In a bid to help attain Indonesia’s Group of 20 (G20) presidency priority issues and to spur global climate action, environment ministers of the G20 will adopt a joint communiqué in August.

Jakarta’s air quality has deteriorated for the past two weeks, achieving “unhealthy” and “very unhealthy” statuses, which experts say is the result of trans-boundary pollution from neighboring cities and as such is an issue beyond the capital’s borders.

Voters are more inclined to stay loyal to their preferred presidential candidates regardless of the political parties that nominate them, a new survey from the research and development department of Kompas daily has found.

A Balinese family offered temporary refuge to the family of a Ukrainian former employee who sought shelter from the war in their home country.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has received his fair share of both praise and criticism during his five years in office.

The mega project, a key part of President Jokowi's economic agenda, would see Indonesia move its capital from heavily congested Jakarta to an underdeveloped area in East Kalimantan.

The Group of 20 nations are finalizing a financial intermediary funding (FIF) initiative intended to ensure that the world is better prepared for future pandemics, and they expect it to come into effect in June, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani has said.

More than a thousand people flocked to Jakarta’s iconic National Monument (Monas) at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, all dressed their best, to celebrate the 495th anniversary of the city’s founding.

A regular symposium hosted by the Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII) seeks to shore up more research on political Islam in Indonesia.

Mitsuhiro Taniguchi, who was arrested by the National Police in Lampung earlier this month, boarded a Narita-bound flight from Jakarta, Indonesian immigration official Douglas Simamora said in a statement.

Riau Islands Governor Ansar Ahmad is asking four ferry operators plying the Batam, Bintan and Karimun to Singapore routes to cut fares after ticket prices more than doubled during the pandemic.

The National Awakening Party (PKB) appears to be confident of forming an electoral coalition with the Gerindra Party for the 2024 general election, but the latter seems to be hanging back and analysts also remain unconvinced about the likelihood of the two parties teaming up.

The Batam Cow and Goat Farmers and Traders Association has reported demand for a total of 3,160 cattle and 4,350 goats for the Idul Adha holiday – a third of which have been ordered by Singaporeans.

Megawati Soekarnoputri, the matriarch of the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), has warned her members that she will not tolerate any political maneuvering within the party in the lead-up to the 2024 general elections, and that she will expel anyone immediately for not toeing the party line.

In celebration of World Refugee Day, the UNHCR hosted a cooking event where refugees and locals relished in each others’ cuisines amid long-standing rights issues for the former.

As President Joko Widodo winds down his second presidential term, analysts believe he is preparing his son, Surakarta Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka, to take on bigger roles in the future.

After being canceled in the previous two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jakarta Fair has returned to Jakarta International Expo (JIExpo) Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, as part of the capital's 495th anniversary.

With the government and lawmakers seemingly dragging their feet in providing better protection for Indonesian domestic workers, activists have set out to fight for their rights on the international stage.

The President has apparently struck down a previously announced plan to raise ticket prices to climb the heritage site for both domestic and foreign visitors, restricting the price hike to just foreign visitors.

The recent reshuffle saw President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s list of deputy ministers expanded – a move experts said was done to accommodate his own political interests by giving the seats to his loyalists, as he enters the twilight of his second term in office.

The door is still wide open for outgoing Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo, who have consistently topped political surveys, to contest the 2024 presidential race despite alleged attempts by certain elements of the political establishment to keep “outsiders” from the electoral process.

G20 countries have provisionally agreed to set up a multi-billion dollar fund that health officials have said will finance efforts like surveillance, research, and better access to vaccination for lower-to-middle income countries, among others.

The government has pledged to push for a swift ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPED) in the House of Representatives, after more than a decade of delays.

The NasDem Party has announced three potential presidential nominees for the 2024 presidential election, none of whom are party flag bearers, as it prepares to kick off coalition talks with other party leaders.

Health authorities are bracing for the possibility of another wave of COVID-19 infections following the detection of the country’s first local transmissions of the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron.

A new bill initiated by House lawmakers has won unanimous endorsement from Baleg, with several landmark provisions supporting pregnant women, especially working women.

Of 17 government agencies, local administrations and city-owned companies selected for top performance, BPOM and the East Java provincial government won the outstanding achievement award for their responses to public complaints, their use of technology to improve the responses as well as for providing legal framework that would allow the response system to be sustainable.