Indonesia

Jakarta, March 20 (IANS) Five unmarried couples were on Wednesday flogged publicly in Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim-majority country that practices Sharia or strict Islamic law.The whipping took place outside a mosque in…

Jakarta, March 18 (IANS) The death toll from flash floods and subsequent landslides in Indonesia's Papua province has increased to 79, with search and rescue operations continuing on Monday to locate 43 missing people.Due to the floods…

Jakarta, Jan 8 (IANS) Indonesia will on Tuesday resume the search for one of the two black boxes of the Lion Air aircraft, which had crashed into the Java Sea in October killing all 189 people on-board.Indonesia's National…

Jakarta, Jan 7 (IANS)- An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia on Monday, however no tusnami alert was issued, according to a disaster management official.The quake struck at 12.27 a.m., with the epicentre…

Amsterdam, Jan 2 (IANS) The year 2018 saw a sharp rise in fatalities from air crashes compared with 2017, but 2018 was still the ninth safest year on record, reports said. According to Netherlands-based Aviation Safety Network (ASN),…

Jakarta, Jan 1 (IANS) At least nine people were killed and 34 went missing after a landslide buried more than 30 houses in Indonesia's Java island, authorities said on Tuesday.National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) spokesperson…

Jakarta, Dec 28 (IANS)- An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia's Papua Barat province on Friday, officials said. There was, however, no report of any casualty.The earthquake had an epicentre of 26 km under…

Jakarta, Dec 27 (IANS) All flights around Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano have been re-routed and the alert level has been raised to the second-highest possible after a series of eruptions spewed out lava.A five-kilometre exclusion…

Jakarta, Dec 25 (IANS)- The death toll from the deadly tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption in Indonesia's Sunda Strait climbed to 429 on Tuesday, with search and rescue teams struggling to find survivors and bodies due to heavy rain.…

Jakarta, Dec 25 (IANS) Days of heavy rain on Indonesia's Java coast was making it difficult on Tuesday for search and rescue teams looking for survivors of the Sunda Strait tsunami. The emergency teams were scouring about 100 kilometres of…