In what has been a challenging time for democracy under the Morrison Government, the result of lawyer Bernard Collaery's appeal brings some joy.On 6 October, the A.C.T. Court of Appeal overturned the A.C.T. Supreme Cour

by Hayati Nupus JAKARTA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian resort island of Bali is waiting in excitement for international tourists as it will reopen on Thursday. As many as 8,000 rooms in 35 three- to five-star hotels are ready to be occupied both...

SINGAPORE -- Singaporean Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen said on Tuesday that countries need to come together to develop frameworks to guide behaviour and outcomes in digital, cyber, artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging domains, so as to s...

JAKARTA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia will have the world's largest smelter with a capacity of 1.7 million tons of copper concentrate per year, President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday. The groundbreaking for the construction of the smelter owned by PT...

JAKARTA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 1,261 within one day to 4,229,813, with the death toll adding by 47 to 142,763, the country's Health Ministry said on Tuesday. According to the ministry, 2,130 more people...

HONG KONG, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported four new imported cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, taking the total tally to 12,272. The new imported cases are from Britain, Indonesia and Russia. Three cases involv...

To What Extent Have Recent COVID-19 Challenges Stymied Indonesia's Economic Recovery? International Banker

Before the two last Sumatran rhinos in Malaysia died, scientists harvested their stem cells and plan to turn them into an embryo to be implanted into a surrogate.

In her new documentary This is Paris, the 39-year-old said:'My last vacation was probably when I was 15. With my family. It's just been nonstop work.' Commenters have accused her of lying.

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake that struck in Indonesia's Banda Sea has rattled Darwin. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 180km about 1.15pm Darwin time, Geoscience Australia said.

Ayu Sarasyani had left a bowl full of dirty clothes soaking in water and detergent outside her home in South Kalimantan province, Indonesia. Upon her return a monkey had taken over the chore.

Abu Bakar Bashir, 82, the spiritual leader of militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), an Islamist network responsible for the 2002 Bali terror attack that killed more than 200 people, including 88 Australians.

People from around the world took to anonymous confessions app Whisper to share the single decision or moment they wish they could go back in time to change.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Dimas Mulkan Saputra was fishing in a river with his father when he strayed from the shore in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on Wednesday morning.

The shocking incident took place in Nagreg, West Java on March 14 when the motorcyclist risked being crushed by the 6pm train to Malabar.

Josh Paler Lin and Leia Se (pictured) staged the stunt after being refused entry to a market. They filmed the incriminating video after managing to fool guards by painting a surgical mask on Se's face.

Ben Wooster and Semele Moore smiled broadly as they stood next to Aboriginal Flag designer Harold Thomas just moments after their company WAM Clothing was given the copyright.

The stunning images feature drummer Pete Best, who would later be replaced by Ringo Starr, as well as original bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe, who left the band to pursue his career as a painter.

On Thursday, Eden posted a photo to Instagram of himself and Schapelle enjoying a few beers together, which he captioned with a joke about their Indonesian holiday

Convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby has officially become a reality star, 15 years after she was jailed for trying to smugglemarijuana intoIndonesia.

Tristan Moy, 33, from Brisbane, moved to Indonesia to start her business in 2014 and was hit with salacious Facebook comments made by two Australian women in 2017.

Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration were both criticized in a scathing report after the crashes in Indonesia in October 2018 and Ethiopia in March 2019.

Schapelle Corby rose to infamy after being convicted of smuggling cannabis in her boogie board into Indonesia back in2004.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) accounts for a third of global GDP and is a major step towards economic integration amid the devastating pandemic.

Experts will now have the power to asses whether convicted child sex offenders should undergo the operation on top of their jail time, Indonesian President Joko Widodo has ruled.

The Indonesian men, who were not identified, winced in pain and pleaded for mercy, as a masked sharia officer beat their backs with a rattan stick nearly 80 times.

Shocking images of the Sumatran elephant show the animal's decomposing body lying on its side, with a cut on its leg from where it was gripped by the trap in Sumatra, Indonesia.

The 22 men were flown under the guard of Indonesia's elite counterterrorism squad from Surabaya, to a police detention center in the national capital Jakarta for further questioning.

Reynhard Sinaga, 36 - described as a 'monster' by a judge - is thought to have carried out sex attacks in Manchester on 206 men over a two-and-a-half year period.

Mario Gotze is involved in various initiatives across the world, including building schools in West Africa as well as projects in Madagascar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Honduras, Brazil and Nepal..

This year's winner of the Close Up Photography Awards,was Galice Hoarau for his shot ofa miniscule eel larvae he shot during a blackwater dive in the island of Lembeh, in Indonesia.

Researchers from Australia and Indonesia found the painting of the native wild boar on the rear wall of the Leang Tedongnge cave in the south of the island of Sulawesi.

A COVID-stricken ship off the Western Australian coast has set sail amid a virus scare aboard another vessel.

Facebook said on Wednesday it would temporarily reduce the political content for some users in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week and in the United States within the coming weeks.

