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 officials have dropped a plan to require female students to pass virginity tests in order to graduate from high school and apologised after sparking a public outcry, human rights campaigners said.

AT least 20 people died late last night when a fire gutted a popular nightclub in Indonesia's South Sumatra province, police said.

At least 20 people have died in a fire that destroyed a popular nightclub in Indonesia’s South Sumatra province.