Rempang residents still disapprove of the island's Eco-City project despite claims of “normalcy” in the area.

After two failed attempts and a two-year ban, Surakarta has successfully become a member of UNESCO’s World Creative Cities Network on Tuesday.

Medan District Court has acquitted former North Sumatra Police officer Achiruddin Hasibuan, citing not enough evidence.

Both domestic and international flights have been diverted, including those operated by airlines Citilink, AirAsia and Super Air Jet.

About 70 to 80 percent of silk thread production in the country is centered in Wajo regency, South Sulawesi, well known for its remarkable Sengkang woven fabric.

The Banyumas Police have charged Edi Suseno, the owner and manager of the Geong glass bridge, with negligence over a recent fatal accident at the Central Java tourist site and have found that he owns two other similar attractions in the area.

Jokowi is this week expected to launch a total of 10 projects worth Rp 12.5 trillion ($783.85 million) in Nusantara, which Indonesia is building from scratch amid the jungles of Kalimantan.

Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno will tighten regulations for glass bridge construction at tourist attractions after one person died at The Geong in Banyumas, Central Java.

In the country, high taxes make it expensive and some people can turn to potentially dangerous home-made liquor.

Indonesia has some of the world's toughest anti-drug laws but has held off conducting executions for several years. 

The glass flooring on a bridge that shattered at a tourist destination in the Limpakuwus pine forest in Banyumas regency, Central Java, this week measured only 1.2 centimeters in thickness, investigators have found.

Jakarta has sent disaster aid of 20 tonnes of rice and thousands of packages of ready-to-eat meals, protein biscuits and basic food staples, along with other materials and operational funds.

Tragedy struck at a glass bridge located in The Geong, a tourist attraction in the Banyumas regency, Central Java, resulting in one fatality and leaving three injured.

Police say the TikToker insulted the religion by making jokes about the Christian cross in one of his videos.

Acting Bali governor SM Mahendra Jaya has declared a state of emergency on the resort island for the next two weeks following prolonged drought and an uptick in land and forest fires.

The Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Authority has signed a deal with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) to help build a research and development center in Indonesia’s future capital city in East Kalimantan.

The crash, which occurred in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, on Tuesday, caused extensive delays to rail schedules. The incident occurred when the Argo Wilis collided on a bend with a derailed Argo Semeru train. The Argo Semeru reportedly left the tracks as a result of subsidence on the track bed.

Authorities said assailants fired shots at mining workers on Monday afternoon in the remote, mountainous Yahukimo district. 

The two educators were found to have sexually abused their victims throughout 2022 and 2023.

Rights groups have long criticised police in the country for heavy-handed tactics against demonstrations opposed to government policy or economic projects accused of harming the environment and Indigenous rights.

Disputes between plantation companies and local communities over land rights were the most common cause of agrarian disputes in Indonesia, accounting for 37 percent of the 1,023 conflicts recorded last year.

The first phase of the new food estate in Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi, covers more than 1,000 hectares of land, with an option to be expanded to 15,000 ha in the future.

The government recently told Rempang island's 7,500 residents to pack their bags and leave by the end of September.

Police also found two orangutans, a male and a female, both approximately only five months old, allegedly linked to the trader.

Wildfires have burned in the protected forest on the slopes of Mount Agung for the past week, with at least 645 hectares of forest affected.

Officials in Bali have vowed a crackdown on misbehaving tourists after a spate of incidents including acts of disrespect to the predominantly Hindu island's culture.

An Indonesian woman who was kidnapped while on holiday in Malaysia and held for ransom over her husband's debt while her kidnappers moved her across at least three states, has finally returned home after Malaysian Police rescued her from her 10-day ordeal.

During a meeting on Tuesday, BP Batam chief Muhammad Rudi said residents of Rempang were given the choice of relocating to Tanjung Banon, still on the island, or to the neighboring Galang island.

With nearly half of the country’s territory at “high risk of wildfires”, the government on Tuesday said that 2,267 hectares of land was reportedly engulfed in fire, and that the rest of October will see the dry spell persist.

The legislature has passed a new IKN Law that grants greater powers to the Nusantara administration but more crucially, future-proofs the capital city relocation and development project beyond next year's election.