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Eight passengers of a bus died, while 13 others were wounded when their bus collided with a truck in the village of Socorejo, Tuban regency yesterday. All victims were residents of Sumber Mulyo village in the regency of Purbolinggo. They were among 65 people on board of a bus that was heading for a graveyard in the city of Kudus.
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The Sancaka train on route from Surabaya to Yogyakarta derailed near the village of Awar-Awar, Wilingan, in the regency of Nganjuk in East Java last evening. The cause of the derailment is not known yet. The train left from Surabaya at 17:00 local time, and should arrive in Yogyakarta around 23:00. Many people on several stations were stranded because of the derailment.
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A big fire at the traditional market of Mampang, along Jalan Bangka IX in Jakarta, has destroyed the market completely. The fire brigade received information about the fire around midnight local time and sent 17 fire trucks to the location to battle the flames. Around two o'clock in the morning, the fire had largely been put out and fire crew was busy cooling down the smoldering remains of the market.
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It is something that children do, as well as adults. For adults it is a full-time job or volunteer job and not something you just do incidentally. But that last one is what happened two nights ago. It was just after six in the evening when a Dutch friend and I were having a beer in one of the many cafe's in the Jodoh area on the island of Batam. One of the Australians that entered before we did walked outside but came right back in. "There is a fire," he said with a normal voice.
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The regional office of the state power company PLN in the areas of Jakarta and Tangerang have announced that they will introduce scheduled outages in large parts of the region to avoid rolling and unplanned blackouts after a substation was damaged in a fire yesterday. Generators will be put into place for important facilities like hospitals, health centers and police offices. Even some traffic lights will be powered by generators to keep the traffic flowing.
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A Boeing 737-300 belonging to Merpati has made an emergency landing on the international airport of Makassar in South Sulawesi yesterday morning. The plane, which had just left from Makassar for Surabaya, returned to the airport after just 20 minutes after departure. The plane had 115 passengers and crew on board. No people were injured in the incident.
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Some 50 small shops selling snacks and souvenirs at the Prambanan Temple complex in Central Java were completely lost in a fire. The fire broke out at around 19:30 local time (GMT+7), when shops were already closed for about two hours. There were no people at the scene of the fire when it occurred so there were no injuries.
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Three tourists have most likely been killed when they were dragged away by waves on the Pelabuhanratu beach in the Sukabumi regency earlier today. Until now, the three missing people have not been found. The three are said to be from Bogor in West Java. The incident happened around 08:00 local time this morning at two different places on the beach.
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A cargo train has derailed in the area of Lawang in the Malang regency in East Java province. A number of trains were delayed and services to and from the city of Surabaya were disrupted as well. At least four trains departing from Malang and Surabaya stations were delayed while the derailed train was cleared from the track by the Indonesian state-owned railway company.
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High waves have caused a wooden boat to sink in the waters of the island of Halmahera in North Maluku. 15 passengers were killed in the accident while 15 others are still missing, according to the Indonesian navy. 29 of the 59 passengers and crew on board of the boat were rescued soon after the boat went down Monday late in the afternoon.
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It is a nice and clear Monday morning with some slight cloud cover along the skies. Nothing special to be seen from the window on the first floor. However, there is something strange actually. In the first place it looks just like a cloud hovering above the earths surface at low altitude, but it originates from a vertical column. Smoke. And where there is smoke, there is fire indeed.
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A spokesperson of the national police said Saturday that at least 184 people have been killed in homecoming traffic rush in the six days prior to the Idul Fitri holiday. National Police spokesman Maj. Gen. Nanan Sukarna told a press conference in Jakarta that at least 466 traffic accidents have occurred less than a week before the holiday.
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A Twin Otter plane from the airline Aviastar skidded over the runway of Serui airport in Papua when it tried to land at around 10:00 local time (GMT+9) this morning. The three crew members and five passengers were not injured in the incident however. According to Iman Setiawan of the local police, the incident happened when the plane tried to land. At 400 meters before the end of the runway the plane slipped
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A truck loaded with wood that was illegally taken from Kalimantan forests, came crashing down into a river after the bridge it was using suddenly broke. The accident happened yesterday afternoon. The truck with the illegally cut wood eventually ended up ten meters lower, in the Sungai Setui riverbed in the village of Legai, Tanah Grogot district in East Kalimantan.
