Forest fires raging across Indonesia have sent air quality levels across Southeast Asia plummeting as they belch out emissions that aggravate global warming.

The country’s palm oil industry bears much of the blame for the out-of-control blazes critics say, as producers burn land to make way for their plantations.

An Australian tourist was escorted to a mental hospital in Bangli regency last week, after she reportedly caused quite a scene at an Ubud hotel when she took off her clothes outside the privacy of her room.

A 5-meter long python was reportedly spotted in Denpasar, Bali, earlier this morning, causing quite a stir in the area before it was eventually captured by local authorities. 

According to an official from the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), local residents found the snake slithering around a cemetery located on Jl.

A prosecutor at the Denpasar Court yesterday demanded that Adi Aprianto, a man from Lampung who was arrested in June for allegedly attacking and attempting to sexually assault a woman in Denpasar, be sentenced to 7 years in prison.

by Sultan Ambon

At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured Thursday in a strong earthquake that rocked Indonesia’s remote Maluku islands, triggering landslides that buried at least one of the victims, the disaster agency said.