Lt. Gen. Teguh Muji Angkasa, a senior military officer in Papua, told a televised news briefing the military and police would conduct a joint investigation.

The quake was at a depth of 11.9 km (7.39 miles), USGS said.

The body of Boaz Bar Anan, a 37-year-old Portuguese national who died from a fall on the Mount Rinjani in Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), is scheduled to be returned on Friday to his country of origin, Israel, for burial.

I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport authorities in Bali have stepped up efforts to monitor passengers arriving at the airport following the discovery of Indonesia's first confirmed case of the virus over the weekend.

The shallow quake occurred in the waters off the southwestern coast of Sumatra island, at around 9:30 pm (1430 GMT) -- nearest to Bengkulu, South Sumatra and Lampung provinces.

A nationwide crackdown on illegal online gambling operations has netted 34 suspects, following widespread speculation that the former internal affairs chief was involved in the criminal activity.

Achmad Hermanto Dardak, former public works deputy minister, was killed as a passenger in a car that hit a truck on Pemalang-Batang Toll Road in Central Java early on Saturday.

A closed business with a deceased owner is being investigated as part of the case involving the alleged trafficking of 212 Indonesian workers to Cambodia, in a scheme foiled by North Sumatra Police last Friday.

Hundreds of homes in six districts of the North Sumatra capital of Medan were inundated with waters up to 1 meter deep following heavy rains early on Thursday.

The local conservation agency is sending a team to investigate the death of a rubber farmer, whose body was found with wounds that appear to have been made by a Sumatran tiger.

Terror convict and firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, who was closely linked to the 2002 Bali bombings, attended a flag-raising Independence Day ceremony on Wednesday at Al-Mukmin Ngruki Islamic boarding school, which he once supervised, in Sukoharjo, Central Java.

The Navy took possession of its third hospital ship, the KRI Dr Rajiman Wedyodiningrat-992 in Surabaya, East Java, on Monday, after it was handed over by the state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL.

The Bogor Natural Resource Conservation (KSDA) Agency in West Java handed over on Monday three Javan slow loris, known locally as kukang, to the conservation institution Indonesian Rehabilitation Nature Initiative Foundation (YIARI).

Various agricultural groups have warned the central government that the country is rapidly losing farming land and are calling for immediate action.  

A police investigation team has been deployed from North Sumatra to track down a recruitment company in Jakarta that was allegedly involved in recruiting migrant workers for what appears to be a human trafficking scheme.

Local police have arrested a man who witnesses said stabbed his nephew to death on Tuesday at his school.

A joint operation mounted by immigration officials, police and the migrant workers' protection agency in North Sumatra have foiled an attempt to traffic Indonesian workers to Cambodia.

Bima Arya, mayor of Bogor, West Java, said that the administration’s move to ban single-use plastic bags in traditional markets faced challenges in its public reception.

Surabaya city administration in East Java will start imposing fines and social work for smokers and vapers violating smoke-free area policy by the end of August.

Rohingya refugees in Medan, North Sumatra, are struggling to access child health services amid a lack of resources, forcing many to treat sick children at refugee shelters without professional support.

Local police are on a hunt for a man wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of his nephew in front of his teacher and classmates on Tuesday.

North Sumatra Police have arrested two men for attempting to smuggle the scales of pangolins and beaks of hornbills worth Rp 2.1 billion (US$141,437) to China.

The North Sumatra Police have arrested two people, including an underage person, for allegedly igniting fires that have contributed to the ongoing forest-and-bush blaze around Lake Toba tourism areas in the province for the past few weeks.

Following public uproar and local tourism stakeholders commencing a month-long strike last Monday, the government has rescinded the new admission price for Komodo National Park and postponed it until the new year.

Activists have condemned police treatment of protests against the Komodo ticket-price hike, saying that it shows the government has responded with repression to criticism against the Labuan Bajo development that disenfranchised local residents and the tourism industry.

Four members of one family died after being trapped in a house fire in a densely populated residential area in Medan Belawan district in Medan, North Sumatra, on Thursday, local authorities have reported.

The trial of businessman Mujianto, who is accused of corruption and money laundering, began at the Medan Corruption Court in North Sumatra on Wednesday.

Debris from a Chinese booster rocket that made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday has reportedly been found on a farm in Sekayam district, Sanggau regency, West Kalimantan.

Eleven swimmers at the ASEAN Para Games (APG), which are being held in Central Java, have contracted COVID-19, Governor Ganjar Pranowo said on Tuesday.

The head of a district administration in North Sumatra has alleged that slash-and-burn agriculture was to blame for a forest fire that has erupted in two regencies near the popular tourist destination of Lake Toba.