A major earthquake vibrated deep in Indonesia's Banda Sea on Saturday night, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center predicted the quake would not be destructive.
An earthquake struck near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia, Friday night, but no tsunami warning was issued, the head of nation's meteorological agency said.
A new law to fatally stone adulterers is unlikely to survive government review in Indonesia, but it highlights the latest push toward stricter Islamic law in the semi-autonomous Aceh province.
With little hope of finding additional survivors, authorities Monday began clearing the rubble left by a pair of devastating earthquakes that rocked Indonesia last week.
Harayenti's voice starts out strong as she speaks about the moment the major earthquake struck last week.
At least 1,100 people are dead in Indonesia as a result of two large earthquakes in as many days, United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes told reporters Thursday.
Another strong earthquake rocked Indonesia early Thursday as the Southeast Asian nation was reeling from an earlier jolt that killed more than 200 people.
A baby made his way into the world this week in Indonesia at 19.2 pounds (8.7 kg) -- about three times the weight of an average newborn.
Indonesian forces says they have killed the country's most-wanted terror suspect in an overnight raid, dealing a major blow to an al Qaeda-linked network blamed for some of Southeast Asia's deadliest terror attacks.
A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Java island late Monday, less than a week after a major temblor shook the island, killing at least 65 people.
A major earthquake vibrated deep in Indonesia's Banda Sea on Saturday night, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center predicted the quake would not be destructive.
An earthquake struck near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia, Friday night, but no tsunami warning was issued, the head of nation's meteorological agency said.
A new law to fatally stone adulterers is unlikely to survive government review in Indonesia, but it highlights the latest push toward stricter Islamic law in the semi-autonomous Aceh province.
With little hope of finding additional survivors, authorities Monday began clearing the rubble left by a pair of devastating earthquakes that rocked Indonesia last week.
Harayenti's voice starts out strong as she speaks about the moment the major earthquake struck last week.
At least 1,100 people are dead in Indonesia as a result of two large earthquakes in as many days, United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes told reporters Thursday.
Another strong earthquake rocked Indonesia early Thursday as the Southeast Asian nation was reeling from an earlier jolt that killed more than 200 people.
A baby made his way into the world this week in Indonesia at 19.2 pounds (8.7 kg) -- about three times the weight of an average newborn.
Indonesian forces says they have killed the country's most-wanted terror suspect in an overnight raid, dealing a major blow to an al Qaeda-linked network blamed for some of Southeast Asia's deadliest terror attacks.
A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Java island late Monday, less than a week after a major temblor shook the island, killing at least 65 people.
Retired Army soldier Bana Subandi was watching television in his two-story home he built when a 7.0 magnitude-quake suddenly struck his corner of western Indonesia and buried him alive.
More than a day after a major earthquake jolted Indonesia's Java Island, killing at least 57 people, there is still no word from remote villages along the coast, a relief worker told CNN Thursday.
At least 25 people were killed and 10 others injured when a truck carrying workers flipped in central Indonesia late Tuesday, said a local government spokesman.
A handful of suspects in the twin suicide bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, are on the run, national police said Wednesday.
Rescue planes were dispatched on Monday to look for an aircraft with 15 people on board that disappeared shortly after takeoff in eastern Indonesia.
Indonesian police have taken in for questioning one of the wives of southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist. But the woman didn't know she was married to the alleged terror mastermind Noordin M. Top, her lawyer said Thursday.
A U.S. mining company has denied a report by Indonesia's state media that a convoy of its buses came under fire in the province of Papua Wednesday.
Indonesia is no stranger to bombings such as the one that rocked two luxury hotels in Jakarta on Friday.
A mine collapse -- triggered by a methane explosion -- killed at least five people and injured nine Tuesday on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, officials said.
Indonesia's ruling party gathered the most votes in the country's first direct legislative elections, voting officials said Sunday.
The people of Indonesia's Java Island still follow wedding traditions passed down centuries ago by their ancestors.
Nine people -- including three election officials -- were feared dead after a small plane crashed in eastern Indonesia on Friday, police said.
Conservationists have found a new population of orangutans in a steep, mountainous corner of Indonesia -- a discovery that significantly adds to the number of the endangered red-haired primates.
The party of Indonesia's president is poised to win the most seats in parliament, according to unofficial election results posted Friday.
Indonesians headed to the polls Thursday to choose legislators for the world's most populous Muslim nation, a vote that will also determine which parties can field candidates for July's presidential election.
