Misfaruddin of the North Sumatra BPS explained that the increase in the poverty rate in the province has partly been driven by rising market prices of essential commodities commonly purchased and consumed by the public.

The eruptions have caused ash and sand fall in several villages across East Flores and Sikka Regencies in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) since Tuesday.

Fire broke out on the vessel, the MT Federal II, at around 4 a.m. on Wednesday (2100 GMT Tuesday) at a shipyard in the city of Batam, local police chief Sr. Comr. Zaenal Arifin said. Batam is around 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) away from Singapore by sea.

The discovery of radioactive contamination in Indonesian cloves came shortly after the US FDA also flagged a shipment of shrimp from Indonesia for containing Cesium-137.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores island erupted late Tuesday and again at 01:35 am (1735 GMT), sending volcanic materials 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) above its 1,584-metre-high peak, the National Volcanology Agency said in a statement.

As of Oct. 5, Central Java had reported 15 food poisoning outbreaks linked to the government's free meals program, the second-highest number nationwide, behind West Java, which recorded 34 incidents, according to a Health Ministry report.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently said it had detected the presence of Caesium-137 in a sample of cloves from PT Natural Java Spice during screening after the radioactive isotope was also detected in August in a sample of frozen shrimp from Indonesia.

The West Java provincial administration’s donation drive asking residents to donate Rp 1,000 (6 US cents) per day to a so-called social solidarity movement has come in for scrutiny over fears that it will be prone to misuse and overlap with the state’s responsibility to provide public services.

In the provincial capital of Medan, heavy rainfall that began on Saturday and continued into the early hours of Sunday caused the Deli, Babura, and Sunggal rivers to overflow. Floodwaters between 30 and 100 centimeters high submerged more than 3,300 homes across seven of the city’s 21 subdistricts.

Suyati, who was reported after a tourist discovered the monkey in poor condition, was reportedly warned previously to stop selling wild animals at her stall in Denpasar's Satria Market.

The Garuda School initiative was officially launched on Wednesday as a flagship education program under President Prabowo Subianto’s administration. 

Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) head Dwikorita Karnawati has warned that Bali is likely to experience heavy rainfall during the upcoming rainy season, which is expected to peak in January and February next year.

A Riau Islands official has said livestock company ITS has yet to fulfill all measures required at its 1,500-hectare pig farm on Bulan Island to restart exports to Singapore.

East Java Police Chief Inspector General Nanang Avianto said the criminal probe was launched  after preliminary findings pointed to negligence in the building’s construction.

PT Indojaya Agrinusa exported  28,512 live chickens, weighing a total of 57 tonnes and worth some Rp 1.8 billion (US$108,800) using six open containers to Singapore. 

The origin of the leopard remains unclear, but there is a growing suspicion that it may be the same animal that escaped from Lembang Zoo last month. The zoo is located just five kilometers from the Anugerah Hotel.

Data released by the Immigration and Corrections Ministry in August revealed that Indonesia’s prison system is operating 93 percent over capacity, with 281,762 inmates housed across the country despite facilities being designed to hold a maximum of 146,260 people.

,The four suspects used social media as the main vehicle to spread violent ideology and entice other people to get involved in terrorism, Densus 88 said.

Two TNI personnel were killed in separate incidents during preparations for the TNI’s 80th anniversary commemoration on Sunday.

Batam Customs and Excise Office head Zaky Firmansyah said 18 containers containing electronic waste would be reexported to the United States. 

Inside the second floor of the house, police reportedly found a large number of marijuana plants being cultivated using hydroponic methods. Authorities described the operation as highly organized, with separate zones for seed germination, nursery care and the cultivation of mature, harvest-ready plants.

Part of the multi-storey Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo caved in on September 29 as more than 170 students gathered for afternoon prayers. 

Part of the multi-story Islamic boarding school caved in on September 29 as more than 170 students gathered for afternoon prayers. 

In late August, a leopard was reported to have escaped from a zoo located just five kilometers from the hotel.

Some residents captured footage of what appeared to be a glowing red orb streaking across the sky, which quickly went viral on social media. Videos also circulated showing fires near Kilometer 219 on the Palimanan-Kanci toll road in Cirebon Regency, with some claiming these were caused by the meteor’s impact.

Piles of concrete caved in on hundreds of mostly teenage boys after the collapse of the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, in East Java province, trapping and later killing them.  

Around 800,000 metric tons of wet material flooded the mine on September 8, when material from an extraction point flowed at one of five sections of the Grasberg Block Cave underground gold and copper mine in Tembagapura.

Customs officers also foiled attempts to smuggle 1,018 grams of methamphetamine and 797 used iPhones. 

The future capital has a very limited water supply area, with only 0.51 percent of its total area considered high-water areas, 20.41 percent vegetation water areas and the remaining 79.08 non-water areas.

The Imperial Japanese Army had a large presence in the Maluku region as a line of defense against the southern approaches into the Philippines.