While President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo received praise for success as a power broker on the global stage during a time of war as Indonesia played host to the G20 Summit in Bali, activists at home have deplored restriction of speech around the events.

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.

Authorities have named three pharmaceutical companies and a chemical distributor as suspects in cases of acute kidney injury and associated fatalities stemming from contaminated children’s medicinal syrup.

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.

President Jokowi raised the stakes of the new capital city project in Kalimantan by announcing Indonesia's official bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympic Games in Nusantara.

The House of Representatives unanimously passed on Thursday a law to create another new province in the underdeveloped region of Papua, expecting that this will allow the government to redraw electoral districts in all four new provinces ahead of the 2024 general election.

Health experts are calling for the government to reinstate stricter health measures under its four-tier PPKM scheme, which remains at level 1 even as daily cases have topped 8,000 and deaths continue to rise.

The Group of 20 Leaders' Summit drew to a close in Bali on Wednesday with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo thanking leaders of major economies for producing a joint declaration, a feat initially doubted by many amid deep rifts over the war in Ukraine.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has expressed his “highest gratitude” to foreign leaders assembled in Bali for agreeing to a joint declaration to conclude the Group of 20 Summit in a year marked by geopolitical division.

MRT Jakarta announced on Tuesday that it would extend the operational hours by one hour from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. effective immediately. Operational hours start at 5 a.m. on weekdays and at 6 a.m. on weekends.

As the United Nations climate summit in Egypt is still debating whether rich countries will compensate poorer countries for the loss and damage from climate-induced natural disasters, environmentalists urge Indonesia to campaign for the issue and walk the talk by decarbonizing its economy.

Indonesia, together with the World Economic Forum (WEF), has unveiled the Ocean 20 (O20), a public-private initiative to reap the economic benefits from the ocean with a sustainable, inclusive approach.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov left the Bali G20 summit, state news agencies reported Tuesday, handing over to the finance minister who is now expected to represent his country.

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.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo asked Group of 20 leaders to show wisdom and not allow the world to “fall into another cold war” as he opened the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Tuesday morning.

A new Kompas survey showed that Jokowi still has some influence over the 2024 presidential race, with 15 percent of respondents saying they would vote for whomever the President endorses.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday urged G20 leaders to "end the war" as he opened a summit dominated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with Washington and allies heaping pressure on Moscow.

Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders of G20 countries are gathering on the resort island of Bali with strict testing and masking requirements, even though such measures have been largely dropped in some member countries.

US president’s trip was perfectly timed, but not enough to fully win the Indo-Pacific over, observers say.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has asked the European Commission and the Group of Seven bloc to lend "support and flexibility" so that this week's Group of 20 Summit can produce a declaration, he said in a statement on Monday.

The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) has lambasted recent intimidation allegedly carried out by a group of people including a team of pecalang (traditional Balinese security officers) during one of its meetings in Sanur, Bali, on Saturday and demanded the Bali Police apologize and investigate the incident.

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday he would hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, in what would be the first meeting between leaders of the two nations after years of strained ties.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will call on the Group of 20 (G20) for coordinated action to address international economic instability and the rising cost of living in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, his government said on Monday.

The immigration office has said that a number of individuals and groups are suspected to have planned a disruption to the Group of 20 Summit and its series of meetings in Bali.

Sitting in the dark, wearing a batik shirt and surrounded by candles, Elon Musk offered a vision for the future that includes aliens, deep tunnels and rocket tourism.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan touched down in Bali on Monday to attend the G20 summit, hours after his home city of Istanbul was rocked by an explosion that authorities blamed on Kurdish separatists.

World leaders have begun to arrive in Bali ahead of what are expected to be tense talks on a range of geopolitical issues at the Group of 20 Summit this week.