Search and rescue efforts continued on Monday for 10 people who went missing after a flash flood hit Simangalumpe village in Humbang Hasundutan regency, North Sumatra, on Friday night. Two people were confirmed killed in the disaster.

Heavy rain followed by flash floods on Friday evening hit the region located on the shores of the lake, damaging dozens of houses, a church, a school and a hotel, BNPB said in a statement on late Saturday.

Mount Marapi, with a peak of 2,891 (9,484 feet) metres erupted on Sunday, spewing an ash tower 3,000 metres into the sky that rained volcanic debris onto nearby villages.

The arrival comes after more than 1,000 Rohingya refugees landed in Aceh last month, the biggest wave of Rohingya refugee arrivals in Indonesia since 2015, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).

Police deploy hundreds of personnel and divert traffic as national strike begins.

Sumatran elephants are on the brink of extinction with only about 2,400-2,800 left in the world, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature. 

The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry has impounded an illegal Philippine fishing vessel in the Sulawesi Sea carrying dried seafood caught in the area.

Anak Krakatau continued to erupt on Tuesday afternoon, bringing the total number of eruptions since Sunday to 22, with an ash plume reaching 1,000 meters above the crater rim.

The authorities confirmed on Monday that four soldiers were killed on Saturday during a firefight with members of a Papuan armed criminal group (KKB).

Indonesian police and fishermen said Saturday they have begun patrolling parts of the country's westernmost province to prevent Rohingya refugees from landing on its shores, after nearly 1,100 members of the persecuted Myanmar minority arrived this month.

Several regions were inundated by heavy rains and many others were preparing for possible flooding on Friday, as the country enters the rainy season this month.

Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto said on Thursday that Indonesia could independently produce plant-based green fuel to reduce imports.

The Bili-Bili hydroelectric power plant has been out of operation for the past two months, with PLN Bakaru's manager attributing it to local water level issues.

Bobby Nasution, mayor of Medan, North Sumatra, has denied allegations of the city laying ceramic tiles at an intersection on Jl. Sudirman, which led to several motorcycle accidents.

The latest arrivals were part of more than 1,000 desperate and exhausted members of the group who landed on the shores of Aceh in western Indonesia in the last week.

Cianjur Regent Herman Suherman said most of the displaced residents claimed difficulty in renting homes away from their original houses, which meant they preferred to remain in emergency tents and shelters.

The quake was at a depth of 120 km (74.56 miles), GFZ added.

The West Java administration said that as of Tuesday, 195 people had suffered from minor food poisoning symptoms and 32 from severe symptoms. The incident had not caused any deaths, and all of the victims had received treatment at public health centers.

Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys, often in flimsy boats, to try to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

The government faces fresh calls to take greater humanitarian action for Rohingya refugees, as local communities grow weary of their continued arrival on Indonesian shores as human trafficking victims fleeing persecution in Myanmar.

The riot broke out after Gresik United lost to the visiting team with a score of 1-2. According to Gresik Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Adhitya Panji Anom, Gresik United supporters were disappointed with the home team’s loss.

The management also said that it had carried out a comprehensive evaluation of market needs and demands.

Eleven people were killed and at least four others suffered heavy injuries after a passenger train hit a minibus at an unguarded level crossing in Lumajang regency, East Java, on Sunday evening.

The group of around 250 from the persecuted Myanmar minority arrived off the coast of Aceh province on Thursday but angry locals told them not to land the boat. Some refugees then swam ashore and collapsed with exhaustion on the beach.

The refugees attempted to communicate in sign language to the residents to inform them that the ship's engine had lost power. After hours of preventing the ship from anchoring, villagers tried to pull the ship away to the open seas with a small boat. 

The Indonesian Air Force lost two of its Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano tactical figther aircraft after they crashed on Thursday in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java.

Officials attributed the widespread forest fires at the national park, which is located on the border of the regencies of Kuningan and Majalengka, to this year’s long dry season and El Niño. 

Indonesia and Germany have agreed to collaborate on eco-friendly transportation systems in Semarang and Surabaya, backed by the KfW Development Bank.

Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys, often in flimsy boats, to try to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) has recorded that the volcano on the island regency has erupted 90 times since the beginning of this year.