The Latest Breaking News from Indonesia

Although youth gang wars affect all of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, a city of 400,000 inhabitants on the island of Java, has become the epicentre of a worrying new phenomenon. There, teenage boys clash in the streets at night. They travel on motorbike, armed with truncheons or rusty swords. Their victims are…

Star Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu roared back to form, ousting home favourite Gregoria Mariska Tunjung in straight games in the opening round of the Indonesia Open World Tour Super 1000 event, in Jakarta.

After separating from the military, Indonesia’s police still struggle to gain public trust. Have they missed their best chance of winning over the people?

The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has officially declared El Niño is underway and scientists warn it could bring record hot temperatures and contribute to extreme events including droughts, cyclones and infectious diseases

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano, which is nearly 500ft high, spewed searing gas clouds into the air as a columnn of smoke curled into the skies above, with surveillance cameras on its slops showing lava flares and eruptions

Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano has erupted, spewing ash as high as 2 miles into the air

An Australian surfer who was jailed for attacking several people while drunk and naked in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Muslim province of Aceh is set to be deported to his country after he agreed to apologize and pay compensation

Not all animals are the same. Even within a species, some are bolder and better at solving problems than others. We have found this to be true in the case of the critically endangered Bali myna, a rare bird found only on the island of Bali in Indonesia.

JAKARTA: An Indigenous community in Indonesia has requested an internet blackout in their area to minimise the "negative impact" of the online world, officials said Friday.