There’s a whiff of 1998 in the Jakarta air as investors flee Indonesia’s currency and the stock market. The outflows are ...

M alaysia’s Shaharudin Jaffar, who died recently, was a cycling warrior who refused to give up against seemingly ...

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

The rupiah was flat at 16,585 per U.S. dollar at 0400 GMT, hovering near the all-time low of 16,800 touched in June 1998, ...

Indonesia's parliament passed revisions to the country's military law on Thursday, allocating more civilian posts for ...

Legislators revised a law to allocate more civilian posts for military officers, a move that harked back to the era of the dictator Suharto. By Sui-Lee Wee and Muktita Suhartono Indonesia’s ...

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

The revisions have been criticized by civil society groups, who say it could take the world’s third-biggest democracy back to ...

Indonesian police fired water cannons on March 27 to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital Jakarta angry at a newly ...

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

That risks a dangerous return to the country’s authoritarian past, undoing decades of hard-won democratic progress since the fall of former Indonesian president Suharto’s military dictatorship in 1998 ...