Joko Widodo

Navy and test teams for border

Prime Minister James Marape said the security and medical measures are being deployed to ensure the land border shared with Indonesia prevent traditional and illegal crossing.

The deployments are in line with the extended State of Emergency for two months in response to the growing number of COVID019 cases around the world.

Prime Minister Marape, said following the special Parliament sitting to extend the SOE, they have gone full steam into beefing up security and medical monitoring at the PNG Indonesian border.

Small West Papua protest during Jokowi visit to NZ parliament

But the protestors were vying for airspace with a group of Indonesians who were there to cheer Joko Widodo in his flying visit.

It turned into a sing-off on the steps of New Zealand's parliament.

Dozens of Indonesians, buoyed on by a handful of officials, singing nationalist themes with great vigour as they awaited their president, known as Jokowi.

Alongside them, outnumbered but not diminished, around twenty people calling for an end to human rights abuses in West Papua.

Indonesia Pres cancels trip after protests

Widodo informed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of his decision Saturday and instructed his Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi to reschedule his visit, according to a statement released from the palace.

Violent clashes erupted in Jakarta on Friday as protesters demanding the ouster of the city's governor, who has been accused of blasphemy against Muslims, clashed with police, CNN Indonesia reported.

7 firms, 133 people named suspects in Indonesia forest fires

National Police spokesman Col. Suharsono said 27 more companies and 85 individuals are still under investigation by police task forces in six provinces in Sumatra and Kalimantan on the Indonesian part of Borneo.

President Joko Widodo has ordered law enforcement agencies to take "stern actions" include revoking their forest concessions and blacklisting those responsible for the fires.