A candidate for Indonesia's upcoming legislative election smiles broadly, flanked by a photo illustration of U.S. President Barack Obama and Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -- his hands clasped over theirs.
Simmering ethnic and religious tensions in parts of Indonesia have yet to be adequately addressed, but none are expected to overshadow upcoming elections, a senior analyst said this week.
Islamic parties in Indonesia will not get enough votes in the coming election to nominate a presidential candidate, according to polls, analysts and an Islamic party official.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the United States plans to resume sending Peace Corps workers and scholars to Indonesia.
A powerful series of earthquakes shook far northeastern Indonesia Thursday, injuring at least 42 people and damaging about 500 homes and other buildings, officials said.
Search crews have rescued nine more passengers who survived a ferry capsizing off the coast of Indonesia, though more than 230 people are still missing.
Search and rescue operations resumed Monday after a passenger ferry carrying 267 people capsized off the coast of Indonesia the day before, authorities said.
A 10-year-old girl was killed and 35 other people wounded in a major earthquake near the north coast of West Papua, Indonesia, government officials said.
A major earthquake struck Sunday near the north coast of West Papua, Indonesia, killing at least two people and injuring 35, government officials said.
Three men executed for the deadly 2002 bombings of two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, were buried Sunday, before hundreds of emotional supporters.
A new anti-porn law has Indonesia's religious and ethnic minorities worried that the nation's Muslim majority is trying to reign them in
Officials say a strong earthquake sent panicked residents fleeing from their homes in central Indonesia, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A suspected bomb detonated Sunday night near an international airport in eastern Indonesia, causing no injuries, a national police spokesman said.
In some nations, the poor used to sustain themselves on less expensive soy products, which provide protein on the cheap. Not any more. The cost of tempeh and tofu has doubled to record highs, driven by the soaring price of US soybeans
Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken
Officials found the bodies of 18 people who died in a military transport plane crash south of Jakarta, Indonesia, an Indonesian Air Force official said Saturday.
Five European scuba divers have been found alive after being swept away by powerful currents
Indonesia will withdraw from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at the end of the year, the country's energy minister told foreign journalists Wednesday.
Rising oil prices are hitting home in Indonesia, one of the world's most populous nations.
Pressure from Islamic activists may prompt the government to ban the Ahmadiyah sect, despite constitutional protection of religious freedom
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook the southern coastline of Indonesia's Sumatra island Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Hundreds of people burned a mosque Monday in the West Java province of Indonesia, police said.
Indonesia launched a major bird flu drill Friday that will test the ability of the nation hardest hit by the virus to respond to a possible pandemic
About 50 students broke into a Dutch consulate compound in Indonesia Wednesday to protest a film by a Dutch lawmaker that many Muslims consider anti-Islamic.
A magnitude-6.3 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia on Sunday could trigger a tsunami on coasts near its epicenter, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island early Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey's Web site reported.
A strong earthquake shook a group of islands in Indonesia Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
An international team of earthquake specialists says Indonesia faces another potential "giant" quake in the near future.
Indonesia was shaken Thursday by the third earthquake in less than 24 hours, and survivors described the ocean retreating and racing back to shore as a 10-foot-high tsunami
The second powerful earthquake in as many days shook western Indonesia Thursday, collapsing buildings in a coastal city and triggering tsunami alerts around the region.
Indonesia was set to sign a $1 billion defense deal with Russia on Thursday that will enable it to purchase dozens of helicopters, tanks and submarines over the next 15 years, a government spokesman said.
A powerful earthquake under the Java Sea shook Indonesia's capital early Thursday, violently shaking tall buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets
The death toll from days of flooding in Indonesia's capital jumped to 31 Tuesday, according to Jakarta's flood crisis center, as torrential rains overnight forced even more people from their homes.
A 37-year-old woman has died of avian influenza at Jakarta Hospital, Indonesia's Bird Flu Information Center said Friday.
A 2-year-old Indonesian boy became the country's latest fatality from bird flu, dying Monday morning, an official with the Bird Flu Information Center said.
The latest bird flu victim in Indonesia, a 67-year-old woman, died Sunday in Bandung, West Java, the Indonesian Bird Flu Information Center reported Monday.
Australians believe Indonesia is a dangerous source of Islamic terrorism, a new opinion poll has found.
Two more people in Indonesia have died from avian influenza, the World Health Organization confirmed Thursday.
