Police and military personnel will be deployed to secure Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations across the country and focused on predominantly Christian regions like Papua.

Flights to Australia from Indonesia and Bali face delays as randomly selected flights are subject to intense screenings to stop the highly-contagious from entering the country.

A Byron Bay mother locked up in Bali's notorious Kerobokan prison for killing a local police officer could be released by June 2020.

Armina 'Arms' Rosenberg, who has pink hair and is a talented pole dancer, has been the global equities portfolio manager at Grok Ventures since 2017.

She's currently enjoying a loved-up trip with her actor boyfriend Joel Kinnaman in Bali, Indonesia.And on Saturday, the couple put on a bizarre, and messy, PDA.

She's known for flaunting her famous curves on Instagram, where she has more than 10 million followers.

Chris Bray, 37, and his wife Jess live on Christmas Island, a 52-square-mile Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. The couple invented car 'shoes' to protect the crabs.

Urbnsurf Melbourne is Australia's first wave park, and Daily Mail Australia reporter Jackson Barron was invited down to test their facilities before the grand opening in January.

Arya Permana, from Indonesia, was known as the world's fattest child when he weighed 30 stone aged 10 in 2016, but has since undergone surgery and taken up exercise and now weighs 13 stone.

Gay-friendly villas in Bali are being subject to a conservative police crackdown, and being forced to sign documents saying they will no longer promote to LGBTQ people.

The video shows the Langowan Market, which is a traditional market in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province selling wild animals for consumption.

The 34-year-old admitted to packing 36 cigarette cartons into his luggage for a flight into Perth International Airport from Bali on November 18, 2018.

Professor Bryan Fry, from the University of Queensland's Venom Evolution Lab, took a team of researchers to Indonesia to study slow lorises.

The orangutan, who lives in a conservation forest area in Borneo, was spotted offering an outstretched arm to a man who had been in the river clearing away snakes.

Twenty luwaks - a species of cat-like civets - were found living in cramped and filthy wire cages in a backyard farm in Bali, Indonesia, without access to food or water, and in the full glare of the sun.

Keith Cooper, the former Vice President of training and professional services at Boeing, was fired on Wednesday over shocking internal messages between employees about the grounded 737 Max.

Queen Maxima, 48, donned a statement feathered hat and burgundy dress as she arrived for a talk about the joint future of Indonesia and the Netherlands in Amsterdam today.

It looks like Married At First Sight brides Natasha Spencer and Tash Herz were more than just friends behind the scenes.

A school in Indonesia has expelled two senior students after they force-fed 77 younger pupils human faeces with a spoon in an incident at a Catholic seminary school in the south of the country.

Chloe Chapman and DJ Fisher exchanged vows last week, in front of family and friend, including surfing greats Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson and Laura Enever.

Dozens gathered to watch as the humiliated woman was whipped along with seven other victims outside a mosque in the provincial capital Banda Aceh.

The 41-year-old woman was living in Malaysia but visited Jakarta in February, where she went out dancing with a 31-year-old local woman on Valentines Day.

Authorities in the Jakarta-area were questioning two people after the Tuesday evening raid at a warehouse in satellite city Tangerang, where nearly half a million surgical masks were found.

Queen Maxima, 48, and King Willem-Alexander, 52, of The Netherlands landed in wind-swept Jakarta today, ready to start their four-day-long state visit which will see them tour Indonesia.

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands proved her fashion prowess once again when stepping out in Indonesia today - dressed to impress in a floral ensemble.

Indonesia's government said the 53-year-old woman with diabetes and lung disease had died in hospital after being admitted in a critical condition.

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands is well-known for her colourful wardrobe and today she made no exception - opting for two cheerfully bright ensembles on day three of her Indonesia tour .

Queen Maxima, 48 and King Willem-Alexander, 52, visited the visit the eco village of Silima Lombu on the final day of their state visit to Indonesia, where they were gifted a musical instrument.

Friends of Kimberley Finlayson (pictured) paid tribute to her 'passion, creativity and determination' after she died in hospital on the Indonesian island of Bali.

A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake has struck Bali, Indonesia.The European Seismological Centre (EMSC) said the quake was at a depth of 10 kilometres.

The former UN diplomat, who went on to serve in Finland's highest office between 1994 and 2000, was confirmed to have caught the virus on Monday, the Finnish president's Office said.

The pregnant star, 30, shared the snap from her trip to Indonesia as she hearkened back to a time before she was holed up in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The 65-year-old flew into Sydney from Indonesia on March 22 and was told to self-isolate to prevent the spread of the deadly disease.

Panic-stricken passengers on a ferry preparing to dock in Maumere, Indonesia caused scenes of hysteria after jumping overboard once word got out that Covid-19 carriers were suspected on board.

A male elephant was found on Wednesday afternoon in the Riau province of Indonesia. The elephant lived in the southeast Tesso elephant area of Riau's Tesso Nilo National Park.

Primates is narrated by Chris Packham, and begins on BBC One next Sunday. It follows Tapanuli orangutan in Batang Toru, northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

Since I have begun to write on the urgent need to close live animal markets, I have been surprised by the support I have received from across the UK.

The 13ft crocodile dragged the man into the Lakar River delta on Sunday night and savaged him while his friend screamed for help.

Some 60 cash-strapped animal parks - home to roughly 70,000 creatures - across the Southeast Asian archipelago have been closed since mid-March.

Andriadi Putra, 34, from Medan in North Sumatra, Indonesia, has trouble eating and talking because of the 'trunk' like tumour weighing around 88lbs. Putra suffers from Neurofibromatosis.

Speaking to Page Six , the Love Actually script editor Emma Freud has re-instated that arguably the most romantic moment in the entire film was choreographed by her.

Mark Revill (pictured) is accused of breaching the order that prohibits him contacting Keira Knightley or going within 100 metres of her home. He pleaded not guilty at Blackfriars Crown Court.

Keira Knightley stepped out in a large grey overcoat and jeans with her hair down looking determined on Tuesday morning as her stalker remained in police custody.

Keira Knightley stands front and centre in the music video for husband James Righton's latest track, Let Her Love In. The actress dons a pink wig and plenty of sequins as she dances around to the catchy tune.

The flawless Pirates of the Caribbean actress didn't bother putting on make-up before stepping out in London on Wednesday afternoon.

The couple made a rare public appearance at the Chanel ready-to-wear fall/winter 2018/19 presentation as part of Paris Fashion Week at Le Grand Palais in the French capital on Tuesday.

Keira Knightley was spotted on the first day of filming for Official Secrets in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire on Wednesday.

Keira Knightley adopted a sombre expression as she stepped out of a black cab while filming scenes in Manchester's city centre with her co-star Indira Varma for her political drama Official Secrets.

The actress put on an animated display as filming got under way for the political drama Official Secrets in West Yorkshire on Thursday.

Experts claim mud can cure conditions such as eczema and rosacea as well as soothe aches and pains. Alice Smellie revealed the best places to try a mud treatment in the UK.