The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

Indonesia has spent years preparing one of the most ambitious capital relocations of the 21st century: moving its political ...

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Indonesia's president announced Monday that the country's capital will move from overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, ...

Indonesia President Joko Widodo gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Indonesia's president has announced to relocate the ...

JAKARTA (Reuters): A magnitude 5.7 quake hit Indonesia's East Java province on Thursday, near the holiday island of Bali, the country's geophysics agency reported. Reuters could not immediately ...

Kids play in front of the submersed houses in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, Feb. 18, 2010. Flood waters have inundated western and eastern parts of Indonesia's key island of Java on Thursday with the ...

Jakarta and several other areas have received an early warning from the BMKG for heavy to very heavy rain over the next 3 ...

The video of Elina’s forced eviction recently went viral on social media, drawing widespread public outrage. The footage also ...

On May 8, 1807, the Vatican established the apostolic prefecture of Batavia (Jakarta's name during Dutch colonial time), which included almost the whole archipelago. In 1808, the first two Dutch ...

JAKARTA: As Jakarta gears up for the Christmas and New Year holiday, the city is also bracing itself for the risk of flooding ...