Indonesia

At least 11 Indonesian migrants died and 27 are believed to be missing after a boat sank Wednesday in stormy weather off southern Malaysia, authorities said.

A fire tore through an overcrowded block in jail in Indonesia’s Banten province in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least 41 people and injuring dozens.

At least 157 people have been killed in Indonesia and neighboring East Timor with dozens more still missing after a tropical cyclone battered the Southeast Asian nations, leaving thousands homeless, authorities said Tuesday.

More than 70 people have died and dozens are still missing after flash floods and landslides hit Indonesia and neighboring East Timor, officials said Monday.

AstraZeneca on Sunday said that its COVID-19 vaccine contains no pork-derived ingredients, countering an assertion in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, that the drug violates Islamic law.

At least 27 people, including junior high school students, were killed and several others injured as a bus carrying dozens of pilgrims plunged down a steep ravine on Indonesia’s Java island, authorities said on Thursday.