Countries searching for the missing Malaysian plane have yet to agree on how to share costs, an Australian search leader said.

Bali police have confirmed they searched a man at the scene of a drug bust that snared Sydney woman Leeza Ormsby, but decided he wasn't a suspect and let him go.

After a fruitless three-month hunt for flight MH370, Australian authorities have taken the first step towards handing over search operations to a private contractor.

A travel insurer has warned tourists about the risk of drinking arak, a locally made alcohol in Bali.

A British woman sailing near Indonesia at the time MH370 vanished says she saw a plane 'burning' and billowing smoke before it crashed.

Darwin remains cut off from all air services and flights from Australia to Bali are being affected as three separate ash plumes billow from an Indonesian volcano.

A vast ash cloud spewing from an Indonesian volcano has already shut Darwin Airport and is spreading south towards Alice Springs, an expert says.

Hugh Biggar goes in search of exotic and elusive wildlife in Indonesia.

Catering for many tastes requires a juggling act, finds Diana Dobson.

Approximately 188 million people are eligible to vote in Indonesia and on July 9 they will choose a new president, writes Chris Wilson.

The Bali drugs case involving a Sydney woman is seemingly at a standstill, one month after her arrest at the scene of a police raid.

Fun, sun and ocean diving away from Bali's noise and bustle proves to be a tonic for Diana Dobson's family.

Schapelle Corby has been warned not to do a much-anticipated media interview, after Indonesian authorities said it could end her parole.

Released Australian whisked away to exclusive resort to spend her first night of freedom.

It took almost 10 years, but convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby is set to taste freedom after Indonesian authorities granted her parole.

Drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been granted parole.

By this time next week, or even earlier, Schapelle Corby could be bodyboarding in the Bali surf.

Schapelle Corby's former lawyer said comments made about the jailed 36-year-old celebrating her release from prison with a "big marijuana joint" were not intended to be taken seriously.

The minister who will decide whether Schapelle Corby will be released on parole from a Bali prison says the Australian will get no special treatment.

Indonesia's justice minister has announced he hopes to sign parole documents for Schapelle Corby within three days.

A New Zealand police training project about to start in the troubled Indonesian territory of West Papua this year has been described by Papuans as "the same as sending money to kill us".

Indonesia's first lady has apologised to her hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers after a series of angry outbursts on the smartphone photo-sharing service.

Tony Abbott has vowed turning asylum seekers' boats back to Indonesia, despite brutality claims and warnings of naval conflict.

Flooding has forced thousands to evacuate Indonesia's capital city once again, as monsoon rains wreaked havoc on Jakarta.