Indonesian politics

Tari Lang’s memoir My Neighbour, The Dictator recalls 1965 coup, growing up under Suharto’s regime

My Neighbour, The Dictator by Tari Lang.

Forum: Criticism of Danantara should consider a different context

Indonesia’s Danantara: Sovereign wealth or sovereign risk?

Mr Rosan Roeslani (right) plays a double-hat role as Minister of Investment and Danantara CEO.

Indonesia finance chief takes his growth bet to a world on edge

Indonesia's finance minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa thinks Indonesia will post its best growth in more than a decade in 2026.

Indonesia can outlast Mid-East war fallout to year-end: Minister

People walk as stock prices are displayed on the LCD board at the Indonesian stock exchange building in Jakarta, Indonesia, 13 April 2026.

News analysis

Acid attack on activist becomes battleground in Indonesia’s military-police rivalry

Activists from the Advocacy Team for Democracy hold up posters in support of Mr Andrie Yunus, the victim of the acid attack, at a press conference in Menteng, Central Jakarta, on March 16.

Testing ideas, absorbing criticism: Prabowo defends policy decisions in 6-hour roundtable discussion

wyprabowo - Indonesian President Prabowo (left in light brown) holds a 6 1/2 hour discussion on March 17 on his policy agenda with experts and senior journalists in his private residence in Hambalang, West Java.

PHOTO CREDIT: @PRESIDENREPUBLIKINDONESIA/ INSTAGRAM

Indonesia arrests four military officers allegedly involved in acid attack on activist

Advocacy for Democracy Team (TAUD) members hold posters in solidarity with Andrie Yunus, an activist and deputy coordinator with Indonesia's rights group Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS), who suffered burns to 24% of his face and arms from acid thrown by two unidentified assailants on a motorcycle on March 12, after a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 16, 2026. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

News analysis

‘Horrific’ attack on Indonesian rights defender a litmus test for Prabowo administration

Activists from the Advocacy Team for Democracy holding up posters in support of Mr Andrie Yunus, who was maimed in a March 12 acid attack, at a press conference in Jakarta on March 16.

South Sumatra faces backlash over plan to buy $37,000 pool tables for councillors

Responding to backlash, one politician said South Sumatra billiard athletes could train using the pool table at his official residence.

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