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Southeast Asia braces for more droughts and haze with El Nino in the horizon
Southeast Asia faces a high risk of drought, water scarcity, and haze due to the El Nino weather ph…
PTI
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An Australian couple bought land on an Indonesian island and built a luxury hotel. Here's how they did it.
Two Australians, Jess and Daniel Baldock, moved from Melbourne to Sumba. They planned to start a su…
Claire Turrell
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At least 14 people have died and 56 are injured after a volcano erupted suddenly in Java, Indonesia, authorities said
Mount Semeru is the largest volcano on the island of Java. It is one of Indonesia's nearly 130 acti…
Bethany Dawson
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Divers found the black box from the Lion Air flight that crashed into the Java Sea
Indonesia's transport ministry on Thursday suspended Lion Air's maintenance and engineering directo…
Christian Edwards,Christian E…
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An Indonesian Lion Air flight crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff with at least 188 on board
The Lion Air flight took off for the 50 minute journey to the Banka island across the Natuna Sea of…
Christian Edwards,Christian E…
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A French couple bought a villa in Bali in 2011 without ever having set foot on the island and spent 2 years turning it into a private compound. Take a look inside.
The couple told Insider they spent as much on renovations as they did on the original villa purchas…
Claire Turrell
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6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes near Indonesia's popular tourist island Bali
Indonesia is situated in the Ring of Fire, an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where many ear…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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A strong earthquake rocked Indonesia's popular island Bali - just weeks after a tsunami and earthquake devastated the country's north
The country is still reeling just two weeks after a devastating magnitude-7.5 earthquake and subseq…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Indonesia is executing foreign criminals on a remote prison island
The men's futures have ramped up tensions between Indonesia and Australia as well as many other cou…
Christina Sterbenz
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I traveled to Bali with my husband and young kids to decompress. 2 years later, we're still here.
Alison Emerick and her family rent a modern, three-bedroom house with a pool in Bali for about $2,2…
Alison Emerick
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I spent $2 million restoring a cruise ship I bought on Craigslist. The project took over my life, but I don't regret it.
After spending more than 15 years and tons of money on a labor of love, he walked away from the sin…
Alcynna Lloyd
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Videos show residents fleeing in terror as Indonesia's Mount Semeru volcano suddenly erupts and spews a gigantic ash cloud
Residents fled in terror as Mount Semeru, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Java, spewed a giga…
Joshua Zitser
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The short, historic life of the US Navy's first aircraft carrier
Aircraft carrier was only one of three different missions that USS Langley had before it was sunk i…
Benjamin Brimelow
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80 years after 'Australia's Pearl Harbor,' tensions with China are raising fears of another attack Down Under
Darwin is still strategically important, but 80 years after World War II, the port city is facing t…
Benjamin Brimelow
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A couple bought an inaccessible strip of land on a Bali clifftop and spent 10 years building a multi-tiered villa on it. Take a look.
"There was nothing to indicate there might be something special at the end of it," said Renee Zecha…
Claire Turrell
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The CEO of Indonesia's largest oxygen company has died from COVID-19 as the latest coronavirus wave overwhelms the country's hospitals and coffin-makers
The most recent wave of COVID-19 cases is overloading Indonesian hospitals, oxygen producers, and c…
Matthew Loh
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A group of our Homo erectus ancestors suffered a mysterious mass death more than 107,000 years ago. It's their last appearance in the fossil record.
By correctly dating these fossils, anthropologists can now explore who Homo erectus might have inte…
Aylin Woodward
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Time is running out for the 53 crew members on a missing Indonesian submarine. Authorities say the vessel has less than 36 hours of oxygen left.
The submarine went missing off the coast of Bali. Over 36 hours has elapsed in the Indonesian navy'…
Cheryl Teh
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Indonesia is sending medicines and vitamins to COVID-19 victims who can't access its overcrowded hospitals but doctors there remain overwhelmed
Indonesia's president announced Thursday that the government will distribute 300,000 free packages …
Matthew Loh
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The devastating Indonesian tsunami has claimed more than 400 lives - here's what you can do to help the victims
The tsunami was the second to hit the country this year. This one was thought to have occurred afte…