The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) continues to investigate a satellite-procurement scheme by the Defense Ministry to fill a strategic orbital slot in 2015 as the government reiterates its commitment to maintaining the rights to manage the slot in the interest of national security.

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has found that digital threats against free speech have become increasingly prominent in the past two years, as the pandemic has forced people to rely more on digital technology.

The new state capital law, which provides a legal framework for President Joko "Widodo" Widodo's ambitious $32 billion mega project, stipulates how development of the capital will be funded and governed.

A string of arrests of regional leaders by the antigraft agency highlights the country’s persistent struggle to eradicate corruption in local administrations, with activists blaming it on high electoral costs.

Lawmakers are expected to approve the sexual violence bill as a House of Representatives initiative in its plenary session on Tuesday, paving the way for the long-awaited bill to be deliberated with the government and putting it one step closer to being passed into law.

The Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister, which is responsible for the scheduling and substance of Indonesia's G20 presidency said that in late January representatives of companies from the 20 member countries and another 40 from non-member countries would begin what it called an inception meeting for Business 20 (B20).

Nahdlatul Ulama’s (NU) new central board, which was unveiled on Wednesday, has been filled with prominent women and politicians in a move that reflects newly elected chairman Yahya Cholil Staquf’s vision of a more diverse and politically neutral NU.

The government is seeking to hasten its investigation of the Defense Ministry’s signing of allegedly unauthorized satellite leases to fill a strategic orbital slot in 2015, a move that may have cost taxpayers billions of rupiah.

Two years from the end of his second and last term in office, Jokowi has been increasing the size of his Cabinet by opening up more deputy ministerial posts, giving him more room to accommodate political allies and figures deemed valuable to the President.

Three new Indonesian ambassadors were sworn in on Wednesday, including the first woman ambassador from Papua.

Just under a majority of respondents in a Kompas survey revealed they were concerned that increased politicking would draw the government’s focus away from the pandemic response this year, when preparations for the presidential, legislative and regional elections in 2024 were expected to start.

Young entrepreneurs have continued to gain prominence in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo’s administration as he strives to make technological innovation central to the remainder of his presidency, but experts say it will likely take more than youthful energy and tech savvy to create lasting change.

As sexual abuse cases continue to make headlines, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has made a public appeal to the House of Representatives to pass the sexual violence bill after nearly a decade languishing.

As top-ranking BRIN officials began their work on downsizing the Eijkman Institute, founded in 1888 and named after Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman who is credited for discovering Beriberi, the research agency has been conducting research to develop the locally-sourced Merah Putih vaccine, one of the candidates for the government’s booster shot rollout. Work on the vaccine is expected to wrap up in late January.

The National Resilience Institute's (Lemhannas) proposal to establish a ministry in charge of overseeing the National Police is receiving pushback from critics who fear it may politicize the law enforcement institution.

Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto held a string of meetings with chiefs of staff from the Indonesian Military (TNI) earlier this week to discuss plans to modernize the country’s primary weaponry system.

For President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, 2021 marks the year he seized the opportunity to tighten his grip on national politics after steering the country through the Delta-fueled second wave of the pandemic.

President Joko Widodo has shown greater assertion and confidence on both the national and the global stage this year, especially as Indonesia assumes the Group of 20 presidency.

Yahya Cholil Staquf won the chairmanship of Nahdlatul Ulama, partly due to a growing affinity among younger members of the group to his reform-minded approach.

Nahdlatul Ulama has grown increasingly close to the government, sparking concerns from within the group that it is violating its longstanding principle of political neutrality.

Frustration, grinding poverty and alleged Indonesian rights violations have emboldened hardliners in the fragmented independence movement who want more direct military action.

Amnesty International Indonesia has recorded an increase in attacks against the country’s human rights defenders this year alongside continued restrictions on the exercise of free speech, developments the organization has called “alarming”.

The National Police will establish a special antigraft squad after hiring 44 former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) employees as officials at the police force.

The growing number of PDI-P politicians appointed to key positions at SOEs and other strategic institutions, experts say, is part of Megawati's long-term aim to cement the party's political and ideological standing toward the 2024 elections and beyond.

Prosecutors from the Attorney General Office’s (AGO) recently demanded that businessman and recidivist Heru Hidayat be sentenced to death for his involvement in one of Indonesia's largest graft cases, in a rare move against white-collar crime.

“Corruption eradication [efforts] should address the root of the problem. [Graft] prevention is a more fundamental way [to address the issue],” said Jokowi on Thursday, adding that instilling a nationwide antigraft culture would be essential in the fight against corruption in the country.

The Constitutional Court said it sought to strike a "balance between procedural propriety and the strategic goals of the jobs law".  

Key coalition parties may strive to appear more pro-labor as the general elections approach.

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors indicted senior Golkar Party politician and former House of Representatives deputy speaker Azis Syamsuddin on the charge of bribing a lawyer and then-KPK investigator to evade an investigation into a graft case in Central Lampung.  

Tensions are running high within Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) ahead of its national congress, which will set the stage for members of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization to elect a new chairman, with disagreement over the congress date having erupted.