An oil spill where the vessel was thought to have submerged early Wednesday during regular exercises could point to damage, the navy has said, fanning fears that Indonesia may be the latest country to suffer a fatal submarine disaster. 

Prosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) accused former social affairs minister Juliari Batubara of accepting bribes up to Rp 32.48 billion (US$2.23 million) from contractors supplying COVID-19 food aid packages to people in need, in the first hearing of his trial on Wednesday.

Power plant companies are knee-deep in political influencing and lobbying with little to no transparency, resulting in entrenched coal interests in Indonesia’s energy agenda amid a push for renewables, a recent report by Transparency International Indonesia (TII) has suggested.

The 1,300-tonne KRI Nanggala 402 is a Type 209 diesel-electric attack submarine. Its construction began in 1978 and Indonesia took delivery in October 1981.

Despite a second ban on mudik during the pandemic in as many years, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin conceded that people are bound to find ways to return to their hometowns for the Muslim holiday.

Coal made up 37 percent of the country’s energy consumption in 2019 while renewables only contributed around 9 percent to the country’s energy mix that year.

The Indonesia Navy is searching for a submarine that went missing on Wednesday morning, and has asked Singapore and Australia for help finding it.

The involvement of women in two recent terrorism-linked attacks has sparked a fresh debate on the role of gender in Indonesia's counterradicalism policies, as experts pointed out the lack of women’s perspectives and experiences in these measures.

A woman has been struggling with mental health issues as she seeks justice for alleged sexual violence with attempt to deceive 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 second part of a three-part story.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) and the Environment and Forestry Ministry are coordinating to include climate crisis adaptation in the country's disaster mitigation system, following a recent surge in deadly hydrometeorological disasters.

A woman has been struggling with mental health issues as she seeks justice for the alleged sexual violence with attempt to deceive 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 first in a three-part story.

The government has taken over the management of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) from former president Soeharto family's Harapan Kita Foundation because the park has been operating at a loss.

EMSC said the quake was at a depth of 10 km, after reporting a depth of 2 km earlier with 5.9 magnitude.

Indonesian scientists developing vaccines are hoping to defend the country against the onslaught of COVID-19 but they still must deal with the same old issues that have long hampered research in the country, from overreliance on imported materials to lack of experience in downstreaming research products.

With stricter policies and better data, Indonesia is set to achieve targets in reducing deforestation and carbon emissions, experts say. 

Also known as Alumni Menteng (AM64), the group expects to start the program in May or June after getting approval from the government.

Text messages were sent to 20 million Americans directing them to more than a dozen fake US government websites, police in the East Java said late Thursday.

Lingering questions remain on the future involvement of Indonesia in the Korea Fighter Xperiment/Indonesia Fighter Xperiment (KFX/IFX) jet, despite a seemingly successful public rollout of the first prototype.

Researchers say the Indonesian government has been prioritizing investment over science and research by merging the Research and Technology Ministry with the Education and Culture Ministry. 

The government has formed a new task force to recover state assets lost during the alleged corruption of the BLBI funds in 1997-1998, now that the KPK can no longer pursue criminal charges against its suspects. But one critic says the move comes too late.

Attacks against government critics and the criminalization of free expression reached new highs last year, two recent reports suggest.

GeNose, a coronavirus breathalyzer invented by Gadjah Mada University (UGM), is more widely used for traveling, tourism and other public activities because it is cheaper and offers faster results.

As the largest economy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is a priority in South Korea's New Southern Policy, an initiative to increase engagement with countries in the region and India.

The province is poised to seize on opportunities at a time when anchorage space in Singapore and Johor Bahru in Malaysia is shrinking.

Although the government has imposed a moratorium on concession permits for forest and peatland areas, Greenpeace Indonesia has found companies can still request to exclude their concessions from the moratorium map.

For the second year in a row, Indonesian Muslims are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan with limited social gatherings and mass prayers.

At least one community organization has joined the government's efforts to stop COVID-19 transmission, lending its hand to the vaccination as well as the convalescent plasma drive.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which funds the development of the Sputnik V vaccine, said it would be able to supply shots for up to 30 percent of Indonesia’s population this year.

Three bodies have been recovered in Lumajang Regency, while another was found in Malang Regency and two others in between those regencies, all in East Java Province, according to National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Raditya Jati.

Waste from the iron, steel and palm oil industries mostly contain dioxins that are deemed highly toxic and can cause health problems, including cancer.