‘Big parts’ of the ill-fated AirAsia Flight QZ8501 have been found in the Java Sea off the island of Borneo late on Friday night.
As relatives waited for news of their loved ones, helicopters struggled to recover bodies from the site where AirAsia Flight QZ8501 disappeared.
Indonesian officials on Tuesday spotted six bodies from the AirAsia flight that disappeared two days earlier, and recovered three of them.
Indonesia’s director general of civil aviation says debris was spotted during an aerial search and it is believed to be from the AirAsia plane.
A day after it disappeared en route from east Java in Indonesia to Singapore, mystery surrounds the fate of AirAsia flight QZ8501.
While teams searched for the AirAsia plane missing off Indonesia with 162 people on board, one official warned it was likely at the bottom of the sea.
Emerging market stocks fell on Wednesday, led by concern that valuations were overdone.
Airlines in northern Australia and southeast Asia have grounded their aircraft as Indonesia’s Sangeang Api volcano erupts, throwing up an ash cloud.
The Oscar-nominated documentary Act of Killing touches on the darkest period of Indonesia’s already violent early years as an independent state.
Four people have died following the crash of a light aircraft, which was hit by lightning, crashed and then burst into flames in eastern Indonesia.
Indonesia is trying to divert rain away from its capital Jakarta after four people were killed due to heavy flooding in the area.
The world’s third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper says it has stopped using logs from Indonesia’s natural forests.
Defending champion Lee Westwood holed four birdies for a 4-under 68 after Saturday’s completion of the second round at the Indonesian Masters.
Indonesia’s parliament voted on Saturday to give the government authority to raise subsidised fuel prices under certain conditions.
Lawyers for the man who helped assemble bombs used in the 2002 nightclub blasts in Bali say the charges against him are obscure and should be dropped.
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/ 13 February 2012
The Malaysian state energy company’s aggressive efforts to drill locally have been boosted by gas finds off Borneo island.
With former dictator Suharto gone, Chinese-Indonesians celebrated their once forbidden roots openly with the Chinese New Year.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has made a renewed call for the safe release of two Spanish workers who were kidnapped in Somalia in October.
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/ 13 October 2011
A powerful earthquake has jolted Bali, injuring 17 people and causing panic as hundreds of tourists fled violently shaking buildings.
The ANCYL’s website gets hacked, an electric car company wants to sue <i>Top Gear</i>, and Indonesia considers underground nuclear facilities.
An actress who played Barack Obama’s mother in an Indonesian movie about the president’s early life has been charged with drug possession.
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/ 26 December 2010
A 7,3-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Sunday, triggering a small tsunami six years after giant waves killed 220 000.
After two years of waiting, Indonesians are finally getting the chance to welcome back their adopted son.
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/ 6 November 2010
Airlines cancelled flights to and from Jakarta on Saturday, affecting carriers from Europe to Asia, because of ash from the Mount Merapi volcano.
Indonesia’s most active volcano killed 69 people on Friday in its biggest eruption in more than a century.
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/ 30 October 2010
Scores of people feared dead in Indonesia’s tsunami zone were found alive on Saturday as rescue workers began to reach remote communities.
The death toll from a tsunami that pummelled remote Indonesian islands soared to 343 on Thursday.
The death toll from a tsunami that pummelled remote Indonesian islands soared to 311 on Thursday.
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/ 27 October 2010
Indonesia struggled on Wednesday to find bodies and survivors after a tsunami smashed into a remote island chain and a volcano erupted.
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/ 26 October 2010
At least 108 people were killed and more than 500 missing on Tuesday after a tsunami hit a remote Indonesian island chain.
A volcano, inactive for four centuries, erupted again on Monday, pitching ash 2km into the air and sending residents scurrying from their homes.
Conservationists hail success of three-year plan that has resulted in the discovery of 123 new species in the biodiverse rainforest on Borneo.