Sources: BBC
Indonesia repatriates British nationals Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into Bali in 2013, and Shahab Shahabadi, who was serving a life sentence for drug offences, following a bilateral agreement on humanitarian grounds. Both are transferred to the United Kingdom to serve the remainder of their sentences under UK law. 2025-11-7
Indonesia reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 38,391 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2.41 million. 2021-07-8
The World Mosquito Programme reports that an experiment in which mosquitoes purposefully infected with "Wolbachia" bacteria were released in Yogyakarta, Indonesia saw rates of dengue fever cases in the city drop by 77%, and an 86% reduction in related hospitalizations. 2021-06-9
Indonesia's total COVID-19 cases pass 100,000; 58% of them are recovered. 2020-07-27
Rescuers reach the wreckage of a Twin Otter cargo plane that crashed last week between Timika and Ilaga in Papua, Indonesia. All four persons on board are found dead, and their bodies are recovered. 2019-09-25
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
Two British VICE News journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, arrested on 28 August in Diyarbakir Province in southeastern Turkey on terror charges, are released while their colleague, translator Mohammed Ismael Rasool, remains in custody. 2015-09-4
Mount Soputan, a volcano in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, erupts. 2011-07-3
Qantas Flight 32 from Singapore to Sydney makes an emergency landing at Changi Airport after debris suspected to be from the aircraft is found on Batam Island in Indonesia. 2010-11-4
The death toll from the recent eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia rises to 32 as it erupts again. 2010-10-28