Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo should act to promote and protect the rights of everyone in Indonesia, ...

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

A recent decree aimed at regulating polygamy among Jakarta’s male civil servants has sparked a backlash as critics are calling for the practice to be abolished entirely, citing its ...

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Hundreds of civil servants from Indonesia's Higher Education Ministry reportedly staged a demonstration outside the ministry’s office building in Central Jakarta. One of the banners read "We are ...

A recent decree aimed at regulating polygamy among Jakarta’s male civil servants has sparked a backlash as critics are calling for the practice to be abolished entirely, citing its discriminatory ...

Indonesia introduced conditions for polygamy in the country in its 1974 Marriage Law, and provisions for male civil servants in 1983. While male civil servants are allowed to have more than one ...

Indonesia rejects the notion of temporarily ... Any attempt to uproot or deport Gaza residents is entirely unacceptable.'' During the war, and unlike the reception of Syrian refugees by ...