Students protested in Indonesian towns and cities today against a visit next week by US President George Bush.

An Indonesian man has died of bird flu, raising the country’s human toll to four, officials said today, as international health experts prepared to go house-to-house to search for infected poultry.

Indonesia’s first polio outbreak in a decade widened today with two new cases reported, as the government kicked off a massive eradication campaign that aims to vaccinate 6.4 million children in one day.

IT was straight to the photographers’ studio for the Dowse family when, after years of trying for a baby, they adopted a gorgeous two-month-old boy.

AT the Immanuel orphanage where he was left with some clothes and a small box of toys, three-year-old Tristan Dowes is known as “the Irish boy”.

Indonesia today confirmed an outbreak of bird flu among millions of chickens, but said the disease had not spread to humans.

LASKAR JIHAD, Indonesia’s most violent Muslim extremist group, has disbanded, its legal adviser said yesterday.

A hand grenade that killed a man when it exploded prematurely in the Indonesian capital today was to have been thrown at a house belonging to the US Embassy, the national police chief said.

Forty-four survivors were recovering in an Indonesian refugee camp today after their boat sank off Java island, drowning several hundred people.

More than 350 migrants - most of them Iraqis - drowned when the boat they were on sank off the coast of Indonesia, the International Organisation for Migration said in Switzerland tonight.