A protester holds a sign that reads “Pati united. Down with arrogant regent who oppresses the people“ during a protest in Pati, Central Java on Aug. 13, 2025.

People power in Pati

The uprising in Pati serves as a powerful message to leaders at all levels of government about the importance of public trust and consultation.

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Ending the spat over Ambalat

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Much tech, less protection

Roblox has been accused of prioritizing user growth, revenue and profit over child safety. ...

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The Jakarta Post turns 39 on April 25, 2022.

Editorial

39 years and counting

After 39 years of mostly highs and a few lows, especially in the past two years, The Jakarta Post is again standing on the cusp of change – and is grabbing it by the horns.

3 years ago

Editorial

Overcooked oil business

We understand how angry the President is with the uncooperative attitude of the 10 largest integrated palm oil industrial groups.

3 years ago

Popular: Rich Brian (center) is undeniably Indonesia's latest biggest-ever pop-culture export.

Editorial

The return of the pop-oriented music festival not only serves as a sign of the return to normalcy, a much-needed celebration of life less restricted by health protocols, but it is also a saving grace for music fans who have missed out on live music performances for at least the past two summers.

3 years ago

Israeli security forces scuffle with a Palestinian man as he tries to enter the Al-Aqsa mosque compound to attend the Friday prayers, on April 15. More than 100 people were wounded in clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police at East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, with new violence, as Jewish and Christian festivals overlap with Ramadan.

Editorial

Tragedy at Al-Aqsa

Indonesia joined many other countries in condemning Israel’s armed violence against Palestinian people inside the Al Aqsa complex.

3 years ago

Papuan students protest against the government's plan to develop new administrative regions in the country's easternmost territory, in Malang, East Java, on March 21, 2022.

Editorial

Divide and rule Papua

The intention to split Papua into smaller pieces only maintains the decades-old asymmetric relationship between Jakarta and the easternmost territory.

3 years ago

Kevin Aluwi (left), Patrick Cao (second left), Andre Soelistyo (second right) and William Tanuwijaya at GoTo’s Listing Day Ceremony at the Indonesia Stock Exchange on April 11 in Jakarta.

Editorial

Time to make profit

The real battle for GoTo has just begun. Amid turbulent global markets and the cooling hype on Southeast Asia’s tech sector, GoTo is expected to have different strategies and show greater resilience in the bourse.

3 years ago

Internally displaced people arrive at a centre for the displaced persons in Zaporizhzhia, some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of Mariupol on April 6, 2022. NATO chief said that, after withdrawing most of its troops from northern Ukraine, Russia aims to capture the

Editorial

Peaceful message of Easter

Whether or not his call falls on deaf ears, the pope is representing the world’s hopes and optimism that peace will prevail.

3 years ago

The main meeting room for the Group of 20 finance ministers meeting in Jakarta on Feb. 16.

Editorial

Come, recover together

The proposition of inviting Ukraine to the G20 Summit looks to be the best compromise Indonesia can offer to appease the West.

3 years ago

Police fire tear gas at students during a rally against moves to extend the presidential mandate in Jakarta on April 11.

Editorial

Hail to the students

Our history shows students have repeatedly taken to the street to speak up against injustices and the regression of democracy when the prevailing mechanism through the legislatures did not work.

3 years ago

Demanding an end: Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu and his fellow cinephile friends founded sexual violence reporting channel, SGHT ('Sinematic Gak Harus Toxic'/Cinematic Should Not Be Toxic) in 2019. (Facebook/Courtesy of Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu) *CHECK FOR ITALICS FOR PRINT*

Editorial

Ending sexual violence

Despite its drawbacks of not defining rape and regulating for coerced abortions, at least now we have legislation that specifically deals with sexual violence.

3 years ago

Documentary of war: A serviceman films a destroyed Russian tank and armored vehicles amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Bucha, Kiev, Ukraine, April 2.

Editorial

Ukraine - humanitarian and human tragedy

Economic sanctions against Russia imposed by the United States and its NATO allies have not forced Moscow rethink its Ukraine policy.

3 years ago

Health matters: Medical workers vaccinate workers of a factory in Cikarang, West Java, against COVID-19 on March 9, 2022. A total of 5,000 booster vaccines were administered that day.

Editorial

No booster, no ‘mudik’

People’s enthusiasm to get a booster shot, however, may enable more island-to-island travel, which could in turn increase virus transmission.

3 years ago

Travellers queue for self check-in before departure at Changi International Airport in Singapore on April 1, 2022, as Singapore reopened its land and air borders to travellers fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Editorial

Why we must act now to keep humans and the planet healthy

Globally, two-thirds of exposure to outdoor air pollution results from the burning of the same fossil fuels that are driving climate change, which between 2030 and 2050 is expected to cause an additional 250 000 deaths annually.

3 years ago

This Handout photo made available by Greenpeace shows one of their activists holding an anti-war placard as they float in the water in front of the supertanker Pertamina Prime off the coast of Denmark on March 31, 2022, blocking the transshipment of a Russian oil shipment between two ships.