The communist government has ordered power stations to use more coal from Russia, Mongolia, Indonesia and domestic producers instead of Australia as relations sour.

Mount Sinabung inKaro, North Sumatra, erupted last week, spewinghot ash 16,400ft into the sky and depositing the volcanic debris in nearby villages.

The unprecedented behaviour was observed by researchers from the University ofLethbridge in Canada.

Adorable photos captured at a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia show how orangutans rescued from the wildlife trade are nursed back to health in the hopes they can be released into the wild.

In the image, the 39-year-old former WAG posed atop a motorcycle during a previous trip to Sumatra, Indonesia

Hosting a Q&A session with her Instagram followers on Sunday, Lindy explained why living on the island has a special significance for her and her family

After scientists in Indonesia released mosquitoes infected with a bacterium that stopped them transmitting dengue fever, infection rates in treated areaswere 77 percent lower.

Cyntia Ayu, who was driving behind the offending tourists, saw the hippo happily open its jaws expecting food but was instead treated like a rubbish bin at Taman Safari in West Java.

A letter detailing Amelia Earhart and her Captain Fred J. Noonan's adventure around the globe resurfaced that could provide clues to what happened to the pair 84 years ago.

Grenada has hills, rain forests, waterfalls and an array of spices that justifies the country's 'spice island' moniker. Mark Palmer visited and found its people are 'infectiously joyful'.

A mud slide in Adonara Island, Indonesia, left at least 38 dead and five more injured. Flash floods killed 30, and 21 people were reported dead as a result of extreme weather in East Timor.

The loan, to be paid back over the next 15 years, will be used to support Indonesia's budget financing for 2020 and beyond.

Indonesia's Spermonde Archipelago is home to one of the world's most threatened coral reef, but, scientists used new technology to regrow nearly 50% of the reef in just three years.

Olita Tetsu was visiting the Taman Safari Park in Bogor, Indonesia when her sunglasses slipped from her head and fell into the orangutan enclosure where a large female ape picked them up.

A stray kitten was found with its head sticking out of the top of a water dispenser bottle (pictured). A concerned local took the cat to the local fire department in Jakarta, Indonesia to be rescued.

On Tuesday, Roxy Jacenko defended her SAS Australia co-star Schapelle Corby, who has faced scrutiny for appearing on reality TV after serving time in a Bali prison for drug smuggling

Australian tourists could face time in Bali's notorious hellhole jails for having just a sip of alcohol under draconian new laws proposed by fundamentalist Islamic parties.

Indonesia will release alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bail Bombings, Abu Bakar Bashir, from prison later this week. Bashir is accused of orchestrating the bombings which killed 200 people.

The country's borders were shut again in December to deal with the outbreak and to stop dangerous mutant strains coming in from overseas, leaving the tourist-reliant economy on its knees.

ThePadma Resort in Legian, on the island's west coast, stretches more than 6 hectares, boasts five swimming pools, multiple restaurants and overlooks the beach.

Police officer Abrip Asep's family believed he was among the more than 230,000 people who had been killed in 2004 Indonesian tsunami - but he was somehow found after 16 years.

Baby orang-utans atBorneo Orang-utan Survival Foundation in Indonesia are ferried to nursery in wheelbarrows, as the orphanage realised the baby apes could not keep up on the commute.

The man, named locally as Roni, was sentenced to 175 but it was reduced to 169 after he spent six months in jail - one month for each lash - before he was publicly beaten in the city of Banda Aceh.

The grim announcement comes a day after Indonesia said the KRI Nanggala 402 submarine, which went missing last week, was considered sunk.

In Jakarta, more than 2,000 demonstrators wearing white Islamic robes gathered in front of the French embassy to express their outrage, and burned an effigy of the French President.

Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne has confirmed Australia will donate $12million to Indonesia, which is ravaged by Covid-19 infections with 61,00 deaths.

Stacey Lee Isaac, 33, from Notting Hill in Victoria and single mother Kellie Maree Smith, 32, from Mount Tambourine in Queensland made a series of defaming posts to wedding planner, Tristan Moy.

Abu Bakar Bashir, 82, was given his first taste of freedom on Friday after serving three-quarters of a 15-year sentence in a Bogor prison in West Java, in Indonesia.

The strong offshore quake hit about 217 kilometres south-southwest of the city of Bengkulu at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres at 7:52 pm local time (1252 GMT).

Four couples were publicly flogged with up to 20 lashes of the cane each in the ultra-conservative Aceh province which is governed by Sharia law on Monday.

The work found that only between 10 and 20 per cent of species have been identified by scientists, mostly likely in Brazil, Indonesia and Madagascar.

Grieving relatives and sailors in ceremonial dress were seen casting flowers into the waters off Bali from the navy'sSoeharso hospital ship on Friday.

Convicted drug smuggler Renae Lawrence has admitted settling back into life after prison hasn't been easy, amid calls for the remaining Bali Nine members to be released.

