Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s state visit to Jakarta next week will offer an opportunity for Indonesia to strengthen its ties with Kuala Lumpur and address persisting bilateral issues, experts say, amid regional and global tensions. 

The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has filed an appeal against a human rights court ruling that acquitted the sole defendant in the 2014 fatal shooting of civilians in Papua's Paniai regency, as rights groups are pushing for reinvestigation.

Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo’s electability has ticked up slightly amid speculation that the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) matriarch Megawati Soekarnoputri will make her final decision on the party’s 2024 presidential candidate during the party’s upcoming 50th anniversary celebrations. 

As floods hit regions in the northern coast of Central Java, Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) forecast the rainy season in the province would reach its peak in January and February.

Indonesia condemned Tuesday's controversial visit by Israel National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound that has stirred protests from across the Arab world.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal and upheld the death sentence handed down to an Islamic boarding school teacher who had raped 13 of his students.

AGO investigators arrested on Wednesday three suspects in connection with the graft case surrounding the BTS procurement auction, part of the 4G infrastructure development project helmed by the communication ministry's accessibility agency, BAKTI.

Silmy Karim, a businessman with a track record of restructuring ailing state-owned enterprises, was inaugurated on Wednesday as the country’s new immigration director general.

The government is expecting that this year will be drier compared to the past three years, which might translate to higher risk of forest fires than the previous years.

Although the PPKM has been revoked, the government is reminding the public to stay vigilant and to continue to follow the 3M health protocols of mask-wearing, handwashing and social distancing, and that the COVID-19 curbs could be reinstated if cases spiked again.

Indonesia is inching toward an endemic phase of the COVID-19 outbreak after the government lifted all of the remaining COVID-19 restrictions just before the turn of the year, but epidemiologists say the war on the virus is far from over.   

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Friday removed all remaining measures to control the spread of COVID-19 effective immediately, saying that most of the country's population already has antibodies against the disease.

Indonesians are bidding farewell to another terrible year, 2022, the latest annus horribilis, filled with global conflicts, national tragedies and lingering uncertainties. But while we say good riddance to it, 2022 appears to have revealed some silver linings, giving us reasons to be more upbeat about the new year ahead.

Freshly appointed Malaysian Foreign Minister Zambry Abdul Kadir embarked on his first bilateral trip to Jakarta on Thursday, meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Retno LP Marsudi to prepare for the visit of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim next month.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said that he is not worried about a possible surge of COVID-19 infections from foreign tourists amid concerns of surging of cases in China, which has decided to relax its strict pandemic measures.

The President is optimistic that Indonesia has brought COVID-19 transmissions under control, citing the results of a serological study in July that showed 98.5 percent of 20,501 total respondents had developed antibodies against the coronavirus.

Following up on Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s speech seeking forgiveness for slavery, Dutch King Willem-Alexander said in his Christmas address that the government and the monarchy will remain invested in the matter beyond apologies.

Just when the COVID-19 pandemic began to show signs of easing, a series of unexpected illnesses this year raised the stakes even further.

Families celebrating Christmas have welcomed a return of classic holiday traditions, including church-going and family gatherings, while others have taken the opportunity to go on long-awaited vacations during the first year-end holiday season without strict public health rules since the pandemic began.

Indonesia has called for the nature deal to protect ecosystems, agreed at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Canada, to also come with developed countries contributing their fair share to protecting nature.

Nearly half of Indonesia’s wild fish stocks are overfished as the country struggles to meet its own fisheries targets, while some essential marine ecosystems are still left out of the expanding marine protected areas (MPAs), a recent study by World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia has found.

Indonesia expresses concern and disappointment with the decision of the Taliban that suspended the access to university education for women in Afghanistan.

In a bid to lure more ‘high-value’ foreigners to Indonesia, the government officially launched the second home visa on Wednesday.

All eyes will be on match organizers and security personnel who will be testing out new security measures on Friday as the Indonesian men’s soccer team will play the country’s first ever match involving pitch-side spectators, since the deadly Kanjuruhan stadium crush in East Java in October.

Preparations to welcome the first year-end holiday season without strict public health rules since the beginning of the pandemic are now in full swing, with the police planning to mobilize personnel to keep people safe during the festivities.

Indonesia has responded tepidly to a speech made by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologizing for 250 years of slavery in the country’s former colonies, saying the country needs to do more than simply offer a mea culpa for its role.

Local kingdoms had brokered slaves for the Dutch and had thus been complicit in the practice of slavery in the archipelago, historians say.  

Vulnerable families, including households with children, disabled members or those that are led by women, face tougher challenges in bouncing back nearly two years after the pandemic, a survey has found, as the country now seeks to recover from the health crisis.

Indonesia’s climate targets are “critically insufficient,” said a global climate research consortium, despite the country’s renewed emission target.

The environment ministry and USAID are committed to launching a new climate partnership in early 2023, with funding of up to US$50 million, to help Indonesia's forestry sector achieve its 2030 carbon sink target.