SYDNEY An Australian teenager holidaying in Bali was fatally electrocuted by live wires, officials said on Sunday, with reports his friends initially thought it was a prank. Jake Flannery, 18, died on Saturday after touching live wires in the popular Jl Legian tourist area, where he was celebrating finishing high school with friends, according to [...]

KEROBOKAN Inmates at Kerobokan Prison rioted on Saturday after attacking the chief warden and an anti-narcotics official who were trying to nab a suspected drug dealer. Dozens of inmates went on the rampage at the Kerobokan prison in the early hours before police and prison guards quelled the unrest. “We were attacked by the inmates; [...]

JAKARTA Australian drug smuggler sentenced to death in Bali has lost his appeal against the punishment, his lawyer said on Friday. Andrew Chan learned of the decision when the Supreme Court posted its ruling, dated May 11, on its website, lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis. “We just found out today that Andrew Chan’s judicial review has [...]

JAKARTA Australian drug-smuggler Scott Rush, one of a gang known as the Bali Nine, has won an appeal against his death sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday. “His judicial review has been accepted by the Supreme Court. His death penalty has been annulled and the sentence has been changed to life,” Frans Hendra Winata said. [...]

JAKARTA A plane with around 25 passengers and crew crashed into the sea during a downpour off Papua on Saturday, killing everyone on board, a navy officer told local radio. “I can confirm that all the passengers were killed when the plane exploded as it crashed into the sea,” a navy officer involved in the [...]

JAKARTA A landslide and flash floods triggered by heavy rain killed 17 people and inundated four villages in Java, a disaster management agency spokesman said on Saturday. The incident happened late on Friday in Garut district, West Java province, after hours of heavy rain, the official said. “Seventeen people were killed, two are still missing [...]

JAKARTA An Indonesian passenger aircraft crashed into the sea on Saturday near the eastern island of Papua with 27 people on board, a Transport Ministry spokesman said. “A MA-60 aircraft crashed into the sea, some 500 metres away from the airstrip,” before its intended landing, Bambang Ervan said. “When the accident happened, the weather was [...]

JAKARTA A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit off the island of Sulawesi on Friday, government seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The quake hit at a depth of 35 kilometres at 0646 GMT, around 75 kilometres southeast of Gorontalo city, said the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. “The [...]

JAKARTA Police have found six unexploded bombs similar to one detonated by a suicide bomber inside a police mosque last month. National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said on Thursday that the improvised devices appeared to have been prepared for a wave of suicide attacks in the country. “They planned to use the six pipe [...]

JAKARTA The densely populated island of Java was hit on Tuesday afternoon by a strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake, officials said. The quake struck 120 kilometres southwest of the Central Java town of Cilacap, 24 kilometres below the Earth’s surface, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said. Cilacap is 690 kilometres west of Bali. There were no [...]

TIMIKA Two miners were killed when the roof of a US-owned mine in restive Papua province collapsed on them, police said on Tuesday. The men were working in an underground mine belonging to US mining giant Freeport McMoRan late on Monday when the roof collapsed, pinning them beneath earth and rocks, Mimika deputy police chief [...]

JAKARTA At least 17 people were wounded in a suspected suicide bomb attack during Friday prayers at a mosque in a police compound in West Java province, police said. “We suspect it was a suicide bombing,” police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam said. “The blast occurred in Cirebon police headquarters compound during the beginning of Friday [...]