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The death toll in Indonesia's devastating floods closed in on the 1,000 mark Thursday (Dec 11) as hundreds of thousands more continued to face shortages, with frustration growing over relief efforts.

A fire swept through a seven-storey office block in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Tuesday, killing 22 people, police said.

Hit by deadly floods, Indonesians in the region around Aceh Tamiang are grappling with worsening diseases and a lack of medical care as workers struggled to help dozens of residents at the lone hospital in the area.

Deaths from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the disaster with hundreds of people still unaccounted for acros...

The number of people killed by floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rose to 708 on Tuesday, the country’s disaster agency said, with 504 people missing.

Across South and South East Asia, at least 1,100 people have been killed in flooding and landslides due to extreme wet weather this past week. The death toll is expected to rise given that in recently-hit areas like Indo...

The death toll from flash floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island Friday rose to 174 on Friday with 79 people missing, authorities said.

Torrential monsoon rains have set off destructive floods and landslides across Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 17 people and leaving dozens of others missing, according to local authorities.

Indonesian authorities evacuated over 1,000 people, including over 170 hikers, on Thursday after the eruption of its Semeru volcano, one of the country's tallest peaks.

Rescue workers dug through tons of mud and rubble on Monday as they searched for 34 missing people after two separate landslides in two different regions on Indonesia’s main island of Java killed at least 18 people.

Indonesian rescuers were searching Friday for people who went missing in landslides triggered by torrential rains on Indonesia ’s Java island. Authorities reported three confirmed deaths with 20 others missing.

Dozens of people have been injured in an explosion during Friday prayers at a mosque inside a high school complex in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.

Indonesian authorities said on Tuesday that 15 people, mostly children, were killed after being swept away while crossing a river in the easternmost Papua region, while the search for eight children missing in another f...

The Indonesian Military said it killed 14 Papuan fighters during an operation to free a village from the control of separatists this week and residents had welcomed its troops.

Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, erupted for a second straight day Wednesday, spewing towering columns of hot ash that later blanketed villages. No casualties were immediately reported.

A large industrial zone on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at th...

Rescuers are racing to pull dozens of students and workers from under the rubble of a school building that collapsed in East Java, Indonesia.

Health workers in Sumenep, Indonesia, are delivering measles vaccines to curb an outbreak on Madura Island, which has persisted for nine months. Over 2,600 children have been infected this year, and 20 have died.

A planned rally in Indonesia on Wednesday (Sep 17) touted to involve up to 5,000 online riders appeared to have fizzled out, after only around 100 people turned up for the protest amid gloomy weather in the country’s cap...

Thousands of online riders are set to take to the streets of Jakarta on Wednesday (Sep 17) as they demand the resignation of Transport Minister Dudy Purwagandhi, in the first major protest since Indonesia President Prabo...