Indonesia

Philippine troops killed an Abu Sayyaf rebel commander blamed for years of ransom kidnappings and on Sunday rescued the last of his four Indonesian captives, the military said. Marines wounded Amajan Sahidjuan in a gunbattle Saturday…
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Friday called for democracy to be restored and violence to be halted in Myanmar and for Southeast Asian leaders to hold a high-level meeting to discuss the situation there. “I will immediately call the…
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A bus carrying dozens of pilgrims plunged down a steep ravine on Indonesia’s Java island, killing at least 27 people including junior high school students, authorities said Thursday. Rescuers worked through the night using cranes to…
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Indonesia said on Monday it would be investigating Iranian and Panamanian tankers it had seized over suspicion of illegally transferring oil in its waters. Indonesia’s Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) on Sunday held the two tankers in…
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Relatives of 62 people killed when an Indonesian passenger jet slammed into the sea scattered flowers at the crash site Friday, as investigators look for clues to why the plane dropped from the sky minutes after takeoff. The memorial…
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Jakarta - (Reuters): Indonesia's Ministry of Health data showed that the country recorded a record daily increase in the number of deaths from the Coronavirus, which reached 308, Tuesday, bringing the total to 26,590 deaths, along with…
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At least 56 people have been killed after an earthquake struck Indonesia’s West Sulawesi province on Friday, the disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said on Sunday, the latest in a string of disasters to hit the Southeast Asian country.…
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Java - (Reuters): The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said, Thursday, that a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, at a depth of 10 kilometers. On September 28, 2018, an earthquake with a…
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In Indonesia, searches for the two black boxes continue for the Sriwigawa Air plane, which crashed in the Java Sea on Saturday, with 62 people on board, as the plane's debris impedes access to the two boxes. Indonesian navy divers on the…
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The head of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Commission told CNN that they have located two different locations for the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) from Sriwijaya Air Flight 182. Suryanto Cahyono…
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