President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is calling on Indonesians to work hard and work together with the government to lower the stunting prevalence rate to 14 percent from 24.4 percent in the next two years.

The National Police has said that the East Java Police had "no trouble" with a sexual abuse case involving the son of a pesantren head, despite a recently bungled attempt at arresting the suspect that was caught on video.

Experts warn of the dangers of a state plan to revamp elections at the lowest level of government.

This is a religious school for deaf children, and here the students gesture rapidly with their hands, learning to recite the Quran in Arabic sign language.

The country's easternmost region, currently split between Papua and West Papua, will now be divided into five provinces, with the addition of South Papua, Central Papua and Highland Papua.

The Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Ministry has discovered a substantial discrepancy between the data it has collected from villages and the data gathered by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), which could possibly affect policy making and rural development.

The world's largest living lizards are found only in Indonesia's World Heritage-listed Komodo National Park and neighbouring Flores, and just 3,458 adult and baby species are left in the wild according to estimates.

Rates had more than doubled during the pandemic.

A Balinese family offered temporary refuge to the family of a Ukrainian former employee who sought shelter from the war in their home country.

Riau Islands Governor Ansar Ahmad is asking four ferry operators plying the Batam, Bintan and Karimun to Singapore routes to cut fares after ticket prices more than doubled during the pandemic.

The Batam Cow and Goat Farmers and Traders Association has reported demand for a total of 3,160 cattle and 4,350 goats for the Idul Adha holiday – a third of which have been ordered by Singaporeans.

The President has apparently struck down a previously announced plan to raise ticket prices to climb the heritage site for both domestic and foreign visitors, restricting the price hike to just foreign visitors.

Every year people from the Tengger tribe gather from villages in the highlands around Mount Bromo to trek to its peak to cast goats, chickens, fruit, flowers and vegetables into its crater as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival.

Following a convoy promoting the caliphate in late May, mass Muslim group Khilafatul Muslimin found themselves in hot water as authorities began an operation to crack down on them.

Batam city Tourism Agency held a ceremony on Wednesday to welcome the first travelers from Singapore’s HarbourFront Center arriving at Batam Center Ferry Port after more than two years of the pandemic.

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil's eldest son, who was found dead in a Swiss river after a two-week search effort, was finally laid to rest on Monday, concluding a tragedy that had captured the hearts and minds of an entire nation.

The disappearance of Emmeril "Eril" Kahn Mumtadz last month gained national attention, with Indonesians posting images and videos online of the eldest son of Ridwan Kamil, the governor of West Java.

The arrest of Mitsuhiro Taniguchi, who is suspected of swindling hundreds of millions of yen from a Japanese subsidy program for small companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic, has destroyed the hopes of continuing fish farming in the village of Sri Dadi in Lampung Province, according to Masduki, his business partner.

A Muslim pilgrim from Jakarta died shortly after arriving in Saudi Arabia for the annual haj, which resumed after a two-year ban on inbound international participants.

Indonesian naval officers have asked the money to release a fuel tanker they detained last week for anchoring illegally in Indonesian waters off Singapore, two people involved in negotiations over the unofficial payment said.

The KM Ladang Pertiwi ran out of fuel and sank in bad weather while sailing through the Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi province on May 26.

Amnesty International Indonesia has called out the government for excessive use of force in Papua last week against protesters who were rallying against Jakarta's plan to create new provinces in the country's easternmost region.

Local police caught the former Bener Meriah regent and two other suspects as they were trying to sell the skin and bones of a slain Sumatran tiger.

Representatives from Dogiyai regency, Papua, were in Jakarta this week to express their opposition to tightened security in the regency after a protest on May 22 turned violent.

The infected participants have been isolated in their hotel rooms and barred from physically attending the rest of the conference, which ends Saturday.

The launch of a development program for the country's outlying regions is a step in the right direction, but experts wonder if it will amount to more than a symbolic gesture.

A military command has detained five Army personnel in the human caging case in North Sumatra.

On Saturday, Densus 88 arrested 24 suspected East Indonesia Muhajidin (MIT) supporters.

Alert level for North Sumatra’s Mount Sinabung has been lowered due to decrease in volcanic activity.

A ferry with more than 800 passengers ran aground in shallow waters in East Nusa Tenggara.