Indonesia

The United Nations refugee agency announced on Friday that more than 150 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, had been rescued off the Indonesian coast after their boat had been stranded at sea for days. The...

Prabowo Subianto will be sworn in Sunday as president of the world’s third-largest democracy, Indonesia, with the wealthy ex-general accused of rights abuses taking over eight months after a landslide election win. The 73-year-old fiery nationalist...

At least one dead body was seen on board a boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees that was located off the coast of westernmost province in Indonesia on Saturday, according to local officials. The Rohingya...

An AFP reporter accompanying Pope Francis said that the 87-year-old pontiff touched down in Indonesia on Tuesday, the first leg on his four-nation Asia-Pacific tour and the longest of his pontificate. The pope began a three-day...

A life-sized cutout of Pope Francis, a papal stamp, and a big billboard were unveiled by Indonesia on Monday in preparation for the pope’s trip in the country with the largest Muslim population. On Monday afternoon,...

Indonesian authorities arrested a man trying to sell elephant tusks and the horns of critically endangered rhinos via social media. The illegal wildlife trade remains rampant in Indonesia, where law enforcement is lax, but the arrested...

Just a few weeks before he announces his resignation, Indonesian President Joko Widodo will reorganize his cabinet on Monday in an attempt to facilitate the handoff to Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who will succeed him, according...

On Monday, the Indonesian government convened its inaugural plenary cabinet meeting in Nusantara, the nation’s new capital located in the East Kalimantan province. Vice President Ma’ruf Amin and all of the ministers attended the meeting, which...

The joint task force of police and soldiers in charge of the search said on Tuesday that the body of a New Zealand chopper pilot who was shot dead by rebels in the volatile Papua region...

In the most recent of almost 100 eruptions since the beginning of the year, a volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Monday, sending a six-kilometer cloud of ash skyward. Authorities say that at 3:30 am local...