Niniek Karmini
The Associated Press
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Eid al-Adha: Indonesia's Muslims celebrate with feasts after disease last year disrupted rituals
Muslims across Indonesia are celebrating Eid al-Adha, one of the biggest holidays in the Islamic calendar, with full meat-based feasts after fears of last year’s foot-and-mouth disease outbreak waned. → Read More
Iranian leader visits Indonesia to deepen economic ties amid global geopolitical challenges
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will meet his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo on Tuesday during a trip aiming to strengthen economic ties between the Muslim-majority nations amid heightened global geopolitical tensions → Read More
Indonesian IT minister arrested for alleged corruption in procurement
Indonesian authorities have arrested the information technology minister as part of an investigation into a million-dollar corruption scandal linked to the construction of mobile phone transmission towers in remote regions → Read More
G20 summit casts spotlight on Bali's tourism revival
The dozens of world leaders and other dignitaries traveling to Bali for the G-20 summit will be drawing a welcome spotlight on the revival of the tropical island's ailing tourism sector → Read More
Russia's Putin won't attend upcoming G-20 summit in Bali
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week, avoiding a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over his war in Ukraine → Read More
Australia, Indonesia commit to fight against FMD outbreak
Australia’s top agriculture official has met with his Indonesian counterpart to discuss ways to stop a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has infected hundreds of thousands of cattle in Indonesia and prevent the outbreak from spreading to Australia → Read More
Indonesian Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha amid FMD outbreak
A foot-and-mouth disease outbreak is disrupting ritual slaughter of animals to mark Eid al-Adha, one of the biggest holidays in the Islamic calendar → Read More
Indonesia lifts outdoor mask mandate as COVID-19 wanes
Indonesia is lifting its outdoor mask mandate as its COVID-19 outbreak wanes → Read More
Indonesian cases hit record but less severe, fewer deaths
Indonesia’s confirmed coronavirus infections since the pandemic began have crossed 5 million, the highest in Southeast Asia → Read More
G-20 finance leaders eye ways to support pandemic recovery
Indonesian President Joko Widodo told financial leaders of the Group of 20 industrial economies that countries must avoid tensions and cooperate to support a recovery from the pandemic → Read More
Indonesian new virus cases set record as omicron spreads
Indonesia has reported a record number of new COVID-19 cases driven by the highly transmissible omicron variant → Read More
Third COVID wave looms in Indonesia as omicron spreads
Indonesia is bracing for a third wave of COVID-19 infections as the highly transmissible omicron variant drives a surge in new cases → Read More
Indonesia wants to use G20 presidency to aid COVID rebound
Indonesia’s leader says the country holding the presidency of the Group of 20 biggest economies wants to strengthen global partnership to aid the economic recovery from COVID-19 → Read More
Indonesia wants to use G20 presidency to aid COVID rebound
Indonesia’s leader says the country holding the presidency of the Group of 20 biggest economies wants to strengthen global partnership to aid the economic recovery from COVID-19 → Read More
US woman in Bali 'suitcase murder' freed from jail
An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali has walked free from prison → Read More
US woman in Bali 'suitcase murder' to be released Oct. 29
A Chicago woman convicted of assisting her boyfriend in her mother’s murder and stuffing the body in a suitcase on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in 2014 is being released early from a 10-year prison sentence → Read More
US woman in Bali 'suitcase murder' to be released Oct. 29
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A Chicago woman convicted of assisting her boyfriend in her mother's murder and stuffing the body in a suitcase on Indonesia's resort island of Bali in 2014 is being released early from a 10-year sentence, a prison official confirmed Wednesday. Heather Mack, who was 18 when she was arrested a day after the discovery of Sheila von Wiese-Mack's body in the trunk of a taxi… → Read More
Fire kills 41 inmates, 80 hurt at crowded Indonesian prison
A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia’s capital early Wednesday, killing at least 41 inmates, two of them foreigners serving drug sentences, and injuring 80 others. → Read More
Fire kills 41 inmates, 80 hurt at crowded Indonesian prison
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia's capital early Wednesday, killing at least 41 inmates, two of them foreigners serving drug sentences, and injuring 80 others. Firefighters battled through the early morning hours to extinguish the flames as black smoke billowed from the compound of the Tangerang prison on the outskirts of Jakarta. → Read More
With no tourist handouts, hungry Bali monkeys raid homes
Deprived of their preferred food source — the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the coronavirus — hungry monkeys on the resort island → Read More