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Indonesia says scores missing after illegal gold mine collapses
Rescuers said they could hear the voices of some of those trapped in makeshift mining shafts in a muddy hillside in the Bolaang Mongondow area of North Sulawesi province and believed many were still alive.
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Lion Air plane skids off runway at Indonesian airport
The aircraft was operating a Jakarta-Pontianak service, with 182 passengers and seven crew members onboard, Lion Air spokesman Danang Mandala Prihantoro said in a statement.
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Indonesia police apologise for using snake in Papua interrogation
A video circulated online shows a man being questioned about stolen mobile phones seated with his hands tethered behind his back yelling in distress as a snake is pushed towards his face by an officer.
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Indonesian entertainers protest law on 'pornography', blasphemy in music
More than 100 protestors, many carrying placards or playing guitars and drums, took to the streets of Bogor, near Jakarta, on Sunday to demonstrate against the proposed law.
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Indonesia flood, landslide death toll hits 70
Lashed by heavy rain, rivers swelled and burst their banks, inundating dozens of communities across 12 districts as well as parts of the provincial capital Makassar.
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Indonesia floods, landslides death toll climbs to 59
Lashed by the heavy rain, rivers swelled and burst their banks, inundating dozens of communities in 11 districts of southern Sulawesi. Parts of the provincial capital Makassar have also been affected.
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Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes Indonesia
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a statement that, based on available data, there was no current tsunami threat from the event.
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Lion Air ends search for black box, Indonesian investigators plan own probe
The cockpit voice recorder is likely to hold vital clues that could give investigators insight into the actions of the pilots.
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Rescuers search for survivors in deadly Indonesian landslide
Pouring rain, electricity cuts and rough roads are preventing heavy machinery from accessing the area in Sukabumi regency, agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
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Indonesia trims tsunami death toll, hikes injury tally
Authorities said 426 people had been killed - down from a previous tally of 430 - with double-counting by different districts blamed for the change.
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Up in smoke: Indonesia burns mountain of marijuana
Authorities in the Muslim-majority nation's Aceh province took a match to the bricks of pot and also destroyed some 19 kilogrammes of methamphetamine, seized in raids this year.
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Indonesia reroutes all flights around erupting Anak Krakatau volcano
Authorities raised the volcano’s alert level to the second-highest on Thursday, imposing a 5-km exclusion zone.
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Photos and DNA tests as Indonesians search for lost relatives
Grief-stricken Indonesians queued with photos or waited on DNA tests Wednesday, to find out if their missing loved ones were among bodies being held in a hospital morgue after a devastating tsunami tore families apart.
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Indonesia rescuers scramble to reach isolated tsunami-struck towns
Sniffer dogs are being used to find those still missing as grief-stricken relatives lined up at identification centres.
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Indonesian rescuers use drones, sniffer dogs as tsunami death toll rises
At least 128 people remain missing and more than 1,400 people were injured.
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Sick, hungry Indonesia tsunami survivors cram shelters
The latest death toll stood at 373, with 1,459 people injured and another 128 missing.
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Indonesian tsunami death toll climbs to 373
Experts warned that more deadly waves could slam the devastated region after Saturday night’s disaster.
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SA govt sends condolences to Indonesia following deadly tsunami
The tsunami struck the islands of Java and Sumatra over the weekend and has so far killed 281 people.
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Rescuers dig through rubble for survivors after Indonesian tsunami kills 280
Indonesia’s disaster agency had put the death toll at 222 on Sunday, with about 850 injured and 28 people missing, but raised it to 280 early on Monday.
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222 dead as volcano-triggered tsunami hits Indonesia
Hundreds of buildings were destroyed by the wave, which hit the coast of southern Sumatra and the western tip of Java on Saturday after a volcano known as the "child" of Krakatoa erupted.
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Indonesian rock band swept away by tsunami
Video footage shared on social media showed partygoers enjoying the music and then screaming as the waves crashed into the stage and band members were swept away.
