Indonesian authorities have evacuated about 6,500 people on the island of Flores after Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano spewed thick clouds of brownish ash over the past few days. No casualties or major damage have been reported so far. The eruptions in East Nusa Tenggara province are part of hot gas spills that have become more […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s election watchdog has summoned President Joko Widodo‘s son, the leading presidential candidate’s running mate, for questioning over an alleged campaign violation, an election official said. Gibran Rakabuming Raka is seeking to be vice-president with Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto as his running mate in the Feb. 14 election, and the pair command […]
Social media users have falsely linked a video showing divers experiencing an earthquake underwater to a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that struck central Japan on New Year’s Day in 2024, killing dozens of people. The clip was in fact taken in Indonesia in November 2023. “This is what the bottom of the sea in Japan looked like […]
Nearly 150 Rohingya refugees, mostly hungry and weak women and children, have reached a beach in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province after weeks at sea, officials said on Sunday. The group of 53 men, 39 women and 55 children arrived on Karang Gadih beach in Langkat district late on Saturday, said the village head, Muhammad Amiruddin. […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will impose a new tax on e-cigarettes from Jan. 1, adding to an excise tax to help curb vaping, the finance ministry said on Saturday. Southeast Asia’s largest economy has set the additional tax at 10% of the excise tariff for electronic cigarettes, the ministry said in a statement. “Long term […]
Indonesian authorities have detected at least five boats packed with refugees approaching the shores of Aceh province, officials said on Thursday. The boats are the latest in a surge of vessels that have arrived in Aceh, most carrying Rohingya refugees from southern Bangladesh, where the persecuted Muslim minority fled in 2017 following attacks by the […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) -TikTok will take a controlling stake in an e-commerce unit of Indonesia’s biggest tech firm PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia, a partnership that will see the short video app invest $1.5 billion over the long term, the two companies said on Monday. The deal comes after Indonesia in October banned online shopping on social […]