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

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

SHANGHAI — President Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao held an unscheduled meeting Saturday morning on the sidelines of a summit of Asian leaders on the Indonesian island of Bali, and the two briefly discussed the territorial dispute in the South China Sea that has unnerved some of China’s neighbors. Read full article > >

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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

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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A Malaysian couple is charged with murdering their Indonesian maid, in the first such case since a deal was signed to safeguard workers’ rights.

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A judge is expected to deliver a verdict Thursday in the case of radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir who is on trial for a series of terror-related charges, including planning, attempting, funding and inciting terrorism.

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Radical Indonesian cleric jailed

The conservation charity, WWF, has recorded images of 12 rare Sumatran tigers in an Indonesian forest.

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VIDEO: Rare footage of Sumatran tigers

The Indonesian resort island of Bali is marking the Day of Silence that ushers in the new year.

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Silence Befalls Bali, but Only for a Day

Thailand and Cambodia agree to allow Indonesian observers to monitor disputed border territory that has been the scene of deadly fighting, an official says.

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Monitors for Thai-Cambodia border

A fire on a ferry off the Indonesian island of Java kills at least 11 people and injures scores more, officials say.

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Deadly fire on Indonesian ferry

Three soldiers seen abusing Papuan villagers in a video are jailed by an Indonesian court – but rights groups say the sentences are too lenient.

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Jail for Papua abuse video troops

Animal welfare campaigners are calling on the Indonesian government to do more to protect endangered animals from traffickers and traders.

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Indonesia pressed on animal trade