The death toll from an earthquake and resulting tsunami that smashed into fishing villages and resorts on Indonesia's Java island has reached 525 with 273 people missing, officials have said.
The death toll from an earthquake and resulting tsunami that smashed into fishing villages and resorts on Indonesia's Java island has reached 340 with more than 200 people missing, officials say.
A major earthquake off the coast of Java and a tsunami that followed has killed at least 155 people, according to Red Cross officials.
The death toll from this week's flooding and landslides in central Indonesia has risen to 216, with 67 people still missing, the national disaster task force reported Saturday.
Four days of heavy rains in Indonesia have triggered deadly floods and landslides, killing 200 people while another 130 are still missing.
Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir has been released after 26 months in an Indonesian jail Wednesday, completing his prison sentence for giving his blessing to the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people.
After surviving a catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 6,000 people, residents near Indonesia's Mount Merapi have been evacuated because of the volcano's increased activity, officials said.
Indonesian officials on Monday lowered the death toll by more than 400 from last month's deadly earthquake that left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in central Java.
International aid organizations are accepting donations to help victims of the earthquake in Indonesia. The groups include:
Emergency food aid is arriving in two hard-hit districts of central Java, two days after a large earthquake flattened communities in this heavily populated Indonesian region.
More than 20,000 people will need to be evacuated to crowded shelters, one filled to three times its capacity, as experts predicted a massive eruption from one of Indonesia's most dangerous volcanoes.
Indonesian and World Health Organization officials on Saturday were investigating eight suspected bird flu cases, four of them fatal.
Golf's European Tour has stumped up $100,000 to boost the prize pot for next month's inaugural Aamby Valley Masters in India.
Charges have been filed against two men accused of attempting to purchase more than $500,000 worth of military weapons and equipment, including Sidewinder missiles, and export them to Indonesia, U.S. customs officials said Wednesday.
A young girl in Indonesia died of highly pathogenic bird flu last month, bringing the country's total number of confirmed H5N1 human cases to 30, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday.
Indonesia says a woman has died of bird flu, raising the number of human bird flu deaths in that country to nine this year alone.
Denmark is urging its citizens to leave Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, citing a threat from an extremist group over the publication of drawings of Islam's Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper.
Denmark is urging its citizens to leave Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, citing a threat from an extremist group over the publication of drawings of Islam's Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper.
In the midst of a week of heavy rains and flash flooding in Indonesia's Central Java province, a hillside gave way near the village of Gunujraja early Wednesday, killing at least 8 people and sending 12 others to the hospital, authorities said.
Despite its devastating toll of human misery, the December 2004 tsunami had relatively little impact on the broad picture of Asian regional economic growth in 2005.
A strong earthquake measuring 6.5 in magnitude struck Saturday off the coast of western Indonesia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.
The World Health Organization has confirmed two more people in Indonesia have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, one day after it reported China's first known death from the virus.
A woman who died last month in Indonesia was suffering from the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza, health officials said Saturday, and an 8-year-old relative has tested positive for the disease.
Preliminary tests indicate a 4-year-old boy in Indonesia has been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza, according to officials from the national Department of Health's bird flu monitoring center.
The World Health Organization has announced a third confirmed case of H5N1 avian flu in Indonesia and warns of more to come.
Indonesia has confirmed its first human deaths from bird flu, saying a man and his two daughters died from the disease in the capital Jakarta last week.
Terrorists are at an advanced stage of planning attacks on Indonesian soil, the Australian government has warned.
A major earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia late Monday, killing hundreds, but fears of another tsunami like those that devastated the region in late December have faded.
Indonesia's defense minister says his country has no intention of expelling foreign troops helping the country recover from the tsunami disaster but merely hopes to take over most of the relief effort by the end of March.
The world's wealthiest nations have offered to let nine countries hit by the Indian Ocean tsunamis halt repayments on billions of dollars of debt.
An international team of relief workers is helping Indonesian troops clear out mud and debris from the remains of a desperately needed hospital in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has appealed for $977 million in emergency relief over the next six months for the "unprecedented global catastrophe" triggered by the Asian tsunamis.
They may not carry the title "man's best friend," but elephants are providing priceless help as Indonesia struggles to recover from the tsunamis that killed more than 94,000 in that country alone and leveled entire towns.
We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.
The number of dead in Indonesia has risen five-fold to 27,174, almost doubling the death toll from the massive underwater earthquake and the equally massive tsunami that followed it.
Indonesia will host its first European Tour golf event in March next year, organizers announced on Monday.
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