"People were pushing each other and... many were trampled on their way to the exit gate," the 22-year-old survivor told AFP. 

Five medical professional associations deplore the House of Representatives Legislative Body's decision to make the omnibus bill on healthcare a priority for deliberation without consulting them.

Tens of thousands of fans rushed out of a Malang stadium when police fired tear gas, a move that critics deem excessive and the main cause behind the stampede.

Survivors and families recall how thousands of fans stormed the playing field and police responded with tear gas, triggering a stampede in Malang, East Java.

When frustrated supporters of the losing home team invaded the pitch in Malang in the province of East Java late on Saturday, officers fired tear gas in an attempt to control the situation, triggering the stampede and cases of suffocation, East Java police chief Insp. Gen. Nico Afinta told reporters.

At 8 p.m. local time on Saturday, a match between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya kicks off at the Kanjuruhan Stadium, Malang in East Java. 

The local disaster agency has recorded at least one fatality in the 6-magnitude quake that struck North Tapanul at around 2:24 a.m. on Saturday.

He also told the country's soccer association (PSSI) to stop Liga 1 matches until the investigation had been concluded, and called for this to be the "last soccer tragedy in the nation."

After the match in East Java province between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended on Saturday night, supporters from the losing team invaded the pitch and police had fired tear gas, triggering a stampede and cases of suffocation, East Java police chief Insp. Gen. Nico Afinta told reporters.

Arema FC supporters at the Kanjuruhan stadium in East Java city of Malang stormed the pitch late on Saturday after their team lost 3-2 to Persebaya Surabaya, the first loss in more than two decades to their bitter rival.

Supporters from the losing side had invaded the pitch and authorities had fired tear gas, leading to a crowd stampede and cases of suffocation, according to the police.

The government says it has managed to navigate the “dynamic” global situation and hold a conducive penultimate Group of 20 Sherpa meeting, adding that significant progress has been made in formulating the G20 leaders’ declaration, despite rising global tension.

Dozens of ships have been arrested by the Indonesian Navy over the last year for illegally anchoring in its waters just east of Singapore, Reuters has previously reported, based on information from a dozen people involved in the cases, including captains, ship owners, intermediaries and insurers.

The West Papua National Liberation Army, which the government has designated as a terrorist organisation, said its members on Thursday night shot people they believed were intelligence personnel disguised as road construction workers.

The government has stressed the importance of developing national vaccines since the beginning of the pandemic but it currently relies on China's Sinovac and the Western-made Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA jabs.  

Indonesia has increased its emissions reduction target to bring its policies more in line with global goals, but environmentalists say the revisions still fail to respond adequately to the climate crisis.

Amidst the fuel price-hike on Sept. 3, bus and MRT operators in Jakarta have seen a minor uptick in passenger numbers. 

More police officers have been brought before the National Police ethics panel on allegations of ethics violations over their handling of the Brig. "J" Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat murder case, with the latest being Second Insp. Arsyad Daiva Gunawan who was demoted on Monday.

Six of the individuals told Reuters they were targeted themselves. 

In a statement made available to The Jakarta Post on Friday, the Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister said that the official email account of Airlangga was not installed on the minister's private cellular phone.

The construction of 25 biomethane-compressed natural gas (bio-CNG) plants in North Sumatra, capable of processing 387,000 cubic meters of palm oil waste, was started on Wednesday with the groundbreaking of the first plant in Langkat.

"My warmest congratulations to HRH Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a close friend of Indonesia, on his appointment as Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia. Looking forward to working closely together in advancing our bilateral ties, including in the economic sector," President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo wrote on Twitter, on Friday morning, from his handle @jokowi. 

The Food and Drugs Monitoring Agency greenlighted the use of Walvax Biotechnology's mRNA vaccine, which has been in development for more than two years and targets the original strain of the coronavirus.

Indonesia became the 16th country in the world to formally contribute to China's panda conservation in 2017, when two giant pandas arrived at the highly popular park.

Embattled Papua Governor and graft suspect Lukas Enembe has skipped another summons for a corruption probe, while the Democratic Party has suspended him from the party provincial leadership.

Two top ex-KPK officials have announced that they have joined the legal team of former National Police internal affairs chief Ferdy Sambo and his wife Putri Candrawathi, who are facing a premeditated murder charge in the fatal shooting of Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.

Advocates have deplored a series of wide-ranging and coordinated cyberattacks against journalists and employees of the media company Narasi and have urged the police to act immediately.