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/ 25 December 2009
The 2004 tsunami obliterated Pipit’s village, wiped out her family and swept her through churning waters, cascading debris and hurtling bodies.
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/ 23 November 2009
The captain of an Indonesian ferry which sank, killing 29 people, rejected claims of overcrowding on Monday.
Villages buried in landslides triggered by last week’s earthquake may be declared mass graves, Indonesian authorities said on Wednesday.
Indonesia called off the search for survivors in the quake-hit city of Padang on Monday as officials sought to contain the risk of disease.
Rescue teams combing the rubble in the shattered Indonesian city of Padang said on Sunday there was little hope of finding more survivors.
Thousands missing after earthquake devastates countryside and rescue workers begin to look for bodies rather than survivors.
Eight people were believed to be still alive in the ruins of a hotel on Saturday, nearly three days after a strong quake hit Indonesia’s Padang.
Quake-hit Indonesia appealed for foreign aid on Friday as the stench of decomposing bodies hung over wrecked buildings.
Rescue teams dug on Friday through the rubble of buildings shattered by an earthquake in the Indonesian port of Padang.
Asian countries reeled from the full force of nature’s fury on Thursday with thousands feared dead in an onslaught of earthquakes and typhoons.
Thousands may have died in an earthquake that struck the city of Padang on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, a minister said on Thursday.
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/ 4 September 2009
Rescuers in Indonesia continued digging on Friday to reach dozens buried by a major earthquake that killed at least 63 people.
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/ 3 September 2009
Rescue workers on Indonesia’s Java Island searched by hand on Thursday for dozens of people trapped by an earthquake that killed at least 46.
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/ 2 September 2009
An earthquake killed at least 15 people and forced thousands to evacuate on Indonesia’s main island, the country’s disaster management agency said.
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/ 1 September 2009
A radical Indonesian publisher has been declared a suspect in July’s deadly luxury hotel bombings in Jakarta, police said on Tuesday.
The terror network blamed for the Jakarta hotel bombings is ”larger and more sophisticated” than thought, a think tank said on Thursday.
A probe into the Jakarta hotel bombings shows that militants also planned to use snipers for an attack on Barack Obama, an intelligence expert said.
A 6,9-magnitude quake sparked panic in Indonesia’s western Sumatra on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Protesters disrupted a large HIV/Aids conference in Indonesia on Wednesday to demand access to drugs to treat HIV patients dying from hepatitis C.
Indonesian police have shot dead a man suspected to be leading Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top during raids in Central Java.
Two luxury hotels struck by suicide bombers reopened on Wednesday in Jakarta, as an al-Qaeda blog claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Indonesian opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s presidential election victory.
A week after twin suicide blasts in Jakarta killed seven, police on Friday appeared no closer to cracking the Islamist network believed responsible.
Investigators were sifting through two bomb-damaged luxury Indonesian hotels on Saturday, for clues to those behind the suicide attacks.
Near-simultaneous bomb blasts ripped through the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta on Friday, killing nine people.
Indonesia’s political parties are in coalitions talks ahead of a presidential election in July.
The Indonesian president’s corruption-fighting credentials were on the line on Wednesday after his son was embroiled in vote-buying allegations.
Rescue workers in Indonesia searched on Saturday for 100 people still missing after a dam burst sending a torrent of water crashing into Jakarta.
A dam on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, burst early on Friday, killing 50 people and flooding hundreds of houses nearby.
Tension in Indonesia’s formerly war-torn province of Aceh has escalated ahead of April’s parliamentary elections, with 16 people killed.
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/ 14 January 2009
Indonesia is examining whether a ferry that sank at the weekend may have had up to 103 more people on board than at first.
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/ 13 January 2009
Driving rain on Tuesday hit the hunt for more survivors from an Indonesian ferry that sank off Sulawesi Island on the weekend.