Officials say they have confiscated 75 tons of an explosive material being shipped from Malaysia to Indonesia and are investigating possible links to terrorism.

Indonesia still faces a key risk of new militant attacks as Islamic radicals have set up new cells in recent years and some bomb experts remain at large, the head of the country's anti-terrorism unit said on Thursday.

Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction.

A disaster management official says at least 40 people have been hurt and several buildings damaged by a strong undersea earthquake in central Indonesia.

A strong undersea earthquake killed two people and damaged buildings on the remote island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia, officials said Monday.

Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono vowed Thursday to crack down on judicial corruption after wiretap evidence exposed an alleged high-level conspiracy to frame anti-graft fighters.

Two of Indonesia's leading law enforcement officials suddenly stepped down Thursday to soothe a tide of public rage over an escalating corruption scandal that has forced intervention by the president.

Public calls mounted Monday for Indonesia's president to defend the top corruption-fighting body in what is seen as a major test of his commitment to democratic reforms as he begins a second term in office.

Thousands of dead fish and clumps of oil have been found drifting near Indonesia's coastline more than two months after an underwater well began leaking in the Timor Sea, officials and fishermen said.