The inner core is growing faster under Indonesia's Banda Sea than under Brazil, but this uneven growth pattern hasn't left the core lopsided, experts from the University of California Berkeley found.

The 12-year-old opened her eyes, re-gained her heartbeat and started to move, her family said. Doctors rushed to the family home in East Java, Indonesia, but she died again an hour later.

The one-eyed fish was found inside the belly of an adult shark that died after being caught in the nets while the fishermen were sailing across Maluku province in Indonesia on October 10.

Hair and make-up artist Heather Pitchford, who was born in South Africa and now lives in London, shares her story in a new podcast called Cameleon: Hollywood Con Queen.

Tristan Moy, 33, from Brisbane, moved to Indonesia in 2014 to run a business arranging Bali weddings for Australian tourists.

The incredible images showing the two large male dragons locked in a fight were captured on the Indonesian island of Rinca by Russian wildlife photographer Andrey Gudkov.

Perth man Travis James McLeod, 43, was arrested in Bali for alleged possession of methamphetamine. He also had a haul of a locally-grown stimulant named 'kratom'.

The small chilies looked enormous next to the tiny weaver ants inMataram City, Indonesia. The two millimetre-long ants navigated a thin branch upside down during their amazing feat.

Members of a tribe on Buton Island, Indonesia, have a rare condition known as Waardenburg Syndrome, which affects pigmentation. It gives them incredibly rare electric blue eyes.

It comes as part of a series of measures that will be introduced to tackle sexual violence - including the creation ofa national sex offenders register and the protection of victims' identities.

Leslie Carleton,who splits her time between Bali, and Los Angeles has modelled in magazines, catalogues, television commercials and billboard advertisements around the world.

Bones found in a cave on Alor Island, Indonesia, have been identified as those of a child who died 8,000 years ago. The arm and leg bones were removed, likely as part of a ceremonial rite.

Renae Lawrence first metAgus Erna Wijayanti at Kerobokan jail, in Indonesia, in2012 before the pair became inmates at Bangli jail in 2014.

Of all the weird and wonderful creatures you might come across in the sea, a mutant shark with 'a human face' doesn't spring to mind. But a fisherman off the coast of Indonesia came across just that.

An online troll who was ordered to pay a Bali wedding planner $100,000 after posting defamatory messages about her business on Facebook has been hit with yet another penalty in court.

Incredible images captured by photographer Dzul Dzulfikri show the moment a sniffing mouse curiously approaches a blue viper before being gobbled up whole by the aggressive predator.

In the video six-year-old Oliver, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, is seen struggling to climb a ledge into the pool with his short legs as he desperately tries to jump in for a cooling dip at home in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Travis James McLeod, 43, from Perth was arrested in Bali in November after police allegedly found him with0.86g of meth, but couldn't also charge him with possessing kratom as it is not yet illegal.

EVGENY LEBEDEV: Tigers are crammed into filthy cages in Laos. Blood-soaked bats are for sale in Indonesia. And pangolin carcasses are found in their tens of thousands around the world.

The nation is in second-last place out of all the countries analysed and sits on par with Botswana and below Ecuador, according to one ranking.

Terrence Murrell, 33, from London, was handed an extra three months in prison on top of his existing three-year jail term for dealing illegal steroids.

A Boeing 737 MAX has departed Miami International Airport with 100 passengers aboard for the aircraft's first U.S. commercial flight since faulty sensor readings contributed to two crashes.

The Oscar winners will begin shooting the film on the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland later this year, reports The Daily Telegraph

Bali police officers are giving foreigners a strange punishment if they don't wear a face mask, as they struggle to keep naughty tourists under control. Bali is full of anti-maskers, head of police said.

At least 20 church parishioners and security guards were injured in the blast outside the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Rescuers are searching for at least 100 missing people believed to be buried among mountains of debris in villages in Indonesia and East Timor after Tropical Cyclone Seroja hit on Sunday.

New documentary Nose follows Dior's French perfumer-creator Franois Demachy through 14 countries as he reveals the lengths the fashion house goes to to make the perfect scent.

As a member of the Balinese royal family, she is quite literally a princess.

Taiwan-based zoologist Hung-Chang Liu, spotted the crab scuttling along the sand with the black shoe in tow on Dolly beach on Christmas Island,2,600 kilometers northwest of Perth.

One mother-of-four described how her daughter had been taunted with Koranic verses and told her parents would go to hell unless she donned the veil.

Rudy Kurniawan, 44, was deportedto his native Indonesia last week, U.S. immigration officials said on Tuesday after he served seven years in prison for making millions from counterfeit wines.

BANGKOK -- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced Monday a plan to allow fully-vaccinated visitors from "low risk" countries and regions to enter the Southeast Asian country without quarantine from next month. "I have instructed the Center f...

JAKARTA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake that has hit Bitung city in Indonesia's eastern province of North Sulawesi was recorded at 5.7 magnitude, triggering no tsunami, the country's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said on Monday. T...