Lion Air, Indonesia’s biggest airline by passenger numbers and which counts Bali as one of its top routes, is buying five of the American aircraft maker Boeing’s new-generation airplane.

Fifty-eight people convicted and sentenced to death in drugs cases are awaiting execution in Indonesian prisons, an official has revealed.

Editorial “Critically endangered” are two words we hear often in this country in relation to our fast-dwindling stocks of indigenous wildlife. We hear it of the majestic orangutan, a glorious tree-dwelling creature we share with Malaysia; and we hear it of the Sumatran elephant native to our most westerly island. There are others on this [...]

Two pro-independence activists have been arrested in restive Papua province for holding “anarchic protests,” the national police said.

An Englishman critically injured in a motorbike accident in Bali who has since been in a coma has made his first movements after hearing the voice of his Balinese girlfriend.

Three critically endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead in an oil palm plantation in western Indonesia and are believed to have been poisoned.

Former justice minister Yusril Mahendra filed a legal challenge in Jakarta on Thursday against clemency granted to Australian drug-runner Schapelle Corby.

One person was killed and 17 wounded when Indonesian soldiers opened fire on civilians after a deadly dispute sparked by a road accident in Papua province.