Survivors of the 2002 Bali bombings and victims’ loved ones gathered on the holiday island and elsewhere on Wednesday to mark two decades since the terrorist attack that killed more than 200 people and changed the country’s national security landscape.

People’s Consultative Assembly Speaker Bambang Soesatyo has revealed plans to revisit indirect elections as part of a review of the country’s democratic system.

Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, an avid internationalist, has called on the leaders of the United States, Russia and China to meet at the G20 Bali Summit in November for the good of the world.

"This is not an aid [project]. This is a collaboration between Indonesia and China. There's an element of investment here, so again not aid," President Jokowi told reporters during an inspection of a new railway station for the high-speed train in Tegalluar, at the outskirt of Bandung.

FIFA and the Soccer Association of Indonesia (PSSI) will go ahead with plans to ensure Indonesia will still be able to host the U-20 World Cup and any future matches safely, despite calls for accountability over the PSSI’s role in the Kanjuruhan tragedy.

Amnesty has decried as lacking in empathy a police statement that denied a causal relationship between the deployment of tear gas and the deaths of spectators at Kanjuruhan Stadium.

A national security forum reminds the government of Indonesian national interests amid growing disunity over the Russian invasion of Ukraine ahead of the G20 Summit in Bali in November.

The probe comes as authorities in Gambia said nearly 70 children died from acute kidney injury after taking a locally-sold paracetamol syrup used to treat fever. 

Days after receiving the NasDem Party’s backing for the 2024 presidential race, outgoing Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan is facing renewed criticism over his handling of the city’s perennial flooding problem, including from the central government and the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

"President [Joko] Jokowi [Widodo] has promised the funding for the renovation project and I have signed the proposal for Rp 580 billion. This is also proposed by a team from the local public works agency," Malang Regent M. Sanusi said, as quoted by Kompas.com.

Spokesperson for the Jakarta Police Sr. Comr. Endra Zulpan said that the passenger, identified by his initial MJJB, assaulted the flight attendant when he was reminded of his disorderly conduct.

Grieving families, attack survivors and representatives from several embassies will attend a memorial in Bali's popular tourist hub of Kuta, where Al-Qaeda-linked militants detonated bombs at a bar and nightclub on October 12, 2002.

A total of 202 people, including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesians, were killed when a car bomb exploded outside the Sari Club in Bali's Kuta Beach area and from another almost simultaneous blast at the Paddy's Bar across the road.

The Democratic Party has long been touted as one of NasDem’s potential coalition partners, but analysts say any coalition talks will hinge on who NasDem's presidential nominee Anies Baswedan is going to pick as his running mate.

Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, 84, who was freed last year after serving time in a separate case for funding a militant training camp, spoke with Kyodo News last month near Surakarta, Central Java ahead of the bombings' 20th anniversary on Wednesday.

On the heels of fatal flooding in Greater Jakarta and beyond last week, vast swathes of the archipelago are being asked to prepare for more extreme wet weather in the coming days.

Critics have described the police's use of tear gas in the Kanjuruhan tragedy as "misplaced", pointing to the normalization of the national security approach employed by the country's security personnel.

President Joko “Jokowi" Widodo has named one of his inner circle as interim Jakarta governor who will start to work next week: his own secretary Heru Budi Hartono.

National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Dedi Prasetyo said the police internal investigation team found that certain canisters fired into the stadium’s playing field and stands – and blamed for the ensuing deadly stampede – had 2021 expiry dates.

"I have told Pak Heru that the primary problem in Jakarta is flooding and traffic jams, and there needs to be significant progress on that," Jokowi said on Monday as quoted by Antara.

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is set to pick a new Indonesian Military (TNI) commander next month, replacing the outgoing chief Gen. Andika Perkasa ahead of the 2024 election season.

Negative sentiments surrounding the National Police linger as people remain disappointed with their probe into the deadly Kanjuruhan Stadium tragedy despite the police having named six suspects thought to be responsible for the incident.

In a video message, the president said Indonesia would work with FIFA to improve its management of soccer matches and that FIFA president Gianni Infantino will visit Indonesia in October or November.

On Thursday evening in Malang, National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo announced that the police had named six suspects following the fatal stampede on Saturday at Kanjuruhan Stadium, one of the world’s worst soccer stadium disasters in recent decades.

North Sumatra Police have confiscated more property in Medan worth around Rp 21.6 billion (US$1.4 million) owned by illegal online gambling suspect Jhoni, who is still at large.

A travel ban has been imposed on two persons since August and will be in place for at least six months.

Indonesia helped vote down a Western-led attempt to scrutinize China's human rights record at the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.