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A Nomad P-837 plane from the Indonesian Navy has crashed in the area of Tambakan, district Bulungan at some 15 minutes away from the airport of Tarakan in East Kalimantan. The airport authority of the airport of Longbawang, Malinao in East Kalimantan has has released this information. The plane is estimated to have crashed around 13:00 local time (GMT+8).
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The assistant train driver was killed in a train derailment of the Penataran train. The train derailed and turned over in Malang, East Java province earlier this afternoon. Six passengers were injured in the accident. The locomotive and the first wagon jumped out of the tracks and crashed into a fence in the Karanglo area in Malang. It is assumed that the train hit a water buffalo before it derailed.
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Ten people on board of the the ferry Sari Mulia that sunk on the Barito river yesterday afternoon have been found dead. One of the dead is a little child of only two years old. The coordinator of the regional search and rescue team, Suprapto, has said that 116 people were rescued until now.
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Some 21 people went missing after the Sari Mulia boat sunk in the waters of a river in Negara Desa Batalas in the under-district of Candi Laras Utara in the district of Tapin, Kalimantan. "110 passengers were rescued from the waters and one person was found dead. There are still 21 people missing," told a spokesperson of the local police, Fery Aditiya Sasmita.
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Nine people were killed while three others went missing after a ferry sank in waters near the resort island of Bali yesterday afternoon. Ketut Parwa, head of the search and rescue (SAR) team of the island said that the ferry had 27 passengers on board. It left from Kusamba for the small island of Nusa Penida near Bali.
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A traffic accident on the island of Kalimantan has killed 25 people. Dozens of others were injured in the accident. The victims were workers and their family on board of a truck that transported 60 people in total.
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Five of the nine wagons of the Mutiara Timur business-class train on route from Banyuwani to Surabaya derailed at kilometer 69 in the area of Rejoso, Pasuruan district in East Java province. The accident happened around 04:00 local time. Four passengers of the train were brought to the R. Darsono hospital in Pasuruan.
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Members of a search and rescue team that have been searching for the passengers of the Twin Otter belonging to state-run Merpati Nusantara have eventually found the bodies of all 15 people aboard. Earlier it was assumed that there were 16 passengers and crew aboard. The president director of Merpati, Bambang Bhakti, said that a search and rescue team and local residents had reached the crash-site on a slope of Bintang mountain, at an altitude of 2.850 meters.
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The Merpati Nusantara Twin Otter plane that went missing in the Papua region of Indonesia has been localized. The plane has been found in the Ampisibil area in the district of Pegunungan Bintang. The plane went missing two days ago. Commander of the Search and Rescue team in Jayapura, Suandi Miharja, said that the plane was found at 06:30 local time by pilot Erik Doglas when he was looking for the plane from the sky.
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A small plane with 16 people on board went missing in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua on Sunday, the state Antara news agency reported. The Twin Otter plane, belonging to the state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airline, was travelling from Sentani airport in the provincial capital of Jayapura, to Bintang district's Oksibit airport, Antara said.
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How difficult is can be to dismantle a bomb has become very clear for the regional police of North Sulawesi. When that district held a bomb practice school, a simulation bomb exploded when it was being dismantled by a police officer. He was killed instantly and two others near him were injured in the explosion of the fake device.
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Four people were killed in a fire that destroyed a house in the Manggarai area in South Jakarta. The fire broke out at 02:00 local time (19:00 GMT). All four people that were killed in the fire were guests of the owner of the house that were spending the night there. The four are identified as Melina (24), Ririn (24), Salma (50), and Edi Wijaya (56).
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A plane belonging to the Indonesian navy (TNI AL) skidded of the runway on the international airport of Juanda near Surabaya. The incident happened around ten in the morning local time. The airport has been closed for all air traffic for the time being. A spokesperson for the airport could only confirm that a plane had skidded of the runway when he was contacted.
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A car bomb has exploded near a shopping complex in the north of the Indonesian capital Jakarta more than two hours after two luxury hotels in the city-centre were bombed, police have told local radio. Two people were killed in this explosion.
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Two bomb explosions have hit the area of Mega Kuningan in Jakarta earlier this morning. At least six people were killed in the explosions. The explosions hit the Ritz Carlton Hotel and J.W. Marriott Hotel. The explosions took place around 07:50 and 08:30 local time. Dozens of injured have been brought to hospitals in the area.
