Luhut said that construction and refurbishment work for all venues for the summit, including the Apurva Kempinski hotel, where Group of Twenty (G20) leaders would hold their two-day meeting, and the roads connecting the venue and the Ngurah Rai International Airport, have been completed.

The ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has reprimanded Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo over his comment last week about his readiness to run for president if given the mandate.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Vice President Ma’ruf Amin’s administration has scored notably lower in public confidence polls at the end of its third year amid accusations of democratic backsliding and curtailed civil liberties.

Health authorities have temporarily banned sales of some syrup-based medications and identified the presence in some products of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol as possible factors in the deaths of 141 children, most of which were under five.

Calls to oust the NasDem Party from the ruling government coalition have intensified after it officially backed Anies Baswedan – who ended his Jakarta governor term on Oct. 16 – in the 2024 presidential race.

TNI commander Gen. Andika Perkasa said that he would be directly in charge of the operation, which would see the deployment of 14,300 TNI personnel, 3,200 police officers and 492 personnel from other institutions.

A spokesman for Iriawan said on Thursday that the task force recommendation was non-binding and that PSSI had no obligation to comply.

Airlangga said that this percentage would translate roughly into 115 seats at the House of Representatives.

A female Muslim figure, a young businessman, a military general or a popular regional head? The question of who will run along the presidential nominees for the upcoming presidential election may provide a glimpse of political parties’ election strategies.

Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo has publicly announced he is ready to contest the 2024 presidential election after several local branches of at least two parties within the United Indonesia Coalition (KIB) declared support for his nomination.

The President was speaking to reporters at the state palace after meeting Gianni Infantino, head of world soccer governing body FIFA.

The Ferdy Sambo case, which began on Monday, has been touted as the biggest scandal in the history of the police corps, and has galvanized calls for police reform.

The case against Ferdy Sambo, an ex-inspector general and head of internal affairs at the National Police, has gripped the public in a country where surveys show distrust of the police remains high. 

Following a rapid series of scandals that have afflicted the National Police, experts say that the latest arrest of a senior police officer is indicative of “toxic rivalry” among competing groups within the force.

President Joko Widodo has summoned all senior police officers to the Presidential Palace to given them a dressing down, after the corps suffered a series of credibility-shattering incidents. Potential police involvement in a drug ring served to rub salt in the wound.

The team, which included government officials, soccer and security experts, has been investigating how more than 130 people died in a crush after a match at Kanjuruhan stadium in East Java on October 1. 

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

The National Police handed over disgraced internal affairs chief Ferdy Sambo to the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) on Wednesday, as the trials relating to the murder, and subsequent alleged cover-up, of Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat are set to begin soon.