Gunmen in the mountainous district stormed the tower belonging to Telkomsel, a major state-backed telecoms company, on Wednesday, according to the military. 

A health protocol bubble system will be put in place for the Group of 20 summit in Bali later this year, government officials have said, as Indonesia rides out a third wave of COVID-19 infections while it presides over a year of G20 activities.

“We found that there had been slavery-like practices that indicated that the victims had no power or control over themselves,” Komnas HAM Commissioner Choirul Anam said in a press conference on Wednesday.

The President has remained silent after leaders of political parties within the ruling coalition suggested last week that the upcoming elections be postponed, raising questions about whether the proposal came from the President himself.

Separatists have waged a low-level campaign for independence in the resource-rich region for decades, saying a 1969 vote overseen by the United Nations that brought the former Dutch colony under Indonesian control was illegitimate.

Authorities have revealed that a recent surge of COVID-19 infections tied to the highly contagious Omicron variant had an especially devastating impact on millions of Indonesians with diabetes, with the chronic illness being the most common comorbidity associated with coronavirus deaths in the past two months.

Flooding that hit Namorambe district, Deli Sedang regency, North Sumatra, on Sunday has killed a family of four who had been trapped inside their car as it was swept away by rushing waters.

The decision underscores challenges many developing countries face in their slow inoculation campaigns, as vaccines donated by wealthy countries arrive with a relatively short shelf life of just a few months or even weeks.

Comprehensive sex education in school was at the forefront of the organization’s five-year programs, all designed to help create a healthy society free from sexual and gender-based violence.

Throughout 2021, police reports were filed on alleged sexual violence committed by religious boarding school teachers, an elementary school teacher, a mosque caretaker and Quran reading tutors in different cities.

Now, she faces an even bigger threat: the relocation of Indonesia's capital from Jakarta to a site in East Kalimantan, which would devastate small businesses like Maesaroh's that depend on government offices and other firms in Jakarta.

The government plans to trial a quarantine-free international entry policy in Bali starting on March 14, citing the improving COVID-19 situation.

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo's aides have been taking the blame after he backtracked on the newly issued controversial pension fund regulation, as labor groups and politicians within his grand coalition deliver a strong backlash.

Indonesia has evacuated 31 citizens residing in Ukraine into neighboring Romania and Poland as Russian forces begin to seize the country's airports.

Golkar, PKB and PAN want ruling coalition parties to discuss proposal to extend President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's term.

The National Police's Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) is set to stop a probe into Nurhayati, a treasurer of Citamu village in Mundu district, Cirebon regency, West Java, who became a graft suspect after reporting the village’s chief Supriyadi for alleged corruption.

Indonesia is preparing the evacuation of its citizens from Ukraine overland through Poland and Romania, Foreign Ministry officials have said, as Russia’s attacks on the Eastern European state intensify.

Authorities were still continuing the search for missing persons on Saturday, with electricity and telecommunication services yet to be restored in the two regencies hardest hit by the disaster.

The 6.2-magnitude quake hit the island's north at a depth of 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) minutes after a less violent tremor Friday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), displacing thousands.

Malay oral folklore in Riau Islands is at risk of disappearing, in large part due to the population who know the oral tradition having reached advanced age, and urgent steps must be taken to preserve the tradition, a Riau Islands Language Agency official said.

The quake came just minutes after a less violent tremor, as terrified residents had begun evacuating their houses.

As one of the main facilities for treating COVID-19 in the capital city, the Athletes Village apartment compound has witnessed the ups and downs of the pandemic over the last two years.

The government has said that it is mulling whether to implement a plastic credit scheme in a move to address mounting concerns about plastic waste in the country, although an expert has expressed concerns that such a scheme could allow producers to shift their responsibilities to others.

The quake, which did not have the potential to cause a tsunami, caused residents to flee buildings in some areas including in the city of Padang in West Sumatra province and even triggered evacuations in Malaysia.

The quake, which was on land at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), was felt as far away as Singapore and Malaysia and strongly in the nearby cities of Padang in West Sumatra province and in Pekanbaru in Riau Province, witnesses said.

The quake hit to the island's north at a depth of 12 kilometres, 70 kms from the town of Bukittingi in West Sumatra province, according to USGS.

Education, Culture, Research and Technology Minister Nadiem Makarim’s push to introduce a new curriculum, dubbed the Merdeka (Freedom) curriculum, has been met with skepticism from teachers, who are not convinced that it is compatible with schools nationwide, although the implementation remains optional.