A strong earthquake has hit off the Indonesian coast in the Molucca Sea, creating the risk of tsunami in nearby areas.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology say the earthquake hit near the Banda Sea and said there is no tsunami threat to the country on the back of it.

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Environmentalists have lost a court challenge to a Chinese-backed dam in Indonesia that will rip through the habitat of the most critically endangered orangutan species.

Rescuers have passed water and food to some of the dozens of people trapped in a collapsed Indonesian gold mine, an official said, calling the gruelling rescue effort in a remote inaccessible location a "race against time".

An Instagram account that published comic strips depicting the struggles of gay Muslims in Indonesia has disappeared following a frenzy of outrage online in the world's biggest Muslim nation.

Indonesian police have acknowledged officers terrorised a Papuan man with a live snake after a video of the incident circulated online.

China's largest retailer and the world's third largest internet internet company, JD.com, announced the completion of Indonesia’s first government approved drone flight.

Mining will buy rival Goldcorp in a deal valued at $10bn (€8.7bn), creating the world’s largest gold miner and cementing a return of mergers and acquisitions to the industry.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is advising a high degree of caution to travellers heading to Indonesia.

Some 178 people are missing from a ferry sinking on Monday at a popular lake on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a much higher number than previously believed.

Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province today caned several unmarried couples for showing affection in public, and two women for prostitution, in front of an enthusiastic audience of hundreds.

Indonesia's conservative Aceh province will no longer allow canings for violations of Shariah law to be carried out in public, its governor said.

Rescuers used their bare hands to search for people buried beneath tons of mud after a landslide on the Indonesian island of Java wiped out rice paddies, killing at least five people.

The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Sinabung, which shot ash five kilometres high, also "annihilated" the mountain's summit.

A male orangutan on the Indonesian portion of Borneo has died after being stabbed, clubbed and shot at least 130 times with an air gun.

Two people were killed and dozens of homes severely damaged when a strong earthquake shook Indonesia’s densely populated Java island last night.

A giant python in Indonesia was eaten by villagers after the snake attacked one of its locals.

Mount Sinabung, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has blasted volcanic ash as high as 4.2 kilometres, one of its biggest eruptions in the past several months of high activity.

Two men in Indonesia's Aceh province have been publicly caned dozens of times for consensual gay sex.

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Six Islamic militant suspects killed in a stand-off with police were planning to attack officers in Indonesia's East Java province in revenge for the arrest of a radical leader, authorities have said.

Rescue teams using heavy equipment have recovered two more bodies from a landslide that swept into a village on Indonesia's main island, bringing the number of retrieved bodies to four.

Rescuers are searching for more than two dozen people who are missing after a landslide struck a village on Indonesia's main island of Java.

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Up to 40,000 people have been caught in severe flooding following days of heavy rain in Indonesia, with 13 people killed after landslides on Bali.

Police on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have detained five Indonesians returning from Turkey on suspicion that they travelled abroad to join the Islamic State group, an official said.

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One person has died and seven have been injured in clashes in Jakarta, police said, after a protest by hardline Muslims demanding the arrest of the Indonesian capital's minority-Christian governor for alleged blasphemy.

A British banker accused of killing two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment had tortured one of the victims for three days while using cocaine, a court has heard.

Update 12.45pm: A fuel tanker that disappeared from a Malaysian port was taken by its own crew in a dispute with their employer, Indonesian and Malaysian officials have said.

The Indonesian government has executed four drug traffickers, giving a reprieve of uncertain duration to 10 others it had said would also be put to death.

Ancient versions of 1m tall ‘hobbits’ discovered on an Indonesian island have been unearthed by scientists — and they appear to be even smaller than the originals.

The death toll has risen to seven after the eruption of a volcano in western Indonesia, with two other people in a critical condition, as an official warned of more blasts.

Villagers in Indonesia thought they had been blessed with a gift from heaven after this ‘angel’ fell from the sky.

Shackled in chains, forced electroshock therapy, the whispering of Koranic verses, and baths under moonlight.

Human Rights Watch has released a new video in a bid to end shackling of people with mental health problems in Indonesia.

Indonesian officials have issued a tsunami warning after a powerful, shallow earthquake hit off the western coast of Sumatra.

Coffee production in Indonesia will probably drop 20% next year from a record as the strongest El Nino in almost two decades hurts crops in the world’s third-largest producer of robusta beans.

Indonesian police have arrested 12 people suspected of links to the Jakarta bombings, they said on Saturday.

An audacious attack in the heart of Indonesia’s capital by suicide bombers was funded by the Islamic State group, police said.

Rescuers have recovered 40 more bodies from waters in central Indonesia, raising the confirmed death toll from the weekend sinking of a passenger boat to 63.