Indonesia — AFP Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano forced more than half a dozen airports to close with ash spreading as far as Malaysia, while authorities rushed to evacuate thousands due to tsunami fears. Mount Ruang has erupted three times, spewing lava and ash more than five kilometres (three miles) into the sky and […]
Jakarta, Indonesia – AFP Dozens of Rohingya refugees saved after their boat capsized off Indonesia’s westernmost coast last week have been forced from their temporary shelter due to local protests, a United Nations refugee agency official said Wednesday. The survivors of last week’s capsizing were taken a 10-minute drive away...
Jakarta, Indonesia – AFP At least nine Indonesians were reported missing overnight and more than 200 were evacuated after a landslide and flooding hit their village on Java island, an official said Monday. Cibenda village in West Java Province became inundated just before midnight on Sunday. “Nine people were reported missing in th...
Meulaboh, Indonesia – AFP Dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded on the rusty hull of a capsized ship were rescued Thursday after the dehydrated and sunburnt group had drifted at sea for more than a day. Those rescued were 69 men, women and children, some of whom had been at sea for weeks on a rickety […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesia’s Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto is in the lead in the initial quick count of votes in the world’s largest single-day election on Wednesday to elect the successor of President Joko Widodo, multiple local media outlets reported. Initial results indicated that Subianto, who led the pre-poll surveys, is getting close ...
Banda Aceh, Indonesia – AFP A boat believed to be carrying over 100 Rohingya refugees landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province on Thursday, a UN official said, part of the biggest influx into the Muslim-majority country since 2015. The mostly Muslim Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar, and thousands risk their lives each y...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesia has extended its support to South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Southeast Asian nation’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi will also deliver an oral statement before the ICJ on February 19 as part of the proceedings instituted by South Africa against Israel’s alleged genocid...
Jakarta, Indonesia — AFP In an upscale area of the capital Jakarta, Ganjar Pranowo says he can win Indonesia’s upcoming election against the odds by focusing on bread-and-butter issues, a lesson learned from his upbringing in a mountainside village. “Siding with the small… the poor. Why do I say that? Because I myself e...
Bandung, Indonesia – AFP Four people were killed and at least 22 injured when two trains carrying hundreds of passengers collided in Indonesia on Friday, officials said. The front carriages of both trains were a mangled wreck while others further back had derailed and overturned on a stretch of tracks cutting through rice fields in [&hel...
Maumere, Indonesia – AFP More than 2,000 residents have been evacuated to temporary shelters amid heightened volcanic activities in a volcano in eastern Indonesia, a local official said Tuesday. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki in East Nusa Tenggara province has erupted several times in recent weeks, including an eruption on Monday that spewed v...
