Local trader forged ingredient label of cough syrups

Police have arrested and charged officials at Samudera and its distributor.

31 January 2023

Indonesia bans sex outside marriage in new criminal code

Decades in the making, legislators hailed the passage of the criminal code as much needed overhaul of a colonial vestige.

7 December 2022

U.S. closely monitoring Indonesia's law banning sex w/o marriage

United States is also concerned about how the law could affect U.S. citizens visiting and living there.

7 December 2022

Strange island creatures at high risk

The researchers documented an accelerating uptick in island extinctions, beginning more than 100,000 years ago.

10 March 2023

Indonesia hands G20 presidency to India

The Group of 20 major economies adopted a joint leaders' declaration and produced other partnerships, Jokowi, as the president is known, said.

17 November 2022

Indonesia revokes firms' fever syrup licences -150 deaths

BPOM chief Penny K. Lukito told reporters the "oral liquid" manufacturing licences of the two companies is revoked.

2 November 2022

Indonesia set to penalise sex outside marriage

Indonesia has hundreds of regulations at the local level that discriminate against women, religious minorities, and LGBT people.

3 December 2022

Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupts, spews hot cloud

The 2,963 metre-high (9,721 feet) Merapi is one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes.

12 March 2023