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A fire that hit a small restaurant selling soto lamongan in Jalan Pilar Mas, Kedoya, West Jakarta, has killed seven people. The fire started at around 04:40 local time. The fire was eventually put out when 13 fire trucks had arrived at the location. A spokesperson of the fire department confirmed that there were seven people killed in the fire.
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Three wagons from the executive Argo Anggrek train on route from Jakarta to Surabaya derailed at the Pelabuhan station, Central Java. According to the head of Operational Region 1 from the state-run railway company PT KAI, Sugeng Prijono, the train that left from Gambir at 21:30 derailed at around 03:15 local time this morning. "The train derailed between Semarang and Pekalongan," said Sugeng.
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A big fire that started yesterday afternoon and was only put out in the early days of this morning destroyed at least five shops in the Pasar Baru (or Passer Baroe as the old Dutch name is still used here) district in North Jakarta. The fire was hard to extinguish, so 28 fire trucks were sent to the location to combat the fire. According to a spokesperson of the city's Fire Department, the fire was said to have started around five in the afternoon.
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A fire that destroyed hundreds of houses did not only cause a lot of financial damage, but id also destroyed the houses of some 4.000 residents in the neighborhood of Makassar Timur in the district of Ternate Tengah in North Maluku province. The big fire started around 21:00 local time (GMT+8) Thursday evening and eventually destroyed 557 houses. No one was killed in the fire however.
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Around 05:30 local time (GMT+7) this morning, two houses in the village of Cijeruk in the village of Palasari in the district of Bogor in West Java were hit by a landslide which buried the houses under meters of soil and rubble. Five people died and one person was injured in the landslide, The victims were all from the same family and are only identified as Li (55), Imas (35), Ina (17), Rizki (12) and Lala (10). The injured person, Umar (45), has been brought to the Red Cross Hospital in Bogor.
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Where it used to be falling planes that scared Indonesians, Indonesian skies are much safer these days. Yesterday afternoon a plane belonging to Merpati Nusantara with flight number MZ 761 on the route Jayapura - Biak - Makassar - Jakarta only lost one tire when departing from Biak Airport in the province of Papua. One of the left wheels of the plane which was flown by pilot Haryogi and co-pilot Eko Laksono, fell off shortly after taking of for Makassar.
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Fourteen people were killed and dozens others wounded after a mini bus collided with a train in Klaten of Central Java on Sunday, local media reported. The collision occurred at 10:35 a.m. local time, when a Yogyakarta-Surakarta train slammed into a minibus, which was carrying 35 passengers to attend a wedding ceremony, at an illegal rail crossing in Klaten.
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An MD90 plane with flight number GT 652 which belongs to Lion Air skidded off the runway at the Selaparang airport on the island of Lombok. The plane had just arrived from Jakarta when it skidded over the runway. Based on information the pilot should have turned the plane at the end of runway 09, but did this earlier on the runway. The airport was closed for 3.5 hours and two other flights had to wait for their departure.
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As much as 220 shops at the Pasar Cibatu traditional market in Cibatu, Garut district, and six houses of residents nearby were lost as the result of a huge fire last evening. The fire started just before six o'clock in the evening. There were no injuries in this accident, but the damage runs into the billions of Rupiah's. Based on information at the scene, the fire started in one of the shops which was next to a local health care center.
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The death toll of a coal mine explosion on the island of Sumatra rose to 17, while 23 others were still believed to be trapped underground, local officials said on Tuesday. The accident happened following an explosion Tuesday morning in a mine in Sawah Lunto in West Sumatra province, said Head of the Provincial Disaster Management Agency Ade Edward.
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An Air Force Puma helicopter crashed at the Atang Sendjaya airbase in Bogor, West Java, on Friday killing two and injuring five of the seven servicemen it was carrying, an Air Force spokesman said. The helicopter crashed at about 14:15 local time during a test flight, Indonesian Air Force spokesman Commodore Bambang Soelistyo said here Friday.
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Three people were killed in an accident involving a military helicopter that crashed yesterday evening. The third victim, co-pilot Yuli Sasongko, died on the way from the general hospital of Cianjur to the general hospital of Bogor, where the heavily injured patient could be treated better.
