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
Thirteen people are killed and 34 injured after a tour bus crashed while descending a steep hill at Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2022-02-7
Indonesia reports a record 1,205 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, 345 of them from East Java, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 71,397. 2021-07-16
It is announced that the Indonesian capital Jakarta will restart its "transitional" eased large-scale social restrictions effective tomorrow, after a pace of infections has slowed within two weeks, according to a statement from the governor Anies Baswedan. 2020-10-11
Indonesia announces that it is imposing a value added tax on the digital services provided by internet companies. The tax will take effect in July. 2020-05-15
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
An Indonesian maritime patrol boat, the "KM Hiu Macan 001", intercepts five boats and arrested 55 Vietnamese crew members for allegedly poaching off Natuna Islands, but after an unexpected aggressive intervention by Vietnamese coast guards forces the Indonesian authorities to back off, release the arrested men and return to base empty handed. 2017-05-21
Indonesia's Mount Sinabung eruption resumes spewing gas leading to the evacuation of 3,000 nearby residents. 2015-06-10
British actor Peter O'Toole, best known for his role in "Lawrence of Arabia", dies at the age of 81 after a long illness. 2013-12-14
Four people are killed in a magnitude 6.6 earthquake near the city of Palu, Sulawesi in Indonesia. 2012-08-19