The Lion Air Boeing 737 Max jet that crashed in Indonesia on Monday flew erratically the previous evening and its air speed readings were unreliable, according to an accident investigator and a flight-tracking website. According to data from FlightR...
Indonesian officials believe no one survived the plane crash on Monday, after a Lion Air flight carrying 189 people lost contact off the coast of Java. Flight JT610, an almost-new Boeing 737 Max 8, was en route to Pangkal Pinang when it crashed int...
A teenager has been rescued after surviving for 49 days adrift at sea in a fishing hut. Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, from Sulawesi in Indonesia, works as a lamp keeper on a floating fish trap, known locally as rompong, 125km out at sea. In mid-July, heav...
Passengers of a crashed ferry clung to the vessel overnight as poor weather slowed rescue efforts. The captain ran the vessel into a reef off the island of Sulawesi after it started taking in water and sinking. Amiruddin, the chief of the South Sula...
Indonesia’s second-biggest city, Surabaya, drew global attention last month for the shocking use of children in Islamist terrorist suicide attacks against three Christian churches and a police headquarters, in which 14 people were killed. While the...
A family of five including an eight-year-old child have carried out a bomb attack on a police headquarters in Indonesia’s second largest city, a day after another family killed 13 people in coordinated suicide bombings. Police said the five approac...
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It has been 58 days. That’s how long Farid Attaie has been sleeping on the footpath outside an immigration detention centre in Kalideres, West Jakarta, with his parents, five siblings, and another Hazara family of three. Less than 20 metres from whe...
It has been 58 days. That’s how long Farid Attaie has been sleeping on the footpath outside an immigration detention centre in Kalideres, West Jakarta, with his parents, five siblings, and another Hazara family of three. Less than 20 metres from whe...
Stahil, a homeless Somali refugee in Jakarta prepares to pray in a boarding house. The 23-year-old, whose family rejected the al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabaab group’s version of Islamic law, fled Somalia after her father was murdered and she was tar...
Police in Indonesia believe they have uncovered a clandestine fake news operation designed to corrupt the political process and destabilise the government. In a string of arrests across the archipelago in recent weeks, authorities have revealed the...
An orangutan has been filmed smoking at an Indonesian zoo after a visitor flicked a cigarette into its enclosure. Animal rights activists have condemned the zoo over the incident with some calling for its closure after a series of incidents involvin...
Diver Rich Horner has captured video of himself swimming through water densely strewn with plastic waste and yellowing food wrappers, with the occasional tropical fish darting around. The footage was shot at a dive site called Manta Point, a cleanin...