Lady Gaga cancels a concert in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, citing “security” concerns, after protests by religious groups.

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The Welsh director behind an Indonesian martial arts hit

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Martial arts the Welsh way

Troublesome weather conditions hampered recovery efforts Friday as teams combed a steep mountainside where a Russian jetliner crashed on a demonstration flight in Indonesian this week.

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The wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that went missing during a flight from Jakarta has been found 5,800 feet up an Indonesian volcano.

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Rescuers find a number of bodies at the wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet plane that crashed into mountains in Indonesia.

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Disappeared in Indonesia during demonstration flight.

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Quick quiz: Which country is the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after the United States and China? The answer, at least in recent years, has been Indonesia . That’s surprising. It’s not the world’s third-largest economy. It’s not an industrial powerhouse. But Indonesia has been clearing its vast rain forests of late, releasing huge stores of carbon into the air. One culprit has been the country’s fast-growing production of palm oil , an edible vegetable oil that’s increasingly being harvested to make biodiesel fuel for cars and trucks in Europe. Read full article > >

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A powerful 8.6-magnitude earthquake, followed by a strong aftershock, struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, creating panic and reviving memories of the deadly 2004 earthquake.

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Strong Indonesian Earthquake Triggers Tsunami Warning

A senior US official says a North Korean rocket due to be launched next month may affect an area between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines, reports say.

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Footage has emerged of an Indonesian girl who her family says has been reunited with her parents seven years after she was swept away in the 2004 tsunami.

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A rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying hundreds of asylum seekers sinks off the Indonesian island of Java.

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Migrant boat sinks off Indonesia

At least three people die and 17 others are injured when a bridge spanning the Mahakam river collapses in Borneo, Indonesia.

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A tribal leader from an Indonesian province, who was granted asylum in the UK, has been named on an Interpol wanted list, the BBC learns.

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Man granted asylum on wanted list

Each stop on President Obama’s Pacific trip — Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia — took him to places he had known as a child and young man.

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BALI, Indonesia — Burma seemed poised for a historic shift Friday as dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi ended her long boycott of the country’s authoritarian political system and President Obama announced plans to send the U.S. secretary of state there for the first time in half a century. The back-to-back announcements were the clearest sign yet of how seriously the Obama administration and Suu Kyi — the standard-bearer of Burma’s long- persecuted democracy movement — are taking the political changes instituted by the country’s leaders. Read full article > >

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U.S. sees Burma reforms as strategic opening to support democracy