Scores of bags filled with human remains are arriving by the day in the aftermath of Saturday's crash. 

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has made what analysts have described as a bold move in nominating a Christian police chief amid a recent surge of sectarianism in the country.

Bekasi Police are investigating a crowd-drawing event this past weekend at WaterBoom Lippo Cikarang for alleged health protocol violations, while the local police chief has been dismissed over the incident.

The two "black boxes" could supply key clues as to why the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) in less than a minute before slamming into the Java Sea soon after take-off on Saturday, taking with it 62 people.

Rizieq's lawyer says he will consider filing a judicial review petition.

Divers just off the coast of the capital Jakarta hauled the jet's flight data recorder to the surface Tuesday, with the hunt now focused on finding its cockpit voice recorder on the wreckage-littered seabed.

One of two black boxed belonging to ill-fated Sriwijaya Air fligh SJ182 was found on Tuesday as a massive search-and-rescue operation and the airplane crash probe continued.

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is scheduled to become the first Indonesian to be inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.

Divers just off the coast of the capital Jakarta hauled the jet's flight data recorder to the surface, as the hunt continues for its cockpit voice recorder.

Data of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 that had been recorded until the plane descended to 250 feet (76.3 meters) above the water's surface before the crash on Saturday have "indicated that the flight system was functioning and able to send data," according to Soerjanto Tjahjono, chief of the National Transportation Safety Commission.

Amid insufficient safe reporting and legal mechanisms, Indonesia has seen an increasing number of reported cases of violence against women and children during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Pinangki, a suspended AGO prosecutor, has been accused of accepting US$500,000 in bribes from the graft convict.

Ferdy Yuman is suspected of hiding former Supreme Court secretary Nurhadi during his run from KPK investigators.

Southeast Asia's largest economy becomes the first country outside China to issue the emergency approval for Sinovac vaccine, with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo scheduled to receive the first shot on Wednesday.

Commander of the Navy’s First Fleet Command (Koarmada 1) Rear Adm. Abdul Rasyid said the search for the so-called black boxes was suspended as of 5 p.m. on Monday and was set to resume at 7 a.m. on Tuesday.

With the next National Police chief soon to be appointed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, experts expect that clearing up unsolved cases of alleged excess violence by police personnel in the past year will be a critical test for the new leadership.

A second landslide buried search and rescue personnel who are working to evacuate landslide victims in Sumedang regency, West Java on Jan. 9.

The House of Representatives will soon set the list of priority bills to be deliberated in the current sitting, Speaker Puan Maharani said on Monday.

Navy chief of staff Adm. Yudo Margono has canceled the ceremony for Dharma Samudera (Oceanic Service) Day and instead deployed naval vessels to assist the search and rescue (SAR) efforts to find the wreckage of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, which crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday afternoon

Searching around the clock, about 2,600 rescuers with 13 planes and 53 ships have been deployed, recovering human remains believed to be those of some of the 62 people who were on board Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182 as well as suspected debris from the aircraft.

Retrieving the boxes -- cockpit voice and flight data recorders -- will likely help explain why the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) in less than a minute before slamming into the Java Sea. 

Authorities said they have picked up signals believed to be from the black boxes belonging to the Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 passenger jet that crashed off the coast of Jakarta.

The announcement came as divers pulled body parts, wreckage and clothing from waters off Indonesia's capital Jakarta.

The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 went into a steep dive about four minutes after it left Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Jakarta on Saturday afternoon.

State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir will cooperate with the Interfaith Communication Forum (FKUB) to increase the public’s awareness regarding the importance of the highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine.

This Southeast Asian archipelago relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands but has suffered a string of deadly plane crashes in recent years. 

Muhammadiyah, the country's second-largest Muslim organization and which pursues educational and social missions, has asked the government to ease permit application procedures and provide tax exemptions for social enterprises in the forthcoming implementing regulations for the Job Creation Law.

A military vessel "has found the signal from (Sriwijaya Air) SJ182" and divers had recovered parts of the plane from around 23 metres (75 feet) below the water's surface, the transport ministry said in a statement, citing Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Hadi Tjahjanto.

The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged into a steep dive about four minutes after it left Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Jakarta on Saturday afternoon.

Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182 is thought to have crashed near Laki Island, a part of the Thousand Islands chain, just north of the capital, officials said.