JAKARTA (AFP) - At least 172 villagers have died in a cholera outbreak that has triggered unrest in Indonesia’s remote eastern Papua province, church authorities said Tuesday. Church aid workers in the Kamuu valley confirmed the victims
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Wednesday, but there was no threat of a tsunami and no immediate reports of damage, geologists said. The quake hit at 8:52 am (0752 PST), 42 kilometers (26 miles)
Having betrayed his fellow jihadis and sided with police, former Islamic militant Nasir Abas has few friends in the radical Jemaah Islamiyah network -- but plenty of relatives. His brother-in-law, Mukhlas, awaits execution in an Indonesian