At least 15 people were killed today when a fire broke out on an Indonesian ferry carrying 350 passengers.

Filthy flood water inundated large parts of Indonesia’s capital today, sparking fears that killer diseases may spread among nearly 340,000 people forced from their homes by the worst flooding to hit the city in recent memory.

Indonesia’s transportation minister today said rescuers had not found the wreckage of a plane that slammed into a mountain during stormy weather.

An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 102 people disappeared in stormy weather today, and rescue teams were sent to search an area where military aviation officials feared the Boeing 737-400 aircraft may have crashed.

Rescue teams were dispatched after a commercial Adam Air passenger plane with more than 100 people on board sent out a distress signal while flying in bad weather in Indonesia, the transport minister said today.

Tearful parents searched today for missing children and soldiers dug through the debris of homes flattened by the second tsunami to hit Indonesia in as many years.

A powerful earthquake sent a two-metre high tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia's Java island today, killing at least six people and causing extensive damage to hotels, restaurants and homes, police and witnesses said.

Large eruptions of searing hot gas and debris led to the hasty evacuation of thousands of villagers from Mount Merapi’s slopes today – a day after they got the OK to go home – as authorities raised the volcano’s alert level to its highest status again.

A wooden boat carrying 60 passengers and crew sank in bad weather in eastern Indonesia, and all but one of those on board survived the accident.

A passenger boat believed to be carrying between 60 and 100 people sank in eastern Indonesia after it was swamped by heavy waves.

An explosion today at the headquarters of the bomb squad in the Indonesian city of Medan left several officers badly injured.

Indonesia’s vice president has predicted that as many as 2,000 people may have died in yesterday's earthquake.

A powerful 8.7-magnitude earthquake hammered Indonesia’s west coast, collapsing homes and burying sleeping residents inside and sparking panic across Indian Ocean countries still traumatised by the tsunami disaster three months ago. Death toll estimates varied widely, from about 200 to 10 times that number.