Another nabbed for spying on Prabowo
Police have named a fourth senior officer as a suspect in the alleged wiretapping of President Prabowo Subianto, as authorities continue to investigate the motives behind a scandal that has exposed a deepening rift between the president and his predecessor, Joko Widodo.
Tourists flock to see whale sharks
Passengers gasp in delight as Ansar Lasimpala, 47, manoeuvres his glass-hulled boat towards the large, dark shadow of a whale shark gliding under the waters off the beach.
22-year-old Nasa satellite telescope falls from orbit in fiery finale
NASA'S Swift satellite telescope, which spent two decades studying the most powerful known blasts of energy in the cosmos, tumbled out of orbit as expected and burned up in Earth's atmosphere over Indonesia, the space agency reported.
Tensions high over wiretap case
Authorities tasked thousands of police and military personnel to provide security yesterday for a trial involving former president Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, as tensions in the capital remained high over allegations that top officers had been involved in intercepting the current president's telephone conversations.
Australia deploys aircraft to help fight fires
Australia will join the nation's waterbombing operations to help put out fires that have been raging for months, a government agency said, a day after a helicopter crashed during a firefighting mission, killing three people.
Top aide fired amid spying probe
President Prabowo Subianto sacked his chief of staff for what his office said could be treason, a day after his arrest with two top police officers on suspicion of wiretapping the president, Cabinet ministers and others.
‘Countries must contribute more towards WHO’
Health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin (pic), who is vying for the World Health Organization's top job, said he was in favour of countries paying higher mandatory contributions to offset the slash to its budget from the US withdrawal.
Regional ties face fresh test
The country's swipes at its neighbours are set to last as its embattled government tries to blunt criticism of its handling of welfare programmes, market regulation and persistent wildfires that have choked the region in haze.
Hotspots fall, risks persist
Forest and fire hotspots have declined to 96, but rising detections in Central Kalimantan and persistent underground peat fires continue to pose challenges to firefighting efforts.
Rescued apes return to the wild
Deep in a forest in Indonesian Borneo, conservationists open a cage. A female orang utan and her baby waste little time, clambering up the towering trees and disappearing into the canopy, safe at last.
