Production at a nickel smelter owned by China's Jiangsu Delong Nickel Industry resumed on Tuesday, police said, after operations were suspended due to a protest and rioting at the weekend in which two workers were killed.

Police are investigating a protest over labor safety that turned violent at a nickel-smelting factory in Central Sulawesi’s North Morowali regency on Saturday, which left at least two workers dead, including a foreign national.

The disaster, in which 135 people died, occurred after a match at Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java, sparking questions about safety provisions and the use of tear gas, a crowd-control measure banned by soccer's global governing body, FIFA.

An Indonesian and a Chinese worker died after a clash broke out following a protest staged by a labour group at PT Gunbuster Nickel Industry (GNI) smelter, according to the Central Sulawesi police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Didik Supranoto.

The epicentre of the quake was 48 kilometres (30 miles) south-southeast of the city of Singkil in Aceh province, at a depth of 37 kilometres, USGS said.  

The North Sumatra administration plans to highlight the province's traditional woven fabrics when it hosts the National Press Day celebration on Feb. 9.

North Sumatra will host an F1 Powerboat race event on Lake Toba from Feb. 24 to 26 with 10 teams competing.

The epicentre of the quake was 427 kilometres (265 miles) south of Ambon at a depth of 95 kilometres, the US Geological Survey reported.

Over half of those who arrived around 2:30 p.m. Sunday were women and children, Ridwan Jamil, head of Aceh Besar disaster agency, told Reuters.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said more wildlife crossings would be constructed across the archipelago in order to reduce disruption to wildlife conservation and protected species.

Police are investigating a fire that broke out on Friday at a nickel smelter in an industrial park in Central Halmahera, North Maluku, injuring five Indonesian workers and two foreign workers, two severely.

An offhand remark by the mayor of Medan, North Sumatra, Bobby Nasution, made on New Year’s Eve declaring that the city of Medan was “anti-LGBT” has reignited the debate on LGBT issues, with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) cautioning against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The Indonesian Navy sent Thursday hospital ship KRI Soeharso-990 to bring logistics and to evacuate hundreds of residents and tourists stranded on Bawean Island off the coast of East Java amid bad weather.

While 2022 saw a reduction in the occurrence of natural disasters, the death toll nonetheless ranked the highest in four years as a result of the deadly Cianjur, West Java, earthquake in November, as authorities promised improved disaster resilience by building on experience learned from this year.        

Ten Indonesian universities will survey alimentary resources across the archipelago in the coming year as part of the government’s food security program.

A woman died on Wednesday after becoming trapped in a flood that hit Emplasmen village in Labuhan Batu regency, North Sumatra.

But after more than a month adrift on the Andaman Sea without much food, medicine or a working engine, nearly 200 Rohingya reached Aceh province after their overcrowded, rickety wooden boat finally reached shore on Monday.

Police have deployed personnel to Central Weda district in Central Halmahera, North Maluku, following a clash between youth groups that started on Christmas Day and left two people injured.

A boat washed ashore in Aceh province on Monday carrying 174 Rohingya, most of them dehydrated, fatigued and in need of urgent medical care after weeks at sea, local disaster agency officials said. 

Local police in Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, on Monday arrested a 50-year-old man suspected of attempting to smuggle 28 Rohingya refugees to Malaysia.

Each year thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, heavily persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, risk their lives on long, expensive sea journeys -- often in poor-quality vessels -- in an attempt to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, heavily persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, risk their lives each year on long, expensive sea journeys -- often in poor-quality vessels -- in an attempt to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

Bogor Cathedral is holding an exhibition of 155 nativity scenes at the former site of Stella Maris Seminary, from Dec. 23 to Jan. 8.

The Medan Corruption Court in North Sumatra acquitted businessman Mujianto from charges of corruption and money laundering, to which state prosecutors said they would file an appeal.

The government will disburse an additional budget of Rp 15 trillion (US$963 million) to develop five priority-tourism destinations in the next two years.

Seven suspects have been detained by the police in connection with the Dec. 7 suicide bombing attack on a district police station in Bandung, West Java.

Surabaya city administration and the Transportation Ministry launched on Tuesday 17 electric buses to ply one of the city’s bus routes.

The Galang Island special infection hospital task force in Riau Islands officially ceased its operation on Wednesday, but dozens of health workers complain that they have yet to be paid their meal allowances.

The Chinese ambassador to Indonesia has given an assurance that the recent deadly accident at the construction project of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway (KCJB) is not a reflection of the safety of the future train service.

The Central Java administration has launched the Anti-corruption Villages program in 29 regencies and municipalities in a bid to boost corruption eradication in the province.