News: Indonesia

We have started to collect the most important news related to Indonesia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Indonesia: news

VIDEO: Indonesian volcano blasts ash into air

Thursday, June 25th 2015, 12:07

Volcanic ash spews from Indonesia's Mount Sinabung, a volcano classed as "dangerous" by authorities, blanketing a nearby town.
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Indonesia rejects Atlaoui clemency

Monday, June 22nd 2015, 9:09
related countries: France

A court in Indonesia rejects the final appeal of a French national facing the death penalty for drug-related offences.
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VIDEO: Sinabung eruption: Thousands flee

Tuesday, June 16th 2015, 3:48

Thousands of people living close to a volcano in Indonesia have been forced to leave their homes.
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Thousands flee Indonesia volcano

Monday, June 15th 2015, 16:04

Thousands of people living close to the Mount Sinabung volcano in Indonesia are forced to flee their homes after it begins erupting violently.
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Australian navy 'paid smugglers'

Friday, June 12th 2015, 14:39
related countries: Aruba

The Australian navy paid the crew of a migrant boat to turn back to Indonesia, migrants tell the UN.
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Abbott dodges boat payment reports

Friday, June 12th 2015, 5:49
related countries: Australia

PM Tony Abbott refuses to deny reports Australia paid an Indonesian boat to turn back, but says "creative" tactics are used to deter migrants.
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VIDEO: Warning over Indonesian volcano

Tuesday, June 9th 2015, 23:15

People living close to Mount Sinabung in Indonesia are told to move out of their homes as fears grow that the volcano could soon erupt.
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Unlikely 'champion' in battle for Indonesia's forests

Wednesday, June 3rd 2015, 20:40

Why Greenpeace is backing one of the world's biggest paper producers
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VIDEO: Migrants find refuge in Aceh shelter

Friday, May 29th 2015, 8:45
related countries: Bangladesh
related places: More

More than 1,800 Muslim migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh are sheltered in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
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VIDEO: Migrant's story of four months at sea

Monday, May 25th 2015, 0:53
related places: Langsa

Kasuma Hatu, a Rohingya Muslim refugee from Myanmar describes her journey at sea from Myanmar to Langsa city in Indonesia.
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Indonesia begins migrant rescues

Saturday, May 23rd 2015, 16:21

Indonesia begins search and rescue operations for migrants believed to be adrift in its waters, following similar moves by neighbouring countries.
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Malaysia orders migrant boat rescues

Thursday, May 21st 2015, 10:45

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says his country will conduct search and rescue missions on migrant boats stranded in the Andaman Sea.
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VIDEO: Child migrants: 'No father, no country, no home'

Thursday, May 21st 2015, 5:44
related countries: Thailand

Hundreds of migrants found by the BBC last week in a boat drifting off the coast of Thailand have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen
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Boat rescued as migrant deal reached

Wednesday, May 20th 2015, 16:23
related countries: Thailand

People on a boat which went missing off Thailand last week are rescued, as Malaysia and Indonesia offer temporary shelter to migrants.
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Mass migrant rescue as states meet

Wednesday, May 20th 2015, 3:27
related countries: Thailand

Hundreds of migrants are rescued by locals off Indonesia, as ministers from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia meet to discuss the crisis.
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VIDEO: 'Separatists held my school hostage'

Wednesday, May 20th 2015, 0:00
related countries: Netherlands

In May 1977, Geert Kruit and 104 other Dutch schoolchildren were taken hostage by Indonesian separatists.
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VIDEO: Inside an Asian boat migrants' camp

Tuesday, May 19th 2015, 14:54
related countries: Bangladesh, Malaysia

Martin Patience visits an Indonesian camp for migrants and meets Bangladeshi men hoping to reach Malaysia and Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar.
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VIDEO: Asia migrants: The survivors' stories

Monday, May 18th 2015, 17:26

The BBC's Martin Patience speaks to migrants after they were hauled out of the Andaman sea by Indonesian fisherman.
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UN despair over Asia boat migrants

Monday, May 18th 2015, 11:14

The UN condemns the refusal of south-east Asian countries to rescue thousands of migrants adrift in the Andaman Sea.
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Indonesia city in migrant aid appeal

Monday, May 18th 2015, 7:25

The city in Aceh, Indonesia, where about 1,500 migrants have landed after being abandoned at sea says it urgently needs help to care for them.
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VIDEO: Migrant rescue: 'Boat journey from hell'

