They demanded that the suspects' identities and motives be revealed, as well as the names of high-ranking officials who might have had a hand in the fatal shooting.

The Indonesian Navy is known for procuring decommissioned foreign warships to equip its arsenal. Here are some of the vessels patrolling and guarding the country's waters.

The alleged perpetrators also destroyed three cars belonging to the task force and held the members against their will until 3 a.m.

The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) has expressed its readiness to follow up on a request for witness protection following the shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani in Intan Jaya, Papua, in September.

The government is under pressure to relieve a budget bottleneck that has limited the distribution of health funds and to ensure a more prompt disbursement of next year’s health budget as observers express concern about continued delays.

A set of 24-year-old twins who had been separated for two decades since the 1999 sectarian conflicts in Maluku finally reunited on Wednesday in Tasikmalaya, West Java, after finding each other through TikTok.

Indonesia’s low testing rate has persisted seven months into the COVID-19 pandemic, as laboratories throughout the archipelago face problems ranging from limited testing kits to delays in reported results.

The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has said that gender inequality remains a major issue in the policies of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Vice President Ma’ruf Amin in the first year of their administration.

Yet another draft version of the Job Creation Law has emerged, even after the House of Representatives handed over the supposed final 812-page draft to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Oct. 14.

The pandemic and its economic consequences have prompted many countries to scale up their social assistance programs through a strong, digitized government-to-person payment system, a World Bank official has said.

The required tests are nonreactive rapid or negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.

A total of 258.4 hectares of land in South Sumatra were burned in 1,114 cases of forest fires that occurred from January to September.

Online gambling is haram according to Aceh’s Qanun Jinayat (Criminal Code Bylaw). 

While food sustainability has yet to emerge in Indonesia as a potential impact of the health crisis, an agriculture lecturer has suggested that the government start looking ahead to viable regional solutions.

The extension is the first for Banten, which only started imposing province-wide PSBB on Sept. 21.

The police have questioned more than 130 witnesses in the investigation, including janitors, office clerks and other AGO employees.

Central Jakarta traffic police have closed main roads in the area and the Jakarta Police have deployed 15,000 personnel to several spots in Central Jakarta, Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Yusri Yunus said. 

Four of the deceased miners came from Tanjung Lalang village, two were residents of Penyandingan village, while the remaining five came from Lampung and Central Java.

The prison sentence was lower than prosecutors’ demand of eight years’ imprisonment.

“It would be wrong to say that the Papuan people have asked for the TNI and National Police to be withdrawn from the region, those who say that are armed criminal groups,” Mahfud said. “The Papuan people themselves are asking for protection that can provide security for them.”

Research and Technology Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro, who also heads the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), has stated a target for a state-owned company to produce 2 million polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits for COVID-19 per month.

The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) and the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) have called on the government to further investigate the killing of Papuan pastor Yeremia Zanambani following the publication of a government-sanctioned joint fact-finding team  report.

“Don’t hit him! That’s a police officer!” one man shouted.

The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) has raised concerns over the National Police’s recent dismissal of a one-star police general based on their sexual orientation, calling it a discriminatory gesture that contradicted the 1945 Constitution.

The government has declared Oct. 28 and Oct. 30 collective leave days. Sandwiched between those dates is Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday on Oct. 29, another public holiday.

In Jakarta, cinema chains CGV Cinemas and Cinepolis Cinemas reopened for the public on Wednesday.

Police have arrested six suspects over the murder of a journalist in Central Mamuju, West Sulawesi, that took place in August.

A government-sanctioned joint fact-finding team has reported that it found indications that security forces were involved in the shooting of Papuan pastor Yeremia Zanambani after investigating a series of shootings in Intan Jaya regency, Papua.

A survey conducted in August has found increased incidences of sexual abuse and other forms of violence against people with disabilities in Indonesia, especially women with disabilities.

The Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2020 report gives Indonesia an overall score of 49 on a scale of 0 to 100, classifying the country's internet freedom rank as “partly free” – a slight dip from last year’s overall rating of 51 and 54 in 2018.