Elon Musk and Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin launched SpaceX's satellite internet service for the nation's health sector on Sunday, aiming to improve access in remote parts of the sprawling archipelago, according to Reuters news (...)
Direct international flights to Bali have resumed for the first time in two years as Indonesia opens the resort island to foreign travelers from all countries, but mandatory quarantine remains in place for all visitors.
Officials had said in October (...)
The much anticipated re-opening of Indonesia's famed tourist island Bali has seen a slow start, with no international flights scheduled, BBC reports.
As of Thursday, fully vaccinated travellers from 19 countries including China, India, and France (...)
An Indonesian court on Wednesday jailed a British woman for six months for slapping an immigration officer in an argument over a fine for overstaying her visa.
Auj-e Taqaddas, 42, was found guilty in a court in Bali's capital, Denpasar, of violence (...)
The Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali erupted Monday evening, ejecting a 2,000-meter-high (6,560-foot-high) column of thick ash and hurling lava down its slopes.
The Indonesian geological agency's Agung monitoring post (...)
An Australian woman and her British DJ boyfriend were jailed on Monday over the killing of a policeman who was beaten to death on a beach on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
Sara Connor and David Taylor were found guilty of the fatal group (...)
A Roman Catholic priest in Indonesia's Bali island has praised Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman as the "true face of peaceful Islam".
Pastor Evensius Dewantara Boli Daton was among six interfaith leaders who greeted King Salman at (...)
An explosion on a speedboat in Bali left two foreigners dead and 18 other tourists injured on Thursday, sparking dramatic scenes as rescuers rushed to haul stunned and bloodied holidaymakers off the vessel.
Dazed passengers, many covered in cuts and (...)
AlQa'dah 15, 1432, Oct 13, 2011, SPA -- Indonesia's resort island of Bali was struck by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake on Thursday, shaking buildings and sending tourists running out of hotels. There were no immediate reports of any casualties, (...)
Ten people were killed and 14 missing Wednesday after a motorized boat capsized off Indonesia's resort island of Bali, a rescue official said.
Of the boat's 35 passengers, the ongoing search had recovered 11 survivors, he was quoted as saying by (...)
A man in the Indonesian resort island of Bali has been declared a fugitive after allegedly setting fire on his ex-wife, their small child, and a housemaid.
As a result, three of them sustained serious burns, Denpasar city police told ANTARA here (...)
A flood reaching a height of up to 1.5 meters submerged more than ten houses in Denpasar, Bali, Tuesday, according to ANTARA.
"The water rose significantly at around 4 am local time when heavy rain was falling in the area. Six houses in the (...)
Nine people were killed on Wednesday after their boat capsized in Badung Strait waters in Klungkung, Bali, ANTARA reported.
The boat belonging to Dewa Nyoman Kawi was carrying 24 passengers from the Kusumba beach to Nusa Penida island when it (...)
The number of patients infected with the H1N1 strain of virus in Bali has up to now increased to four persons, ANTARA quoted Director of Denpasar's Sanglah General Hospital Gusti Lanang Suartana Putra as saying.
"Four previously suspected H1N1 (...)
Floods caused by incessant heavy rains over the past three days have inundated tens of houses and uprooted trees in Denpasar and several districts in Bali Province, ANTARA reported.
"At least 71 families living in Legian, Kuta, have been (...)
Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Soepari said that Indonesia was the third biggest country in the world with tuberculosis sufferers, ANTARA reported.
The minister said that there were no less than 500,000 new tuberculosis sufferers were (...)
A total of 116 prisoners and detainees in correctional institutes across Indonesia died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2007, ANTARA quoted Justice and Human Rights Minister Andi Mattalata as saying today.
"TB is the number two killer disease among (...)
Bali`s provincial administration is making maximum efforts in dealing with preventing and overcoming the spread of bird flu in its territory, Governor Dewa Beratha said, ANTARA News reported.
Among the efforts was the preparation of existing (...)
The Bali police are still examining materials which are believed for a home-made bomb which went off on a parking lot of restaurant Kak Man on Teuku Umar St. Denpasar on Sunday, ANTARA reported.
The materials includes cement, lime, wire, aluminum (...)
A moderate explosion shook Denpasar, the capital of Bali Province, injuring two persons, ANTARA reported.
The explosion was suspected to have come from a home-made bomb which burst in front of a car workshop located around 200 meters from the (...)
Hiro Hiko Kubo (66), a Japanese tourist who was reportedly missing while diving on the Nusa Penida waters, Klungkung district, Bali, was found in a safe condition, ANTARA reported today.
"The victim was stranded to Tanglad village, Nusa Penida, (...)
A strong explosion occurred at the garage of a travel bureau on Jalan Gatot Subroto I, here Tuesday noon, destroying two cars, ANTARA reported.
Police could not yet conclude whether the explosion was of a bomb or of other explosive materials (...)
To be accompanied by a number of United Indonesia Cabinet ministers, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to open the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in the island resort of Bali on Monday, ANTARA reported.
"The (...)
Two infants, who have been suspected of being infected with bird flu or Avian Influenza (AI) virus, were rushed to Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, bringing the number of suspected bird flu patients, who have been treated at the hospital in Bali to 13 so (...)
The conditions of I Nyoman Mar (58), a suspected bird flu patient being treated at Sanglah Hospital here, are improving, ANTARA quoted hopital sources as saying.
Nar, a resident of Banjar Pasar village in Jembrana district, is no longer using a (...)