The long-term visa scheme, called the golden visa, is only meant for “good quality travelers”, said President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo during the policy’s launch on Thursday, as he warned against allowing newcomers who bring no benefits or might pose a threat to national security.

​​With only five buses available to travel the Kupang-Dili route, calls are mounting for the government to assist the swaths of people hoping to complete the nine-hour long journey to see the head of the Catholic Church.

Students have praised the government’s decision to expand the removal of the science (IPA), social (IPS) and language (Bahasa) study pathways to approximately 95 percent of senior high schools this academic year, saying the move is “liberating” for them.

Wearing traditional Papuan attire, Jokowi danced alongside 2,600 students in an event that broke the Indonesian World Record Museum (MURI) record for a mass dance.

Activists and a state-affiliated women's rights agency have spoken out against “embedded sexism” in the government and say an ongoing controversy over the website names of regional administration institutions demonstrates the prevalence of sexism in the public sector.

Civil groups have raised concerns over violence against press workers and growing restrictions on press freedom following the alleged arson attack that left a reporter in North Sumatra dead, as well as assaults against several journalists in Jakarta.

​​As the world's second-largest plastic polluter, Indonesia has topped the global per capita intake of microplastics that are found mostly in seafood, studies suggest, with fishermen and coastal communities being the most affected.

As one of the latest surgical innovations, telerobotic surgery has increasingly attracted urologists’ attention for its ability to overcome geographical barriers and achieve safer surgeries with better outcomes. 

With online gambling growing exponentially in Indonesia and contributing to an increasing rate of suicides and serious crimes, the government is looking to address the issue through preventive measures, particularly by opening a rehabilitation center in Bogor, West Java.

Just as Indonesia enters the peak of the dry season, a number of highlands in Java have been covered in what appears at first glance to be snow, attracting curious visitors seeking to experience the unusual phenomenon.

Two NGOs told AFP that mining operations in North Maluku province are endangering the O'Hongana Manyawa people by stripping forests and pumping pollution into surrounding waters.

Among issues to be investigated by the House of Representatives' inquiry team on haj are alleged misallocation of this year's haj quota and reported poor facilities received by pilgrims in Arafah and Mina, Saudi Arabia, during the peak of the pilgrimage.

As public anger over the failure to prevent the ransomware attack on a temporary national data center facility in late June starts to wane, experts and civil groups have urged the government to be transparent about its progress in recovering the impacted databases.

Amid an ongoing investigation into 11 professors alleged of academic fraud, a Tempo report has found that the illicit practice goes all the way to the government, potentially damaging trust in Indonesia's higher education.

Catholic churches across the country are organizing enthusiastic congregations aspiring to attend a Mass set to be held at the Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) stadium in Central Jakarta on the third day of the Pope’s visit, on Sept. 5. Around 70,000 people are expected to attend the service.

Airlangga University professor Budi Santoso has been reinstated as the university's medical school dean following a backlash against the East Java university for dismissing Budi earlier this month allegedly due to his criticism of the government.

The Grand Imam of Al Azhar University in Cairo, Muhammad Ahmad Al Thayyib, met with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday as part of his Southeast Asia tour to promote moderate Islam and interfaith dialogue.

Medical associations have highlighted the various negative impacts of excessive salt, sugar and fat in processed foods as lawmakers discuss limiting the additives amid the rising public health burden from noncommunicable diseases.

Released early in 2020 and now 23, Saka is seeking to have his guilty verdict overturned by the Cirebon State Court, insisting he was innocent and that he had been tortured by police to confess to the crime.

Judge Eman Sulaeman argued that the police made several mistakes during Pegi's investigative processes, including failing to question Pegi before naming him as a suspect. The name of “Pegi Setiawan, alias Perong” was on the police’s wanted list for eight years.

Constitutional law experts have slammed the recent dismissal of Budi Santoso from his post as medical school dean at Airlangga University in East Java, calling it to be a violation of the 1945 Constitution and evidence that academic freedom in the country is in tatters.

While the Health Ministry denies its involvement, the dismissal of Airlangga University's medical school dean in East Java allegedly over his criticism of the government's plan to invite foreign doctors to open practices in Indonesia has been met with opposition from the academic community, who call the sacking a violation against academic freedom.

The 13 Taiwanese suspected of taking part in cyber crime, money laundering and drug trafficking were deported on Thursday afternoon, the statement said.

Authorities in West Java's Garut regency have again forcibly closed a building used by the Ahmadiyah minority community as a place of worship, citing public threats to do so, amid recent reports highlighting the worsening condition of religious freedom in Indonesia.

The TreeMap, a conservation start-up, used high-resolution imagery from several satellites and two decades of data from the long-running Landsat programme to map mines and related infrastructure and track deforestation.

During 2014 election, Semuel was on the permanent executive committee of Seknas Jokowi, a group of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo supporters.

A recent report from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) maintains that the police made multiple wrongful arrests last year, casting a shadow over the recent detention of a suspect in a high-profile murder case from 2016.

Brain Cipher, the hacking operation behind a recent ransomware attack against the government's temporary national data center in Surabaya, East Java, published the decryption key on its dark web site along with the steps to use it, fulfilling its promise to release the data for free.

Data from Statistic Indonesia (BPS) shows that only a measly 36.36 percent of Indonesian children attended pre-primary schools last year. This puts the country far behind the regional average, as UNICEF data suggests that East and Southeast Asia have an average of 80 percent in 2022 when it comes to early school participation.

Police in Bogor and Yogyakarta have together arrested 10 influencers as suspects for allegedly promoting online gambling via their social media accounts, with all potentially facing charges carrying a maximum 10-year sentence under the ITE Law.