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Climate change has affected the amount of rainfall in Indonesian islands, study suggests

Researchers think an atmosphere phenomenon affects weather on a weekly-to-monthly time scale, bringing alternate cloudy and sunny periods.

Two killed, hundreds evacuated amid severe floods in Indonesia; deluge caused by Citarum river bursting its banks

Heavy rain has pounded Indonesia for days, forcing the Citarum river to burst its banks, and causing deadly flash floods in the eastern part of the sprawling Southeast Asian archipelago.

Google appeals US Supreme Court to end Oracle copyright case

Google appeals to the high court to review the long-running Oracle trial over Android Java usage

Indonesia's latest tsunami raises global questions over disaster preparedness, highlights need for much research

The Indonesia tsunami should be a wake-up call to step up research on tsunami triggers and preparedness, several experts said.

Indonesia's 'volcanic tsunami': Toll climbs to 373; rescue teams continue hunt for survivors, haul debris around Sunda Strait

Indonesia's disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho gave an updated toll late Monday. He said, "Some 1,459 people were injured with another 128 missing."

Indonesia may take the long road to recovery after two tsunamis, raging forest fires and an airline crash in 2018

The tsunami on Sunda Strait is the second deadly tsunami in Indonesia that is already hit by an air crash, forest fires and floods

Toll in Indonesia volcano tsunami rises to 281; doctors, rescuers battle heavy rain as hunt for survivors continues

Doctors worked to help survivors, and people searched on debris-strewn beaches on Monday for more victims from a deadly tsunami that smashed into houses, hotels and other buildings without warning in the darkness along an Indonesian strait.

Indonesia aviation under scrutiny after Lion Air crash; transport ministry pushes airlines for safety, service improvements

Indonesia is one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets, but it has come under fresh scrutiny since a fatal Lion Air crash last month as the sector struggles to keep up with its breakneck expansion, putting safety at risk, analysts warn.

Lion Air pilots struggled to regain control of Boeing Jet, investigation into Indonesia plane crash reveals

The investigators are focusing on whether faulty information from sensors led the plane's system to force the nose down. The new Boeing 737 MAX 8 plunged into the Java Sea on 29 October, killing all 189 people on board, including an Indian pilot. Information from the Lion Air jet's flight data recorder was included in a briefing for the Indonesian Parliament.

Indonesia expected to release preliminary Lion Air crash report today; findings to shed light on why Boeing 737 MAX fell from sky

Indonesian investigators are expected on Wednesday to release a preliminary report into the Lion Air plane crash last month that saw all 189 on board killed when the nearly new jet slammed into the sea. The Boeing 737 MAX vanished from radar about 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta on 29 October, crashing into waters off Indonesia's northern coast moments after it had asked to return to