The Latest Breaking News from Java

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off Indonesia's Java island on Friday but there was no risk of tsunami, the country's geophysics agency said. The quake was strongly felt in Surabaya, Tuban, Denpasar, and Semarang, Abdul Muhari, spokesperson for Indonesia's Disaster Agency, said by phone. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) put…

Avalanches of searing gas clouds and lava have erupted from Mount Merapi on the densely populated Indonesian island of Java.

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Merapi volcano erupted on Saturday, spewing hot cloud up to seven kilometres into the air, the country’s disaster management agency said.

JAKARTA: Indonesia has welcomed two baby Javan rhinoceroses to a family of one of the world's most endangered species, the environment and forestry ministry said.

Lumpy skin disease has moved another step closer to our shores and experts say if the disease is detected here, it could cost Australia's agriculture sector $7 billion within a year.

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's main island of Java on Thursday with no immediate reports of damage, less than a month after another quake in the same province killed more than 300 people. The quake struck at 07:50 am local time (0050 GMT) around 15 kilometers from the town of…

A man blew himself up Wednesday outside a police station on Indonesia’s main island of Java in what appeared to be the latest in a string of suicide attacks in the world’s most populous Muslim nation

Thousands of residents in Indonesia's East Java were on high alert on Monday after a violent eruption at the island's tallest volcano prompted authorities to impose an 8-kilometer no-go zone and forced evacuations of entire villages.

Japan's Meteorological Agency said on Sunday that there was no tsunami impact a volcano that erupted on Sunday in Indonesia, public broadcaster NHK said.

Indonesian authorities raised the warning on Semeru volcano to the highest level on Sunday, Kompas TV reported, after an eruption spewed a column of ash high into the air. The evacuation of people living near the volcano in East Java province had begun, a top regional administrator, Thoriqul Haq, told…

A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday spewing a cloud of ash 15 km into the sky and forcing the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people, authorities said, as they issued their highest warning for the area in the east of Java island.