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In spice-crazed Indonesia, a meal without fresh chilies is almost unthinkable.
One of Indonesia's best-known pop stars was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 years behind bars after sex tapes with his celebrity girlfriends found their way to the Internet, riveting and dividing this predominantly Muslim nation.
Three Indonesian soldiers accused of torturing two men from the restive eastern region of Papua have gone on trial for the relatively minor charges of disobeying orders, prosecutors said Friday.
Budget carrier Mandala Airlines said Thursday it is grounding all planes as it tries to settle spiraling debts and find ways to survive cutthroat competition in Indonesia's skies.
A sunken ship that may be several centuries old and containing green and gray ceramics has been found off remote Indonesian islands recently hit by a tsunami, officials said Thursday.
A landmark decision striking down an Indonesian book-banning law that has been used since the days of ex-dictator Suharto to clamp down on dissent was welcomed Thursday by historians, authors and rights activists.
An environmental group has released video footage of a bulldozer buzzing trees in a protected forest that is home to endangered Sumatran tigers, but the government said Wednesday it remained unclear if the land-clearing was illegal.
An Indonesian government minister who has in the past blamed natural disasters on immorality has caused more controversy by posting anti-gay comments on Twitter and joking about people with AIDS.
As the train rattled into Indonesia's capital, 19-year-old Wiwit Wahyuningsih leaned back in a soft, pink-cushioned seat in a carriage newly designated exclusively for women.
Tired of government inaction, Christians and other religious minorities in Indonesia are pushing back against rising violence by Islamic hard-liners.
The anti-terror squad hurtled from a white van on a bustling street as their quarry — three terror suspects — stepped out of a taxi.
Indonesia's new finance minister pledged Thursday to continue with the reform agenda started by his predecessor, who maintained economic growth but angered some with her anti-corruption sweep and tax enforcement.
Indonesia's former chief detective, who has recently exposed corruption among government and police officials, was arrested Tuesday on allegations that he accepted a bribe in 2008.
Indonesian's parliament called for a criminal investigation into a $715 million government bank bailout in a vote that a newspaper described Thursday as a major blow to President Suslio Bambang Yudhoyono.
Indonesia's leading clerics are considering a religious edict against riding a motorbike without a crash helmet to promote safety on the chaotic and deadly roads of the world's most populous Muslim country.
Indonesia's former anti-graft chief was convicted of plotting the murder of a businessman and sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday, in a case that has undermined the country's fight against corruption.
An alleged Islamist militant being tried on charges of harboring terrorists behind deadly twin hotel bombings in the Indonesian capital claimed Wednesday that he had helped craft a plot to assassinate the president.
Students threw rocks at police who returned fire with tear gas and water cannons during one of several rallies across Indonesia on Wednesday to demand government action to end widespread corruption among politicians, police and other public officials.
Indonesian police raided a house near the capital Friday, shooting dead two suspected al-Qaida-linked militants wanted in the suicide bombings of luxury hotels in Jakarta, officials said.
The chief of Indonesia's anti-corruption commission went on trial Thursday charged with masterminding the murder of the head of a state-owned company.
Komodo dragons have shark-like teeth and poisonous venom that can kill a person within hours of a bite. Yet villagers who have lived for generations alongside the world's largest lizard were not afraid — until the dragons started to attack.
The chief of Indonesia's anti-corruption watchdog was arrested as a suspect in a murder investigation, an embarrassing blow to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as he seeks re-election on a "good governance" platform.
Two Sumatran elephants were found dead with gunshots to the head in a protected forest in western Indonesia, a conservationist said Tuesday.
Two Komodo dragons mauled a fruit-picker to death in eastern Indonesia, police and witnesses said Tuesday, the latest in a string of attacks on humans by the world's largest lizard species.
Four Indonesians have died of bird flu, bringing the death toll in the country hardest hit by the disease over the past several years to 119, an official said Tuesday.
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