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| UpdatedAn Indonesia AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea in 2014, killing all on board, made 78 trips between Perth and Bali with a mechanical fault in the 12 months leading up to the tragedy.
Topics: air-and-space, air-transport, java, australia
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| UpdatedSome people believe volcanic eruptions are caused by fate. Others believe a volcanic eruption is a sign that a mountain is upset because residents living nearby have sinned. But science has another explanation.
Topics: volcanic-eruption, disasters-and-accidents, philippines, iceland, java
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Emile Jansons from the BOM Volcanic Ash Advisory centre updates the latest on the Mt Raung volcano in Indonesia and its effects on flights in and out of Denpasar.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, air-pollution, indonesia, bali, java
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| UpdatedIndonesian police provide new details about an asylum seeker voyage intercepted by Australia authorities, showing off more than $US30,000 allegedly paid to people smugglers to return to Indonesia.
Topics: refugees, immigration, federal-government, foreign-affairs, world-politics, indonesia, java, west-timor, australia, asia
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A West Australian man, jailed for reckless driving causing a fatal motorbike crash in Indonesia, has been released from prison after serving his sentence.
Topics: courts-and-trials, java, geraldton-6530
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| UpdatedGreg Jennett speaks to News 24 from Java
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, foreign-affairs, java
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| UpdatedAndrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are set to be executed in a sprawling Indonesian jail complex known as "execution island".
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, drug-offences, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime, java, indonesia, bali, australia
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| UpdatedAviation experts say that even if a tropical storm had caused the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 to stall, it would not have necessarily caused the plane to crash, with commentator suggesting weather may not have been the only factor involved in the plane's disappearance.
Topics: air-and-space, weather, indonesia, singapore, java
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| UpdatedAirAsia flight QZ8501 went missing with 162 people on board after losing contact with air traffic control en route from Indonesia to Singapore.
This timeline tracks the events leading up to and following the plane lost contact.
Topics: air-and-space, indonesia, java, singapore
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| UpdatedWest Australian man Jake Drage has been sentenced to nine months in an Indonesian jail after being found guilty of causing a motorbike crash that resulted in the death of a local woman.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, road, traffic-offences, java, indonesia, geraldton-6530, asia
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| UpdatedA West Australian man has appeared in an Indonesian court to face charges of causing a motorbike crash that killed a local woman.
Topics: traffic-offences, law-crime-and-justice, java, geraldton-6530
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Erin Gorter and one of her counterparts in East Java
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| UpdatedThe family of a Geraldton man being held in an Indonesian jail without charge is hoping the matter will be resolved by the end of the week.
Topics: traffic-offences, law-crime-and-justice, geraldton-6530, java
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| UpdatedAsh-covered Indonesians on a motorbike flee the erupting Mount Kelud in Malang, East Java province, February 14, 2014.
Topics: volcanic-eruption, disasters-and-accidents, java, indonesia
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Villagers during the evacuation of Malang, East Java province, moments after Mount Kelud erupted, February 14, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were ordered to evacuate after the volcano, on the main island of Java, erupted spectacularly.
Topics: volcanic-eruption, disasters-and-accidents, java, indonesia
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A man is pictured inside a lifeboat which arrived on the coast of Java on February 5, 2014. Read the story.
Topics: immigration, java, indonesia
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| Updated6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesia
Topics: earthquake, geology, java, indonesia, asia
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Christian worshippers attend a Christmas prayer at Surabaya in East Java, Indonesia.
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| UpdatedImmigration Minister Scott Morrison says at least two people died when an asylum seeker boat sank off the Indonesian island of Java yesterday.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, refugees, maritime, java, indonesia, asia, australia
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| UpdatedAn asylum seeker whose wife and eight children died when their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia last month says passengers were left without lifejackets to face death.
Topics: maritime, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, refugees, immigration, lebanon, australia, asia, java, indonesia
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| UpdatedAir Marshal Mark Binskin discusses the fatal sinking of an asylum seeker boat off the coast of west Java.
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Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition says an inquiry is needed amid claims the Australian Government delayed its response to distress calls from an asylum seeker boat that sank off Indonesia.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, australia, indonesia, java
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