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Indonesian police announce the arrest of six suspects for trafficking endangered Komodo dragons sourced from East Nusa Tenggara and intended for export to Thailand, and detain two additional individuals for smuggling pangolin scales.
2026-04-15

Three people are killed in a stampede during a public celebration in Garut, West Java, Indonesia.
2025-07-18

Hundreds of people are evacuated after the Ruang volcano erupts in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
2024-04-17

Supporters of the controversial Indonesian Islamic cleric Muhammad Rizieq Shihab clash with police during a demonstration in Jakarta, demanding immediate release of Shihab from police detention. Shihab was arrested last weekend for violations of health protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic after large gatherings occurred to celebrate his return to the country from self-exile in Saudi Arabia.
2020-12-18

Indonesia reports a record jump of 4,850 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide total to 320,564.
2020-10-8

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah announces, via a television broadcast, that he has extended the moratorium on capital punishment for gay sex convictions. No executions have been carried out in Brunei since 1957. There has been overwhelming international backlash against a number of the changes affected by the stricter interpretation of Islamic law published on 3 April 2019. The Sultan also said Brunei will ratify the United Nations Convention against Torture.
2019-05-5

Indonesia arrests hundreds of protesters in Indonesian Papua.
2016-12-20

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Israel prevented Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi from entering the West Bank to meet with Palestinian officials. The Israeli spokesman would not comment. Israel and Indonesia do not have formal diplomatic relations.
2016-03-13

Six people were killed and nine injured after a collision between car and minibus in Jakarta, Indonesia.
2013-09-8

A boat containing 129 Rohingya refugees from Burma is found by Indonesia.
2011-02-17