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Two trains on the electrical train line between Central Jakarta and the city of Bogor have collided between the train stations of Manggarai and Tebet. An economy class train hit an express train from behind with low speed. The express train was waiting for a red light at the time of the collision. Three people were slightly injured
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The Indonesian Navy on Friday found the bodies of the Afghan refugees who were onboard a boat that had recently sunk in the Riau waters off the port city of Bagansiapiapi, in Riau province, a Navy commander said. "This afternoon we found five more bodies. We have discovered another two in the morning," the Detik.com quoted Bagansiapiapi Navy post commander Lieutenant Al Muhfid as saying.
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The Indonesian government has launched a campaign that should stimulate Indonesians to buy locally produced products instead of those 'haram' and 'zionist' foreign products from far and remote countries. Indonesians generally don't care too much about what their government tells them, but in this case it actually seems to work.
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Five hikers who went missing on the Ceremai mountain a few days ago, were finally found around 11:20 local time in the area of Pasirpis at an altitude of 1.100 meters, which is in the district of Kuningan. "The five climbers were found in healthy condition," said one of the members of the search and rescue team.
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Seven residents from Bekasi, West Java, were reported missing on the slopes of Mount Ceremai, in the Kuningan district in West Java. Since Sunday morning, dozens of members of the regional army station of Ciliwus in the Mount Ceremai National Park are searching for the missing persons while police is on standby in case the search has to be sped up.
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Most passengers on board of the Hercules that crashed into the village of Geplak, in the district of Magetan in East Java earlier this morning are civilians and children of military personnel. "There were civilians on board, also a number of children. We are currently counting the totals. They are family members of soldiers," said Marsma Bambang Sulistiono.
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Dozens of people have been killed in a military plane crash near the village of Geplak, in the district of Magetan in East Java. Dozens of heavily injured people have been transferred to several hospitals in the area. According to a RTCI reporter on the scene, dozens were killed in the crash.
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A boat carrying a group of marriage party-goers sank in Duami waters, Riau province, western Indonesia on Saturday, with 30 passengers still missing, the national Antara news agency reported. The wooden fishing boat carrying a total 60 passengers was sailing from Mundam village, Dumai, to Batu Panjang in Rupat Island.
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A reported 11 people were feared dead in the crash of a small chartered plane Friday in remote eastern Indonesia, police said. Rescue teams said they would be unable to search for the wreckage until Saturday because of bad weather in the isolated Mount Gergaji area near Mimika in the Papua province. Officials told they still were getting a signal from the plane, which was reported chartered by the local government.
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A Fokker 27-03 belonging to Indonesian Air Force with 23 passengers on board crashed and burst into flames at Sastranegara airbase, in Bandung, West Java, at 1.02 p.m on Monday, airport officials said. Yanto, an official at the operator center of Husein Sastranegara airport, confirmed the incident. "It is true that a Fokker 27 of the Indonesian Air Force had crashed at the airport," he said.
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Since last night, no new victims of the Situ Gintung dam burst in the southern Jakarta suburb of Ciputat have been found. According to the Cirendeu neighborhood there are still 14 people missing. According to other sources, the number of missing still stands at 91.
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The dam collapse of the Situ Gintung dam in Ciputat shows signs of a structural failure of the dam, which was built in the Dutch colonial time. A geotechnical engineer, Agus Setyo Muntohar, explained that the man-made construction of the Situ Gintung dam was only to hold water. "Because it was a man-made structure, regular checks should be performed at the site," Agus said at the Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta.
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The number of victims after the Situ Gintung dam burst in Ciputat, a southern suburb of the Indonesian capital Jakarta in Tangerang keeps going up. At 21:45 local time last night the number of casualties had reached 92.
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65 people have been found dead after the Situ Gintung dam in the southern Jakarta suburb of Ciputat, Tangerang suddenly burst yesterday morning before sunrise. Almost 100 people are still missing, search and resque teams are searching through the rubble for them. This information is gathered from medical teams from the general hospital in Pondok Kopi at the Muhammadiyah University campus.
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More than 50 people were found dead when the Situ Gintung dam, in the densely populated Tangerang district, burst at about 4am today. Head of the Crisis Management Centre at the Indonesian Health Ministry, Rustam A. Pakaya, told Bernama that the number of people killed would be higher being that more than 400 houses had been swept away as at 9am.
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The Liberation Army of separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM) which had since Friday launched attacks on security posts in Tingginambut area, Puncak Jaya district, Papua province, killed an Indonesian Army soldier, Private Saiful, of Battalion 754, on Saturday.
