The law is criticised by labour and green groups as being too pro-business, replacing a similar 2020 law that had been ruled partially unconstitutional.
The raging inferno caused people to flee in panic and the evacuation of residential areas nearby the depot run by state energy firm Pertamina in north Jakarta.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hits the province of Papua in Indonesia, causing the collapse of a restaurant.
Widodo says the government would seek to restore the rights of victims "fairly and wisely without negating judicial resolving", though did not specify how.
Jakarta, Indonesia's current capital, is sinking at an alarming rate due to the excessive extraction of groundwater.
The country's drug regulators investigates if the chemicals found in the syrups could have been behind the fatalities among children in Jakarta.
Indonesia's chief security minister says the government will form an independent fact-finding team which would include academics and experts as well as government officials to probe what happened.
Indonesia is considering joining India and China in buying Russian oil despite threat of US sanctions, the Financial Times reports after an interview with President Joko Widodo.
The new capital will cover about 56,180 hectares in East Kalimantan province on the Indonesian part of Borneo, which the country shares with Malaysia and Brunei.
The two-stage drills off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island involved eight warships and four aircraft from Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Brunei.
A formal statement, which was issued by ASEAN leaders after they met with Myanmar General Min Aung Hlaing in Jakarta, calls for “immediate cessation of violence in Myanmar” and urges all parties to “exercise utmost restraint”.
Unidentified woman wearing a long black robe and a blue veil points a gun at several police officers in National Police Headquarters before being shot dead.
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