TEHRAN, August 19 -Protesters in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua set fire to tires and torched a local parliament building on Monday after a demonstration against the recent detention of scores of Papuan students, according to media reports and an official.
TEHRAN, August 17 - Seven people including two children were killed and four others went missing as a ship caught fire in waters off central Indonesia's Southeast Sulawesi province on Saturday, head of communication for media at the national search and rescue office Yusuf Latief said.
TEHRAN, August 16 - Indonesia’s president on Friday proposed to move the capital from Jakarta, a crowded, polluted city of 10 million people, to the island of Borneo, though he left Indonesians guessing as to the exact location.
TEHRAN, Aug 03 - A powerful undersea earthquake that struck off the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java has killed at least one person and briefly displaced more than 1,000 coastal-dwellers who feared a tsunami, Indonesia’s disaster agency said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Jul 26 - An Indonesian province has ordered 50 overweight police of doing aerobics, swimming and jogging, stressing they need to have the ideal body weight for the job.
TEHRAN, Jul 23 - Indonesian police said on Tuesday a suspected militant arrested last week was plotting Independence Day bomb attacks and they suspect he was part of a network behind violence in the Philippines that also has ties to Islamic State in Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, Jul 10 - Indonesia said on Tuesday (July 9) that it was planning to send back 210 tons of trash to Australia, in its latest attempt to push back waste imported from Western countries.
TEHRAN, Jun 25 - An Indonesian military spokesman said Tuesday that any use of child soldiers by Papuan independence fighters would be a violation of human rights that implicates both the rebels and state institutions.
TEHRAN, Jun 23 - Indonesian authorities have arrested three people suspected of negligence after a fire ripped through a makeshift factory in North Sumatra, killing 30 people, a police spokesman said on Sunday.
TEHRAN, May 27- Indonesian police have arrested six people suspected of plotting to assassinate four state officials during a wave of civil unrest in Jakarta last week, a police spokesman said on Monday.
TEHRAN, May 24 - Defeated Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is set to lodge a challenge to the result of the April 17 election in the Constitutional Court on Friday after complaining that the vote was rigged.
TEHRAN, May 23- Seven people have died in election violence in the Indonesian capital, police said Thursday, as calm returned to the city and the losing presidential candidate prepared to challenge the result in court.
TEHRAN, May 22 - Six people have been killed and over 200 others wounded in clashes between the supporters of Indonesia’s unsuccessful presidential candidate and security forces in the capital, Jakarta, following the release of the official election results.
TEHRAN, May 21-Thousands of soldiers have fanned out across Jakarta after the surprise early announcement of official results in Indonesia's election showed Joko Widodo re-elected leader of the world's third-biggest democracy.
TEHRAN, May 21 - Indonesia's Joko Widodo won another term as president of the world's third-biggest democracy, official results showed Tuesday, after his rival Prabowo Subianto, a retired general, alleged widespread cheating.