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East Aceh is dotted with numerous small-scale oil drilling operations, which are often run illegally by local villagers. (Photo: AP)

Indonesia oil well explosion death toll climbs to 21

An oil spill sparked a huge fire that shot up some 70 metres in the air, above homes and palm trees in a residential...

26 April 2018 12:57 PM IST

Replying to a volley of questions from the opposition party members during the question hour, he said the government has not received any report on Rohingyas entering the state from Myanmar or Bangladesh. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

Nearly 200 'Bangladeshi's' crammed into Indonesia shophouse: Police

Police in the city of Medan on Sumatra island were tipped off to the group by suspicious residents who lived nearby.

6 Feb 2019 4:45 PM IST

Indonesias National Search And Rescue Agency shows rescuers carrying out one of eighteen stranded sea turtles on the beach in Kalianda, after the turtles were found washed ashore after a tsunami - caused by activity at a volcano known as the child of Krakatoa .(Photo: AFP)

'All lives matter', says Indonesia on saving 15 tsunami-stranded...

It took 4 staff to haul endangered creature back to sea, just the latest in a string of turtle rescues along the...

28 Dec 2018 11:49 AM IST

Rescuers use heavy machine to search for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Pidie Jaya, Aceh province, Indonesia. (Photo: AP)

97 dead, hundreds injured in quake in Indonesia

In the coastal town of Sigli, people panicked and fled their houses to seek shelter away from the sea.

7 Dec 2016 8:17 AM IST