuesday night, swallowing part of the four-lane Jl.

Jakarta – Lion Air announced Monday it was funding a multi-million dollar search effort using a Dutch company for the second black box and missing victims from doomed flight JT-610.

Anne Barker – In a rare move, Lion Air has agreed to foot the bill for a new, more advanced search to find the cockpit voice recorder from its 737 Max-8 plane that crashed in Indonesia

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) is claiming the media erroneously reported that the Lion Air jetliner that crashed into the Java Sea last

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Bumpy runways, hair-raising safety lapses, remote airstrips with no navigation systems and a dire shortage of experienced captains and maintenance crews.

Indonesian investigators have said the Lion Air Boeing 737 jet that plunged into the sea, killing 189 people in October, was not airworthy on a flight the day before it crashed.

James Glanz, New York – Data from the jetliner that crashed into the Java Sea last month shows the pilots fought to save the plane almost from the moment it took off, as the Boeing 737'

Jakarta – Lawmakers on the House of Representatives Commission V overseeing transportation and infrastructure have called on the government to act firmly against private airline Lion Ai

Jakarta – For decades, the Jakarta Pedicab Drivers Union (Sebaja) has been fighting for permission to work in certain neighborhoods in North and West Jakarta in peace, without risking r

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Every year, at least 1 million new cars and about 6 million new motorcycles hit the roads in Indonesia with the drivers having the freedom to break traffic regul

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Data from one of the black boxes retrieved from the Lion Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea last Monday has revealed the aircraft experienced problems with it

Angus Whitley, Eko Listiyorini and Alan Levin, Jakarta – The Lion Air plane that crashed in the Java Sea last week had faulty airspeed readings during its last four flights and Indonesi

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – A Sriwijaya Air flight bound for Jakarta from Bengkulu on Monday was reportedly delayed for an hour after passengers objected to the pungent aroma of durian

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – "I heard the plane from Bali already had a problem, right.

Clara Chooi – Why did Lion Air JT610, operating a near-new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, crash just 13 minutes after take-off from Jakarta on Monday?

Erwin Renaldi – Indonesia's peak body for broadcasting has warned local journalists not to sensationalise the reporting of the Lion Air plane crash, in a bid to stop widespread "unethic

James Massola, Karuni Rompies & Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – The Lion Air flight that crashed into the ocean on Monday, killing 189 people, had suffered problems on the previous day's fli

Kate Lamb in Jakarta and agencies – The Lion Air Boeing 737 Max jet that crashed in Indonesia on Monday flew erratically the previous evening and its air speed readings were unreliable,