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A speedboat explodes at a port in Taliabu Island Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia, killing six people, including Benny Laos, a candidate for Governor of North Maluku in the upcoming election, and Regional House of Representatives member Ester Tantri.
2024-10-12

Four people are killed and several houses and buildings are destroyed by a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Papua, Indonesia.
2023-02-9

The death toll in the earthquake that struck near Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, in November increases to 602.
2022-12-16

The Group of Twenty begins its annual two-day summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
2022-11-15

Indonesia reports a record for the second consecutive day of 47,899 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2.6 million.
2021-07-13

The World Mosquito Programme reports that an experiment in which mosquitoes purposefully infected with "Wolbachia" bacteria were released in Yogyakarta, Indonesia saw rates of dengue fever cases in the city drop by 77%, and an 86% reduction in related hospitalizations.
2021-06-9

Rescuers reach the wreckage of a Twin Otter cargo plane that crashed last week between Timika and Ilaga in Papua, Indonesia. All four persons on board are found dead, and their bodies are recovered.
2019-09-25

Search and rescue aircraft locate wreckage near Ilaga, Indonesia. It is thought to be a missing Twin Otter cargo plane carrying rice and four people, but this remains to be confirmed.
2019-09-22

Survivors trapped overnight on a stricken ferry are rescued off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi after the ferry began sinking the day before. Out of the 139 passengers aboard, 31 have been confirmed dead, while three remain missing.
2018-07-4

A British woman, Lindsay Sandiford is sentenced to death by a court in Indonesia following a conviction for drug trafficking.
2013-01-22