Sex outside of marriage and sex between people of the same sex remain permitted in predominantly Muslim Indonesia. The highest judges denied requests for a ban on sex outside of marriage or sex between partners of the same sex on Thursday.
Because of severe weather, at least 25 people were killed in the eastern part of the Indonesian island of Java. The authorities reported Saturday that around 1700 houses have been damaged and more than 2000 people have become homeless.
The Denpasar airport in Bali will remain closed for another 24 hours. The Indonesian Ministry of Transport announced on Tuesday that the airport will remain closed at least until 7 a.m. on November 29 (local time) because of the ash coming from the volcano Agung.
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For fear of a volcanic eruption, the Agung has already killed nearly 50,000 people on the Indonesian island of Bali. According to a spokesman for the National Disaster Office, a total of 49,300 people have left their homes.
Indonesia is exerting pressure on Myanmar to better protect the flying Rohingya Muslims.
Indonesia seems to take an example of the violent 'drug war' of neighboring Philippines.
A 30-year-old man was resounded in Indonesia because he had stolen an amplifier from a mosque. He was caught on trial, police reported Thursday, and then chased through the streets of Jakarta.
The Sinabung volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has recycled ashes. The smoke column came to 4.5 kilometers above the volcano according to the authorities. Residents are warned to be extra vigilant.
Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo, ordered the police to kill drug traffickers. The president spoke of an emergency. 'Be firm in particular against foreign drug criminals entering the country and opposing arrest. Shoot them down, because we're getting some drugs in an emergency, 'said Widodo in a speech late on Friday.
The encrypted messenger service Telegram says to have closed certain public channels that, according to the Indonesian authorities, contain terrorism related material. Founder Pavel Durov said that this happened after Indonesia had access to the service.
Eight people were killed when a helicopter crashed in Indonesia. The device collapsed in a rescue mission on the island of Java, according to the The Jakarta Post newspaper, where a volcanic crater on the tourist Dieng Plateau began to spit cold lava and smoke on Sunday.
A rescue helicopter on the way to evacuating people from a volcanic area unsafe area has been crashed with eight people aboard. At least two people came about.
The Obama family is relaxing in Indonesia. In Bali, the family is taking a raft tour.
Indonesia is setting fighters to prevent jihadists from ISI from the south to flee to the south. Three combat devices are stationed for a month on an air force base in Tarakan (North Kalimantan).
Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb of Rotterdam leads a delegation of companies and institutions that will visit China and Indonesia next week. That made the municipality known on Friday.
Terrorist group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the possible double suicide bombing in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Friday. Three agents were killed and twelve people were injured, including another six police officers.
At a bus station in the Indonesian capital Jakarta Wednesday two explosions have occurred. It would be an attack. The injuries seem to be falling for now.
The police in Jakarta arrested 141 men on Sunday evening at an invasion of a gay club. Ten people among whom the owner and some staff members of the club are suspected of 'violation of pornography laws.' The rest is still being questioned.
Two men in the Indonesian Aceh were sentenced to sticks because of their homosexuality. A religious tribunal using strict Islamic law has condemned the men of 23 and 20 years each Wednesday to 85 sticks.
The Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, has been convicted of blasphemy because he would have offended Islam. He has to enter the cell for two years, announced Tuesday.
Three killers have taken a staff shortage in an Indonesian prison to take their legs. They could effortlessly pass an unmanned checkpoint,
About two hundred prisoners in Indonesia escaped from a crowded prison on the island of Sumatra on Friday. They were able to open a gate of the prison complex near a mosque where they could pray.
Indonesian prosecutors have filed a one-year imprisonment sentence on Thursday for two years with the Christian governor of the capital Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama for blasphemy. The lawsuit is seen as a test for the religious tolerance of the country where Muslims are in the majority.
Least 27 people missing since a landslide struck a village on the Indonesian island of Java. Dozens of houses were buried, said a spokesman for the emergency service. The landslide occurred at the village Banaran in East Java.
The Indonesian police on Friday arrested five people ahead of a protest by thousands of Muslims demanding the resignation of the Christian governor of Jakarta. Among those arrested, suspected of treason, is the leader of a fanatical Muslim group.
The Indonesian police have discovered a Facebook group in which about seven thousand members pornography would have exchanged. Four people have been arrested, The Jakarta Post reported Friday.
Heavy rainfall causes great floods in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. In the east of the city's problems are greatest. In some places the water is more than one and a half meters high.
The murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, was captured on surveillance video. A video leaked last night via the Japanese channel Fuji TV. The authenticity of the images is not confirmed by the Malaysian authorities, reports Reuters.
On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, thousands of people have been evacuated after the volcano Sinabung in a short time seven times erupted. A radius of seven kilometers around the volcano has been declared off limits to humans.
