Indonesia

A cannibalistic tribe in New Guinea is infamous for its grisly rituals that involves killing an enemy for a community feast of their head.

G20 finance leaders will meet in Bali this week for talks that are due to include issues like global food security and soaring inflation, as host Indonesia tries to ensure frictions over the war in Ukraine do not blow discussions off course.

Widodo has also invited Zelensky to the November 15-16 summit in Bali. The Ukrainian president told Widodo on Wednesday that he will attend the summit depending on who else attends.

Indonesia's central bank left interest rates at a record low on Thursday, saying it was monitoring risks from rising inflation while downplaying recent pressure on the rupiah currency.

Indonesian president to visit Kyiv, Moscow this month: minister

Thousands flock to Indonesian volcano for Hindu ritual sacrifice

Since November, authorities have unrolled a bewildering array of policy measures including subsidies, export permits and a palm oil levy as well as export bans.

At least 14 people lost their lives and 19 were left injured after the tourist bus they were travelling in crashed into a billboard in Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday morning.

A 65-year-old British woman, who was sentenced to death in 2013 for smuggling 10.6lb of cocaine from Thailand into Indonesia, is now awaiting her execution.

The United States said it was working with its private sector and it plans to unveil a broader package, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, when Biden travels next week to Tokyo and Seoul.

If Indonesia's export ban stays in place for two more weeks, then India's June palm oil imports could fall to 350,000 tonnes, mostly from Malaysia.

The volcano has been sporadically active since it emerged from the sea at the beginning of last century in the caldera formed after the 1883 eruption of Mount Krakatoa.

Indonesia's parliament has finally managed to pass the bill against sexual violence that had been in discussion for six years.

An Indonesian court has sentenced the principal of a school to death for raping thirteen students over the period of five years and impregnating at least eight of them.

Mount Merapi is on its second-highest alert level since November 2020 after showing renewed activity.

The Indonesian man eaten alive by a 13-foot-long crocodile while bathing in river

Another man convicted of having sex with a minor was also whipped 100 times on Thursday.

Authorities said they are still trying to confirm the whereabouts of at least nine people.

Locals rushed to the scene and managed to stab the crocodile with a spear as the girl's face was visibly sticking out of the mouth.

The stick pierced his genitalia and missed his testicles by millimeters.

Overwhelmed mortuaries are renting refrigerated containers to store bodies, while medical and other frontline workers are exhausted.

Indonesia's coronavirus death toll topped 100,000 on Wednesday as the country struggles to control the spread of the Delta variant.

In Britain, daily infections have climbed, averaging more than 50,000 since last week, with Delta taking hold in many areas.

Efforts to tackle the virus worldwide have been marred by conspiracy theories, often propagated by political leaders and other public figures.

The WHO said that more than four million people have died from Covid-19, but cautioned that the figure was likely an underestimate.

Similar spikes in infections have been seen across Southeast Asia, with Indonesia setting a new daily infection record of more than 21,000.

The submarine -- one of five in Indonesia's fleet -- disappeared early Wednesday while it was scheduled to do live torpedo training exercises off Bali.

Earlier images from Indonesia's search and rescue agency showed workers digging up mud-covered corpses before placing them in body bags.

The death toll and the number of injured victims could still rise, authorities warned.

Indonesia has seen a string of attacks by Islamic extremists over the past two decades.