A rare legal effort to secure rights for atheists and non-believers was quashed last month by Indonesia's Constitutional Court, which ruled that a citizen must profess a faith, even a minority one, on ...

Several global financial institutions—including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Asian ...

Nearly three decades after the fall of Indonesia's authoritarian leader, General Suharto, the nation's new president is ...

In Indonesia, President Prabowo Subianto is raising concerns by expanding the military's role in civilian sectors. This echoes past authoritarian practices, sparking fears of a democratic regression ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the rigours of nearly three years of war did not allow for ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, invited as the chief guest for India's Republic Day celebrations, aims to enhance ...

While the plan has unsettled financial markets, which say that the trillions of rupiah necessary to fund the program will undermine Indonesia ... since the fall of Suharto in 1998, only managed ...

Indonesia is a constitutional democracy. After the fall of president Suharto's prolonged authoritarian New Order regime in 1998 various constitutional amendments were made in order to reduce effective ...

The emergence of Indonesia’s Reformation Period (Reformasi in Indonesian) after Suharto stepped down from the presidency in 1998 implied a significant break with the past. Indonesian politics changed ...

As Boediono is an experienced economist, it raised people's trust in the pair. Despite Indonesia's authoritarian past under Suharto, army generals who run for president can still count on much popular ...

After Indonesia reached Independence, the Christian elite kept constituting an influential force in the country's politics (including the army) and economy during both Soekarno's and (the first half ...