Easter celebrations took place in Batam while pilgrims flocked to Larantuka in East Nusa Tenggara to participate in the Semana Santa procession, a 500-year-old tradition dating back to the era of Portuguese rule.

An environmental watchdog has found that over 430,000 hectares of forest areas were cut down last year, primarily for realizing President Prabowo Subianto’s food and energy self-sufficiency agenda.

Suspect Andi Hakim Febriansyah and his wife Camelia Rosa were arrested upon arrival from Malaysia by immigration officers.

The replacements are part of the fallout of the alleged extortion of foreign tourists at Batam Center International Ferry Terminal, which has gone viral in the past few months.

Peacekeeper Corp. Farizal Rhomadhon, 28, died when a projectile exploded on March 29 in southern Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah have been fighting since Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war.

The government’s temporary restriction on platforms operated by nonprofit organization Wikimedia Foundation has raised concerns among digital rights advocates, who warn that arbitrary controls risk undermining citizens’ access to free knowledge and freedom of expression.

Prosecutors charged Amsal Christy Sitepu for allegedly putting marked-up budgets on his proposal to make profile videos for 20 villages in Karo regency, North Sumatra, from 2020 to 2022. 

At least 12 people have made reports to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) about the online abuse they received on social media and other online communication platforms and requested the commission’s protection.

At least one person was killed after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Maluku Sea rocked North Sulawesi and North Maluku and triggered tsunami waves that reached up to 0.75 meters in height.

Investigators found that the victim had repeatedly asked his parents for school supplies, but the requests could not be fulfilled due to financial constraints.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the tremor hit at a shallow depth of 35 kilometres in the Maluku Sea between the Sulawesi and Maluku island groups in the early morning.

The Riau Islands regional office of the Immigration Directorate General has acknowledged there are indications of illegal fees being levied by officers and brokers and alleged extortion of foreign tourists at the Batam Center ferry terminal.

According to Health Ministry data, as of March 22, the country had recorded 16,355 confirmed measles cases since the start of the year, resulting in 10 deaths.

Business groups caution over risks of lower productivity and slower spending.

Bali Police’s General Crime Director Sr. Comr. I Gede Adhi Mulyawarman said the suspects, 35-year-old Darlan Bruno Lima Sanandana and 28-year-old Kalyl Hyorran, were identified through CCTV footage, GPS data and witness statements.

The illegal business had been running for two years with a turnover of Rp 7 billion (US$411,798) in three rented rooms in an apartment building.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named two more suspects in its investigation into the alleged misallocation of the 2024 haj quota, a case that has implicated former Religious Affairs minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas.

An independent probe from a civil society coalition found that at least 16 people were involved in the acid attack on human rights activist Andrie Yunus, while suggesting the existence of "intellectual actors" from "a certain big institution" were behind the assault.

Ahmad Munawir, a conservation official at the Forestry Ministry, said the dragons will be sent to iZoo in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan’s largest reptile and amphibian-focused zoo, which houses over 400 species and 2,000 animals.

In a video posted on Instagram late Monday, Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid said "the government is sending summons letters" to Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as well as to Google, which oversees YouTube, adding they "violated Indonesian law".

The videographer, Amsal Christy Sitepu, was named a suspect in November last year after authorities accused him of inflating production costs, allegedly causing state losses of Rp 202 million.

Some people opt to move into the capital city due to limited job opportunities in their hometown, despite realizing Jakarta may not provide as many options as it did in the past.

People who were living along the railway tracks in Senen were forcibly uprooted on Friday when heavy equipment allegedly rolled in to tear down their makeshift dwellings, before authorities had arranged temporary housing and the groundbreaking for a new Rusun project still weeks away.

Bigo Live and X are the only two deemed ‘fully complying’ with the government’s restrictions on social media use for minors, according to Communication and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid.

The government will soon introduce a policy allowing civil servants to work from home one day per week as part of efforts to reduce national fuel consumption amid rising global oil prices caused by the ongoing war in the Middle East.

Juwono Sudarsono, a prominent scholar who became the first non-military figure to hold the defense minister post in Indonesian history, died on Saturday at the age of 84 and left behind a ministerial career in three different portfolios that spanned four presidencies.

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) named on Saturday billionaire coal magnate Samin Tan a corruption suspect in a probe into alleged mining permit violations after the forestry task force seized the company's land earlier this year.