Choirul Huda, a 38-year-old Indonesian goalkeeper has lost his life following a dangerous collision with a teammate during a Go-Jek Traveloka league match between Huda’s club, Lamongan Football Club (aka Persela) and Semen Padang on Sunday, October 15. After the fatal collision, Huda was rushed to hospital but pronounced dead shortly after arriving, with the doctor suggesting … Read more
Western governments are warning their citizens against travelling to nearly all of the southern third of the Philippines, citing the rising threats of terror attacks and kidnappings by Islamist militants Indonesia and Australia on Saturday co-hosted a counter-terrorism meeting to address the rising threat of foreign fighters, as the Philippines battles pro-Islamic State militants. The … Read more
Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency has named the country’s speaker of parliament as a suspect in a major graft scandal which is estimated to have siphoned around $170 million out of government coffers. The Corruption Eradication Commission named house speaker Setya Novanto as a suspect late Monday in the giant graft case that has also implicated other … Read more
Indonesia has issued a decree allowing it to ban groups that oppose its official state ideology, in a move seen to target radical Islamists in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country. The law, signed by President Joko Widodo on Monday, comes as concerns grow about the influence of hardliners in Indonesia, where a majority of … Read more
Former US president Barack Obama arrived Friday in his former childhood home Jakarta, where he met Indonesia’s president at the end of a ten-day family holiday. Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo met with Obama at the presidential palace on the outskirts of Jakarta, with Obama delighting local media by greeting Widodo with “apa kabar” — how … Read more
Barack Obama took his wife and daughters to the ancient Borobudur temple on Java on Wednesday on a family vacation to Indonesia, where the former US president spent part of his childhood. The Obamas arrived in the city of Yogyakarta in central Java and headed straight to explore the Borobudur, an ancient Buddhist temple built … Read more
Indonesia has reached an agreement with Google over payment of taxes, the country’s finance minister said Tuesday, after a long-running dispute with the US tech giant. The two sides have been locked in a row since last year when the government alleged that the California-based company had refused to cooperate with its tax office. A … Read more
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo was greeted by a mixture of celebration and protest in Hong Kong Sunday with calls to improve working conditions for the city’s army of foreign maids. There are around 170,000 Indonesians living in Hong Kong, many of them employed as domestic helpers, and concern over exploitation is growing after a string … Read more
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo said he would restore a moratorium on the death penalty if he won the backing of the people, after a spate of executions that drew international condemnation. Widodo declared an anti-drugs campaign soon after coming to power in 2014 and refused all requests for pardons from death-row drug convicts, ending a … Read more
World number one Tai Tzu Ying overcame an early wobble to reach the second round of the All-England Open in Birmingham on Wednesday. The World Super Series champion from Taiwan came from 16-18 down in the first game against Nitchaon Jindapol to record a professional 21-16, 21-14 victory over the world number 16 from Thailand. … Read more
Australia and Indonesia announced the full restoration of military ties Sunday as the countries’ leaders held talks following a brief spat over teaching material deemed offensive to Jakarta. Indonesia had reported the suspension of all military cooperation with Australia from December before clarifying that only language training had been put on hold. Prime Minister Malcolm … Read more
Indonesian President Joko Widodo will head to Australia this weekend for his first visit as head of state to a key ally whose relationship with Jakarta has been repeatedly strained in recent years. Widodo, accompanied by a number of cabinet ministers, will visit Sydney on Saturday and Sunday for the state visit, during which he … Read more
Residents of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, are voting for a new governor, in an election overshadowed by the incumbent’s blasphemy trial. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as “Ahok”, is the first Christian and ethnic Chinese leader of the majority Muslim city in more than 50 years. He is on trial for insulting Islam, after he accused … Read more
Nearly 50 million Indonesians are set to vote on Wednesday in scores of regional elections but the most closely watched is in the capital, Jakarta, where campaigning for the post of governor has inflamed religious tension. Polls will open first in the east of the sprawling archipelago. In all, 101 elections will be held in … Read more
Jakarta’s Christian governor will fight to cling on to his job at polls this week despite standing trial for blasphemy, in a saga that has fuelled concerns about religious intolerance in the Muslim-majority nation. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama will Wednesday face two prominent Muslim candidates in the race to lead the Indonesian capital, a megacity of … Read more
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be in Semarang, Indonesia from Sunday to Monday to attend the Singapore-Indonesia Leaders’ Retreat with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, said the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Sunday PMO said this is Lee’s first Leaders’ Retreat with Joko Widodo, following the Indonesian President’s State Visit to the city state in … Read more
Indonesia could “wipe out” paedophilia with its new policy of chemical castration, President Joko Widodo has told the BBC. He said Indonesia respected human rights but there would be “no compromise” when it came to punishing such sexual crimes. Indonesia passed controversial laws earlier this month authorising chemical castration for paedophiles. The laws were subject … Read more