Joko Widodo

The Jakarta meetings have been joined by both China and the United States, whose top diplomats met on Thursday on the sidelines in the Indonesian capital. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned China's Wang Yi of consequences after a…

The EV ambition is emblematic of this vision for Indonesia and has become the focus of the President’s trip to Australia, particularly in securing raw materials required to establish successful battery production. But the ambition is wider.…

JAKARTA: Indonesia's President Joko Widodo on Monday (May 8) condemned an attack in Myanmar on ASEAN officials delivering humanitarian aid, but did not provide details of the incident. Myanmar's shadow National Unity Government, which is…

SURABAYA: An Indonesian court on Thursday jailed two football match officials for negligence over one of the worst stadium disasters in the sport's history.The crush in October at a venue in the East Javacity of Malang killed 135 people…

PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia: Orange-red ground has been broken in the jungle of East Borneo, where the Indonesian government has begun construction of its new capital city.Officials promise a “sustainable forest city” that puts the…

JAKARTA: Indonesia will relocate residents living near a fuel-storage fire that killed 16 people or remove the depot owned by state energy company Pertamina to a safer location, President Joko Widodo said on Sunday (Mar 5). The decision…

President Joko Widodo expressed deep regret on Wednesday over gross human rights violations during Indonesia’s tumultuous post-colonial past, going back to the mass killing of communists and suspected…

<!-- -->Joko Widodo posted photos of the ceremony on Instagram.The son of Indonesian President Joko Widodo got married to fiancee Erina Gudono in a lavish ceremony on Friday. Jokowi, as the Indonesian President is popularly known,…

Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday approved legislation that would outlaw sex outside marriage in a move critics said was a huge setback to rights in the world’s most populous Muslim country.After the new criminal code was endorsed by all…

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Parliament passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code Tuesday that criminalizes extramarital sex for citizens and visiting foreigners alike. After ratification, the new criminal code must be…