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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VIDEO: Footage emerges of ‘tsunami girl’
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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Three die as Borneo bridge falls
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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Reporter’s Notebook: President Obama at Ease on Foreign Trip to Old Haunts
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
Before departing for Bali, Indonesia, Thursday for a summit, President Obama extolled Darwin, Australia, as “the perfect place” to base U.S. Marines, signaling an American effort to counterbalance a rising China in Asia.
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Obama Addresses Troops at Final Stop in Australia
BALI, Indonesia — A powerful earthquake struck off Indonesia’s popular resort island of Bali on Thursday, sending people fleeing from their homes and hotels in panic. No tsunami alert was issued, and there were no immediate reports of injuries. Some roofs collapsed, and witnesses told local radio and television stations they saw cracks in the walls of buildings. Read full article > >
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Powerful quake rattles Indonesian resort island of Bali
All 18 people aboard a plane that crashed on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra earlier this week are found dead, officials say.
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All 18 die in Sumatra plane crash
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A suicide bomber attacked an Indonesian church packed with hundreds of worshippers Sunday, killing himself and wounding at least 20 other people, police and hospital officials said. The blast in Solo town in Central Java province occurred just as people were filing out at the end of the service. Read full article > >
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Suicide bomb attack at packed Indonesian church injures at least 20 people
A Greater Manchester man is arrested in Indonesia on suspicion of drug smuggling.
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Briton in Indonesia drugs arrest
TANGERANG, Indonesia — Irzen Octa, a down-on-his-luck Indonesian businessman, suffered a torment familiar to millions of Americans struggling with debts racked up in better times: He feared losing his home. In the end, he managed to keep the ramshackle two-story house where he and his wife raised their two, now-teenage daughters. Instead, Octa lost his life, pursued by Citibank over a $5,700 debt on his platinum credit card. The 50-year-old businessman, invited to a Citibank office in Jakarta in late March, collapsed in a tiny room set aside by the U.S. bank for questioning of deadbeat debtors. He died shortly afterward — a casualty of a “harsh interrogation,” said Jakarta police spokesman Baharudin Djafar. Read full article > >
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Scandals tarnish Citibank’s image in Indonesia
Rights groups express outrage after an Indonesian Muslim sect member is jailed for six months for defending himself from a brutal attack.
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Outrage over sect victim jailing
Reporter’s Notebook: President Obama at Ease on Foreign Trip to Old Haunts
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