The police chief and at least eight other officers in the Indonesian city of Malang, where a stampede at a football stadium left 125 people dead, have been suspended, a national police spokesman said Monday."Based on the investigation carried out... ...

JAKARTA, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian authorities have formed an independent fact-finding team to investigate Saturday's deadly stampede that occurred after a football match in East Java province, Coordinating Minister of Political, Legal and Se...

JAKARTA -- The Indonesian authorities have formed an independent fact-finding team to investigate Saturday's deadly stampede that occurred after a football match in East Java province, Coordinating Minister of Political, Legal and Security Affairs Ma...

An Indonesian football club president said ?lives are more precious than soccer? after the stadium disasterArema FC president Gilang Widya Pramana has said he is ready to accept the blame for the Kanjuruhan Stadium tragedy in East Java, Indonesia, wh...

An Indonesian football club president said "lives are more precious than soccer" after the stadium disaster Arema FC president Gilang Widya Pramana has said he is ready to...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - Gaining the right to host next year's Under-20 World Cup was a major milestone in Indonesia's soccer development, raising hopes that a successful tournament would turn around long-standing problems that have blighted the sport in...

JAKARTA, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's inflation in September reached 1.17 percent, the highest since December 2014, as a result of fuel price hikes in the country, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) said on Monday. The annual inflation rate rose to 5.95 pe...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Group C winner Iran, seeking a 13th title, will face Group D runner-up Vietnam in quarterfinals round of the AFC Futsal Asian Cup Kuwait 2022 on Tuesday. - Sports news - The defending champion defeated Lebanon 9-0 on Sunday to end...

By Amit KumarNew Delhi [India], October 3 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh will be participating in the 8th G20 Parliamentary Speakers' Summit in Jakarta. Om Birla will be leading the Indian delegation to Ja...

New Delhi [India], October 3 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has expressed condolences to the families of victims who lost their lives during a stampede at a football match in Indonesia that killed 174 people. "Deeply saddened by the tr...

JAKARTA -- As of Sunday, 125 people were confirmed dead from a stampede after a football match in Indonesia's East Java province, with more than 320 others injured, Indonesia's National Police Chief, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, said Sunday. Previou...

Reforming the Indonesian police needs to be driven from the bottom up by civil society groups. A fatal oversight in Indonesia's history of political reform is the absence of efforts to reform Indonesian police. The militaristic nature of the police ...

Indonesia's constitution separated the military from civilian politics after the fall of Suharto in 1998. But the police didn't get the memo. There's a joke in Indonesia: NKRI, the widely used acronym for the republic, in fact stands for Negara Kepo...

At least 125 were crushed to death on SaturdayFIFA president Gianni Infantino has released a statement on the tragic stadium crush in Malang, Indonesia on Saturday night, which resulted in the deaths of at least 125 football fans.The tragic incident ...

WASHINGTON - At least 125 people have died in a stampede at an East Java, Indonesia, football stadium Saturday night. Another 180 people were injured.East Java Police Chief Nico Afinta told reporters that two members of the police force are among the...

© Provided by Xinhua MALANG, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) --The death toll in a crowd stampede at a football match in Indonesia's East Java province has reached 174 as of Sunday afternoon, according to the province's deputy governor Emil Dardak.The tragedy occ

JAKARTA -- As of Sunday, 125 people were confirmed dead from a stampede after a football match in Indonesia's East Java province, with more than 320 others injured, Indonesia's National Police Chief, General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, said Sunday. Previou...

New Delhi - The queues outside petrol pumps in Sri Lanka have lessened, but not the anxiety.Asanka Sampath, a 43-year-old factory clerk, is forever vigilant. He checks his phone for messages, walks past the pump, and browses social media to see if fu...

London [UK], October 2 (ANI): FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Sunday said that the riot and ensuing stampede at a football match in Indonesia that killed 174 people is a "dark day" for the sport. The violence broke out at a stadium in East Java du...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, 2nd October (WAM/ANTARA) - Indonesia President Joko Widodo has instructed National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabow...

