Indonesias new police chief faces a difficult task to balance growing public demands for accountability and independence as the force seeks to repair its image following a series of scandals in recent years

Two new islands have appeared off Anak Krakatoa, potentially the first in nearly a century to emerge within the caldera left by Krakatoas catastrophic 1883 eruption. The formations, discovered following a 25-hour eruption in early September, sit hundreds of metres off opposite sides of Anak Krakatoa one to the northwest and the other to the southeast almost on a straight line through the volcanos crater, according to Indonesias Geological Agency

Indonesias President Prabowo Subianto replaced his foreign minister with a career diplomat on Thursday, in his second change to a top post in his cabinet in less than three weeks

Indonesias President Prabowo Subianto is replacing Listyo Sigit Prabowo as the countrys police chief with the head of the National Narcotics Agency, Suyudi Ario Seto, amid reports of police transgressions under Listyos watch in recent years

A major coal deal in Indonesia is set to secure a powerful new partner for one of the countrys biggest miners, even as the industry worries a delay in the governments approval of production quotas could have a severe impact on the business outlook. Low Tuck Kwong and his daughter Elaine Low, the biggest shareholders of Bayan Resources, agreed on September 16 to sell a 30 per cent stake in Indonesias third-largest coal producer to fellow tycoon Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad, better known as Haji...

Indonesias navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier on Thursday after acquiring the former Italian vessel to strengthen its maritime defences and disaster response

Indonesias bid for another term on the United Nations premier security body stands a good chance of success given Jakartas growing global engagement, analysts say, but its balancing act between competing powers could complicate efforts to speak for the Global South

Indonesias latest ferry disaster has exposed persistent weaknesses in maritime safety oversight, experts have said, with poor enforcement and inadequate supervision continuing to leave passengers vulnerable across the sprawling archipelago

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has called for stricter regulations and sanctions against those who use slash and burn methods to clear land, as the country struggles to contain wildfires that have been raging for weeks

Struggling to breathe through the acrid haze emanating from wildfires on Indonesias Borneo Island, residents said on Wednesday they feared for their health but had little to do but wait out the foul-smelling hazard

Forest and peatland fires raging across Indonesia are threatening to become more than an environmental emergency, with analysts warning that the thickening haze could weigh on economic activity, strain public health and test confidence in the nations fledgling carbon market

Indonesias finance ministry is preparing to absorb debt payments for Whoosh, the China-funded high-speed railway connecting Jakarta and Bandung, in a move officials say will ease financial pressure on the state-owned enterprises that built and operate the line

Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, who was sacked as Indonesias finance minister this week, said on Tuesday he was upset to be removed from his job, but was half expecting the decision

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto abruptly removed Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa on Monday after just over a year in the job, turning to veteran ministry technocrat Suahasil Nazara as his government grapples with mounting fiscal pressure and questions over economic policy coordination

Southeast Asias transboundary haze crisis was meant to have been brought under control six years ago. But Borneo is once again belching out dangerous emissions, as fires in the peatlands and forests of Kalimantan Indonesias section of...

Indonesias wildfires are creeping towards Nusantara, the countrys new capital under construction on Borneo island, challenging its promise of becoming an eco-friendly smart forest city

Indonesia is facing a surge in emissions from wildfires burning through parched stretches of forest and peatland on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, with carbon dioxide readings currently the highest in the world, data has shown

Schools in the capital of Indonesias South Sumatra province switched to remote learning on Wednesday as worsening haze from forest and peatland fires pushed air pollution to unhealthy levels, adding to disruptions that had already affected more than 1.4 million students across the country, officials said

According to scientists, the events exceptional scale makes its impact hard to anticipate. The eruption has renewed debate on whether Indonesias monitoring and disaster planning can...

Indonesias main airport and several other air travel hubs reopened early on Tuesday after days of closure due to ash from a volcanic eruption, the Transport Ministry said

Malaysia called off a haze emergency in Sarawak state on Borneo island on Monday but said very unhealthy levels of air pollution remained as a result of forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia. Sarawak has been heavily affected by fires in Indonesias Kalimantan, with the haze forcing school closures in some parts of the state

Indonesia halted operations at its main international airport outside Jakarta on Sunday after ash spewed from the Anak Krakatoa volcano more than 150km (93 miles) away, impacting thousands of passengers

Malaysia declared an emergency on Friday in a town in Sarawak state on Borneo Island after air pollution breached the countrys emergency-level threshold linked to fires in neighbouring Indonesia. The Air Pollutant Index in Serian, a small agricultural town of just under 90,000 near the border of Indonesias Kalimantan province, surged to 521 on Friday, according to Malaysias environment department