Bomb-making materials were found in an airport lounge after a threat was made against flights in Indonesia, officials said today.

A passenger plane carrying 27 people crashed today as it was about to land in bad weather in Indonesia’s eastern province of West Papua, killing at least 15, officials said.

Dozens of people were killed in a train crash in central Indonesia.

TWENTY-SIX people were killed and some 250 were rescued after a ferry sank in stormy seas off Indonesia’s Sumatra island yesterday, a navy official said.

AN INDONESIAN ferry carrying 250 passengers capsized and sank yesterday after being battered by a large wave in storms in the country’s east officials said, adding bad weather and nightfall made rescue efforts difficult.