On March 20, 2025, Indonesia’s parliament passed a quiet but far-reaching revision to its military law. The new statute allows active-duty officers to serve in 14 government ministries and agencies ...

As Indonesia aspires to become the world’s fifth largest economy by 2045, President Prabowo Subianto has made a puzzling move: creating the country’s most bloated bureaucracy since 1966. His new ...

To President Sukarno’s white-pillared presidential palace at Djakarta, Java came report after report of revolt and separatist movements, from the northern tip of Sumatra on the Indian Ocean to Borneo, ...

Indonesia’s controversial Job Creation Law is facing new legal challenges from civil society groups who say it weakens environmental protections and human rights. One lawsuit targets provisions that ...

From office lights switched off to out-of-service lifts, Indonesian civil servants are feeling the pinch after President Prabowo Subianto ordered sweeping budget cuts across government that he said ...

This is the prologue to our five-part Indonesian War of Independence Miniseries. It sets the stage of brutal colonial ...

Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne Mass protests against the greed of politicians led to protests in ...

In 2034, the unified Republic of Indonesia splintered into independent states led by monarchs as the government collapsed under ecological, financial and political crises. Civil society was crushed, ...