Indonesian police found 193 Bangladeshis locked up in a shop house after human traffickers had lured them with the promise of getting them to Malaysia, an immigration official said on Thursday.
The men entered Indonesia as tourists via Bali and the (...)
An Indonesian air force transport plane carrying military personnel and their families plowed into a residential neighborhood in the country's third-largest city of Medan shortly after takeoff on Tuesday, killing more than 70.
Rescue teams were (...)
Indonesian authorities raised the alert status for one of the country's most active volcanoes to the highest level Sunday after the mountain repeatedly sent hot clouds of gas down its slope following a series of eruptions in recent days.
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AlHijjah 19, 1434, Oct 24, 2013, SPA -- A disaster official said a volcano in western Indonesia has unleashed a column of dark volcanic material high into the air weeks after villagers fled from an earlier eruption, AP reported.
National Mitigation (...)
AlQa'dah 11, 1434, Sep 17, 2013, SPA -- A volcano in western Indonesia has erupted for the second time this week, forcing some villagers who were just returning home to flee the mountain again.
Local Disaster Mitigation Agency chief Asren Nasution (...)
AlQa'dah 10, 1434, Sep 16, 2013, SPA -- Nearly 6,000 people were evacuated from their villages following the eruption of Mount Sinabung in western Indonesia, an official said Monday.
The 2,600-meter (8,530-feet) volcano in North Sumatra province (...)
Indonesian police on Saturday expanded their search for 131 inmates, including four militants who escaped from an overcrowded jail during a riot that left five dead, a spokesman said.
Inmates began rampaging through the jail in Medan city on Sumatra (...)
A major quake measuring 6 on the Richter Scale, rocked the regency of Aceh Jaya, in Aceh, on Thursday evening but no casualty and damage to property have been reported.
The quake hit at 20.47 local time with epicenter in the sea 65 kilometer deep, (...)
An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale rocked Simeulue district in Indonesia's western-most province of Aceh on Thursday, according to the local meteorology, climatology and geophysics station.
The epicenter of the quake which struck at (...)
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 on the Richter scale shook Simeulue regency in Aceh province, on Sunday at 10.17 am local time, ANTARA reported.
Head of the Medan Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Hendra Suwarta said the (...)
A group of unidentified armed men attacked North Sumatra's Hamparan Perak police station at 0.30 am Wednesday, killing three police personnel.
A policeman of the police headquarters said the three police personnel who were shot dead by the (...)
The number of evacuees rose on Saturday after Mount Sinabung in Tanah Karo district, North Sumatra, erupted for the third time in a week the day before.
By 10.00 p.m., the number of evacuees sheltered at a number of areas in Kabanjahe increased (...)
A team of the Air Transport Directorate General found that the radar of the Polonia airport here which had been operated since 2007, had a technical problem, ANTARA reported.
The team's find followed a rampcheck on the airport's infrastructure (...)
A whirlwind swept through 10 villages in Deli Serdang district, North Sumatra, at dawn on Saturday, causing damage to more than one hundred houses, ANTARA reported.
No casualty was reported in the disaster which caused hundreds of millions of (...)
Huge sea waves hit 32 houses in Sipare-pare village, Medang Deras sub district, Batubara District, North Sumatra, on Sunday, ANTARA reported.
Three of the houses were totally destroyed and 25 seriously damaged, Medang Deras Subdistrict Head (...)
Dozens of Indonesian students Wednesday attacked a Dutch consulate as protest against an anti-Islam film by a far-right Dutch MP spread.
Police arrested 20 of the 70 students who protested at the consulate in Medan on Sumatra island, the latest in (...)
An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale rattled Indonesia's Nias Island early Wednesday, leaving one person dead and four others injured, ANTARA reported.
The tremor was also believed to have caused cracks in tens of house buildings in (...)
THE SECOND SAUDI RELIEF PLANE ARRIVED HERE TODAY LADEN WITH 60 TONS OF RELIEF SUPPLIES TO HELP VICTIMS OF FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES IN INDONESIA.
MOKHLIS ABDULAZIZ, THE OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF RELIEF DELIVERIES IN ACHE, INDONESIA, RECEIVED THE CONTENTS (...)
A SAUDI RELIEF PLANE LADEN WITH 80 TONS OF TENTS, FOODSTUFFS AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES LANDED HERE TODAY COMING FROM RIYADH TO PROVIDE VICTIMS OF FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES IN INDONESIA WITH RELIEF MATERIALS.
OFFICIALS IN CHARGE OF RELIEF DELIVERIES IN MEDAN (...)
Investigators hunted for clues Tuesday that would help explain why an Indonesian jetliner crashed seconds after takeoff, sifting through body parts as they worked. Weeping families looked for loved ones among dozens of charred bodies lying outside a (...)
