An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia’s remote and mountainous region of Papua yesterday, a government official said.

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Indonesia has executed six people, five of them foreigners, for drug trafficking despite international appeals to spare them.

Seventeen people were killed in a stadium stampede after spectators rioted in protest over a local boxer losing a championship match in eastern Indonesia, officials said.

A cargo plane carrying oil caught fire while being unloaded at an airport in eastern Indonesia today, and at least one person was injured.

A Frenchman who lost his limbs in an accident braved strong winds and currents to swim from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, in the first stretch of a mission to swim between five continents.

A powerful earthquake hit waters off eastern Indonesia today, sending panicked residents running from their homes, offices and schools. There was some damage, but no immediate reports of injuries.

A FROG with fangs, a blind snake and a round-headed dolphin are among more than 1,000 species recently found on the Melanesian island of New Guinea, environment group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has said.

Japan has declared a state of emergency at a nuclear power plant when its cooling system failed after the massive earthquake struck.

A powerful earthquake struck in the sea off eastern Indonesia today, prompting officials to briefly trigger a tsunami warning.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 has hit eastern Indonesia.

THE world’s smallest wallaby and a frog with a Pinocchio-like nose were among the new species discovered in a remote mountain wilderness, conservationists said.

A passenger plane with about 100 people on board skidded off the end of an airport runway while landing in heavy rain on Indonesia’s remote Papua province today, injuring about 20 people.

Indonesian police shot dead a separatist rebel leader today during a raid on a house in Papua province.

A plane carrying 16 people disappeared over eastern Indonesia today, an airline official said.

Gunmen opened fire on buses carrying employees of US mining company Freeport in Indonesia’s volatile Papua province today, killing two people.

A security guard working for US mining giant Freeport was killed and seven other people were injured today in a pair of attacks by suspected rebels in Indonesia's Papua province, police and company officials said.

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.

The party of Indonesia's president won a resounding victory in parliamentary polls, handing him a stronger mandate to push a reformist agenda in the world's third largest democracy.

A small plane crashed into a hillside in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province today, killing all four people on board.

A series of powerful earthquakes shook remote eastern Indonesia today, toppling or badly damaging more than 100 buildings and leaving at least four people dead and dozens injured.

Police say a suspected bomb has gone off near an international airport in easternmost Indonesia but no one has been injured.

Police say a suspected bomb has gone off at an international airport in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese has urged governments to do more to protect human rights workers under threat in their own countries.

The body of former Indonesian president Suharto, who led a military dictatorship for three decades and whose US-backed regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing opponents, arrived in his home town today for a state funeral.

Former Indonesian dictator Suharto’s condition remained critical but stable today, as his doctors continued their efforts to help him recover from multiple organ failure.

Former Indonesian dictator Suharto moved his hands and spoke in a whisper today in what doctors called an amazing recovery after he suffered multiple organ failure.

SCIENTISTS combing through undersea fauna off Indonesia’s Papua province said yesterday they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.

The Australian parliament’s lower house passed a bill today to force all asylum-seekers who arrive in the country by boat to be sent to island detention camps.

The Australian parliament was presented with tough new laws today that would force all asylum seekers who arrive by boat to be sent to island detention camps.

A moderate earthquake rocked Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua today, sending panicked residents into the streets.

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.

Four policemen were hacked to death today after protesters demanding the closure of a US-owned gold mine in Indonesia’s Papua province clashed with security forces.

SCIENTISTS have discovered a “Lost World” in an isolated Indonesian jungle, identifying dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants — as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere.

Soon after scientists landed by helicopter in the mist-shrouded mountains of one of Indonesia’s most remote provinces, they stumbled on a primitive egg-laying mammal that simply allowed itself to be picked up and brought to their field camp for observation.

Scientists discovered a “Lost World” in an isolated Indonesian jungle, identifying dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants – as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere, members of the expedition said today.

An off-duty pilot was today sentenced to 14 years in jail for the poisoning death of Indonesia’s top human-rights activist, but critics said the masterminds remained free.

The Indonesian government and Aceh rebels are poised to sign a peace treaty today, aimed at ending nearly 30 years of fighting in the oil and gas-rich province that has killed 15,000 people.

Illegal logging in Indonesia’s Papua province is rampant and much of the illicit wood is smuggled to China to feed the country’s voracious appetite for lumber, environmentalists said.

Dozens of bloated bodies littered the streets of Indonesia’s Banda Aceh city today as soldiers and desperate relatives searched for survivors of an earthquake and tidal waves that killed at least 4,491 people.

A series of aftershocks in Indonesia’s remote Papua province today hampered rescue efforts, the day after a major earthquake killed at least 13 people and injured 65.

A powerful earthquake struck Indonesia today following a series of tremors yesterday that left 34 dead, hundreds injured and devastated a remote town.

A series of powerful earthquakes have struck Indonesia’s remote Papua province, killing up to 23 people, injuring as many as 600 and destroying hundreds of houses, authorities said.

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