President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has promised businesses that their investments will not be affected by the recent Constitutional Court ruling on the Job Creation Law, saying his administration would immediately work on a do-over of the lawmaking process.

The Constitutional Court, ruling on Thursday a case brought by labour unions, said there were procedural flaws in the formation of the legislation passed last year, which the government had touted as potential a game-changer in luring foreign investment to Southeast Asia's biggest economy.

Newly inaugurated Army chief of staff Gen. Dudung Abdurachman has said he wanted to reinstate New Order-style public security monitoring by the military, sparking fears that it might limit civic space.

House of Representatives is preparing amendment process that will include omnibus law in Indonesia's legal system. 

In a blow to the administration of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, the Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the procedure of passing the Job Creation Law, the key legislation for the President’s ambitious yet controversial reform agenda, was unconstitutional.

Lawmakers are scrambling to get the support needed to push through the sexual violence eradication bill, as some factions are still pushing to include “sexual perversion” and “extramarital sex” in the latest draft.

The legislation, which was passed last year, sparked widespread protest across Indonesia over claims it undermined worker rights and weakened environmental protections.

A recent encounter between the two politicians prompted speculation that Megawati was seeking to play kingmaker by bringing two possible partners together to test the electoral waters.

The government is finalizing a draft revision of the controversial Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law that is often used to silence critics, planning to send it to the House of Representatives this week so it can start deliberating it this year.

The militant group is believed to focus more on dakwah (religious propagation) and politics, for now.

Amid an ongoing defamation lawsuit against two activists, Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has demanded a financial audit of Greenpeace Indonesia in an apparent response to its criticism of government deforestation claims.

 President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo swore in on Wednesday his sole nominee for the post of new Indonesian Military (TNI) commander, Gen. Andika Perkasa, along with Gen. Dudung Abdurrachman, previously the Army’s Strategic Reserves commander (Pangkostrad), as the Army’s new chief of staff.

The House of Representatives is likely to pass a watered-down version of the sexual violence eradication bill after members of the working committee tasked with deliberating the bill agreed to remove any words supporting the concept of sexual consent.

Ganjar had declined to comment on Nurdin’s statement, saying on Sunday that matters related to the 2024 election were within the authority of PDI-P chairperson Megawati Sukarnoputri.

The personal data protection bill is entering a critical stage of its deliberation at the House of Representatives, cyber experts say.

After a year-long delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, the congress is set to be held on Dec. 23-25 in Lampung with limited attendance as per health protocols.

As the Supreme Court moves to thwart government stalwart Moeldoko in his attempted takeover of the Democratic Party leadership, his supporters are gearing up for one final push.

The Indonesian Military (TNI) can no longer “act arbitrarily”, the Army chief of staff said at his confirmation hearing for the institution's top position on Saturday.

The move was part of wider efforts to recoup $7.7 billion of unpaid loans given as bank bailouts during the 1997-1998 financial crisis.

Gen. Andika Perkasa's nomination as sole candidate for the post of military commander was confirmed in a presidential letter sent to the House of Representative on Wednesday, quashing all speculation that the Navy might take over the reins of the armed forces.

The General Elections Commission (KPU) is looking at the possibility of applying new requirements for poll workers and simplifying the vote recapitulation process for the 2024 presidential and legislative elections to prevent the recurrence of the deaths of hundreds of workers in 2019.

Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is to be treated overseas for prostate cancer, his personal aide has revealed, following a diagnosis by a team of state doctors.

The newly declassified documents add to a body of evidence of Western involvement in Indonesia’s 1965 anticommunist massacre.

After Fadjroel Rachman's recent appointment as Indonesian ambassador, President Joko Widodo has faced calls from politicians to quickly appoint a new presidential spokesman to fill the void.

Gerindra has begun marshaling support for its chairman, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, to run again for the nation’s top office in 2024, as the party grasps for an early lead in what experts think will be a tight race.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo joined other key political figures to congratulate the CSIS on its achievement, saying that the organization had played an instrumental role in educating the nation.

Religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas is facing criticism over remarks he made last week that some observers have interpreted as favoring the country's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), over other religious groups.

Volunteer groups have started to declare their support for several potential contenders of the 2024 presidential elections who have fared well in recent public opinion polls.

But close to one year under the current Social Affairs Minister Tri Rismaharani, a former mayor of Surabaya, East Java, popularly known as Bu Risma, many have suggested that what the new minister needs is anger-management lessons.

Aside from issuing the telegram, National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo also ordered the National Police's Internal Affairs Division (Propam) to work alongside the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) in monitoring investigations into incidents of police violence and evaluating the police internal supervision.