Tag: Joko Widodo

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has ordered the police to shoot drug traffickers who resist arrest in the latest effort to ...

Indonesia's government on Wednesday banned the local branch of Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir, rejecting criticism from rights groups that the ...

Indonesia's anti-corruption agency has named the country's speaker of parliament as a suspect in a major graft scandal which is ...

Indonesia has issued a decree allowing it to ban groups that oppose its official state ideology, in a move seen ...

Former US president Barack Obama arrived Friday in his former childhood home Jakarta, where he met Indonesia's president at the ...

Barack Obama took his wife and daughters to the ancient Borobudur temple on Java on Wednesday on a family vacation ...

Barack Obama kicked off a 10-day family holiday in Indonesia that will take in Bali and Jakarta, the city where ...

A Indonesian Islamist leader who helped organise mass protests against Jakarta's Christian governor has been named a suspect in a ...

Indonesia's elite anti-terror squad was Thursday investigating a suicide bombing attack near a busy Jakarta bus station that killed three ...

Jakarta’s Christian governor has been sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy, a harsher-than-expected ruling critics fear will embolden ...

Jakarta's Christian governor was jailed for two years Tuesday after being found guilty of blasphemy, in a shock decision that ...

Jakarta's Christian governor was jailed for two years on Tuesday after being found guilty of committing blasphemy, capping a saga ...

Jakarta's Christian governor, who was jailed for blasphemy Tuesday, won much praise for his efforts to clean up the traffic-choked ...

The outgoing governor of Jakarta has been sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy and inciting violence. Basuki Tjahaja ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he may turn down an invitation by Donald Trump to visit the United States, ...

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo was greeted by a mixture of celebration and protest in Hong Kong Sunday with calls to ...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday invited his Philippine counterpart to Washington in a "friendly" call in which the leaders ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned Southeast Asian leaders Saturday they were facing a "massive" illegal drug menace that could destroy ...

Southeast Asian leaders are meeting in the Philippines for a day-long meeting where tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte faced pushback on Saturday at a regional summit in his efforts to weaken Southeast Asian resistance ...