Swarming the thin rim around the basin of Mount Bromo, devotees heaved goats, chickens and vegetables slung across their backs up to the dusty peak as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival.

They have restored to health 11.5 hectares (roughly 30 acres) of corals around a group of 120 islands known as the Spermonde archipelago in the Makassar Strait off Sulawesi. 

A police officer has been named a suspect in the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Parigi Moutong regency in Central Sulawesi, following the arrest of two other suspects, who fled to Kalimantan, over the weekend.

Environmentalists question the government's justification in allowing sea sand export after a 20-year ban.

Thirty-two Buddhist monks have arrived in Magelang, Central Java, home of the famous Borobudur temple, where they plan to join ceremonies to celebrate Waisak that marks the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha, on Sunday.

Bali Governor I Wayan Koster announced on Wednesday a set of obligations and prohibitions for tourists in response to increasing cases of delinquent behaviors exhibited by tourists on the resort island.

The Bogor Mayor is pushing for the Bogor Botanical Gardens, which was founded in 1817, to be designated as a World Heritage Site.

The Bali Police arrested Monday an owner of car rental business for accepting cryptocurrency payment for. Police said he was the first business owner in Indonesia arrested for accepting cryptocurrency.

Pilot Phillip Mehrtens, who works for frontier airline Susi Air, was abducted by the TPNPB-OPM on Feb. 7 after landing at an airstrip in Nduga regency, Papua.

The Medan Military Court in North Sumatra sentenced on Monday two Army soldiers to life imprisonment for trafficking 40,000 ecstasy pills and 75 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in December.

A woman from Denmark has become the latest to be arrested in Bali's crackdown on foreign nationals exhibiting disruptive behavior.

An Army helicopter carrying five personnel on a training mission crashed on Sunday in a tea plantation in Ciwidey, on the outskirts of Bandung.

The Bali administration has warned foreign tourists visiting the popular resort island against making cryptocurrency payments, with the governor, I Wayan Koster, saying the practice is illegal in Indonesia and violators can face one year in prison or fines.

Semarang Police have named a 22-year-old college student a murder suspect in relation to the death of a 16-year-old girl, the daughter of Papua Highlands acting governor Nikolaus Kondomo, on Thursday.

Truck overloading and rampant corruption at the regional level are among the main contributing factors for Indonesia's persistent poor road infrastructure especially in remote areas, transportation expert Djoko Setijowarno says.

Stephane Gagnon was arrested in his villa in Canggu, a popular tourist hotspot, on Saturday after Interpol sent a letter to the Bali Police informing them that the 50-year-old was wanted on forgery and fraud charges. 

The Agricultural Quarantine Agency has limited the local supply of pigs following a finding of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in Batam. Pig exports to Singapore from Batam are temporarily suspended.

The Denpasar Police have arrested two Indian nationals on charges of murdering an Indonesian man and assaulting another Indian national on Saturday. The suspects were apprehended at Ngurah Rai International Airport as they were apparently trying to flee the country.

The Bali Police have arrested a man on suspicion of running an illegal abortion clinic in Badung, Bali, following a raid on May 8. The suspect was previously convicted twice of similar crimes.

A resident of Anambas regency in Riau Islands found 1.5 kilograms of cocaine on a beach in Kuala Maras village late last month. Local police suspect the contraband was part of a consignment smuggled from abroad.

The two sides agreed to resolve "all matters," said a joint filing from the opposing counsel that did not disclose terms of the agreement.

A group of telecommunications workers taken hostage by an armed rebel group in the Papuan Highlands has been released, the local police have said, in the latest kidnapping crisis in the restive region.

A man arrested for the premeditated murder of his employer told a press conference how and why he committed the crime.

Rika Azmi, head of the provincial Food Security, Agriculture and Animal Health Agency, claimed the WOAH did not have the means to determine outbreaks of animal diseases in Indonesia.

Indonesia and other members of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) convened in Bali on Monday in hopes of strengthening the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), a binding international treaty designed to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing practices globally.

Indonesia has reported an outbreak of African swine fever on a farm on the Riau Islands near Singapore, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday.

President Jokowi said that he could immediately order Public Works and Public Housing Basuki Hadimulyono to start working on repairing roads in Lampung if the provincial government did not move fast enough.

The poor roads in the province became a nationwide topic following a viral TikTok video created by Sydney-based Lampung student Bima Yudho Saputro.

The Bogor administration in West Java reported a total of 2,001 children are at risk of stunted growth in the municipality, which shares borders with Jakarta.

The President, along with several Cabinet ministers, traveled to the province in response to a local creator's viral TikTok video on the poor condition of Lampung's roads.