Time line
2008 January - Former President Suharto dies.
2008 July - Final report by joint Indonesian-East Timorese Truth Commission blames Indonesia for the human rights violations in the run-up to East Timor's independence in 1999 and urges it to apologise. President Yudhoyono expresses "deep regret" but stops short of an apology.
2008 November - Three Islamic militants convicted of carrying out the 2002 Bali bombings are executed.
2009 July - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wins re-election.
Twin suicide bomb attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta kill nine people and injure scores of others.
Pressure mounts on militants
2009 September - Police shoot dead Indonesia's most-wanted Islamist militant Noordin Mohammad Top, thought to be responsible for a series of deadly attacks across the archipelago.
2010 February-March - Several suspected militants are arrested in series of raids on alleged training camps of groups thought to be linked to Jemaah Islamiah (JI) in Aceh province. Fourteen men are charged with plotting to launch terrorist attacks.
2010 March - Police shoot dead Dulmatin - an alleged leading member of JI and the last main suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings still at large - during a raid on a Jakarta internet cafe.
2010 October - Indonesia admits that men seen torturing Papuan villagers in a video are members of the military.
President Yudhoyono calls off a state visit to the Netherlands because of a threatened bid by separatists to have him arrested.
2010 November - US President Barack Obama visits, hailing Indonesia as an example of how a developing nation can embrace democracy and diversity.
2011 February - Two churches are set alight in central Java during a protest by hundreds of Muslims about blasphemy.
Three members of the Ahmadiyah sect, a minority Muslim group, are bludgeoned to death in a mob attack in West Java.
Radicals in court
2011 June - Radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir gets 15-year jail sentence for backing an Islamist militant training camp.
2011 December - Pay deal ends acrimonious three-month strike by 8,000 workers at copper and gold mine owned by US company Freeport-McMoran in the restive eastern province of Papua.
Dutch government apologises for massacre of at least 150 people in the village of Rawagede, on the island of Java, in 1947, during Indonesia's war of independence.
2012 March - Court sentences Islamist militant Pepi Fernando to 18 years in prison for a parcel-bombing campaign targeting Muslim leaders and police.
2012 June - Jakarta court sentences bombmaker Umar Patek to 20 years in prison for his role in the 2002 Bali attacks. He was extradited from Pakistan in 2011. The sentencing brings to an end the 10-year investigation into the bombings.
2013 February - Eight soldiers are shot dead in two separate attacks by armed men in Papua province.
2013 June - Parliament approves a major petrol and diesel price hike to cut the ballooning fuel subsidy, sparking violent protests.
2013 September - Via its ambassador in Jakarta, the Netherlands publicly apologises for summary executions carried out by the Dutch army in the 1940s.
2013 November - Major diplomatic row with Australia over allegations that Australia spied on the president.
Widodo presidency
2014 April - Opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) comes out ahead in parliamentary election, but wins fewer votes than expected.
2014 July - Joko Widodo is declared the winner in the presidential election.
2015 January - Brazil and the Netherlands recall their ambassadors from Indonesia after the execution by firing squad of two of their citizens for drug trafficking.
2015 April - Australia recalls ambassador after Indonesia executes two Australian drug convicts, in a group also including three Nigerians, an Indonesian, a Brazilian and a Ghanaian.
2015 May - Indonesia and Malaysia agree to rescue and provide temporary shelter to Rohingya migrants fleeing Myanmar by boat, after weeks of mounting humanitarian crisis.
2016 January - Islamic State media claim responsibility for coordinated attacks near popular shopping centre in central Jakarta.
2016 October - Parliament approves harsher penalties including chemical castration, for child sex offenders.
2016 November - Indonesia agrees to help investigate the disappearance of three Dutch warships that were sunk in sunk in the Second World War.
2016 December - The Netherlands agrees to launch an inquiry into the conclusion of its colonial rule in Indonesia in the 1940s. Dutch troops are suspected of having killed tens of thousands of people during the war of independence.
