The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named South Sulawesi governor Nurdin Abdullah – who has been celebrated for his antigraft stance – a suspect in a bribery case following his arrest on Saturday.

KPK investigators apprehended South Sulawesi Governor Nurdin Abdullah and five other individuals for alleged corruption on early Saturday.

Twenty-four teams from six universities across the country participated in this year’s competition.

The government has issued 45 government regulations and four presidential regulations for the implementation of the Job Creation Law.

In Indonesia, corruption detainees and lawmakers' families are among people on the recipient list during the second phase of the national COVID-19 vaccination drive. 

The process to vaccinate elderly people has been marred by long queues due to confusion and technical limitations of the online registration system.

A landslide Wednesday evening buried the remote site on Central Sulawesi' Parigi Moutong district, where at least three female workers died while some 15 survivors were pulled from the debris.

The government and business players have been promoting a planned private vaccination scheme as a form of gotong royong (mutual cooperation) to help the country achieve herd immunity faster.

Andrey Kovalenko fled the office on Indonesia's resort island of Bali to avoid deportation, with the surveillance footage showing him keeping pace on foot with a motorcycle as he escaped.

The animals were flown by helicopter across the island's dense jungle earlier this month to keep them away from days-long land and sea routes that could expose them to the virus.

Investigators with the Environment and Forestry Ministry’s law enforcement division named a commissioner of logging firm CV Sumber Berkat Makmur (SBM), identified as IQ, a suspect in an illegal logging case in March 2020.

The National Police have named Comr. Gen. Agus Andrianto the new head of the Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim), a strategic position that puts Agus in charge of leading probes into cases from corruption to cybercrime and online defamation that fall under the notorious cyberlaw.

The move is being called one of the largest non-war operations in the country’s history.

Surveys have found that vaccine distrust and objection remain high in Indonesia, even as the government rolled out the second stage of its COVID-19 inoculation program on Feb. 17.

After more than two decades connecting Surakarta and Yogyakarta, the Prambanan Ekspres is replaced by an electric commuter line.

Since the beginning of the outbreak, the Indonesian government has made headlines for rejecting scientific studies aimed at forecasting COVID-19 situations in the country.

A rescue effort was launched on Thursday after dozens of pilot whales beached. Volunteers pushed some back out to sea.

The volcano, close to Yogyakarta, had already spewed lava almost two dozen times over the two last days and caused hundreds of minor volcanic quakes, according to a report by Indonesia's geological agency.

Legal experts urge the court and other relevant stakeholders to address major glitches that might impact the judges’ rulings and harm defendants’ rights.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo recently signed a regulation allowing civilians to enlist as military reservists in a bid to strengthen the country’s defense system and deal with emerging national threats.

Medical experts have approved of the targeted groups for inoculation in the nationwide vaccination drive, but inclusion of some professions among priority recipients has raised a few eyebrows.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has instructed the National Police to devise a guideline for the law enforcement body in handling online defamation cases amid rising concerns that the nation’s cyberlaw has been repeatedly abused to silence government critics.

As religious intolerance in Indonesia keeps growing, activists pin their hopes on a joint initiative between the Religious Affairs Ministry and the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to reduce the number of cases of religious intolerance in the country.

At a time when millions have fallen into unemployment and vaccine misinformation is rampant, the government has authorized the use of sanctions against those rejecting COVID-19 vaccination.

Twenty-one people were initially reported missing, but three individuals were rescued after the disaster that struck Sunday evening in the rural part of East Java.

More than 200 individuals and institutions have voiced their concern regarding the environmental protections in the Job Creation Law derivative regulations.

The electronic land certificate would help authorities to simplify the land registry process and curb land cartels, the ministry claimed.

While private inoculation might reduce the burden on the government, experts have cautioned about its possible disruption to the government's free inoculation program and the risk to equal access.

Many Chinese-Indonesians opted to miss this year's Chinese New Year as family gatherings would increase the risk of being infected by the coronavirus.

David Taylor is expected to be deported back to the United Kingdom after leaving Kerobokan prison on the Indonesian holiday island, an official told AFP Wednesday.