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
Germany orders all three Iranian consulates in the country to close in response to the execution of Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped by Iranian agents in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2020. 2024-10-31
Indonesia reports a record for the third consecutive day of 34,379 new cases and a record for the fourth consecutive day of 1,040 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2.37 million and the nationwide death toll to 62,908. 2021-07-7
Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin issues a new regulation that authorizes a mutual assistance vaccine programme so that private companies can buy state-approved vaccines in order to vaccinate their staff. 2021-02-26
The Nobel Committee awards Swiss Jacques Dubochet, German Joachim Frank, and British Richard Henderson the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structural determination of biomolecules in a solution. 2017-10-4
British singer-songwriter Elton John converts his domestic partnership with filmmaker David Furnish to marriage. 2014-12-21
British singer Harry Styles, with the boy band One Direction, wins a limited ban on stalking in a London court case against paparazzi regarding the privacy rights of celebrities. 2013-12-17
A landslide in the Indonesian island of Sumatra kills at least 4 people with 18 missing. 2013-01-27
Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong ban poultry imports from the Australian state of Victoria while Japan bans imports from the whole of Australia following an outbreak of a low pathogenic form of the avian influenza (separate from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain).2012-02-1
Indonesia admits that the men seen torturing Papuan villagers in a video were soldiers of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. 2010-10-22