Child marriage in Indonesia has been blamed for causing maternal and infant deaths, as well as encouraging child labour, Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Yohana...
JAKARTA – A Canadian teacher wrongfully convicted of allegedly sexually abusing students, in a case that critics say was riddled with irregularities has granted clemency. Canadian...
BANGKOK – Greenpeace Southeast Asia and other environmentalists have called on Asean member states to go beyond a narrow focus in solving the problem of marine...
BALI – Police in Denpasar, Bali have arrested an American, two Spaniards and two Russians for selling cocaine and marijuana on Bali on Friday. The three...
JAKARTA – A 35 year-old Frenchman has been sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking in a shock verdict after prosecutors had asked for a...
JAKARTA – Indonesian President Joko Widodo said Thursday he has won re-election after receiving an estimated 54% of the vote, backtracking on an earlier vow to...
BALI – Authorities from the Natural Resources Conservation Agency say they have arrested a Russian tourist who was attempting to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of...
SUMATRA – Desperately needed aid flowed into a stretch of Indonesia’s tsunami-struck coastline Tuesday, but humanitarian workers warned that clean water and medicine supplies were...
SUMATRA – A tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait,...
SINGAPORE – After a decade, the symbolic gavel of the Asean chairmanship has been turned over again to Thailand from Singapore. After the handover on...
JAKARTA – A Lion Air flight with 188 people on board crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on Monday. Indonesia’s...
JAKARTA – Many bodies were found on Saturday along the shoreline of the Indonesian city of Palu on Sulawesi island which was hit by a major...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of spectators cheered wildly as athletes from the rival Koreas paraded side-by-side behind a “unification” flag in a spectacular opening ceremony...
TANJUNG, Indonesia – The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as the official death...
LOMBOK, Indonesia – Rescuers were racing on Monday to aid victims of a new earthquake that has killed at least 98 people on the Island...
BEIJING – Foreign investors withdrew money from Asian bond markets for the third consecutive month in June amid concerns the increasing trade friction between the...
BANGKOK – About eight million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the world’s oceans every year, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic...
CHIANG RAI – In December 2017, the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economic...
– JAKARTA – Unmarried tourists could face jail in Bali if they have sex, under proposed Indonesian laws after a petition from Islamic hardliners to...
– BALI -Police have arrested an Australian, an American and a Malaysian on the holiday island of Bali for drugs offenses, the latest foreigners to run...
