An Afghan asylum seeker set himself on fire during a protest on Tuesday in Medan, North Sumatra, over his seven-year wait for his case to be legally processed.

The man suffered severe burns and was sent to hospital.

University of Indonesia’s School of Medicine professor Tjandra Yoga Aditama said the government should at least double its whole-genome sequencing capacity to be able to sufficiently detect and monitor the development of the new coronavirus variant in the country.

The government has set a travel ban on foreigners with a history of being in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Eswatini, Malawi, Angola, Zambia and Hong Kong within two weeks before departing to Indonesia.

In collectivist cultures such as in Indonesia, it is common for aging parents to depend on their children to take care of them and for financial support.

FAO representative in Indonesia and Timor Leste Rajendra Aryal said the rise of AMR globally threatened to make it harder for people seeking effective treatment for common infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and blood poisoning, as antibiotics had lost their efficacy.

Fishermen from the Natuna Islands have suffered periodic encroachments from foreign fishing vessels, but now they are facing stiff competition from their own compatriots.

Minister Tito Karnavian has turned down a proposal by Natuna Regent Wan Siswandi "for the time being" because the Home Ministry is inundated with proposals for regional administrative upgrades.

As the country celebrates National Teachers’ Day on Thursday, educators are calling on the government to pay more attention to the mounting issues that the profession faces, many of which have been exacerbated by the pandemic, from a lack of online education support to welfare issues.

In a Twitter post on Wednesday, user @son1x777 claimed to have hacked into the National Police system and stolen the personal data of thousands of police officers, from their dates of birth to badge numbers.

With a population of more than 270 million people, many of whom get around on two wheels, Indonesia has one of the world's biggest communities of bike-race fans.

While Indonesia’s second international racing circuit is expected to breathe new life into the West Nusa Tenggara economy, it is also the centerpiece of President Joko Widodo’s plan to turn the country into a destination for major international sporting events.

Three out of five provinces in Kalimantan have been hit by floods, triggered by deforestation and changing climate, over the past month, adding into the latest list of natural disasters that have struck the region this year.

Activities synonymous with New Year’s festivities, such as fireworks, parades and events that would attract large crowds, would be completely prohibited, a minister said.

Gathering a handful of what looks like string beans, the man, a batik craftsman, heads home to make natural dye from them.

As all eyes turn to the UNFCCC 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, where the world is gathering to create a blueprint for climate action, an oft-overlooked area is getting new prominence.

The government has promised to strengthen vigilance at the borders and intensify genome surveillance to detect any concerning new variant.

The dozen sources include shipowners, crew and maritime security sources all involved in the detentions and payments, which they say were either made in cash to naval officers or via bank transfer to intermediaries who told them they represented the Indonesian navy.

A property businesswoman in Medan, North Sumatra, has been sentenced to more than a year in prison and additional fines after a court found her guilty of illegally charging people for COVID-19 vaccines, the supply of which was secured by bribing state-employed doctors.

A Riau University student has accused her lecturer, who is also a faculty official, of sexual harassment and has claimed that university officials impeded her reporting of the incident.

The quake was at a depth of 2 km (1.24 miles) and was about 184 km southwest of Nabire, Indonesia, EMSC said.

Despite the Drugs and Foods Monitoring Agency's (BPOM) approval of the Coronavac vaccine for children aged 6 to 11, the government said it would wait until 50 percent of Indonesia's targeted population has been fully inoculated before vaccinating the age group.

Attorney General ST Burhanuddin issued new guidelines early this month that encourage prosecutors to prioritize rehabilitation, instead of imprisonment, for people arrested for drug offenses, in his bid to reduce overcrowding in prisons, where drug convicts account more than half of the nationwide inmate population.

Following the recent arrest of a former public elementary school headmaster in Lampung, the National Police are investigating the possibility that the person had spread radical ideology among the students, the police's spokesperson said. 

Torrential rains on Thursday unleashed flash floods in Malang and the highland city of Batu, inundating houses with mud and debris, while a wall of water destroyed local bridges.

Rights groups have condemned a recent shootout between security forces and Papuan separatists in Intan Jaya regency, Papua, that killed a child and wounded another, and they have called on the government to thoroughly investigate the incident.

Young dragons, their forked tongue darting, creep about a zoo enclosure in the city of Surabaya. Some fight over a female while others look for prey in a pond.

The separatists have waged a low-level campaign for independence in the resource-rich region for decades, saying a 1969 vote overseen by the United Nations that brought the former Dutch colony under Indonesian control was illegitimate.

Heather Lois Mack, an American citizen who was released early from her sentence for killing her mother in a luxury Bali hotel, will be deported from Indonesia on Tuesday, local authorities said.

In the notorious case, then teenager Heather Mack was handed a 10-year jail term in 2015 while her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer got 18 years for the murder of Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese Mack on the Indonesian holiday island.