Puncak Jaya Police Chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Cris Rihulay on Saturday confirmed the incident, saying that the security officers were now trying to evacuate the victim to Mulia city, district capital of Puncak Jaya.
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An electric train carriage on it's way from Jakarta to Bogor broke down near the Universitas Indonesia train station in Depok, just south of Jakarta, just after noon earlier today. The seventh carriage showed signs of black smoke at the time the train stopped there. At the time the train arrived at the Manggarai station earlier, there were already some problems with that carriage, but the driver decided to continue the trip to Bogor anyway.
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A Lion Air Boeing MD-90 late yesterday landed at Batam airport without its front landing gear extended, resulting in damage to the undercarriage and the airport having to be closed. The Indonesian airline's general director, Edward Sirait, says the MD-90, local registration PK-LIO, was on a domestic flight from Medan to Batam when the crew discovered the aircraft's front landing gear was unable to be deployed.
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The captain of an Indonesian ship that sank in waters off Sulawesi island last week, leaving more than 200 missing, has been declared a suspect for possible negligence causing loss of life, National Police spokesman Abubakar Natraprawira said here on Monday.
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State oil and gas company PT Pertamina`s public relations officer Wianda Pusponegoro has said reports were still not available on the cause of the fire at one of the company`s fuel storage tanks in Plumpang village in North Jakarta. "We are still trying to find the cause of the fire," Wianda told on Sunday night.
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A boat sank in Aceh, western Indonesia, on Wednesday night due to bad weather and high waves, the Jakarta Post reported on Friday. The ill-fated boat was carrying about 45 people including some illegal migrant workers when it left Penang on Sunday. Its engine broke only two hours before reaching Aceh and later sank in waters off the coast of Peureulak, East Aceh at about 9:30 p.m. local time.
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A ferry named Risma Jaya carrying 27 passengers and some goods capsized in Arafura waters near eastern Indonesia's Papua province on Wednesday evening, due to heavy weather and high waves, the Jakarta Post reported on Thursday. Three missing doctors were being searched by an official search and rescue team, according to Asmat Police chief Korwa.
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The location of the capsized and sunken boat Teratai Prima is just ten kilometers away from the place where an Adam Air passenger plane crashed into the sea early 2007. This information was released by the Majene Coast Guard (KPLP). KPLP said that the location of the sunken boat was off Batu Roro Cape in West Sulawesi.
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Until now only 21 people and staff have been rescued from the waters off West Sulawesi after a ferry capsized there early yesterday morning. The fate of some 229 other passengers and crew is still unknown. Two more victims were found alive in two different locations near Majene overnight. Both were brought to the general hospital in the city.
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A big part of the victims of the capsized ferry Teratai Prima has been ecavuated. "There are 18 victims safe in the town of Majene and another 150 people are on board of another ship at the moment," said Bambang S. He could not tell anything about the condition of the 150 people yet, since no information had reached the shore about them.
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The motorvessel Teratai Prima, which was on it's way from Parepare in Southern Sulawesi to Samarinda in East Kalimantan, has sunk in the waters of Baturoro, West Sulawesi. There were some 250 passengers and crew on board. Only 18 people have been rescued so far. There is no information about the faith of the other people yet.
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One of the cars of the presidential convoy of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono crashed on the way from Ponorogo to Pacitan. The car that crashed transported the head of the intelligence service BIN, Syamsir Siregar. The car rolled over because it hit the central divider. The driver of the car got injured and was brought to a local hospital.
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Officials in Indonesia say 10 people have been killed and seven are missing, feared dead, after a landslide triggered by heavy rain. 30 houses in the Cianjur district of West Java were destroyed in the landslide.
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At least 25 sand miners were feared dead in a sandslide Thursday in Sulawesi Island, eastern Indonesia, said Indonesia's Health Ministry. Head of crisis center of the ministry Rustam Pakaya said the accident occurred when the miners were collecting sand in a local sand mine. "A huge amount of sand came down and buried the 25 people yesterday afternoon," he told.
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At least 21 people have been crushed to death in a queue for a charity handout from a wealthy family in Indonesia. Scores more were hurt in the stampede, which took place after about 10,000 people queued for a charity handout to mark the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The crush happened in the East Java town of Pasuruan when a crowd of poor people were waiting for a donation, known as zakat, of three euro each.
