One suspect was shot dead while 17 others including a Nigerian were arrested during a series of police raids in Aceh and Jakarta in recent weeks, they said.

A minor Cabinet reshuffle has ushered in a new era of science and innovation for Indonesia.

The hours-long shootout Tuesday in remote Puncak district ended with nine guerrillas and a police officer dead, while two more officers were wounded, police said.

The KPK has named its own investigator, Stepanus Robin Pattuju, a suspect in a bribery case related to alleged collusion in the appointment of Tanjung Balai administration officials in North Sumatra.

Current rules require international travelers to quarantine for five days upon arriving in Indonesia, but travel from India is now an exception due to the country's world record-breaking daily coronavirus cases.

While the national COVID-19 task force has tightened and expanded travel restrictions ahead of Idul Fitri, authorities are allowing tourist destinations to remain open and travelers to move within urban agglomerations. Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has also asked the task force to permit Islamic boarding school students to return home.

Brig. Gen. I Gusti Putu Danny Karya Nugraha, who headed Papua's Intelligence Agency, was shot dead during a shootout after rebels opened fire at a patrolling security forces unit in the Papuan highlands on Sunday.

The video, filmed a few weeks before the KRI Nanggala 402 went down with all hands lost, shows some of the 53-strong crew singing "Sampai Jumpa", an Indonesian hit whose title means "Goodbye".

The missing submarine was found north of Bali at 838 meters below sea level.

Rescuers found new objects, including a life vest, that they believe belong to those aboard the 44-year old KRI Nanggala-402, which lost contact on Wednesday as it prepared to conduct a torpedo drill.

The search for missing submarine KRI Nanggala-402 continues on Sunday despite hopes for the survival of its 53 sailors fading after debris believed to be from the vessel suggested it had sunk to deep waters and cracked under pressure.

"The army and navy have changed the status of the KRI Nanggala 402 submarine from having lost contact to being 'sub-sunk' or drowned," he told reporters.

Warships, planes and hundreds of military personnel had led a frantic search for the submarine since it disappeared this week during training exercises, hoping for a miracle rescue before its known oxygen reserves ran out.

Several unidentified people damaged journalist Victor Mambor's car in Jayapura on Wednesday. The attack may have been in response to work he had published in local newspaper Jubi.

"Over the past few days we've recovered debris and items from the last location that the submarine was diving," Indonesian Navy chief Adm. Yudo Margono told reporters.

The Indonesian Navy said it was sending search helicopters and ships to the area where contact was lost with the 44-year-old KRI Nanggala-402 submarine on Wednesday as it prepared to conduct a torpedo drill.

As hundreds of military personnel took part in a frantic hunt for the KRI Nanggala, authorities said the German-built craft was equipped with enough oxygen for only three days after losing power.

The group’s chairman said in his message that Muslim organizations could find support from like-minded organizations. 

The Indonesian Navy has deployed 21 vessels to locate the missing KRI Nanggala-402 and rescue 53 sailors on board.

A bus crash that killed 30 people in Sumedang, West Java, last month once again highlights violations of transportation safety rules and their lack of enforcement.

More navy ships left a base in Banyuwangi early on Friday to head to the Bali Sea where contact was lost with the KRI Nanggala on Wednesday during a torpedo drill.

Kirby said the US Defense Department was "deeply saddened" by the news of the lost submarine KRI Nanggala 402 that disappeared Wednesday during exercises off the coast of Bali.

The Indonesian Military sent a helicopter and five ships to search waters north of the holiday island of Bali but found no signs of the KRI Nanggala-402, which went missing early on Wednesday during a torpedo drill.

The search and rescue operation has a 72-hour window to save the sailors on board the missing submarine.

He said the crew were the "main priority" of the search and expressed his sympathy to the their family members over their ongoing ordeal.

In the latest version of the travel restrictions, all travelers must present the result of a negative COVID-19 test taken no later than 24 hours before departure.

The defence officials were speaking at a news conference a day after the 44-year-old submarine went missing while conducting a torpedo drill north of the island of Bali. The chief of staff said weather conditions for the search and rescue efforts were calm.

A woman has been struggling with mental health issues as she seeks justice for the alleged sexual abuse and deception that she experienced as a nun, when a priest in her diocese in Sumba got her pregnant and continues to find refuge in the Catholic Church. The Jakarta Post has been collaborating with other media outlets to shed light on alleged sexual abuse cases surrounding the Catholic Church over the past year. This time, the Post collaborated with Katolikana, an independent Catholic media outlet. This is the last part in a three-part story.

Indonesia recorded an increase in the number of death sentences last year, mostly for drug offenders.

On Wednesday, the court found the defendants, aged between 25 and 54, guilty of committing terrorism in the May 2018 incident at the Mobile Brigade headquarters, according to court officials.