Indonesia's most wanted militant with ties to terrorist groups was killed Saturday in a shootout with security forces, the Indonesian military said, in a sweeping counterterrorism campaign against extremists in the remote mountain jungles.
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Officials say heavily armed assailants have killed two police officers and wounded another in eastern Indonesia.
Local police chief Deden Garnada says the gunmen arrived by motorcycle on Wednesday and stormed a police post in front of a bank in (...)
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale jolted Palu, Central Sulawesi, at 4.15 pm local time on Saturday.
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) stated in its website that the quake's epicenter was located at 0.85 (...)
An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale shook Palu, capital of Central Sulawesi province, on Saturday evening.
The epicenter of the quake which struck at 06.23 p.m. was in the sea 23 km southeast of Palu at a depth of 11 km, the (...)
Dengue fever has killed 10 Palu residents over the past eight months, a health official said here.
The last patient died in early August, Head of Palu city's Disease Surveillance and Control Unit, Falmah Pakasi, said. The local health workers had (...)
An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale hit Tolitoli district, Central Sulawesi province, on Sunday night.
The quake which struck at 7.43 p.m. was centered 5 km northwest of the district capital at a depth of 10 km, ANTARA quoted the (...)
The Buol town in the northern tip of Central Sulawesi was rocked by a strong tectonic earthquake after midday on Sunday causing locals to flee their homes, ANTARA reported.
According to the Geophysical, Climatological and Meteorological office (...)
A powerful earthquake killed one resident, injured tens of others, and damaged at least 1,500 houses and other buildings in Buol District, Central Sulawesi, early Monday, ANTARA reported.
Around 400 of the houses were leveled to the ground, (...)
A flood destroyed two houses at North Tatura area, South Palu sub district, Central Sulawesi Province, late Thursday, ANTARA reported.
The two collapsed houses were located on the bank of Kawatuna River.
Tens of houses in East Palu were inundated (...)
A Wings Air plane failed to land at Mutiara Airport here on Saturday because of bad weather, ANTARA reported.
The MD-82 plane with 152 people on board had hovered above Palu Bay before it returned to Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi province, (...)
Floods have inundated hundreds of hectares of rice fields in several villages in Lore Utara sub district, Poso District, Central Sulawesi Province, over the past week, ANTARA reported.
The flooding followed incessant rains which had caused rivers (...)
An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale jolted Palu city and Donggala district in Central Sulawesi province on Thursday night, forcing many residents to rush outdoors for fear of being trapped in the debris of damaged houses, ANTARA (...)
The death toll of floods and landslifes which hit Central Sulawesi`s Morowali district in the past two weeks has risen to 67 people, ANTARA reported.
Coordinator of Central Sualwesi`s Natural Disaster Mitigation Command Post (Satkolak - PBA) Lt. (...)
Floods and landslides killed at least seven persons and caused tens of others missing at Uwe Ruru village, North Bungku subdistrict, Morowali district, Central Sulawesi.
Rescuers managed to evacuate seven bodies on Sunday when they were looking for (...)
Police retrieved a plastic bag containing various bomb-making materials and a fully assembled bomb which had been buried in a graveyard here Friday.
The materials included 48 detonators, sulphur, 10-centimeter- long nails, colored wires and an (...)
Diarrhea was reported to have killed at least 16 residents of Taipaobal and Lombok villages, Parigi Moutong District, Central Sulawesi, in the past three weeks.
Difficult roads heading to the villages which are located in a hilly plateau made it (...)
A bomb packed with nails exploded in a crowded market ahead of New Year celebrations in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding 53, police said.
The blast in Palu, capital of volatile Central Sulawesi province, came after (...)
