The mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar and thousands risk their lives each year on long and dangerous sea journeys to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

A district court in South Konawe has released an elementary school teacher accused of hitting the child of a local police officer from a women's prison, where she had been detained for a week.

Tributes have been paid to an Italian surfer after she was fatally stabbed in the chest by a swordfish in waters off Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra.

Flooding due to heavy rains has affected vast areas of Central Kalimantan over the past two weeks, with at least five regencies inundated and more than 88,000 people affected as of Wednesday.

Two people on the boat had died and another 11, including a pregnant woman, had been evacuated to the local hospital, Muhammad Jabal, the head of fishing community at Labuhan Haji port in South Aceh, told Reuters on Wednesday.

Local authorities have transported six out of 151 Rohyingas stranded at sea for medical treatment at a South Aceh hospital, while the police have arrested three Labuhan Haji residents over suspicion of human trafficking.

Sandi Butar Butar, a firefighter from the same fire station as Martinnius, said on Monday that two SCBAs in the fire station were nonfunctional despite being crucial for firefighting.

The East Flores Police in East Nusa Tenggara have arrested 15 individuals following a deadly clash between residents of two villages in West Adonara district on Monday.

The Indonesian Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) drove off a Chinese coast guard vessel on Monday that entered Indonesia's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the North Natuna Sea without authorization.

The mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar, and thousands risk their lives each year on long and dangerous sea journeys to try to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

North Maluku Police investigators have questioned 24 witnesses in the investigation into the speedboat fire that killed North Maluku gubernatorial candidate Benny Laos, among others, on Oct. 12.

The onshore quake hit the island of Tapat in the Maluku sea at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) at 10:24 local time (0324 GMT), USGS said.

Military and police personnel have been deployed to secure the site of a plane crash on Sunday that killed all four people aboard, ahead of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) in Pohuwato regency, Gorontalo.

The Central Java General Elections Commission (KPU) has announced the schedule for three gubernatorial election debates ahead of the Nov. 27 voting day.

A DHC-6 twin turboprop aircraft operated by SAM Air crashed on Sunday morning outside Bumi Panua Airport in Gorontalo's Pohuwato regency, killing all four people aboard.

The Rohingya boat is anchored around three to four miles, or around five to six kilometers, off the coast of South Aceh regency with its engine turned off, according to local community leader.

At least 15,600 people have been hit by a water crisis in West Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara regency, amid a severe drought in the area, prompting local authorities to distribute clean water to affected communities.

The I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar has recorded a 14-percent surge in passengers to a total of 6.7 million during the third quarter (July to September) compared to the previous quarter.

A regional conservation agency has started removing 80 saltwater crocodiles from a breeding pond in Cianjur, West Java, where they have been kept since 2018 a local resident surrendered them to authorities.

Following the arrests of six suspected members of a drug ring distributing meth in Jambi, the police are moving to dismantle the group and shut down its distribution network in the province.

Experts have said that better food for school-age children comes too late to resolve stunting, which requires complex remedies from improved sanitation and hygiene to better nutrition for mothers.

On Oct. 9, the government found two foreign vessels dredging sea sand in Indonesian waters.

According to a survey, 75.7 percent of respondents support former Purwakarta regent and Gerindra Party politician Dedi and former Sumedang deputy regent Erwan in the Nov. 27 West Java gubernatorial election.

The dismissed detective, Second Insp. Rudy Soik, alleges that several police officers with the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Police felt uncomfortable with his investigation into an alleged fuel smuggling ring in Kupang, leading them to report him to the internal affairs division.

Nine regencies and one city in Aceh have been hit by floods following heavy rainfall in the past few days, affecting close to 30,000 people in the province, the Aceh Disaster Management Agency (BPBA) reported on Monday.

The alliance of political parties that supported North Maluku gubernatorial candidate Benny Laos is considering nominating his wife Sherly Tjoanda for the November election after the businessman-turned-politician died in a boat explosion over the weekend.

North Maluku Police have pledged a thorough investigation to find out the cause of boat fire that killed gubernatorial candidate Benny Laos. 

Benny Laos, a local businessmen who was making his second bid for the North Maluku governorship, was killed along with five other people while traveling to a campaign event in Taliabu Island regency on Saturday, when the boat carrying him and at least 31 other passengers and crew exploded during a refueling stop.

The remains of United States citizen Carol Colleen Monfore were found in a shark’s stomach in Timor-Leste, 10 days after she had gone missing while diving in Southwest Maluku.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo plans to inaugurate the State Palace at Indonesia's planned future capital of Nusantara in East Kalimantan on Friday, less than two weeks before he leaves office, an aide has said.