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Over 50 people were injured in the collapse of a cable bridge near the regents office in the town of Sijunjung in western Sumatra yesterday evening. Three people were killed in the incident and dozens of others were brought to hospitals for treatment of their wounds. According to an eyewitness, the bridge collapsed suddenly when dozens of people walked on it.
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At least eight people were killed and 60 others injured, 27 seriously, after two carriages of a passenger train collided with each other in Sumatra. Antara newsagency quotes Mawardi, head of Lampung Province's state-run railway company as saying the accident occurred in the provincial capital Bandarlampung.
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Wagons of a diesel-powered train on the route Karawang-Jakarta, derailed near the Tambun station in Bekasi, western Java. According to eyewitnesses, the train derailed just before entering the train station. Wheels of the train that was braking in order to stop at the station came out of the tracks. At the time of the derailment there were some 1.800 passengers on the train.
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Seven people from Kampung Gambir in the subdistrict of Cikeulet, Garut, were washed into sea by high waves. Four of them drowned and three others were rescued. Two of the bodies have not been found yet. The seven victims were dragged into the sea by high waves when they were looking for fish. At the moment, the local police and residents are still looking for the two missing bodies along the beach.
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One wagon from a train that transported fuel from Rowo, Cilacap to Cepu, derailed near Ledok Dawan, Geyer, Grobongan in central Java. The accident happened because the soil near the place of derailment became unstable. One out of the sixteen wagons filled with fuel derailed and rolled over. The fuel leaked away near the track.
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Evacuation was underway for the 18 bodies, including three foreigners, from an Indonesian military plane that crashed in the West Java jungle, officials and local media reports said Saturday. But foggy weather and steep terrain in the Mount Salak area were hampering the joint rescue teams comprised of hundreds of military and police officers and local residents, officials said.
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Four students from the city of Depok were washed away by waves when spending a day at the beach with their schoolmates at the beach of Pasuruan, in Serang, Banten. Two students were found later but they already passed away. Two others are still unaccounted for, but are feared dead as well. Fajrinal and Muhairi were found dead earlier this morning on the shore with injuries to their bodies.
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A big fire in a crowded residential neighborhood in Cipinang Besar Selatan, Jakarta, has caused some 1,500 to be forced to look for another place to stay. There are some 800 families which houses were burned down, according to Sudarmono. To house the victims of this fire, the Indonesian Red Cross and the regional government will put up army tents.
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One wagon of the Bima train from Jakarta to Surabaya derailed between the stations of Wonokromo and Gubeng just before seven in the morning local time earlier today. "Four wheels have derailed, it is the last wagon on the train," said Sugeng Riyono, head of the 8th operational devision of PT KAI, the Indonesian state-owned railroad company.
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Members of an Australian sea patrol are said to have entered Indonesian waters to arrest dozens of traditional fishermen which were searching for fish and other sea products. The Australians have also set one boat on fire. The entire incident has been recorded by one of the fishermen who happened to have a mobile phone with a camera. The movie apparently shows that the Australians entered Indonesian waters near the island of Timor.
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A train on the route Rangkas Bitung - Pasar Senen has derailed just before entering the Kampung Bandan trainstation in Central Jakarta earlier this afternoon. Other trains on the track in both directions (Tangerang and Bekasi) were not able to stop at this station anymore. The locomotive with registration number CC 201-77 of the train derailed and closed the track in both directions. Local residents hurried themselves to the location, but only to get some of the diesel that was leaking from the locomotive.
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An Indonesian TV station says an inter-island ferry carrying more than 700 passengers and crew has caught fire on the Mentaya river on Borneo island. District chief Wahyudi Anwar told MetroTV that rescuers have pulled 10 survivors from a river outside the town of Sampit, around 800 kilometers northeast of the capital Jakarta. The status of other passengers was not immediately clear.
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A huge fire broke out early this morning in Siapang Street, Pasar Boncos area in West Jakarta. The fire broke out around half past one in the morning and originated in a trash bin at a residence. The fire soon spread through the neighborhood since the hot weather helped spread the the fire. At the end hundreds of houses in three areas were completely destroyed.
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Five passengers of a jetliner that skidded off a runway on the northern island of Batam on Monday were admitted to hospital, some with neck and head injuries. One of the five left hospital later in the day after doctors said his injuries were not serious.
