President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo asked Group of 20 leaders to show wisdom and not allow the world to “fall into another cold war” as he opened the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Tuesday morning.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday urged G20 leaders to "end the war" as he opened a summit dominated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with Washington and allies heaping pressure on Moscow.

Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders of G20 countries are gathering on the resort island of Bali with strict testing and masking requirements, even though such measures have been largely dropped in some member countries.

US president’s trip was perfectly timed, but not enough to fully win the Indo-Pacific over, observers say.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has asked the European Commission and the Group of Seven bloc to lend "support and flexibility" so that this week's Group of 20 Summit can produce a declaration, he said in a statement on Monday.

The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) has lambasted recent intimidation allegedly carried out by a group of people including a team of pecalang (traditional Balinese security officers) during one of its meetings in Sanur, Bali, on Saturday and demanded the Bali Police apologize and investigate the incident.

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday he would hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, in what would be the first meeting between leaders of the two nations after years of strained ties.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will call on the Group of 20 (G20) for coordinated action to address international economic instability and the rising cost of living in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, his government said on Monday.

The immigration office has said that a number of individuals and groups are suspected to have planned a disruption to the Group of 20 Summit and its series of meetings in Bali.

Sitting in the dark, wearing a batik shirt and surrounded by candles, Elon Musk offered a vision for the future that includes aliens, deep tunnels and rocket tourism.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan touched down in Bali on Monday to attend the G20 summit, hours after his home city of Istanbul was rocked by an explosion that authorities blamed on Kurdish separatists.

World leaders have begun to arrive in Bali ahead of what are expected to be tense talks on a range of geopolitical issues at the Group of 20 Summit this week.

The Indonesian Olympic Committee (KOI) will promote the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) World Beach Games (AWBG) 2023 at the Group of 20 summits and meetings in Bali.

The Immigration office in Bali has increased its supervision of visiting foreigners in Bali, in an effort to ensure that none of them would hold or participate in any protest during the G20 Summit and meetings in Nusa Dua.

The authorities arrested two Chinese citizens in Jakarta on Friday night for allegedly attempting to stage a protest during the series of G20 summits and meetings in Bali.

The Group of 20 (G20) sherpas gather for the fourth meeting on Nov. 11-14 in Jimbaran, Bali with an aim of endorsing concrete deliverables for addressing global food insecurity and the energy crisis.

The government state ministries will consider implementing a more integrated and community-minded approach in reorganizing slums across the country, using the several successful community-run projects as a model.

ASEAN agreed in principle on Friday to admit Timor Leste as the group’s 11th member, as junta-led Myanmar continues to present stark challenges that have called the bloc’s relevance into question.

The crash into the Java Sea after take-off from Jakarta, which killed all 62 people on board, was Indonesia's third major commercial plane crash in just over six years and shone a spotlight on its poor air safety record.

As COVID-19 cases increase in the past few weeks, the Health Ministry has recorded that 48 percent of the deaths from Oct. 4 to Nov. 8 are people who have received no vaccine.

The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) revoked two more pharmaceutical companies’ licenses to produce medicinal syrups on Wednesday, bringing to five the total number of firms sanctioned for the manufacture of toxic medicines linked to deadly cases of acute kidney injury (AKI).

Indonesia temporarily banned sales of some syrup-based medications in October after it identified the presence in some products of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol as possible factors for causing the illness.

The Sriwijaya Air incident was Indonesia's third major commercial plane crash in just over six years and shone a spotlight on the country's poor air safety record.

The National Police Commission (Kompolnas) has vowed to investigate allegations of police links to illegal mining, after a former officer claimed to have been forced to implicate a high-ranking cop, part of what the commission chair has dubbed "star wars."

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri got himself embroiled in yet another controversy last week after he flew to Papua to meet a high-profile governor under bribery investigation.

Indonesia has seen a spike in cases of acute kidney injury (AKI) since August, prompting a probe and subsequent ban on all liquid medicine sales.

The government will maintain the four-tiered public activity restrictions (PPKM) level amid a new rise of COVID-19 cases and local transmissions of the new XBB strain of the Omicron variant.

More than a year after the Sriwijaya Air crash tragedy, some families of victims are still waiting for the compensation fund from the airline company. Lawmakers have highlighted that the compensation agreement that comes with a stipulation that prevents families from filing a lawsuit might be the culprit.

As the Group of 20’s first Religion of 20 (R20) summit drew to a close on Thursday, religious leaders concluded that modern problems called for modern solutions, as pressure grows for a recontextualization of religious values.

Health authorities reported 4,951 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, the highest daily rise since August, following the detection of the country’s first local transmissions of the new XBB strain of the Omicron variant.