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Indonesia bans Boeing 737 MAX 8s to fly during Lebaran season

Indonesian Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said Boeing 737 MAX 8s remain banned so that these aircraft could not yet be operated for carrying passengers during the Idul Fitri holiday ...

Politician: Police should probe intellectual actors behind May 21-22 riots

Deputy Chairperson of the National Mandate Party (PAN) Bara Hasibuan has called on the National Police to conduct comprehensive investigation to uncover the intellectual actors behind the riots on ...

Muhammadiyah pushes for Jokowi-Prabowo meeting

Chairperson of the Muhammadiyah Central Leadership Haedar Nashir insisted that presidential candidate number 01 Joko Widodo (Jokowi) meet with presidential candidate number 02 Prabowo at the earliest ...

Police arrest 62 suspected of spurring violence

The police detained 62 people suspected of inciting violence during a rally in front of the Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) building in Jakarta that resulted in chaos across the capital, late ...

Jakarta Governor confirms Jakarta protest claimed six lives, injured 200

The General Election Commission's early Tuesday announcement of the presidential election results sparked a protest that claimed six lives and injured some 200 rushed to several hospitals in ...

Police to tear gas for riot control in Central Jakarta

Police officers fired volleys of tear gas to disperse a crowd in Petamburan area, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday. Several hundred police officers, at around 10:10 a.m. local time, approached the ...

Japanese PM Abe delivers congratulatory message to Jokowi

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe extended congratulations to Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on winning the election and second presidential term, based on Antara's ...

C. Java invited seven travel agents from Japan to enjoy some Borobudur tour packages

The Central Java provincial administration, through the Youth, Sports, and Tourism Office, has offered Borobudur Temple tour packages to Japanese citizens via travel agents specifically invited to ...

Jokowi-Amin lead with 55.64 percent

The vote count tabulation of the 2019 presidential elections on the General Election Commission's (KPU's) Vote Count Information System (Situng) collected data encompassing 737,766 polling ...

President and Vice President to be announced on May 28, 2019

The Indonesian General Election Commission (KPU) expects to announce the President and Vice President for the 2019-2024 period no later than May 28, 2019. "May 22, 2019, will be the stage of ...