Indonesia posted year-on-year inflation of 1.71 percent in October, which was within the government’s target.

The policy introduced last month allows for foreigners holding Singaporean permanent residency to visit Batam, Bintan and the Karimun islands visa free for four days.

The Yogyakarta administration said it has confiscated thousands of bottles of alcoholic beverages from unlicensed stores and closed down unlicensed outlets following an order by Governor Hamengku Buwono X.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, located on Flores Island, erupted on Sunday at 11.57 p.m. (1557 GMT), belching a fiery-red column of lava, volcanic ash and blazing rocks, Hadi Wijaya, a spokesperson for The Center of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG), said on Monday.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, located on the popular tourist island of Flores, spewed a tower of ash and lava on nearby villages that were forced to evacuate.

Police have named the headmaster of Pondok Pesantren Sri Muslim Mardhatillah, reportedly an unlicensed Islamic boarding school in Jambi city, as a suspect of sexual abuse involving at least 12 students.

The first North Sumatra gubernatorial election got off to a heated start, with Bobby Nasution going on the attack against the policies of former governor Edy Rahmayadi, who is up for reelection.

Nasi Padang restaurant association apologizes for causing commotion on social media.

Although there were barely any barbs traded during the first debate, candidate Ahmad Luthfi boasted about the support he got from former President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his successor Prabowo.

The Home Ministry said that village heads who fail to maintain neutrality in regional elections may face job termination.

Miftach Tjut Adek, chief of the community, told Reuters that the 96 arrivals, including seven children, were still at the local beach in the eastern part of Aceh.

Hamengku Buwono said that the sales of alcoholic drinks, including its online trade, in Yogyakarta had gone out of control and had created serious problems in local community.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has sent logistical and health aid to people affected by a recent series of eruptions of Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki in East Flores regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).

The Yogyakarta City Police have arrested seven men suspected of being involved in the assault of two students of a 'pesantren' (Islamic boarding school) in Yogyakarta on Oct. 23

West Java gubernatorial candidate Dedi Mulyadi and his running mate Erwan Setiawan have held onto a strong lead in three key regions of the province ahead of the upcoming regional election, with more than half of respondents in those areas saying they support the pair.

The PDI-P dismissed Bobby Nasution last year for supporting Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the 2024 presidential election.

Airlangga University’s (Unair) Faculty of Social Sciences and Political Science (FISIP) has revoked the suspension of its student executive body (BEM) for criticizing President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

The Deli Serdang regency in North Sumatra is struggling to find a relocation site for dozens of Rohingya refugees who recently arrived in Pantai Labu district.

Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Satryo Brodjonegoro has asked Airlangga University (Unair) in Surabaya, East Java, to revoke the suspension of one of its student executive bodies (BEM) for criticizing President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

A forensics team has gathered evidence from the site of the clash that left two dead and 51 homes burned, while the local Social Affairs Office has distributed aid to the 52 affected families.

East Java's counterpart to Transjakarta plans to expand the number of stops on its Surabaya-Bangkalan route with 24 new shelters, primarily on the Madura side, to help workers and students commute from the island to regions on mainland Java.

The Bandung city administration in West Java plans to release the eggs of lab-bred mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacteria to another district in an effort to control dengue.

The Navy has said it thwarted an attempt to traffic 146 Rohingya refugees to Aceh after they disembarked from a large ship on a beach in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, on Thursday.

The Andoolo District Court in South Konawe, South Sulawesi, has begun the trial of a 36-year-old contract teacher accused of hitting one of her first grade students, the child of a local police officer, with a broom at SDN 4 Baito state elementary school.

The territorial tussle threatens Indonesia’s close economic relationship with China, which President Prabowo’s predecessor Jokowi consummated with billions of dollars’ worth of investment.

The mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar and thousands risk their lives each year on long and dangerous sea journeys to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

A district court in South Konawe has released an elementary school teacher accused of hitting the child of a local police officer from a women's prison, where she had been detained for a week.

Tributes have been paid to an Italian surfer after she was fatally stabbed in the chest by a swordfish in waters off Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra.

Flooding due to heavy rains has affected vast areas of Central Kalimantan over the past two weeks, with at least five regencies inundated and more than 88,000 people affected as of Wednesday.

Two people on the boat had died and another 11, including a pregnant woman, had been evacuated to the local hospital, Muhammad Jabal, the head of fishing community at Labuhan Haji port in South Aceh, told Reuters on Wednesday.