Update- The authorities of Indonesia confirm that a tsunami has hit the country. Several cities have been hit, including Palu and Donggala. Videos of the event circulate on social media. According to travel organizations, the affected area is hardly popular among Dutch people, although it is not clear whether there are compatriots in the disaster area.
The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been hit by two powerful earthquakes. Certainly one person was killed and at least ten other people were injured. 'We expect more damage and more victims,' stressed a spokesman for the emergency response service.
A 19-year-old boy survived 49 days on a loose raft at sea that drove thousands of kilometers.
A game of football had also been fun, but this boy thought differently about that. Images that show that a toddler on the Indonesian island of Java, with a giant python playing, go viral. The boy is sitting quietly and carefree with the meter-long snake.
A 15-year-old Indonesian girl who had been sentenced to six months in prison for abortion after being raped has been acquitted by a higher court. The court in Jambi on Sumatra said that the judge had established that the girl had abortion under circumstances that forced her to do so. She was raped by a brother.
The death toll due to the heavy earthquakes on the Indonesian island of Lombok has risen to 555. The Indonesian emergency response service BNPB reports this Friday. At least 77,000 houses have been destroyed by the earthquakes. Almost 400,000 islanders live in emergency shelters.
In a crash with a single-engine airplane in the Indonesian province of Papua, eight people were killed. Only a 12-year-old boy survived the accident. The local authorities report this after the aircraft was found in mountainous areas.
The official death toll due to the Sunday earthquake on Lombok has risen to 387. This is reported by the BNPB emergency response service. About 13,700 people have been injured by the violence of nature and 400,000 people have had to leave their homes. The death toll is likely to rise even further, there are still people stuck in collapsed houses or mud.
The official death toll due to the Sunday earthquake on Lombok has risen to 321. This is reported by the BNPB emergency response service.
The Indonesian island of Lombok has once again been startled by a powerful earthquake. According to the first reports, it had a force of 6.2. Witnesses say that a number of buildings have collapsed. People ran out into the street in panic.
The emergency services in Indonesia found more bodies between the rubble of collapsed buildings after the earthquake on Lombok. The death toll has risen to 131, reports a spokesperson for the emergency response service BNPB. According to him, the number of deaths will increase even further.
The death toll due to the earthquake on Lombok has increased further. A spokesperson for the BNPB emergency response service spoke about 105 deceased victims.
The Indonesian police have rescued a young woman who has been abused for fifteen years by a naturopath. The now 83-year-old man made the victim of having sex with him by claiming he was possessed by the spirit of a young boy, authorities say.
Rescue workers still find survivors two days after the earthquake on Lombok. They took a man from the rubble of a mosque. A woman could also be rescued from a collapsed shop after a lifelong rescue operation. Residents had been alarmed when they heard the victim call for help.
The authorities in Indonesia fear that the death toll due to the earthquake Sunday on Lombok, which has certainly claimed 98 lives, will rise further. Care workers suspect that there are still many people under the rubble.
A day after the heavy earthquake at Lombok, foreign tourists try to leave the Indonesian island on Monday. There are long lines of waiting at Mataram airport and airline Garuda is using additional flights.
During the earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok, according to local authorities, at least three deaths occurred. There was also considerable damage to buildings. There are no reports of any injuries. The quake had a force of 7.0.
A few hundred hikers are still stuck on the volcano Rinjani a day after the earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok. They were locked in there after the powerful quake with a force of 6.4 Sunday morning made some pedestrian routes impassable.
A 15-year-old girl was sentenced to six months in prison on the Indonesian island of Sumatra because she had had an abortion. She was pregnant with her older brother, who last year raped her eight times. He must in turn go to the cell for two years.
Hutomo 'Tommy' Mandala Putra Soeharto, the youngest son of the Indonesian former dictator Suharto, wants to be eligible for parliament next year. According to the Barkarya party he founded, he will participate in Papua, one of the poorest provinces of Indonesia.
Furious villagers killed almost three hundred crocodiles in Indonesian West Papua. That happened after a 48-year-old man was bitten by one of the reptiles.
The death toll due to the shipping accident in Indonesia has risen to 31. Some 130 passengers on the inoperative ferry have been rescued, says an official from the Ministry of Transport. Three people are still missing.
The Indonesian rescue service has found human remains in Lake Toba using underwater drones. The remains are probably from passengers of the ferry that sank there eleven days ago.
The airport of the Indonesian tourist island of Bali is closed until Friday at 1 pm Dutch time due to the emission of volcanic ash. This is caused by an eruption of the volcano Agung that blows a 2.5 km high smoke plume, says an employee from the local emergency service.
Indonesian emergency services have located the sunken ferry on Lake Toba in North Sumatra. An official confirms that the ferry has been identified at the bottom with the help of equipment for soil investigation.
The 46-year-old Indonesian spiritual Aman Abdurrahman, who is linked to Islamic State, has been sentenced to death by a judge in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. He is seen as the brain behind a number of deadly attacks in the country.
On the ferry that capsized on the Tobameer in North Sumatra on Monday, many more passengers were hitherto assumed. According to the Indonesian authorities, 180 people were missing, previously it was reported that the ferry was carrying 80 passengers. The number of missing persons is three times as large as the capacity of the ship.
Indonesian rescue workers resumed their search for survivors of a ferry that sank on Lake Toba in North Sumatra on Tuesday. The bad weather makes the operation difficult. The approximately one hundred rescue workers suffer from rain and waves of about 2 meters high.
On the Tobameer in North Sumatra a boat with around eighty people on board was hijacked on Monday. Nine of them were saved according to local media. Dozens of passengers are still missing. The body of one drowned passenger is salvaged.
Several passengers of an Indonesian plane were injured after a man had made a false bomb alert, Indonesian media reports. At that moment the aircraft was still on the ground in Pontianak, capital of the province of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
