14 inmates face execution
Nusa Kambangan houses Indonesia’s death row. Source: Wikimedia
The UN human rights chief has called on Jakarta to stop the executions of 14 prisoners for...
Raped child jailed for abortion
Calls to decriminalise abortion grew louder in Indonesia after a teenager who was raped by her brother was jailed for six months for having...
Indonesia minority fears violence
Two decades since the fall of Indonesia’s dictator Muhammad Suharto, the treatment of the affluent ethnic-Chinese community remains a sensitive issue.
Suharto’s bans on Chinese...
Freeport backs down in Papua row
Arizona-based mining giant Freeport-McMoran and two Indonesian ministers say they have ended the prolonged dispute over the world's second largest copper mine in Papua.
Freeport...
Indonesia calls for tough haze action
Smog has become an annual event in the region. Source: Flickr
Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) in Riau on Sumatra has called for...
Ahok jailed for blasphemy
The defeated, ethnically Chinese, Christian governor of Jakarta has been jailed for two years for blaspheming the Koran, despite the prosecution requesting only a...
China’s Java high-speed rail project hits buffers
It is easy to see why Indonesians might want to find alternative forms of transport. Source: Flickr
The Chinese US$5.5 billion high-speed rail project in...
Indonesia denies Papua chemical weapons attack
Indonesia has denied allegations in Australia’s Saturday Paper that illegal chemical weapons were used in a military operation in remote Nduga regency in Papua...
Indonesia plans to recruit crocodiles to guard prison
Indonesia’s narcotics agency has called for a prison on an island guarded by crocodiles to hold death-row drug convicts, an official has said.
It is...
Widodo makes $28bn rural election promise
Indonesia’s president, Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, who is trying to win re-election on April 17, has promised to boost agricultural funding to more than US$28.5...
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The court hosting the treason trial of Cambodia's opposition leader has turned away independent journalists at the start of proceedings.
Reuters and the Phnom Penh...
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