JAKARTA: Pro-democracy activists from all ideological persuasions on Thursday (Aug 20) held a meeting with the Constitutional Court (MK) honorary council to lend their support for the court's move to defend democratic principles in the country, following its ruling lowering the threshold for parties to nominate a candidate in the regional head elections. The activists, who...
JAKARTA: A senior aide to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has denied an allegation that the outgoing president had resorted to using law enforcement agencies to intimidate politicians within and outside of his government into supporting his agendas. Coordinator of President Jokowi's special aides Ari Dwipayana said in a press statement published on Saturday (Aug 17) that...
JAKARTA: A separatist group in Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua has agreed to free New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens from more than a year in captivity since kidnapping him, according to an audio message issued by a spokesperson on Saturday (Aug 3). An armed faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), led by Egianus...
DENPASAR: Two Australian nationals and three Indonesians survived a helicopter crash in South Kuta in Badung, Bali, on Friday (July 19) afternoon. The crash reportedly happened after the helicopter became entangled in kite strings. I Nyoman Sidakarya, an official with the Denpasar Search and Rescue Agency, said the helicopter took off from the Garuda Wisnu Kencana...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): Rescue workers dug through tons of mud and rubble on Tuesday as they searched for dozens of missing people after a landslide hit an unauthorized gold mining area on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 23 people. More than 100 villagers were digging for grains of gold on Sunday in the remote and...
JAKARTA: A landslide at a small gold mine in Indonesia has left at least eight dead and dozens more missing, Kompas newspaper reported on Monday (July 8), citing the search and rescue agency. Heavy rain triggered a landslide (pic) that hit the site in the Gorontalo province on the island of Sulawesi, the National Disaster Mitigation...
JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto has undergone leg surgery but is continuing to work as he recovers, a spokesman said Tuesday. The defence minister and former general, who had suffered for years from a limp attributed to parachuting accidents, underwent surgery on his left leg at the National Defence Central Hospital in Jakarta, his team...
JAKARTA, July 1 (Bernama-ANTARA) -- Foreign tourist arrivals to Indonesia reached 5.2 million from January to May 2024, the highest recorded figure since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, reported ANTARA news agency quoting Statistics Indonesia. "The total number of foreign tourist arrivals in the first five months of 2024 is the highest in...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has expressed its preparedness to cooperate with Indonesia in peacekeeping assignment if given a mandate by the United Nations, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The Prime Minister said the matter was discussed with Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto during a three-minute phone conversation on Monday (July 1). "In the three-minute phone conversation, we exchanged views...
JAKARTA (Reuters): Indonesia's national human rights commission is investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten to death by police on the island of Sumatra, officials said on Tuesday. Residents discovered the bruised body of high-school student Afif Maulana in a river close to a village in Padang, in West Sumatra on June...
