Incumbent Fauzi Bowo conceded defeat in Thursday's run-off election for Jakarta, the chaotic Indonesian capital where the new governor's challenges will include tackling congestion and poor infrastructure.

Authorities say the number of people killed when a wooden ferry boat sank in a river in Indonesia's part of Borneo has climbed to 22.

Hundreds of protesters demonstrating against an anti-Islam film torched a press club and a government building in northwest Pakistan on Monday, sparking clashes with police that left at least one person dead.

An Indonesian terror suspect has surrendered himself and confessed to a suicide bomb plot against Buddhists in Jakarta to protest against Myanmar's treatment of Muslim Rohingya, police said Monday.

Arrested Indonesian terror suspects have revealed plots on the parliament building and to attack police in the name of jihad, a senior official said Friday.

Indonesian authorities launched a manhunt and were investigating possible links to terrorism after finding explosive materials at a house in the suburbs of Jakarta, police said Thursday.

Australian planes could be allowed into Indonesian airspace during sea search-and-rescue missions under a proposed plan that would help reduce asylum-seeker deaths, Indonesia's defense minister said Wednesday.

Indonesia's justice minister said Tuesday that his country would extradite human trafficking kingpin Sayed Abbas to Australia next year.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Sunday called on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to pressure the Indonesian government to address rising religious intolerance, a day ahead of her visit to the country.

Two suspected militants and a member of an elite Indonesian anti-terrorism squad died in a shootout as police attempted to capture a group responsible for the death of a policeman a day earlier, authorities said Saturday. Another suspect was injured and arrested, they said.