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A plane that is owned by Air Asia, with flight number QZ 7661, has made an emergency landing at the airport of Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II in Palembang, on Sumatra island. The emergency landing was made around 17:30 local time on Tuesday. The Boeing 737-300 with 99 passengers and crew on board was traveling from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) when they had to make an emergency landing because of a broken window.
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The search on Bali's Mount Agung for two missing students from Bandung's Widyatama University - Eko Saputra Sudirman and Yunita Indah Savitri has been halted. As reported earlier, three trekkers went missing on December 26, 2007, with a search effort commenced on December 30, 2007. The body of one of the hikers, Muhammad Ikbal (21) was discovered by searchers on January 6th but the remaining 2 students are still missing.
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A cargo hall which was owned by PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) at Jalan Halim in the city of Medan, northern Sumatra, has burned down. The fire spread fast and destroyed the long building which is normally used as a place to spend time and to do sports completely. To put out the fire, nine fire trucks from the local government in Medan were rushed to the scene. The hot raging fire was hard to put out, and within a very short time the cargo hall burned down completely.
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A terminal building of Polonia airport in Medan, northern Sumatra, was engulfed by flames last night around 20:30 local time (GMT+7). The fire destroyed the entire departure terminal for domestic flights. Until this moment the fire is still burning and the airport is closed. All flights to and from the airport have been canceled until further notice.
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A number of areas in and around Solo, central Java,were hit by power outages starting from 19:00 local time (GMT+7) yesterday evening.These outages were caused by the collapse of one power in the area of Klaten, central Java, that supports a number of high voltage power cables. Outages hit the areas of Palur, Solo city and parts of Wonogiri. Outages lasted around one hour.
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One person who worked as a sand miner in the Gendol river - one of the river beds on the slopes of the Mount Merapi volcano - has died because he was crushed to death under de weight of large stones that came down on him. The 45-year-old Saidi died on the location of the accident.
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At least 29 are killed and 125 were rescued after a ferry sank in high seas off the island of Sulawesi. Residents near the town of Bau Bau in Southeastern Sulawesi heard survivors screaming for help in the waters off the coast after the Acita 3 capsized around 21:00 local time Thursday. 151 people believed to be on board, but it is common practice for ferries in Indonesia to bring more people than officially registered.
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A huge city fire on Monday has destroyed some 532 houses in the Jakarta district of Kalibaru. There were no fatal victims in the fire, according to Antara news agency. The people who lost their homes took refuge in schools and mosques in the area.
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Salvage crews have retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from an Indonesian aircraft that crashed in almost 9 months ago. The recorders will now be sent to the United States to determine the cause of the accident. fforts to recover the so-called "black boxes" have been delayed for months due to disagreements over who should pay.
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A salvage ship operated by the United States has arrived in Indonesia to hunt for the black box of an Adam Air plane that crashed into the sea on New Years' day, killing 102 passengers and crew. The Boeing went missing off South Sulawesi and sparked a massive search in the early days of this year. The body of the plane is thought to lay on the floor of the Makassar Strait. No bodies have been found until today.
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An Indonesian air force jet crashed into a sugar cane field shortly after take-off earlier on Monday, killing one of two people on board, according to a military spokesman and witnesses at the scene of the crash. The second pilot in the OV-10 Bronco counterinsurgency aircraft ejected himself from the plane before it crashed and was not injured, said Rear Marchal Daryatmo.
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Officials say that at least two children have died and 45 other people were still missing after a passenger ship disappeared in rough seas in eastern Indonesia. A port official in Ambon, where the ship was about to dock, said around 70 people were on board. "Twenty-three survivors were found and two people were found dead, both of them children," Karim Tuanaya said.
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Poisonous fumes from a volcano killed six teenagers who were camping on the mountain, a doctor said Sunday. Indonesia has more active volcanoes than any other nation and climbing them when they are not especially active is a popular pastime. Salak, where the teens died Saturday, is just south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and is one of the country's most popular peaks.
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A speeding bus with on board a group of junior high school students and their teachers plunged into a 10 meter deep ravine on the island of Java earlier Saturday. In this accident 14 road users were killed. 48 others were hospitalized, among them were 26 people in critical condition.
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Guards in a national park in Indonesia have started a search for a Komodo dragon which attacked and killed an 8-year-old boy when he was going to the toilet in a bush. The fatal attack on a human by a giant lizard is the first in 33 years and happened Saturday on the island of Komodo, according to a guard of the park.
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