Pars Today
An Indonesian soldier was killed on Monday in a clash with students in Papua, a military spokesman said, while media reports said three students also died in the incident that marks a new escalation in unrest in the easternmost area.
Thousands of schools were shuttered across Malaysia and Indonesia Thursday, affecting at least 1.7 million pupils, officials said, as toxic haze from rampant forest fires sent air quality plummeting.
Indonesia is sending back hundreds of containers of contaminated waste to the West after shipments supposedly containing plastic meant for recycling were found to hide hazardous substances, customs officials said.
Indonesian police have banned demonstrations and speeches promoting separatism in the easternmost region of Papua, which had been rocked by protests for two weeks, the state news agency, Antara, reported on Monday.
Security forces have opened fire on protesters in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, killing six people in a clash at a government office in the Deiyai region, a resident and a website citing a separatist group said.
Indonesia's Police Chief said on Monday that authorities in the easternmost Papua region were regaining control after protesters set fire to tires and torched a local parliament building over the recent detention of scores of Papuan students.
Indonesia's capital Jakarta and some neighboring provinces on Java island have been hit by a major electricity outage after problems at a number of power stations on Java, the country's state electricity company PLN said in a statement on Sunday.
Indonesians living near the coast in Lampung, south Sumatra province sought higher ground after a powerful earthquake struck on Friday, August 2, causing authorities to issue a tsunami warning that was later lifted.
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Moluccas islands in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported, causing panic among residents, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.
Over to the AFC U-20 Futsal Championship, Iran have won the battle for third place after a 9-1 demolition of Indonesia in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz.