The shallow 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit at 4:06 am (2109 GMT) at a depth of 21 kilometres (13 miles), with its epicentre 167 kilometres west of the coastal city of Pariaman, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Three days after he swore in the head of the new capital city authority, Jokowi flew to East Kalimantan where he is expected to visit the construction site for the country's new administrative center.

Indonesia should come up with better plastic waste management policies as countries recently endorsed a United Nations resolution to end plastic pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024, activists say.

“There’s no more story on Masayoshi, he’s out,” according to Coordinating Minister for Investment and Maritime Affairs Luhut Panjaitan in an interview on Wednesday.

Yaqut’s progressive policies have been met with various pushbacks from different groups, not least because of his choice of words.

Teachers’ associations say the government should focus on addressing the more urgent problem of learning loss instead.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo inaugurated on Thursday Bambang Susantono and Dhony Rahajoe as the head and deputy head, respectively, of the new capital city authority.

A Supreme Court hearing on Monday has ruled to cut the prison sentence for former maritime affairs and fisheries minister Edhy Prabowo.

The volcano -- one of the most active in the world -- erupted multiple times overnight, spewing gas, volcanic ash and rocks that flowed over five kilometres down its slopes, the head of Indonesia's National Disaster Management and Mitigation Agency said. 

Merapi spewed hot clouds - a mixture of ash and volcanic materials - that flowed 5km (3.1 miles) down its slopes between near midnight (1700 GMT) and 2 a.m. local time Thursday, the National Geological Agency said on Twitter.

Unprecedented sanctions against Russia's banks over its invasion of Ukraine are taking a toll on its citizens overseas, who have been left scrambling to find cash or turn to crypto transactions to get by.

Even though the upcoming general elections have been scheduled for Feb. 14, 2024, it is no longer certain that Indonesians will be able to vote that year with the government and the House of Representatives dragging their feet on approving the budget for the polls proposed by the election organizers.

COVID-19 deaths continue to rise in Indonesia even though the third wave of coronavirus infections — fueled by the highly contagious Omicron variant — has been showing signs of easing these past weeks.

The uptick in cases, which skyrocketed above pre-pandemic levels, indicates growing public awareness of reporting violence against women amid the ongoing pandemic; however, the figure only represents the tip of the iceberg, Komnas Perempuan commissioners said.

The Supreme Court revealed that its religious courts nationwide had granted 64,211 child marriage exemptions in 2020, almost triple the previous year’s log of 23,126 requests.

Statistics Indonesia’s National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) from 2018 to 2020 reported an underage marriage prevalence of 15 percent among girls between the ages of 10 and 16 years.

The Manpower Ministry is preparing a decree aimed at preventing and handling cases of sexual violence in workplaces, in a move to provide stronger legal protections for workers amid an increase in reported complaints of such cases in the country.

Families of nine North Sumatran workers are calling on the Indonesian government to immediately evacuate their relatives who are trapped in Chernihiv, a city in northern Ukraine.

Known for its surfing, temples, waterfalls and nightlife, Bali drew 6.2 million foreign visitors in 2019, the year before COVID-19 struck. But only a trickle of visitors have returned since Bali started opening up to foreign tourists last October, discouraged by the need to quarantine and other rules.

The Group of 20 forum for Civil Society Organizations, Civil 20 or C20, called for an end to hostilities in Ukraine and for sympathy, support and global solidarity for the Ukrainian people.

The government waived the mandatory quarantine for fully vaccinated international visitors to popular tourist destination Bali on Monday, as it seeks to loosen requirements in other parts of the country by April 1.

The government will relax restrictions in the metropolitan agglomeration areas of Jakarta and Surabaya and a number of regencies and cities across the archipelago starting on Tuesday, saying epidemiological indicators have improved following the third COVID-19 peak.

Local fishermen suspect that a human trafficking syndicate is behind the arrival of 114 Rohingya refugees on the coast of Pawang Derih hamlet in Jangka district, Bireuen regency, Aceh, early on Sunday.

The Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) last Wednesday declared its support for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo’s third term, marking the turnaround for the emerging party once touted to bring the political representation of Indonesian youths.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s response to recent proposals that his final term in office be extended past its constitutionally mandated end date has left a number of observers wanting more, saying his comments were not stern enough to put an end to the protracted discussion.

Authorities have moved to ramp up the national vaccination drive and extend the shelf life of some COVID-19 vaccine brands in a bid to prevent millions of near-expiry vaccines from being unusable.

The newly inaugurated university was scheduled to run in-person classes for the first semester in September last year, but the move was canceled following a COVID-19 surge. The offline classes for the second semester will start on March 7.