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/ 12 September 2007
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 and sparking panic in coastal areas across South-East Asia and at least one death.
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/ 12 September 2007
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 said. Indonesia’s Global TV reported that several buildings in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, had collapsed.
More than 70 000 members of a hard-line Muslim group held a rally in Indonesia that heard calls for a caliphate — or Islamic rule — to govern the world. The supporters of the Hizbut Tahrir group filled up most of an 80 000-seat sports stadium in the capital, Jakarta, waving flags as they heard fiery speeches saying it was ”time for the caliphate to reign”.
Rescue teams struggled on Tuesday to reach parts of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island where about 60 people were feared dead and 8 000 displaced by landslides and floods caused by days of torrential rains. Days of heavy downpour have caused landslides and floods up to three metres high.
Bali, the lush Indonesian island famous for its sun-kissed beaches, is drawing tourists in droves, and travel warnings that Islamic militants might strike again has done little to dampen the spirit. Almost five years after 202 people were killed in the bombing of a Bali nightclub, tourists are back enjoying the island’s nightlife and soaking up the sun on Bali’s palm-fringed beaches.
British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s younger brother went on trial in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Thursday on charges of heroin possession. Ronald Ramsay (38) was arrested in February after entering a supermarket in Bali’s tourist strip of Kuta. Police said they seized 100 milligrams of heroin from him.
Indonesian marines shot and killed at least three people on Wednesday during a protest over a land dispute on the main island of Java, a local official said. Marines started shooting after hundreds of residents from Pasuruan town in east Java gathered to try to stop redevelopment of land at the centre of a bitter court dispute with the navy, the official said.
Religious prayers and a series of activities marked the first anniversary of the Java earthquake that killed more than 5 800 people and caused massive destruction, local media reports said on Sunday. The May 27 2006 temblor caused more than -billion in damages.
An Indonesian girl has died of bird flu and Vietnam reported on Wednesday its first suspected human infection since late 2005, in a string of cases across Asia when the H5N1 virus is usually less active. The girl’s death brings the number of confirmed human fatalities in Indonesia to 77, the highest in the world.
Massive waves have hit coastlines across Indonesia, sending hundreds of panicky residents rushing from their homes and also destroying fishing boats and beachside shacks, officials and media reports said on Friday. Television footage showed high waves crashing into the tourist island of Bali.
Indonesia has so many islands it has not been able to count them all and is having a hard time finding names for them. From coral-fringed atolls to jungle-clad volcanoes thrusting up from the ocean, its chains of islands sprinkled along the equator make up the world’s biggest archipelago. Officially there are about 17Â 000 islands.
An undersea earthquake rattled Indonesia’s Aceh province on Friday, sparking panic among residents, although there was no tsunami warning or immediate reports of damage and casualties. The 5,9-magnitude quake struck at 3.02pm local time and was centred about 70km south-west of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh.
A 15-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu, a health ministry official said on Friday, taking the country’s human death toll from the virus to 73. Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, has had more deaths from the H5N1 strain of avian influenza than any other nation.
An Indonesian government ministry is expected to fast-track a decree creating cybercops to monitor the internet after a hacker — self-named ”Qwerty”, after the first six letters on a computer keyboard — broke into the official website of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Government prosecutors on Tuesday demanded two years in jail for the editor of Playboy Indonesia magazine for violating anti-indecency laws by publishing ”porn” pictures in the magazine. Chief prosecutor Resni Muchtar told the court that the magazine editor Erwin Arnada ”damaged the nation’s morality”.
Indonesia has suspended the pilots of a jet that crash-landed and erupted in flames, killing 21 people, a report said on Saturday. The pilot, Marwoto Komar, and co-pilot, Gagam Saman Rohmana, have been "grounded" until the accident investigation is over, Yurlis Hasibuan, the head of the air transport directorate, told the <i>Republika</i> newspaper.
Investigators combed through the burned-out skeleton of an Indonesian airliner on Thursday as a senior police official cited human error as a possible cause of a deadly onboard inferno. The Garuda Airlines plane caught fire after landing at speed at Yogyakarta airport and careering off the runway into a rice paddy, killing 21 people.
