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The Times of Indonesia was a daily English-language newspaper in Indonesia, published from Jakarta. Founded in 1952, it was the first English-language daily in independent Indonesia. Notorious for its aggressive, investigative journalism, it became known in its day as "the leading muck-raking paper in Jakarta". The founding editor was Mochtar Lubis, who was also the editor of Indonesia Raya at the time. Mochtar Lubis had close links to the army leadership. In 1953, Lubis stepped down from his position due to the stresses of his simultaneous editorship of Indonesia Raya. Charles Tambu, from Ceylon, took over as managing editor of the newspaper.
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia revolt, the publishing license of The Times of Indonesia was revoked on October 31, 1960. The publication of the newspaper was thus discontinued.