Police have named a suspect for allegedly causing the fire that burned the savanna at Mount Bromo in East Java on Thursday.

A Javan hawk-eagle has hatched in the Mount Gede Pangrango National Park in Bogor, West Java, according to a report by park officials on Monday.

A South Korean national has died after a paragliding accident at Nunggalan Beach in South Kuta, Bali, on Friday afternoon.

Researchers at IPB University in Bogor, West Java, are looking into turning empty palm fruit bunch waste into threads to be used in the fashion and creative industries.

Indonesia has experienced nearly 500 wildfires this year, more than three times the 160 fires recorded in 2022.

The Medan District Court on Thursday sentenced Aditya Hasibuan, the son of a recently dishonorably discharged police officer, to 18 months in prison on charges of assaulting a university student.

The agency said the epicentre of the quake was on land at a depth of 75 kilometres (46.6 miles), and it was felt in Kupang, in East Nusa Tenggara.

A teacher in East Java has caught the attention of human rights activists following reports that they forcefully shaved the heads of more than a dozen students as punishment for the students' failure to wear an internal component of the hijab.

Acting on a tip-off from their Chinese counterparts, police arrested 83 men and five women at an industrial park in Batam city in Riau Islands province on Tuesday.

A strong, deep 7.1-magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks rattled Bali and several other islands on Tuesday, sending panicked tourists into the streets but causing no major damage.

Resistance has been growing against a plan to erect a 100-meter-tall statue of Indonesia’s founding father Sukarno in a new economic hub in West Java, as some observers have questioned the urgency and purpose of the costly project.

The International Panji Festival is set to return this year in October with preparations currently ongoing by the Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry and the East Java administration.

The quake's epicentre was 203 km (126 miles) north of Mataram and very deep at 516 km below the Earth's surface, EMSC said.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has launched a helicopter to assist with a waterbombing operation to put out the fire that has burned 15 hectares of the Sarimukti landfill in West Bandung regency, West Java.

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has said the fire was ignited by a cigarette that was thrown on the ground, though he didn't provide details.

Indonesia, home to a third of the world's rainforest after Brazil and Congo, expects the dry season could run until October as El Nino increases the risk of forest fires and threatens supplies of clean water. 

The search was launched last week Sunday after authorities received a report that one of two boats headed for Pinang island from Nias island had failed to reach its destination. 

North Sumatra, Maluku, Bengkulu and West Nusa Tenggara follow seven other provinces that have previously signed similar agreements on working together with Bappenas in designing low-carbon development policies for their regions.

The police's counterterrorism squad has arrested a national railway employee over suspicions of his ties to Islamic State and seized a cache of weapons and ammunition at his rented home, just three days before the country's Independence Day celebrations.

Residents in drought-hit districts have received food supplies from Timika, the largest city from the affected Puncak regency in Central Papua. 

A search operation is ongoing for seven people, including four Australian tourists, who have been missing since contact was lost with a speed boat in the waters off Banyak Islands in Aceh Singkil, Aceh, on Sunday afternoon.

Two boats carrying a total of 17 people left Nias island, Aceh, headed for the private island of Pinang on Sunday

Some 40 soldiers from the Bukit Barisan regional military command surrounded the office of Medan Police’s criminal investigation department for two hours on Aug. 4 over the bail of a suspect in an alleged document forgery case.

Aceh, located on the northern tip of Sumatra island, is the only province in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country that imposes Islamic law. 

The Bali Police arrested an app-based motorcycle taxi driver in Pasuruan, East Java on Tuesday for the alleged rape of a Brazilian national on the resort island.

Scientists say El Niño has caused record heatwaves in cities from Beijing to Rome, increasing the risk of forest fires and affecting crops such as wheat, palm oil and rice.

After days of bad weather last week initially impeded relief efforts, authorities said they have managed to deliver some 5.2 tonnes of food aid and emergency kit to drought-stricken Agandugume district in Central Papua.

Activists have accused the West Sumatra provincial administration and the police of being heavy-handed after a series of daily protests against a plan to build an oil refinery in the province ended last week with the arrest of more than a dozen protesters.

Aid has been arriving in Central Papua’s mountainous Puncak regency to help residents endure the effects of months of drought, but bad weather and limited infrastructure have held back distribution efforts.

The Vice President has held an emergency meeting to generate recommendations to tackle the dual crisis of drought and famine unfolding in Papua, as per the President's instructions.