After hinting at backing Prabowo and Airlangga at separate events this month, the President has made a not-too-subtle statement to his supporters indicating his preference for Ganjar to carry on his legacy.

Monday's 5.6-magnitude earthquake in the town of Cianjur, about 75 km (50 miles) south of  Jakarta, killed at least 271 people and left thousands sheltering in tents with scant medical and aid supplies.

Local police have named two vocational high school students as suspects for assaulting an elderly woman on a road in South Tapanuli, North Sumatra, on Saturday.

The dramatic rescue captured on camera Wednesday evening revived hopes that survivors could still be pulled alive from the wreckage days after the strong tremor that hit the West Java town of Cianjur on Monday, killing at least 271 people.

Monday's 5.6-magnitude quake caused extensive damage in the town of Cianjur, in mountains about 75 km (45 miles) south of Jakarta. 40 people remained missing.

The second Indonesia’s Women Ulema Congress opens in Semarang and Jepara in Central Java on Wednesday, and will last until Saturday.

A joint search team has retrieved another dead body from the landslide debris that hit a section of a highway connecting Cianjur and Bogor regencies following Monday’s 5.6-magnitude earthquake. 

State electricity company PLN reported that power had been fully restored to its customers in Cianjur, West Java, following Monday’s 5.6-magnitude earthquake. 

Survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 268 people in West Java appealed for food and water Wednesday, as rescuers picked through devastated villages with hopes of finding anyone alive fading.

Aid from the government continues to pour into Cianjur regency in West Java, with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo also traveling to the scene of Monday’s earthquake that left more than 200 people dead.

State electricity company PLN reported on Tuesday that power had returned to 89 percent of customers in Cianjur, West Java, following Monday’s 5.6-magnitude earthquake nearby.

Rescue workers were racing on Tuesday to reach people trapped in rubble a day after an earthquake devastated Cianjur regency, West Java, killing at least 62 people and injuring hundreds, as officials warned the death toll may rise.

Rescuers searched on Tuesday for survivors buried under rubble after a strong earthquake on Cianjur regency, West Java, killed 162 people, injured hundreds and left more feared trapped in collapsed building.

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake that shook West Java on Monday has killed at least 62 people and injured hundreds more, as authorities warn the numbers are likely to rise with many still trapped beneath rubble.

The son of a respected cleric in Jombang, East Java, has been convicted of sexually abusing a female student at the Islamic boarding school where he works -- but acquitted of rape.

Fifty-one-year-old US-citizen Kevin Henderson died on Mount Agung in Karangasem, Bali, after falling on a climb to celebrate his birthday, local authorities reported.

A boat carrying 111 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, landed on the shores of Aceh on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest among an annual exodus from northwest Myanmar.

Nineteen leaders -- bar Russian President Vladimir Putin -- will seek solutions to myriad global crises on the Muslim-majority country's mostly Hindu "Island of Gods".

The Immigration Directorate General has ordered three airports to provide special services for around 2,000 international journalists that will come to Bali to report on the series of Group of 20 Summit meetings in the coming week.

The Transportation Ministry has was warned of a degree of disruption to regular flight schedules at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali ahead of the Group of 20 Summit meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Protesters, some carrying coffins and signs that said "All this because of tear gas" as they marched on the main thoroughfare of the city of Malang, also called for the tragedy to be deemed a gross human rights violation.

Eight police officers have been arrested at the Medan Police headquarters following an attack against a number of health workers and security officers at Bandung Hospital in Medan on Sunday.

The Indonesian Navy has been trying to free the Djibouti-registered vessel, Young Yong, which ran aground off Riau Islands on Oct. 26.

Indonesia is still reeling after more than 130 people, including over 40 children, died in a stadium stampede last month -- one of the deadliest disasters in football history.

Thousands of residents have taken refuge from flooding in North Sumatra’s Labuhan Batu Utara and Langkat regencies following heavy rains that began on Wednesday.

The Yogyakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Yogyakarta), which represents the plaintiffs, claims that the mining activities in the village have been conducted without a permit. 

The researchers discovered high seismic activity on the southern coast of West Java Province and the southeastern part of Sumatra Island that could unleash a "megathrust" quake, said the report published last Sunday in the journal Natural Hazards.

Twenty people had been found dead during the search operation, which began after a passenger boat caught fire on waters near Timor Island on Oct. 24, the head of the local rescue team, I Putu Sudayana, told Reuters.

Residents of Tempur village in Jepara, Central Java, have reported that Javan leopards, a critically endangered species, have been preying on their livestock in recent weeks.

The Yogyakarta administration has reported a spike in daily new COVID-19 cases, with nearly 1,000 total active cases as of Tuesday.