2008 January - Former President Suharto dies.
2008 July - Final report by joint Indonesian-East Timorese Truth Commission blames Indonesia for the human rights violations in the run-up to East Timor's independence in 1999 and urges it to apologise. President Yudhoyono expresses "deep regret" but stops short of an apology.
2008 November - Three Islamic militants convicted of carrying out the 2002 Bali bombings are executed.
2009 July - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wins re-election.
Twin suicide bomb attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta kill nine people and injure scores of others.
Pressure mounts on militants
2009 September - Police shoot dead Indonesia's most-wanted Islamist militant Noordin Mohammad Top, thought to be responsible for a series of deadly attacks across the archipelago.
2010 February-March - Several suspected militants are arrested in series of raids on alleged training camps of groups thought to be linked to Jemaah Islamiah (JI) in Aceh province. Fourteen men are charged with plotting to launch terrorist attacks.
2010 March - Police shoot dead Dulmatin - an alleged leading member of JI and the last main suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings still at large - during a raid on a Jakarta internet cafe.
2010 October - Indonesia admits that men seen torturing Papuan villagers in a video are members of the military.
President Yudhoyono calls off a state visit to the Netherlands because of a threatened bid by separatists to have him arrested.
2010 November - US President Barack Obama visits, hailing Indonesia as an example of how a developing nation can embrace democracy and diversity.
2011 February - Two churches are set alight in central Java during a protest by hundreds of Muslims about blasphemy.
Three members of the Ahmadiyah sect, a minority Muslim group, are bludgeoned to death in a mob attack in West Java.
Radicals in court
2011 June - Radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir gets 15-year jail sentence for backing an Islamist militant training camp.
2011 December - Pay deal ends acrimonious three-month strike by 8,000 workers at copper and gold mine owned by US company Freeport-McMoran in the restive eastern province of Papua.
Dutch government apologises for massacre of at least 150 people in the village of Rawagede, on the island of Java, in 1947, during Indonesia's war of independence.
2012 March - Court sentences Islamist militant Pepi Fernando to 18 years in prison for a parcel-bombing campaign targeting Muslim leaders and police.
2012 June - Jakarta court sentences bombmaker Umar Patek to 20 years in prison for his role in the 2002 Bali attacks. He was extradited from Pakistan in 2011. The sentencing brings to an end the 10-year investigation into the bombings.
2013 February - Eight soldiers are shot dead in two separate attacks by armed men in Papua province.
2013 June - Parliament approves a major petrol and diesel price hike to cut the ballooning fuel subsidy, sparking violent protests.
2013 September - Via its ambassador in Jakarta, the Netherlands publicly apologises for summary executions carried out by the Dutch army in the 1940s.
2013 November - Major diplomatic row with Australia over allegations that Australia spied on the president.
Widodo presidency
2014 April - Opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) comes out ahead in parliamentary election, but wins fewer votes than expected.
2014 July - Joko Widodo is declared the winner in the presidential election.
2015 January - Brazil and the Netherlands recall their ambassadors from Indonesia after the execution by firing squad of two of their citizens for drug trafficking.
2015 April - Australia recalls ambassador after Indonesia executes two Australian drug convicts, in a group also including three Nigerians, an Indonesian, a Brazilian and a Ghanaian.
2015 May - Indonesia and Malaysia agree to rescue and provide temporary shelter to Rohingya migrants fleeing Myanmar by boat, after weeks of mounting humanitarian crisis.
2016 January - Islamic State media claim responsibility for coordinated attacks near popular shopping centre in central Jakarta.
2016 October - Parliament approves harsher penalties including chemical castration, for child sex offenders.
2016 November - Indonesia agrees to help investigate the disappearance of three Dutch warships that were sunk in sunk in the Second World War.
2016 December - The Netherlands agrees to launch an inquiry into the conclusion of its colonial rule in Indonesia in the 1940s. Dutch troops are suspected of having killed tens of thousands of people during the war of independence.