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Second quake hits Sumatra, new tsunami warning

A powerful earthquake measuring 8,2 struck Indonesia’s Sumatra region on Wednesday, followed by a 6,6-magnitude later in the day, triggering tsunami warnings in the Indian Ocean…

Tsunami warning after big Sumatra quake

A powerful earthquake measuring 7,9 struck struck near Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings in Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Sri Lanka, officials…

East Timor drowns in language soup

Portuguese is one of the two official languages in East Timor, but you can hardly hear it spoken in the streets of the young nation. The tiny country was a Portuguese colony for…

Indonesia resumes search for missing plane

Indonesian rescuers launched new sea, land and air searches on Wednesday for a missing plane with 102 people aboard after initial reports its wreckage had been found turned out…

Indonesian airliner still missing, officials say

Senior Indonesian officials said on Tuesday reports that an airliner with 102 people on board had been found on Sulawesi island were wrong, and the plane was still missing.…

Quake survivors complain of slow aid

Cramped in a single tent sheltering 41 people, survivors of last month’s Indonesian earthquake at this hamlet complain they receive only one meal a day, with assistance still…

Quake recovery efforts overshadowed by volcano

Thousands of Indonesians, already shaken from an earthquake last month, were evacuated from the slopes of a trembling volcano as it threatened to spark a second emergency on…

Indonesian Muslims storm Danish embassy building

Hardline Indonesian Muslims stormed into an office block housing the Danish embassy on Friday protesting cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark, as others demanded…

Indonesia’s poor take reality TV by storm

Forget jaded celebrities slumming it on the dance floor and illicit housemate sex: Indonesians are glued to reality TV programmes featuring the country’s most down-at-heel.…

In traffic-clogged Jakarta, monorail remains a mirage

Sick of being stuck in gridlocked traffic or jostled in overcrowded buses, Jakartans wonder whether their public transport dream, the city’s first monorail, is ever going to…

Terrorism ruled out in Indonesian air crash

Investigators on Tuesday hunted for clues in the wreckage of the crashed jetliner in northern Indonesia as the airline ruled out terrorism in the disaster that killed at least…

Thirteen dead, many injured in bombing of Jakarta hotel

A car bomb ripped through the American-owned JW Marriott hotel in the business district of Jakarta on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and leaving more than 100 injured,…