Scores of aftershocks hit Indonesia after quake kills two
Indonesia’s Moluccas islands were hit by scores of aftershocks on Monday after an earthquake killed at least two people, prompting hundreds of people to flee...
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Indonesia says scores missing after illegal gold mine collapses
By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Indonesian officials said on Wednesday dozens of rescuers were using spades and...
Indonesia reroutes all flights around erupting Anak Krakatau volcano
By Bernadette Christina Munthe and Cindy Silviana JAKARTA, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Indonesia on Thursday raised the alert level for the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano...
Tsunami from erupting Krakatau kills at least 222 in Indonesia (update 2)
By Johan Purnomo and Adi Kurniawan A tsunami killed at least 222 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra...
Indonesia jet had damaged airspeed indicator on last four flights
Indonesian accident investigators said an airspeed indicator of a Boeing Co 737 MAX plane that crashed last week was damaged for its last four flights,...
Black box from crashed Indonesian jet retrieved, diver says
Indonesian divers have retrieved a black box from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea this week with 189 aboard and brought it...
Indonesia hunts for victims, wreckage of air crash
Indonesia on Tuesday stepped up a search for an airliner that plunged into the sea with all 189 aboard feared dead, deploying underwater beacons to...
Doomed Indonesian plane had asked to return to base (Update)
An Indonesian aircraft with 189 people on board crashed into the sea on Monday as it tried to circle back to the capital, Jakarta, from where...
Health fears turn from injury to disease as Indonesia quake toll rises above 2,000
Health workers in Indonesia are struggling to care for tens of thousands of people displaced by an earthquake and tsunami, with a lack of shelter...
Time running out in search for survivors of Indonesia’s quake
Time was running out on Wednesday for anyone trapped in the rubble of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, five days after disaster struck,...
Scale of Indonesian disaster emerges but rescuers hold hope for survivors
The extent of the devastation caused by an earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi should become clearer on Tuesday as rescuers push...
Indonesia rushes to help quake-hit island, death toll likely to rise past 830
Indonesian authorities scrambled on Monday to get aid and rescue equipment into quake-hit Sulawesi island, and prepared to bury some of the at least 832...
Quake, tsunami kills at least 384 on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island (V)
At least 384 people were killed, many swept away as giant waves crashed onto beaches, when a major earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island...
Major quake and tsunami cause deaths in Indonesian city (Update 1)
A tsunami caused deaths when it hit a small city on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday after a major quake offshore, collapsing buildings...
Quake damage in Indonesia exceeds $342m as deaths top 400
Indonesia‘s holiday island of Lombok suffered damage running into more than 5 trillion rupiah ($342 million) from last week’s huge earthquake, authorities said on Monday,...
Indonesian rescuers struggle to reach cut-off villages after deadly quake
Indonesian rescue workers and military personnel resumed their search for survivors and evacuated more victims on the tourist island of Lombok on Tuesday, two days...
Quake kills 91 on Indonesia’s Lombok, tourists flee [V]
Rescue workers found chaos and destruction across the Indonesian resort island of Lombok on Monday after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake killed at least 91 people...
Indonesian villagers kill nearly 300 crocodiles in revenge attack
Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a...
Suicide bomber on motorbike wounds police in Indonesia
A suicide bomber on a motorbike wounded several Indonesian police outside a police building in Surabaya on Monday, a day after Islamist militants launched suicide...
Fifteen dead, dozens injured in fire at oil well in Indonesia
Firefighters in Indonesia struggled on Wednesday to contain a blaze at an oil well in the northwestern province of Aceh that killed at least 15...