Indonesia’s central bank intervened to prop up the local currency after the rupiah slumped to its weakest level since the ...

Legislators revised a law to allocate more civilian posts for military officers, a move that harked back to the era of the ...

Indonesia's parliament has passed controversial changes to legislation that will allow its military a bigger role in ...

Indonesia’s newly revised military law expands the role of the armed forces in civilian affairs and undoes the ...

Indonesia’s parliament passed revisions to ... back to the draconian New Order era of former strongman president Suharto, when military officers dominated civilian affairs.

Al Araf, the director of Indonesian rights group Imparsial, said Thursday the new law is inconsistent with the spirit of the ...

Tempo was banned twice – the last time in 1994 – under Mr Suharto, who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for more than three decades. It resumed publication after his downfall in the late 1990s.

Contentious legal revisions giving the military an expanded role in government has sparked outrage in Indonesia and raised ...

JAKARTA—Activists have called for press freedom to be protected in Indonesia and demanded an investigation after a magazine ...

Usman Hamid, the head of Amnesty International in Indonesia and who protested against Suharto during the New Order era, warned of the past returning. "Activists were kidnapped and some have not ...

The new legislation revises a 2004 law aimed at reining in the military’s deep reach in politics and business under Suharto, who ruled Indonesia for three decades until his ouster amid street ...