Surat (Gujarat) [India], October 2 (ANI): Badminton star HS Prannoy showed he means business as he marked his return to court after a month's break with a 21-11, 21-9 demolition of Orijit Chaliha to star in Kerala's 3-1 victory over Assam in the Nati...

Istanbul [Turkey], October 2 (ANI): A massive protest by Turkish Uyghurs was staged in Istanbul on Saturday to protest grotesque human rights violations by China on the occasion of its 73rd National Day. Uyghur NGOs and the Uyghur community in Istanb...

WASHINGTON - At least 174 people have died in a stampede at an East Java, Indonesia, football stadium Saturday night. Another 180 people were injured.East Java Police Chief Nico Afinta told reporters that two members of the police force are among the...

JAKARTA, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in a crowd stampede at a football match in Indonesia's East Java province has reached 174 as of Sunday afternoon, according to the province's deputy governor Emil Dardak. Dardak told local media that he rece...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - At least 129 people died and 180 were injured after violence and a stampede erupted following an Indonesian league football match, police said. - World news - Supporters of the Javanese clubs and longtime rivals Arema and Persebay...

Jakarta [Indonesia], October 2 (ANI): The death toll rose to 174 after a riot at a football match in Indonesia broke out on Saturday. At least 174 people have been killed after a riot at a football match in Indonesia. The violence broke out at a stad...

WASHINGTON - At least 127 people died and 180 others were injured in a riot at an East Java, Indonesia, football stadium Saturday night.East Java Police Chief Nico Afinta told reporters that "127 people died, including two police. Thirty-four were ki...

JAYAPURA, INDONESIA - Indonesian security forces Saturday recovered the bodies of four construction workers who were killed in a separatist attack in the restive province of West Papua, police said.The four men were killed late Thursday when gunmen s...

© Provided by Xinhua The horses are galloping through the fields with many children watching excitingly from the sidelines. The whole scene was hot with the flying dust, and the audience are shouting passionately in the distance.

An Indonesian league football match erupted in clashes and deadly stampede At least 125 fans and two officers have reportedly been killed amid chaos at a football game in ...

Jakarta [Indonesia], October 2 (ANI): At least 127 people died after riots broke out in a football match in Indonesia on Saturday night. Children and police officers are among the dead. The soccer match took place inside the Kanjuruhan Stadium in Mal...

JAKARTA, 1st October, 2022 (WAM) -- An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Indonesia's Northern Sumatra province on Saturday, killing one, said...

Jakarta, Indonesia - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's Sumatra island early Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey, killing at least one person and injuring dozens as locals rushed out of buildings seeking safety.The quake hit at a ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran crashed Chinese Taipei 10-1 in Group C of the 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup on Friday. - Sports news - Team Melli booked its berth in the competition's knockout stage underway in Kuwait.Hossein Tayebi and Saeid Ahmad Abbasi score...

PALU, Indonesia - Indonesia's elite counterterrorism police have killed a militant who was believed responsible for the killings of Christian farmers on Sulawesi island and was the last remaining member of an organization that pledged allegiance to t...

This year's Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster.The secretive Nobel committees never hint who will win the prizes in me...

KABUL -- At least 19 people were killed and 27 others wounded on Friday in a suicide explosion that rocked an education center in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. "Students were preparing for an exam when a suicide bomber struck at this educational cen...

Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam], September 30 (ANI): Indian shuttlers N Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor defeated Malaysia's Cheah Yee See and Chan Peng Soon on Friday to advance to the mixed doubles semifinals of the Vietnam Open 2022. The Indian team defeat...

JAKARTA, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian food and drug administration (BPOM) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the mRNA-platform COVID-19 vaccine, AWcorna, developed by Chinese companies. AWcorna is a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine dev...

