Flooding that hit Namorambe district, Deli Sedang regency, North Sumatra, on Sunday has killed a family of four who had been trapped inside their car as it was swept away by rushing waters.

The National Police's Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) is set to stop a probe into Nurhayati, a treasurer of Citamu village in Mundu district, Cirebon regency, West Java, who became a graft suspect after reporting the village’s chief Supriyadi for alleged corruption.

Authorities were still continuing the search for missing persons on Saturday, with electricity and telecommunication services yet to be restored in the two regencies hardest hit by the disaster.

The 6.2-magnitude quake hit the island's north at a depth of 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) minutes after a less violent tremor Friday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), displacing thousands.

Malay oral folklore in Riau Islands is at risk of disappearing, in large part due to the population who know the oral tradition having reached advanced age, and urgent steps must be taken to preserve the tradition, a Riau Islands Language Agency official said.

The quake came just minutes after a less violent tremor, as terrified residents had begun evacuating their houses.

The quake, which did not have the potential to cause a tsunami, caused residents to flee buildings in some areas including in the city of Padang in West Sumatra province and even triggered evacuations in Malaysia.

The quake, which was on land at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), was felt as far away as Singapore and Malaysia and strongly in the nearby cities of Padang in West Sumatra province and in Pekanbaru in Riau Province, witnesses said.

The quake hit to the island's north at a depth of 12 kilometres, 70 kms from the town of Bukittingi in West Sumatra province, according to USGS.

Seven protected animals, including an orangutan, were rescued from the home of the embattled Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Parangin Angin, prompting prosecutors to prepare a new indictment for illegal possession.

The police forensics laboratory team in Makassar, South Sulawesi, were due to start ballistic tests on Wednesday after a protester demonstrating against a mining operation in Parigi Moutong regency died of gunshot wounds in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Civil rights and indigenous groups have condemned the police use of force against protesters of a mining operation in Parigi Moutong regency, Central Sulawesi, that led to the death of a protester early Sunday.

An ancient inscription on an andesite slab presumed to be from the time of the Mataram kingdom in the 10th century was found during a recent excavation of an unnamed temple in Mojokerto regency, East Java.

The Bandung District Court found Herry Wirawan guilty of raping 13 female students, all minors, and impregnating at least eight of them.

The group of 23 people was holding hands and meditating on Payangan beach, Jember, East Java province, shortly after midnight.

North Sumatra police’s crime and forensic units exhumed two graves believed to contain the remains of people who died after being tortured in iron-barred rooms at the house of graft suspect and inactive Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Parangin Angin.

At least 67 Rohingya have escaped from a temporary refugee camp in Lhokseumawe City, Aceh, and are believed to have been trafficked to neighboring Malaysia, local officials said

Researchers from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), who also collaborated with scientists from other countries, have described 88 new flora and fauna species throughout last year, including a new beetle species named after the coronavirus.

The North Sumatra Police are set to conduct forensic examinations of the remains of three people who are believed to have died after being tortured in iron-barred rooms at the house of graft suspect and inactive Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Parangin Angin, as authorities step up their investigation into the case.

Local authorities have decided to reopen the Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL) for visitors under strict health protocols, marking the first time the national park has fully reopened for visitors since temporarily reopening between August and September 2020.

The police operation that led to the arrest of dozens of residents of Wadas village in Purworejo, Central Java, on Tuesday has been widely condemned.

Conservation workers have been trying to lure the stricken saltwater crocodile from a river since 2016 after residents of Palu spotted the animal with a motorbike tyre wrapped around its neck.

The Indonesian Navy has intercepted 34 undocumented Indonesian workers trying to leave for Malaysia on a motorboat from Batu Bara regency in North Sumatra.

The bus and its 47 passengers were headed from Sukoharjo in Central Java to a family gathering in neighbouring Yogyakarta province when the driver lost control going downhill, officers said late Sunday.

The Barumun Tiger Sanctuary in North Padang Lawas regency, North Sumatra, has welcomed three Sumatran tiger cubs born from parents previously rescued after being caught in traps.

A Garuda Indonesia flight from Tokyo is scheduled to arrive in Bali this afternoon, with six foreigners and six Indonesians aboard, said Ida Ayu Indah Yustikarini, an official at the Bali Government Tourism Office.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will allow the police and the rights body to interrogate its detainee – graft suspect and inactive Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Peranginangin – about the dozens of people who were found kept in cages at his home in North Sumatra and allegedly forced to work on his oil palm plantation.

The government is set to issue a regulation that will facilitate a carbon offset mechanism in the forestry and other land-use sectors, in a move that is expected to speed up the country’s rehabilitation of degraded land ecosystems, including mangrove areas.

The fight erupted on Tuesday in Sorong, a relatively quiet city in the province, and 18 people were killed, most of them in a blaze at the Double O nightclub. 

The violence was recorded in a video that later went viral on social media.