To help curb the maternal mortality rate, West Nusa Tenggara Governor M. Zainul Majdi has announced a new policy that exempts women from delivery fees.

Prestigious awards, including Kalpataru, seem ineffective in promoting environment protection, especially because of strong pressures from the private sector, which exploits its huge capital to weaken the government’s nature conservation policies.

The government said Friday it had formed a team to appraise the performance of the management of state electricity monopoly PT PLN, paving the way for a reshuffle of its top executives.

Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar expressed his anger over the recent trial of an old woman who was accused of stealing three cacao fruits worth Rp 30,000 from a plantation in the Central Java town of Banyumas.

A motorbike rider was severely injured after a base transceiver station tower, belonging to telecommunications giant Telkomsel, fell during a rainstorm in the West Sumatran capital of Padang on Friday.

National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Nanan Soekarna said Friday that the police summoning representatives of two daily newspaper was not related to a defamation complaint filed by alleged bribery mastermind Anggodo Widjojo.

The Customs and Excise Office in Riau Islands has foiled an attempt to smuggle 75 tonnes of pure ammonium nitrate, which can be used in improvised explosive devices, on a ship from Malaysia to Selayar Island in South Sulawesi.

The Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Darwin Zahedy Saleh is still tight-lipped about rumors about management reshuffle in state power firm PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), under fire for implementing rotating blackouts across Greater Jakarta

Indonesia will support Palestine in its plan to declare unilateral independence without Israeli consent, said the Foreign Minister Friday.