Prabowo Subianto has been sworn in as Indonesia's eighth president. This completes his journey from an ex-general accused of ...

JAKARTA: When we say goodbye to the administration of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Sunday (Oct 20), the nation’s ...

In 2014, then presidential hopeful and outsider Joko Widodo attended packed campaigns with a white ribbon warning against ...

Immigration officers in Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali have arrested a Chinese suspect sought by Beijing for helping run ...

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A wealthy former general with ties to both Indonesia's popular outgoing president and the country's dictatorial past will be ...

Operating for only the third time, the Jakarta World Cinema film festival is bringing a diverse slate of global and local pictures to Indonesia’s biggest city. It kicked off in high style on ...

Thousands of the One Direction star's followers have gathered globally in memory of the singer who died last week.

The former general won 96 million votes—the most ever for a single candidate anywhere in recorded history—in a landslide ...

A dozen masked commandos crouch inside a jet-black navy dinghy as it carves across shimmering Jakarta Bay ... the same for an old woman with a tumor sprouting out of one nostril.