100,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes on the Indonesian island of Java, as Mount Kelud, one of Indonesia’s largest volcanoes, erupts.
A volcano has erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 11 people.
A shark was found to be walking along the bottom of the ocean floor looking for small fish and crustaceans off the Indonesian coast.
18,000 years ago, the remote Indonesian island of Flores was home to a population of tiny humans. They stood only about 3.5 feet tall on their large feet, and their skulls housed unusually small brains approximately the size of a grapefruit. The identity of these ‘hobbits’ has been hotly debated for years: Were they modern humans suffering a disease, or a new species, Homo floresiensis?
Jakarta has demonstrated that they will deal with the Papuan separatists’ insurgency with lethal force rather than negotiation, but will the Papuans be able to follow East Timor and find independence from Indonesia?