TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency ( BMKG) recorded 1,242 earthquakes in West Java and surrounding areas throughout 2025, with seismic activity showing a ...

"The majority who died were hit by buildings," said one local official Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human interest vertical at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017.

Girls decorated with flowers on their heads participate in a celebration for the traditional Ngarot Festival in Indramayu, ...

He also ordered the gradual replacement of existing oil palm crops with other commodities better suited to the region's ...

Indonesia's main island of Java was rocked by an earthquake Monday that killed at least 46 people and damaged dozens of buildings. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the magnitude 5.6 earthquake ...

CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake killed at least 162 people and injured hundreds on Indonesia’s main island on Monday. Terrified residents fled into the street, some covered in blood ...

SUKABUMI, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers recovered 10 bodies that were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of ...

As police looked on, Muslims in West Java Province, Indonesia on Dec. 14 formed a human wall to block Christians from ...

Lawyers and experts say a complex web of social and economic pressures, along with a widespread lack of understanding about ...