An Indonesian passenger jet overshot the runway and burst into flames on Wednesday as it landed in the cultural capital of Yogyakarta, but most of the 140 people on board survived. Dozens of passengers leapt from the national carrier Garuda Airline plane’s emergency exits into surrounding rice paddy fields to escape the inferno.
A Boeing 737-400 passenger jet burst into flames when it landed at Yogyakarta in central Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least 49 people and leaving dozens more burnt and wounded, officials said. Witnesses said the front wheel of the Garuda Indonesia plane blew out as it touched down, sending flames shooting into the air and triggering a series of explosions.
Two strong earthquakes hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people and sending emergency operations into full swing to deal with dozens of injured. The tremors were felt as far away as Malaysia and Singapore, where several buildings were evacuated.
At least 70 people were killed on Tuesday when a strong earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, toppling buildings and sparking panic in the streets of nearby Malaysia and Singapore. CNN reported that hundreds of buildings had collapsed on the island, and local officials said hospitals were quickly overwhelmed.
Indonesian rescuers searched on Sunday for 44 people missing after massive landslides killed at least 25 people on Flores island, an official said.
Heavy rains hampered rescue efforts in East Nusa Tenggara province where dozens of homes have been washed away and roads severely damaged.
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/ 27 February 2007
Rescuers found the bodies on Tuesday of two people missing after an Indonesian ferry consumed by fire sank with investigators and journalists on board. The total number of confirmed dead following the fire and sinking stands at 53. Estimates put the number of missing at between 50 and 100.
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/ 20 February 2007
A powerful earthquake in north-eastern Indonesia triggered a tsunami warning on Tuesday and caused panicked residents to flee shaking buildings, officials and media reports said. The tsunami warning was later cancelled. The United States Geological Survey initially put the temblor’s magnitude at 6,9, but later revised it to 6,5.
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/ 10 February 2007
People camped out in shelters or with relatives in Indonesia’s flood-hit capital began returning to homes on Saturday to clear away mud and debris, as authorities took advantage of receding waters to remove piles of wet garbage from the streets. Much of the city remains inundated following the worst floods in memory.
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/ 7 February 2007
Residents of the Indonesian capital began returning to their homes on Wednesday as flood waters receded, but they faced a huge task clearing up streets and homes caked in stinking rubbish and mud. The death toll from the floods, the worst for at least five years, rose to 50 people, a health ministry official said.
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/ 5 February 2007
Indonesia’s capital faced more misery on Monday from floods that officials estimate have killed at least 20 people and displaced 340 000, as swollen rivers and canals spilled muddy water onto the city streets. The flooding in parts of the tropical city of nine million people has been up to four metres deep, causing blackouts, cutting telephone lines and blocking key roads.
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/ 4 February 2007
At least seven people have been killed in severe flooding in the Indonesian capital and surrounding areas where nearly 190 000 people have been displaced following several days of torrential rain, officials said on Sunday. Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso declared ”highest alert” for the city at midnight on Saturday after heavy rains continued in the upper areas around the city of Bogor.
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/ 3 February 2007
About 100 000 people camped out at roadsides and in emergency shelters as swathes of the Indonesian capital remained inundated on Saturday following a third night of torrential downpours with more rain forecast. Officials said they were struggling to cope with the scale of the disaster while hundreds of troops were deployed to help the worst-hit areas of Jakarta.
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/ 2 February 2007
Torrential rain triggered floods in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Friday, blocking roads and trapping residents in their homes as torrents of muddy water reached a depth of 2m, police and witnesses said. Floods during the rainy season in Indonesia are common, but the heavy rains this week have caused chaos on roads and shut some train lines around Jakarta, police said.
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/ 25 January 2007
A United States navy ship has detected signals believed to be coming from the flight recorder of an Indonesian plane that went missing with 102 people aboard on New Year’s day, the US embassy in Jakarta said on Thursday. Wreckage from the missing Adam Air Boeing 737-400 started turning up in waters on the west coast of Sulawesi over recent weeks.
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/ 22 January 2007
One person was killed and two others injured after a powerful undersea earthquake rocked northern Indonesia, officials said on Monday, as a series of serious aftershocks continued to rattle the area. The initial, 6,5-magnitude earthquake struck Sulawesi province at 7.27pm local time on Sunday.