"The Revenant" actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, finally an Oscar winner is the main reason why his name is all over the headlines once again. But it is also because of dating rumors yet again with another model, Chelsey Weimar.
Several violent protest and hate speeches erupted against the LGBT community in Indonesia. The country's reputaion of being a conservative but tolelrant nation is now being tested.
Indonesian government spearheaded the special summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) which highlighted the Palentine's call for independence.
Indonesia has sentenced seven people who are alleged of conspiring with the Islamic State. This took place after radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir appealed his conviction.
The Indonesian government is pushing for legal transparency, as it plans to develop and build an integral database of all legal cases. This is to solve administrative problems that come with the millions of legal cases in the country, including poor decisions from judges.
Indonesia President Joko Widodo held a close meeting with senior law enforcement and security officials to discuss an amendments to anti-terrorist law. The move aims to strengthen anti-terror law in the country following last week attack by Islamic State in Jakarta.
Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister said the country must defend encroachment of its sovereignty in a veiled swipe at China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, as tensions flared ahead of a regional meeting that Beijing will attend.
India's national security adviser devised a plan to secure the arrest of a fugitive Mumbai gangster in Indonesia as part of a strategy to hunt down India's most-wanted man, Dawood Ibrahim, police and home ministry sources told Reuters.
Indonesia scored poorly on a 2014 safety audit by the United Nations' aviation agency largely because its Ministry of Transportation is understaffed, said two sources familiar with the matter, as the country struggles to cope with the rapid expansion of air travel.
Indonesia will free two teachers who were jailed for sexually abusing students at an international school, the pair's lawyer said on Friday, in a case critics say was fraught with irregularities.
Initial models of where potential debris from a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet might first wash up had incorrectly identified Indonesia as the most likely location, the Australian body leading the search said on Wednesday.
Sheltering in the backroom of a provincial Thai police station is a 35-year-old street vendor who triggered a human trafficking investigation that has reverberated across Southeast Asia.
Indonesian authorities will call off a two-day search for victims on Thursday after a military transport plane crashed into a residential area in Sumatra, killing around 140 people, the military said.
Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country's police chief said on Monday.
China on Thursday expressed "serious concern" over the blowing up of a Chinese fishing vessel seized by Indonesia six years ago, the first such incident under President Joko Widodo.
Malaysia and Indonesia said on Wednesday they would offer shelter to 7,000 "boat people" adrift at sea in rickety boats but, anxious not to encourage a fresh influx, made clear that their assistance was temporary and they would take no more.
A Brazilian man executed in Indonesia for drug trafficking who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder did not understand what was happening to him until his final moments, a priest assigned as his spiritual adviser told Australia's ABC radio on Thursday.
