The National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) has the former local police chief in its custody.
21 hours agoMount Raung, located on the border of Banyuwangi, Bondowoso and Jember regencies, erupted around 7:00 a.m., sending an ash column 1,500 meters above the summit. The thick gray plume reached an altitude of 4,832 meters above sea level and drifted west and northwest. ...
22 hours agoThe Central Java governor has said the province is tackling the challenge of locating 5-10 hectares of land for each school, as stipulated in a Social Affairs Ministry regulation on the government's Sekolah Rakyat initiative. ...
23 hours agoLamongan Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Bobby A. Condroputra said the tanker suffered four separate explosions during the incident, with the fire quickly spreading to the tugboat.
1 day agoPolice report that the five-month-long conflict has claimed a total of nine lives and left around 420 people injured. Additionally, at least 179 buildings and 28 vehicles have been set on fire by both groups.
1 day agoAmnesty pointed out that the ongoing violence is fueled by a culture of impunity within the police force, and that without real accountability from police leadership, efforts to curb the violence will be futile.
1 day agoMashudi revealed that the conditions at the Kutacane correctional facility were dire, with overcrowding pushing the prison to operate at 300 percent capacity. Designed to hold just 85 inmates, the facility was home to nearly 370 before the jailbreak.
2 days agoThe Bali governor says TMD will resume its operation next month, after the provincial administration and three of its eight regencies struck an agreement to share the local bus service's operating costs.
2 days agoAccording to authorities, Fajar allegedly recorded the assault and uploaded the video to an Australian pornographic website, which ultimately caught the attention of local authorities.
2 days agoHe noted that some of the orangutans he encountered appeared skinny, with their fur thinning because of malnutrition. Other primates, he added, have adapted to the food scarcity by begging humans for food.
2 days agoThe burned train cars were reserve units awaiting deployment and had not yet been assigned to any train.
3 days agoAccording to Kutacane Penitentiary warden Andi Hasyim, the inmates escaped around 6:20 p.m. local time after breaking through two security doors at the facility.
3 days agoThe Minyakita scandal comes in the midst of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, during which household consumer spending traditionally rises ahead of the Idul Fitri celebration.
3 days agoDuring the livestream, she responded to a viewer who had asked her to cut her hair to be more like a man’s, by holding up a picture of Jesus Christ and saying, “You [Jesus] should not look like a woman. You should cut your hair so that you will look like his father,” referring to the viewer's father.
4 days agoRatu Thalisa was found guilty by the Medan District Court of spreading hatred under a widely-criticised online hate-speech law in a TikTok livestream, Dapot Dariarma of the local prosecutor's office told AFP.
4 days agoIn recent years, teenagers have started modifying their sarongs to make them more dangerous, such as by filling them with rocks and metal scraps to use during brawls, leading to injuries and fatalities.
5 days agoRiau's capital, Pekanbaru, has been battling flooding for over a week after heavy downpours caused the Siak River, one of the largest rivers in the province, to overflow on March 2.
5 days agoActivists and legal experts urge authorities to thoroughly investigate the installation of a 30-kilometer bamboo fence in the waters off Tangerang regency, Banten, to find the masterminds ordering its construction.
6 days agoRestricting schools from going on field trips may impact businesses in West Java and other regions often picked as destinations for such trips, according to a representative from the tour and travel agencies association.
6 days agoDrug dealers have immense financial power to buy off political leaders and law enforcement agencies to secure their illicit drug trafficking activities, warns BNN chief.
1 week agoWest Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi said that tea had been cultivated in the Puncak area since the Dutch colonial era, not only for economic purposes but also as part of broader environmental conservation efforts. He emphasized that environmental sustainability must take precedence over short-term economic interests.
1 week agoRecent large-scale flooding in Greater Jakarta, which has had a particularly dire effect in Bekasi, West Java, has drawn attention to the area’s poor urban planning and insufficient disaster mitigation.
1 week agoTri said he had decamped to the hotel in downtown Bekasi to make it easier for him to directly monitor the emergency situation, kompas.com reported.
1 week agoThe bodies of climbers Elsa Laksono and Lilie Wijayanti Poegiono have been flown back to Jakarta after the school friends perished on Saturday during their descent from Puncak Jaya, one of the fabled "Seven Summits" of Indonesia, after installing a memorial plaque for another friend who died during his attempt last year.
1 week agoHeavy rainfall caused the Ciliwung River to overflow, submerging homes and affecting 423 residents across 119 households in Kampung Pensiunan, Cisarua, Bogor. There were no fatalities in the incident.
1 week agoAuthorities claim to have identified 10,666 job vacancies in Surakarta and the surrounding areas in industries including apparel and food and beverage manufacturing, as well as services.
1 week agoThe Acehnese capital's "sharia police" is planning to ramp up patrols and public campaigns to ensure compliance with Islamic law during the holy fasting month, which is expected to begin on March 1 this year.
2 weeks agoOn Wednesday, 12 students from Takalar Regency, South Sulawesi, were hospitalized after experiencing symptoms of food poisoning from government-provided meals at their schools. This marks the fifth food poisoning case linked to the program since its launch last month.
2 weeks agoJust hours after being transported by police car to Yogyakarta, the victim was hospitalized and passed away three days later.
2 weeks agoThe flogging began before midday at a park in provincial capital Banda Aceh, with one man accused of instigating the relationship lashed 82 times and the second man 77 times.
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