Pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who works for the small, domestic Susi Air service, was abducted by the armed wing of Free Papua Movement (OPM) on Feb. 7 after landing at an airstrip in the Nduga district.

An Indian national died after slipping into the sea while posing for a photo at a popular beach-view cliff in Nusa Penida, a small island east of Bali, on Saturday.

Yudo suggested he was concerned that civilians could be hurt if a military operation to rescue Mehrtens was carried out.

Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Adm. Yudo Margono has turned down New Zealand's offer of assistance in an operation to release the New Zealander pilot who has been held hostage by an armed Papuan rebel group in Nduga regency, Papua Highlands, for about a month.

The landslide struck Monday on Serasan Island, located in the Natuna region between Kalimantan and Peninsular Malaysia. 

The October 2022 derby match in Malang, East Java, between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended in chaos with 135 spectators killed, many crushed as they fled for exits after police fired tear gas into the crowd.

Indonesia welcomed on Monday the delivery of the first of five Super Hercules aircraft from the United States, which the Defense Ministry says is ready for immediate operational use by the Air Force as of Wednesday.

The landslide on Monday followed six days of torrential rain and buried houses on a village on the island of Searasan in the Natuna region, about 80 km (49.71 miles) off Kalimantan. 

Pictures provided by the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) showed mud and debris from the landslides had inundated houses near a cliff on the remote Serasan island.

Local media in the NTT provincial capital Kupang reported that government workers began streaming into their workplaces at 5 a.m. on Monday.

One member of crew died and nine others are still missing after a fishing boat sank south of Bali on Tuesday. Five people from the crew were rescued by another passing fishing boat.

North Sumatra Governor Edy Rahmayadi offered his apology to the province’s residents for including names of dead and retired civil servants during a mass officiating ceremony on Feb. 21.

The President has urged the country’s major tourist regions to build their own brands after seeing the poor infrastructure and tourist facilities during the weekend's F1 Powerboat race at North Sumatra's world-renowned lake.

Head of the city's agency for education and culture Dumuliahi Djami said in a circular that students were required to consume moringa on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Police have nabbed a French national who has apparently confessed to robbing an Alfamart in South Kuta in January because "he had run out of money".

Susi told a press conference that she knew Philip Mehrtens personally and that there was nothing to suggest he had ties to the organization.

Philip Mehrtens, a Susi Air pilot, was taken hostage by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TNPB) on Feb. 7 after landing in the remote region of Nduga. 

In a speech to a provincial education agency meeting, Viktor, a politician from the NasDem Party, said that the proposal, if implemented, could also improve discipline and the work ethic.

The quake was at a depth of 12 km (7.46 miles), EMSC said.

The workers at PT Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Central Sulawesi province said they "endured a lot of physical, psychological, financial damages to their reputation as human beings", according to a statement from the law firm.

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has urged law enforcement authorities to investigate last week's deadly riots in Wamena, Papua, triggered by rumors that a child had been abducted.

The Garut regency administration in West Java has declared an “extraordinary occurrence [KLB]” of diphtheria in its jurisdiction after seven residents are suspected to have died from the infectious disease.

The Medan District Court in North Sumatra sentenced a YouTuber to one year in prison on Thursday for blasphemy against Islam. State prosecutors had demanded a 1.5-year penalty.

Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Mathius Fakhiri said authorities had rebuffed the demand from the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB).

More than 200 security personnel, including police and the military, had been deployed to contain the situation after 14 people had also been hurt in Thursday's riot, police said. 

The quake was at a depth of 100 km, EMSC added.

An operation to separate a pair of twins, joined at the chest and abdomen and sharing a single heart, has been postponed after the boys developed stomach complications.

The Miss Universe Indonesia contest was launched in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Tuesday for the first time under its new license holder PT Capella Swastika Karya (CSK) for the 2023 event.

Race teams have begun to arrive at Lake Toba in North Sumatra for the upcoming F1 PowerBoat Championship slated to be held over the weekend. 

"What happens now is a law-enforcement operation and not a military operation. We carry out this law enforcement operation because there's a foreigner involved. We will continue trying persuasive ways," Yudo was quoted by Kompas daily as saying in Denpasar, Bali.