The authorities arrested two Chinese citizens in Jakarta on Friday night for allegedly attempting to stage a protest during the series of G20 summits and meetings in Bali.

The Group of 20 (G20) sherpas gather for the fourth meeting on Nov. 11-14 in Jimbaran, Bali with an aim of endorsing concrete deliverables for addressing global food insecurity and the energy crisis.

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.

The government state ministries will consider implementing a more integrated and community-minded approach in reorganizing slums across the country, using the several successful community-run projects as a model.

Acting Jakarta governor Heru Budi Hartono is continuing the river normalization project on the Ciliwung River to mitigate flooding in the city, which has previously been halted. 

ASEAN agreed in principle on Friday to admit Timor Leste as the group’s 11th member, as junta-led Myanmar continues to present stark challenges that have called the bloc’s relevance into question.

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.

The government submitted what it deemed as a watered-down draft of the penal code bill to lawmakers on Wednesday, although it still retains some contentious articles, as lawmakers seek to pass the bill before their recess in mid-December.

The crash into the Java Sea after take-off from Jakarta, which killed all 62 people on board, was Indonesia's third major commercial plane crash in just over six years and shone a spotlight on its poor air safety record.

MRT Jakarta has unearthed approximately 100 meters of a Dutch-colonial era double track railway on Jl. Gajah Mada on Wednesday.

As COVID-19 cases increase in the past few weeks, the Health Ministry has recorded that 48 percent of the deaths from Oct. 4 to Nov. 8 are people who have received no vaccine.

The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) revoked two more pharmaceutical companies’ licenses to produce medicinal syrups on Wednesday, bringing to five the total number of firms sanctioned for the manufacture of toxic medicines linked to deadly cases of acute kidney injury (AKI).

President Jokowo, who beat Prabowo twice in 2014 and 2019, said that it may now be his former rival's turn to win the presidential election.

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.

Director of state-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) Didiek Hartantyo said on Wednesday that the two leaders would witness the trial run for a 20-kilometer journey between Tegal Luar and Cikopo stations near Bandung, West Java.

State investigators have confiscated documents from the Communications and Information Ministry and a private vendor as the AGO probes possible graft in a procurement deal.  

Indonesia temporarily banned sales of some syrup-based medications in October after it identified the presence in some products of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol as possible factors for causing the illness.

The city administration and related disaster organizations are getting in gear for an extended forecast of thunderstorms, heavy rain and strong winds until next February.

The Sriwijaya Air incident was Indonesia's third major commercial plane crash in just over six years and shone a spotlight on the country's poor air safety record.

The National Police Commission (Kompolnas) has vowed to investigate allegations of police links to illegal mining, after a former officer claimed to have been forced to implicate a high-ranking cop, part of what the commission chair has dubbed "star wars."

From rival to opposition and then Cabinet minister, it seems that Prabowo's political constellation has skyrocketed toward 2024 on the incumbent's latest aside.

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

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri got himself embroiled in yet another controversy last week after he flew to Papua to meet a high-profile governor under bribery investigation.

Indonesia has seen a spike in cases of acute kidney injury (AKI) since August, prompting a probe and subsequent ban on all liquid medicine sales.

The Constitutional Court’s decision to clear the way for ministers to run in the upcoming presidential election without having to quit the Cabinet has left many wondering whether President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who still maintains his grip on his big-tent coalition, could really defy the infamous “second-term curse”.