An AirAsia flight attendant identified by the name tag on her red uniform has become the first victim of AirAsia Flight 8501 to be returned to her family.

I suppose I should have wondered about the unfamiliar silence that lay over the city of Yogjakarta in central Java when I was woken at 4am by the call of the muezzin to dawn prayers at the mosque.

THOUSANDS of followers of a conservative Islamic group held peaceful demonstrations in several Indonesian cities yesterday against the planned visit of US President Barack Obama at the end of this month.

Thousands of followers of a conservative Islamic group held peaceful demonstrations in several Indonesian cities against the planned visit of President Barack Obama.

INDONESIA’S most wanted Islamist militant was killed in a police shoot-out in Central Java, police said yesterday, lifting a major security threat ahead of a planned visit by US President Barack Obama.

South East Asia’s most wanted terrorist was reportedly shot and killed by police officers who stormed a suspected militant hide-out in Indonesia today to end a 16-hour siege.

AN Indonesian military transport plane carrying 110 passengers and crew crashed and burst into flames in East Java yesterday, killing at least 98 people on board and on the ground, officials said.

Indonesia increased security today after three Islamic militants were executed for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people

Police dug up six bodies from the a serial killer’s garden in Indonesia today bringing the number of his suspected victims to 11.

Police investigating a suspected serial killer in Indonesia said today that they have now unearthed 10 bodies – most buried in his backyard.

More than 700 passengers escaped from an Indonesian ferry that caught fire today shortly before reaching its destination on Borneo island, officials said.

An inter-island ferry carrying more than 700 passengers and crew caught fire today as it neared port on the island of Borneo, an Indonesian television channel reported.

AN INDONESIAN court sentenced two leaders of the Jemaah Islamiyah group, blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings, to 15 years’ jail yesterday.

CIARAN POWER (Pezula Racing) put his hallmark on a spectacular weekend when he won the final stage of the Pauline Sugrue Auctioneers Rás Mumhan, to copperfasten his overall victory in blustery conditions at Killorglin yesterday.

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.

A commercial Adam Air passenger plane lost contact with flight controllers today as it flew between Indonesia's Java and Sulawesi islands, the company's chief executive said.

An Indonesian woman whose brother died of bird flu this month is also sick with the virus, a senior Health Ministry official said today, confirming the country’s latest family cluster of infections.

The Indonesian government has confirmed another death in the country due to bird flu, an official said today.

The World Health Organisation today confirmed five more bird flu deaths in Indonesia, raising to 30 the number of human fatalities from the H5N1 strain of the virus in the sprawling archipelago.

Police cautioned swimmers on the Indonesian resort island of Bali today after a storm-driven 10-foot wave killed one person.

Malaysia’s leader today warned of a “huge chasm” between Muslims and the West, as thousands of people took to the streets in Asia for the largest demonstrations yet in the Prophet Mohammed cartoons row.

Indonesian Muslim hard-liners signed a pact saying they were ready to die in defence of the Prophet Mohammed, while others burned tyres in streets today amid fresh protests in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

POLICE found more than 30 bombs in the hideout of a South-East Asia terror ringleader shot to death during a raid by an elite security unit, triggering speculation he was planning more attacks, authorities said yesterday.

INDONESIAN police have made their first arrest over this month’s suicide blasts on the island of Bali, picking up a man believed to have shared a house with one of the bombers.

Indonesian police said today they had arrested a woman suspected of sending a hoax bomb threat that closed the British and Thai embassies in Jakarta.

Two volcanoes in separate parts of Indonesia spewed out plumes of hot smoke and showers of stones today, killing two hikers and forcing the evacuation of 5,000 villagers.

Eight suspects in the Bali bombings were flown to the central Indonesian town of Solo to re-enact meetings at which they allegedly planned the deadly blasts.

INDONESIA announced a fresh breakthrough in the Bali bombing probe yesterday.

Indonesian police are searching for two brothers of the prime suspect in the Bali bombing.

INDONESIAN police said yesterday that a man they are interrogating has confessed to planting a bomb in an attack on Bali nightclub that killed nearly 200 people last month.

Indonesian police said today that a man they are interrogating has confessed to planting a bomb in an attack on Bali nightclub that killed nearly 200 people last month.

Indonesian police were today interrogating a “possible suspect” linked to the van used in last month’s bombings in Bali that killed nearly 200 people.

At least 26 people, mostly small children, were killed when a bus heading for an Indonesian beach careered into a ravine today.

Two teenage girls have been crushed to death as pupils at an Indonesian school fled from what they thought was a ghost.

Thousands of followers of embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid rampaged for a second day, burning and attacking two churches and buildings belonging to his political rivals.

Thousands of fanatical followers of embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid rampaged for a second day, burning and attacking two churches and buildings belonging to his political rivals.

Indonesia’s parliament met in Jakarta behind razor wire and barricades today with disgruntled politicians calling for a second censure to be issued against President Abdurrahman Wahid - setting the scene for possible impeachment.

Indonesian police have fired warning shots to disperse a protest by thousands of supporters of Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid for a second consecutive day.

Supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid in Indonesia have burned down two offices of the former ruling party in protest against moves by parliament to oust him from power.