JAKARTA, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 12 people working on building a road in Indonesia's province of West Papua were attacked by armed separatists, with four of the workers shot dead, a spokesman of the provincial police confirmed on Friday. Adam E...

New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant led an Indian official delegation to the third G20 Sherpa meeting of Indonesia's G20 Presidency, held in Yogyakarta from September 26-29, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) sa...

New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar met the Indian Diaspora in Bali, Indonesia on Thursday and said that the ecosystems for business and welfare have witnessed a sea change und...

JAKARTA, Indonesia: Irfan Setiaputra, CEO of Indonesian flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, has confirmed to Reuters that last week the airline asked a New York bankruptcy court to recognise its recent debt restructuring agreement in a Jakarta court, unde...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican said Thursday it had imposed disciplinary sanctions on Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo in the past two years, following allegations that he sexually abused boys in East Timor during the 1990s.The Vatica...

Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam], September 29 (ANI): B Sai Praneeth, a former world championship bronze medalist, continues to struggle as he was knocked out in the second round of the Vietnam Open 2022 after losing to fellow countryman Rithvik Sanjeevi S...

"Many Asian countries, especially Malaysia and Indonesia, show great interest in our defense industry products. Agreements are being signed," Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a press conference in Tokyo.ANKARA, Turkey: Signaling a soari...

New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): India's CS: GO team produced spirited performances in the South Asian Regional Qualifiers of the 14th World Esports Championships after hammering Pakistan and Bangladesh in the South Asian regional qualifiers. T...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Saeid Ahmad Abbasi says Iran underlined its title credentials with 5-0 win over Indonesia in Group C of the AFC Futsal Asian Cup Kuwait 2022 on Wednesday. - Sports news - The win puts Iran in pole position, two points ahead of Chi...

SHARJAH, 21st September, 2022 (WAM) -- The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) organised today a seminar to explore investment opp...

ABU DHABI, 14th September, 2022 (WAM) -- The UAE has always believed that global challenges can only be resolved through inclusive global solu...

BADUNG, Bali, 13th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Indonesia will invite G20 nations at the Labour and Employment Ministers Meeting (LEMM) to develop...

BADUNG, Bali, 13th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Indonesia will invite G20 nations at the Labour and Employment Ministers Meeting (LEMM) to develop ...

MADRID, 11th September, 2022 (WAM) -- The countdown to World Tourism Day 2022 is now underway, with every part of the sector invited to be an ...

MADRID, 11th September, 2022 (WAM) -- The countdown to World Tourism Day 2022 is now underway, with every part of the sector invited to be an a...

JAKARTA, 10th September, 2022 (WAM) -- An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck the region of Papua in Indonesia on Saturday and has no potential...

JAKARTA, 6th September, 2022 (WAM) -- The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has taken part in the 3rd G20 Health Working Group (HWG3) ...

JAKARTA, 6th September, 2022 (WAM) -- The World Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) supports the government of the Republic of Indonesia ...

JAKARTA, 3th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Indonesia has a viable path to reaching its target of net zero emissions by 2060, bringing major benefit...

JAKARTA, 29th August, 2022 (WAM) -- An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck West Sumatra near Pariaman, Indonesia, on Monday, Reuters quoted the...

DENPASAR, 22nd August, 2022 (WAM) -- A 5.8-earthquake rocked the Indonesian tourist island of Bali on Monday, Reuters reported. The earthquak...

JAKARTA, 20th August, 2022 (WAM) -- Indonesia has confirmed its first monkeypox infection, detected in a person who had returned from an unide...

JAKARTA, 18th August, 2022 (WAM) -- The Government of Indonesia has set its economic growth target at 5.3% next year, President Joko Widodo sa...

ABU DHABI, 17th August, 2022 (WAM) -- President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a congratulatory message to President ...

JAKARTA, 17th August, 2022 (WAM) -- Indonesia plans to raise the number of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) entering the digi...