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At Least 34 Dead After Strong Earthquake Hits Indonesia

By VOA on Jan 15, 2021   Featured, National/World, World  

At Least 34 Dead After Strong Earthquake Hits Indonesia

A strong earthquake with a magnitude 6.2 hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island Friday, killing at least 34 people, destroying residential and commercial buildings and triggering landslides, local authorities said. More than 600 people were injured, and many others were trapped in the rubble of collapsed homes and other buildings, Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency said in […]

Indonesian Authorities Locate Black Boxes from Sriwijaya Air Passenger Plane

By Eva Mazrieva | VOA Indonesian Service on Jan 10, 2021   Featured, National/World, World  

Indonesian Authorities Locate Black Boxes from Sriwijaya Air Passenger Plane

JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Indonesian aviation authorities said Sunday they had located the two black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta Saturday.  Speaking to reporters, Soerjanto Tjahjanto, head of Indonesia’s transport safety agency said that divers would look for them, hoping to retrieve them soon.   The devices […]

Heavy Rains Complicating Rescue, Relief Efforts on Indonesia’s Tsunami-Hit Areas

By VOA on Dec 26, 2018   Featured, National/World, World  

Heavy Rains Complicating Rescue, Relief Efforts on Indonesia’s Tsunami-Hit Areas

[dropcap]H[/dropcap]eavy rains are complicating efforts to provide aid to communities on Indonesia’s remote western islands cut by last week’s massive tsunami that killed 429 people. The rains have made roads impassible, holding up convoys delivering heavy machinery and relief supplies to isolated areas, forcing disaster officials to send helicopters to drop supplies and evacuate residents. There […]

222 Dead, Hundreds Injured in Indonesia Tsunami

By VOA on Dec 23, 2018   Featured, National/World, World  

222 Dead, Hundreds Injured in Indonesia Tsunami

A tsunami that struck late Saturday has killed over two hundred people along Indonesia’s Sunda Straits. “Two hundred twenty two people are dead, 843 people are injured and 28 people are missing,” said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Indonesia’s national disaster agency spokesman. Casualties are expected to rise. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported an […]

Indonesian Divers Recover ‘Black Box’ From Lion Air Jet

By VOA on Nov 1, 2018   At Sea, Featured, National/World, World  

Indonesian Divers Recover ‘Black Box’ From Lion Air Jet

Indonesian navy divers say they have recovered one of the “black boxes” from the wreckage of Lion Air Flight JT-610, which crashed into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta early Monday morning. The divers told local television reporters Thursday they found one of the plane’s recorders from the sea floor and […]

Indonesia Death Toll Jumps to 832

By VOA on Sep 30, 2018   National/World, World  

Indonesia Death Toll Jumps to 832

The death toll from the earthquake-tsunami disaster in Indonesia has more than doubled, rising to 832, with 540 injured people, according to Indonesian officials. Authorities have said they expect the death toll to rise. “The casualties will keep increasing,” said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, whose agency announced the jump in the toll […]

At Least 82 Killed as Deadly Earthquake Rocks Indonesia’s Lombok Island

By VOA on Aug 6, 2018   Featured, World  

At Least 82 Killed as Deadly Earthquake Rocks Indonesia’s Lombok Island

At least 82 people have been killed when a powerful earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok Sunday, triggering a brief tsunami warning and sending residents and tourists fleeing into the streets. The death toll was expected to rise, with hundreds of people injured and thousands of houses severely damaged, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency […]

Deady Earthquake Rocks Indonesia Lombok Island

By VOA on Aug 5, 2018   National/World, World  

Deady Earthquake Rocks Indonesia Lombok Island

A powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia’s Lombok island, killing at least 19 people, a week after another deadly quake struck the area. The U.S. Geological Survey said a 7.0 magnitude quake struck the island Sunday. An initial tsunami warning issued by Indonesian authorities was lifted. Mutya Aryani, a local resident in nearby Sumbawa, told VOA […]

Woman Eaten by Reticulated Python while Tending her Garden in Indonesia

By Alaska Native News on Jun 18, 2018   Featured, National/World, World  

Woman Eaten by Reticulated Python while Tending her Garden in Indonesia

A 54-year-old Indonesian woman from the village of  Persiapan Lawela on the island of Muna is the second person to have been consumed by a Reticulated Python in that country this year after she went missing on Thursday. 54-year-old Wa Tiba went out to tend to her garden at the base of a rocky cliff near […]

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