By IntelliNews - Surabaya Bureau Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK) has issued a formal warning regarding the systemic impact of environmental hazards on Indonesia's banking and economic ...

A five-year trial is assessing whether the loudspeakers used to broadcast the call to prayer can help to warn hard-to-reach territories ...

House (DPR) member Daniel Johan urged the Indonesian government to declare a national disaster status as forest fires ...

An expert advises Jakarta to take steps such as announcing evacuation routes and releasing maps following a pre-eruption alert The eruption of Anak Krakatoa in Indonesia has tested the country's ...

Indonesia's authorities are intensifying search and rescue operations to locate 130 people missing after the sinking of the ferry Virgo Transport 8 in the Java Sea on Sunday.

Members of The Power of Mama, an all-women volunteer firefighting group, use a water hose to extinguish a wildfire in a peatland area in Sungai Awan Kiri, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia on Aug 30 ...

On Sept. 15, the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau sent volcanic ash up to 15,000 meters (50,000 feet) and produced rumbling heard 700 kilometers (435 miles) away. Eight airports suspended operations, ...

When tragedy strikes, it is often discussed as a single, horrific event. An earthquake hits, and the ground rumbles and shakes. Homes, offices, and other buildings collapse. Roads cleave open. People ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Roads turned to murky brown rivers, homes were swept away by strong currents and bodies were pulled from mud during deadly flash floods and landslides after torrential rains hit ...

The National Search and Rescue Agency has extended the search operation for another seven days, said Yudhi Bramantyo, the agency’s operation director ...

Search teams made desperate last-ditch efforts Friday to find survivors, a week on from Indonesia’s devastating quake-tsunami, as the death toll from the disaster rose above 1,500. The city of Palu on ...