Editorial

Living with more costly fuel

Most analysts and multilateral-development agencies have suggested that the government expand well-targeted cash-transfer social-assistance programs to protect low-income people.

3 years ago

Editorial

Malay for ASEAN

Article 34 of the ASEAN Charters rules English as the working language for the diverse grouping.

3 years ago

Motorcycles line up for Pertamax fuel oil in this undated photograph.

Editorial

Living with inflation

Households will have to accept higher prices for as long as the Ukraine war drags on.

3 years ago

Migrant workers sit on board a boat during a rescue operation in the waters off North Sumatra, where two people died and 26 others went missing after a ferry carrying dozens of migrants sank off the coast of Indonesia on March 19.

Editorial

Protecting our migrants

In a system that favors employers, recruiters and policymakers, Indonesian migrant workers have found themselves highly vulnerable to labor abuses.

3 years ago

Editorial

A humble Ramadan

This Ramadan will be one the most expensive fasting months in recent memory.

3 years ago

Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing (right) talks with Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn (left), the ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar, in Naypyidaw on March 21.

Editorial

Kick out Myanmar’s junta

Myanmar’s membership in ASEAN should be suspended until the military gives back the power it robbed from the country’s democratically elected government last year.

3 years ago

Russian joint venture Vietsovpetro oil rigs are seen at Bạch Hổ oil field in Vietnam.

Editorial

Russian oil roulette

For Indonesia to turn to Russian oil now risks the wrath of the West.

3 years ago

United States President Joe Biden attends the virtual US-ASEAN Summit on Oct. 26, 2021 from the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC.

Editorial

A welcome delay

The postponment of a special summit between Biden and ASEAN leaders is actually a blessing in disguise, considering the US' policy stance as regards the current geopolitical climate in Southeast Asia and Europe.

3 years ago

Two miners pan for gold along a stream near Korowai, Papua, on July 7, 2020 . Illegal mining has soared in the region in despite hazards including the risk of arrest and health damage from toxic mercury used at many makeshift mining sites.

Editorial

No mercy for mercury

Indonesia has a moral obligation to ensure that the Bali Declaration will be able to spur stronger international cooperation in the fight against illegal mercury trade.

3 years ago

Officials inspect the main venue of the Group of 20 finance ministers and central governors meeting during preparations in Jakarta on Feb. 17.

Editorial

G20 presidency: Firm but calm

Due to the tricky nature of the matter, President Jokowi has to make sure that all official statements and information related to the G20 summit from the host should come from a single agency or ministry.

3 years ago

Hot wheels: Police officers inspect luxury cars seized from online investment scam suspect Doni Salmanan at the premises of the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta on March 14, 2022.

Editorial

Probing the crazy rich

The moral outcry from the crazy rich story is the reason why the police started investigations only recently despite the binary investment trading having run since 2019.

3 years ago

Constitutional Court Chief Justice Anwar Usman reads out the court's decision regarding a dispute over the results of the presidential election on June 27, 2019.

Editorial

Marriage of convenience

Anwar must be able to prove that he will not be blinded by his marriage, and his integrity will be reflected in his and the court’s decisions.

3 years ago

Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan speaks on Nov. 18, 2021 at the Indonesian Army Command and General Staff College (Seskoad) in Bandung, West Java.

Editorial

Defending civic space

It is time for civil society to stand up, once again, to reject the prevailing top-down use of laws and law enforcement to deter free speech and reclaim our democratic achievements.

3 years ago

Former Timor Leste president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate José Ramos-Horta (center) gets a traditional welcome in Dili on Jan. 23, 2022 after officially announcing he will run for office again in the upcoming presidential election.

Editorial

Timor Leste’s politics

It is understandable that since Timor Leste’s independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta and freedom hero Xanana Gusmao have dominated the country’s politics.

3 years ago

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo looks on at sunrise after spending the night at a campsite in Penajam Paser Utara, East Kalimantan, on March 15, where the government intends to build a new capital city to replace Jakarta.

Editorial

Show us the data

Political elites seem to have totally ignored public opinion surveys, which consistently debunk their claims of popular support for a presidential term extension.

3 years ago

Travelers walk through the international arrivals hall at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, on Feb. 16, 2022, after a Singapore Airlines flight arrived following a nearly two-year break due to COVID-19.

Editorial

Bali reopens

Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno announced that Bali had achieved herd immunity based on serology tests conducted by the Health Ministry and the Home Ministry.

3 years ago

MotoGP riders are flagged off by Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (left) at the start of a motorcycle parade in downtown Jakarta on March 16, 2022, ahead of this weekend's MotoGP Indonesia Grand Prix.

Editorial

Full speed at Mandalika

The weekend’s crowd-puller will be a testament to the country’s ability to organize a high-level international showcase, while handling the virus spread.

3 years ago

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