Multiple explosions were reported in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, on Thursday, including at least one directly outside a United Nations building. At least three people have been reported dead. Gunfire is reportedly being exchanged around the city.
Indonesia—having passed on half-measures like shadow-triggered spear-walls and dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees—has come up with an outside-the-box idea for guarding its death row drug convicts: crocodiles. A body of water teeming with crocodiles.
Rescue officials say they have recovered 38 bodies from the wreckage of a plane that went missing in Indonesia on Sunday carrying 54 people. According to the Associated Press, no one is believed to have survived the crash.
According to the BBC, rescue officials say a search plane has spotted the wreckage of an Indonesian airliner that went disappeared on Sunday with 54 people on board. It is not yet known if anyone survived the crash.
On Sunday, after losing contact with ground control, an Indonesian airliner went missing over the country’s easternmost province of Papua, a remote and mountainous region, the Associated Press reports.
Using sonar imagery, Indonesian officials say they have located what may be the wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The Indonesian rescue team searching for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 has recovered debris from the plane and 40 bodies floating in the Java Sea off the coast of Borneo. The plane carrying 162 people disappeared from radar Sunday flying from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore.
Monsoon season in Nepal has led to three days of incessant rain, causing floods, destruction, and death, according to the AFP. At least 85 people have died from landslides and flooding in Nepal during this monsoon season.
Fifteen people are missing following a boat capsizing in Indonesia. The boat sank while traveling between Lombok and the Komodo Islands, around 7p.m. local time on Sunday.
The young American couple accused of murdering the girlfriend's mother and stuffing her body into a suitcase could potentially face the death penalty in Indonesia if found guilty of a premeditated murder charge.
Indonesian police charged a young American couple with murder in Bali today. Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, allegedly killed Heather's mom, stuffed her into a suitcase, and left the suitcase in the trunk of a taxi. Mack and Schaefer say 62-year-old Sheila von Wiese-Mack was killed by robbers.
After a tight, contentious race, Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was elected Indonesia's seventh president with 53.15 percent of 130 million estimated votes. "This victory is a victory for all the people of Indonesia," Widodo, a former furniture businessman, told his supporters in Jakarta, Tuesday. Widodo is Indonesia's third president elected by direct vote; the country became the world's third-largest democracy just decades ago.
Both candidates in Indonesia's tight presidential election have claimed victory as votes continue to be counted in the country, which only became a democracy decades ago but is now the third-largest in the world.
Muslim women in Jakarta, Indonesia perform an evening prayer called "tarawih" to mark the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. During the month, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and sex from dawn until dusk every day. Image via AP/Tatan Syuflana.
Indonesian soldiers train their weapons at an airplane piloted by Heinz Peier of Switzerland after it was intercepted by jet fighters and forced to land at Soewondo Air Base in North Sumatra on Thursday. Peier was on a flight from Colombo to Singapore when he entered Indonesian airspace illegally, an Air Force official said. Image via Binsar Bakkara/AP.
Voters cast their ballots Wednesday during a parliamentary election in Indonesia. The outcome from the vote will determine the candidates for July's highly anticipated presidential election. Image via Dita Alangkara/AP.
A Balinese girl tries to avoid a kiss during the Omed Omedan kissing festival in Bali, Indonesia, on Tuesday. During the festival, village priests dump buckets of water over couples to douse their passions. Image via Firdia Lisnawati/AP.
Earlier today on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the volcanic Mount Sinabung erupted, killing at least 14 people including a group of schoolchildren. The death toll is expected to climb.
[People walk during an ash fall following the eruption of Mount Sinabung as seen from inside a car in Payung, North Sumatra, Indonesia on Wednesday. The volcano has sporadically erupted since September. Image via Binsar Bakkara/AP.]
[Mount Sinabung spews pyroclastic smoke seen from Tigapancur village on Sunday in Karo district, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Mount Sinabung erupted eight times overnight and the Indonesian government raised the alert level for the volcano to the highest point on a four-stage scale. Photo by Ulet Ifansasti via Getty]
