TEHRAN, February 19 - Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has shot billowing columns of ash more than five kilometres into the atmosphere and hot clouds down its slopes.
TEHRAN, February 10 - Zulfikar Fahd, an openly gay man, says he flew from Indonesia to Canada late last month and claimed asylum on grounds that he faced discrimination and persecution in his home country, which is poised to criminalise same-sex relations and consensual sex outside marriage.
TEHRAN, January 30 -Fintech firms, offering loans of as little as a few hundred dollars, are seeing a spike in lending in Indonesia where tens of millions of people have little or no access to bank credit - helping alleviate a financing shortfall estimated at more than $73 billion.
TEHRAN, January 27 - An estimated 2,400 people have been displaced after fires spread through residential areas in Krukut, in west Jakarta's Taman Sari district, on Saturday.
TEHRAN, January 23 - Indonesia has again stressed its support for the Iran nuclear deal, saying it is the only way for the Islamic republic to develop and for the international community to monitor that country's peaceful nuclear activities.
TEHRAN, January 15 - A mezzanine floor overlooking the main lobby of the Indonesian Stock Exchange building collapsed on Monday, injuring scores of people, many of them students, under slabs of concrete and other debris, officials and witnesses said.
TEHRAN, January 15 - Indonesia’s Golkar Party has appointed Bambang Soesatyo as parliamentary speaker, after the previous speaker was indicted in a $170 million corruption scandal late last year, the party’s secretary general Muhammad Sarmuji said on Monday.
TEHRAN, January 6 - An Indonesian parliamentary official has strongly rejected foreign intervention in Iran’s internal affairs, voicing her country’s full support for the Iranian government on resolving the situation over economic problems.
TEHRAN, January 6 - An Indonesian parliamentary official has strongly rejected foreign intervention in Iran’s internal affairs, voicing her country’s full support for the Iranian government on resolving the situation over economic problems.
TEHRAN, January 1 - Eight people were killed after a boat carrying 48 passengers including children sank off Indonesia’s Kalimantan island on Monday, rescue officials said.
TEHRAN, January1-Eight people were killed after a boat carrying 48 passengers including children sank off Indonesia’s Kalimantan island on Monday, rescue officials said.
TEHRAN, January 1 - At least eight people died and several others remain missing after a passenger boat capsized off the coast of Borneo on Monday, an official said, in the latest deadly maritime accident in Indonesia.
TEHRAN, December 8 - Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia protested outside the U.S. embassies Friday against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's “capital”.
TEHRAN, December 8 - A pair of Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers has flown a maiden patrol mission over the South Pacific from a military base in Indonesia. Crew and support staff had to deal with an unfamiliar tropical environment to successfully navigate and complete the mission.
TEHRAN, December 6 - A tropical cyclone that pounded Indonesia's main island of Java has killed 41 people, the country's disaster agency said Wednesday, more than double the initial toll, with tens of thousands displaced by severe flooding and landslides.
TEHRAN, November 30 - Indonesians traveling to Saudi Arabia for Hajj pilgrimage could enjoy having a layover in Iran’s cities, such as Shiraz, an Iranian vice president said.
TEHRAN, November 28 - Tourists remained stranded in Bali for a second day on Tuesday after Indonesia's Transportation Ministry extended the closure of Ngurah Rai International Airport for a further 24 hours because of Mount Agung volcano shooting ash into the air.