Sunday, May 17th 2015, 21:59

About 700 migrants rescued off the coast of Indonesia by fishermen on Friday are treated at a makeshift camp in Aceh.
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Migrants 'killed in fight over food'

Sunday, May 17th 2015, 15:04

Migrants rescued from a sinking boat off Indonesia tell the BBC that about 100 died in a fight over the last remaining food.
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VIDEO: 'Migrants are not coming to Indonesia'

Saturday, May 16th 2015, 1:28

Indonesia's vice-president defends his country's handling of stranded migrants at sea, insisting they do not want to go to Indonesia.
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Indonesia army 'virgin tests' decried

Thursday, May 14th 2015, 16:31
related places: Bali

The Indonesian army should stop imposing "virginity tests" on female recruits, rights groups say ahead of a medical conference in Bali.
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Indonesia turned away migrant boat

Tuesday, May 12th 2015, 7:40
related countries: Bangladesh

Indonesia says it turned away a boat carrying hundreds of migrants believed to be from Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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'Thousands' stranded off Thailand

Monday, May 11th 2015, 13:54
related countries: Bangladesh, Malaysia
related places: More

Thousands of refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar are stranded at sea close to Thailand, unable to come ashore, according to the IOM migration agency.
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Migrant boats rescued off Indonesia

Monday, May 11th 2015, 4:24

Nearly 600 people believed to be Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar are rescued from boats off northern Indonesia.
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Indonesia frees political prisoners

Saturday, May 9th 2015, 17:30

Indonesian President Joko Widodo orders the release of five political prisoners in restive Papua province and lifts travel restrictions on foreign journalists.
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The horse that doubles as a library

Wednesday, May 6th 2015, 15:35

An Indonesian man is using a horse he tamed to help improve literacy rates in a remote part of Java - by turning it into a mobile library.
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Bike-share ban for unwed Aceh couples

Tuesday, May 5th 2015, 16:00

An Indonesian district where Sharia law is practiced passes legislation to ban unmarried couples from riding motorcycles together.
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Smuggler 'hid rare birds in bottles'

Tuesday, May 5th 2015, 14:12

An Indonesian man is arrested for allegedly smuggling rare birds, including parrots and cockatoos, inside plastic bottles.
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Indonesian growth weakest since 2009

Tuesday, May 5th 2015, 6:14

South East Asia's largest economy, Indonesia, grows at its weakest annual pace since 2009 in the first quarter of this year.
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Police defend Bali Nine actions

Monday, May 4th 2015, 3:38
related countries: Aruba

Australian police defend their 2005 decision to report the Bali Nine drug gang to Indonesia, after the two ringleaders were executed.
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VIDEO: Police answer Bali Nine criticism

Monday, May 4th 2015, 1:54
related countries: Aruba

The head of the Australian Federal Police, Commissioner Andrew Colvin, responds to criticism of their role in the events leading to the executions of two Australian drug traffickers in Indonesia.
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Brazilian 'unaware' until execution

Thursday, April 30th 2015, 17:11
related countries: Botswana

A Brazilian man with psychiatric conditions executed in Indonesia with seven other prisoners did not understand what was happening to him, says his priest.
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Indonesia tourist boycott 'unlikely'

Thursday, April 30th 2015, 5:09
related countries: Aruba

Travel operators do not expect Australian visits to Indonesia to drop, despite calls for a boycott after the execution of two Australians.
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UN 'regret' at Indonesia executions

Thursday, April 30th 2015, 3:12

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expresses "deep regret" over the execution of eight people in Indonesia for drug crimes.
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Anger over Indonesia executions

Wednesday, April 29th 2015, 15:16
related countries: Aruba, Brazil

Australia recalls its ambassador and Brazil expresses "deep dismay" after their citizens are executed in Indonesia for drug crimes.
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Indonesia executes drugs prisoners

Tuesday, April 28th 2015, 23:26

Eight convicted drug smugglers are executed by firing squad in Indonesia, but a Filipina woman is spared at the last minute.
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Indonesia prisoners in final goodbye

Tuesday, April 28th 2015, 11:01
related countries: Aruba

A group of prisoners due to be executed for drugs offences in Indonesia have spent what are believed to be their final moments with their families.
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