Aid arrives in cyclone-struck Indonesia as death toll rises

Indonesia's Diponegoro University holds its graduation ceremony without its flesh-and-blood graduates, with robots receiving diplomas from the rector's hands in the students' stead. The 2,500 graduates were only allowed to watch the formalities via live broadcast due to pandemic social distancing, but they were represented by the top three students in each faculty -- who had their faces displayed on-screen as the robots took the stage.

Hit by a coronavirus-sparked match freeze and huge pay cuts, Indonesia's out-of-work footballers are struggling. Andri Muliadi, a Borneo FC player who brought his family home to Sumatra after matches were called off has turned to promoting his in-laws' tiny coffee business online.

Thousands flee the scene of the rumbling Mount Ili Lewotolok in Indonesia after it burst to life for the first time in several years, belching a massive column of smoke and ash. The crater's last major eruption was in 2017.

Medics at the Mamuju Regional Hospital battle exhaustion and the risk of Covid-19 as they race to treat scores of people injured by a devastating earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island. Most of the patients are treated under tents after the hospital's main building was damaged.

Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupts, belching out huge clouds of smoke and ash that billow down the sides of its rumbling crater. The volcano, near Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta, shoots hot ash into the air around three dozen times throughout the day - some of it travelling as far as three kilometres (two miles) away from its peak.

Overnight torrential rains have pounded Indonesia's capital Jakarta and surrounding areas, triggering floods. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate and move to shelters. "I was so afraid of being swept away by the floodwater," said one local resident.

Ten orangutans have been airlifted back to their natural habitat on Indonesia's Borneo island, in the first release of the apes into the wild for a year due to the dangers of coronavirus infection. A group of 10 apes -- shuttled inside transport cages encased in netting -- took to the air this month to avoid days-long land and sea routes that could expose them to coronavirus.

Relatives of the Indonesian submarine crew killed in a sinking last week will be given homes, President Joko Widodo says. The government has been urged to recover the victims' bodies from the depths.

The Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria has pledged his country's partnership with the Sokoto state government in the area of Education, Infrastructure and Agriculture.

Alarmed by the mountains of plastic waste leaching into Indonesia's waters, two best friends are taking on the environmental menace by turning crisp bags and shampoo packets into paving bricks.

Assembled from old household items, the Delta robot has been delivering food and cheer to residents in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Indonesia has one of the world's highest Covid mortality rates for children, according to its paediatric association and NGO Save the Children.