Indonesian police on Monday identified a suicide bomber who blew himself up and wounded 30 people at a Muslim on Friday prayer as a man on a police wanted list over previous attacks.

At least 17 people were wounded in a suspected suicide bomb attack during on Friday prayers at an mosque in a police compound in Indonesia's West Java province, the police said.

An Indonesian lawmaker faces an ethics investigation after he was photographed apparently watching porn on his tablet computer in parliament, an official said on Sunday.

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More than 1,000 captive orangutans set for release into the wild on Borneo island are being sent into a "killing field" of illegal logging and poaching, conservationists said on Thursday.

Asean tourism ministers have agreed to adopt an Asean Tourism Strategic Plan (ATSP) 2011-2015 to serve as reference for national tourism organisations in carrying out tourism programs in the Southeast Asian region.

Indonesia has said it will promote a people-centred Asean during its chairmanship of the regional association in 2011.

"People-centred Asean is key to making the association relevant to the public and to the attainment of the objectives of the Asean Community," said Indonesia's permanent representative to Asean, ambassador I Gede Ngurah, on Thursday at the first official meeting chaired by Indonesia after assuming the Association of Southeast Asian nations chair early in 2011.

Fossils of a giant stork have been discovered on a far-flung Indonesian island that has been home to many extreme-sized creatures — from tiny human-like “hobbits” and dwarf elephants to the world’s la

Five endangered sumatran elephants have been found dead in Indonesia, and conservationists said today that they suspect farmers poisoned the animals to stop them from damaging crops.

Indonesia's Mount Bromo volcano in eastern Java belched hot ash into the air in a low-level eruption on Saturday.

More than 300 people have been killed since Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano began erupting late last month, an official said on Sunday, with more than 200,000 people still living in makeshift camps.