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Watch: Hindu worshippers throw offerings into active volcano

Participants scaled Mount Bromo in Indonesia, carrying goats, chickens and vegetables in the annual Yadnya Kasada Festival.

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Thai Monks welcomed in Indonesia for Vesak celebrations

Thousands of people from across the archipelago are expected to attend at the historic site in Magelang, Central Java, where the annual Vesak celebration has also become a tourist attraction.

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Balloons take to the skies in a colourful festival in Java

Dozens of homemade balloons fly during the days-long Ansor Kertek Balloon Culture Festival, which is back in full swing this year after a Covid hiatus in 2020 and 2021.

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Third massive whale dies after beaching itself in Bali

A 17-metre-long sperm whale has died after washing up on a beach in Bali, making it the third whale to beach itself on the Indonesian island in just a little over a week.

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Electric vehicles need nickel but what is the human cost of mining it?

Forests have been cleared and oceans have turned red in the pursuit of nickel.

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Why is Bali banning tourists from renting motorbikes?

Balinese authorities are 'tidying up’ by cracking down on tourists hiring motorbikes.

Nature

Smelly shapeless penis plant blooms for the first time in Dutch garden

The withered plants can still be seen in Leiden botanical garden, which has a whole collection from the wider phallic family.

Nature

Indonesia’s new capital city could be a ‘massive ecological disaster’

"The future generations will only hear the stories about the species here because they won't exist anymore."

Nature

How Europe’s appetite for frogs' legs puts species at risk

Europe has consumed 2 billion frogs in a decade. What does that mean for the environment?

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Watch: Boat with dozens of Rohingya men lands in Indonesia

Early on Sunday a wooden boat carrying nearly 60 Rohingya refugees landed in the Indonesian province of Aceh, according to local police.

Indonesia

Protests in Indonesia as lawmakers agree to ban sex outside marriage

Lawmakers passed a controversial revision of Indonesia's penal code, which also bans the cohabitation of unmarried couples Rights groups slammed the move as a crackdown on civil and political freedoms.

Indonesia

Indonesia bans sex before marriage for locals and foreign visitors

The new code bans both premarital and extramarital sexual relations, with a punishment of up to one year in prison.

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Eruption of Java's volcano forces thousands to evacuate in Indonesia

An eruption on Indonesia’s Mt. Semeru released searing gas clouds and rivers of lava forced around 2,000 people to evacuate.

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Rescuers pull a young boy from the rubble after Indonesia earthquake

A six-year-old boy has been pulled from the rubble of a deadly Indonesia earthquake after spending two days trapped under debris without food or water, in a "miracle" rescue.

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Rescue teams search for survivors after deadly quake hits Java

Rescue operations were focused on about a dozen locations in Cianjur where many are still believed to be trapped.

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Dozens still missing amid rescue efforts after Indonesia earthquake

Rescuers have used their bare hands to shift the rubble of flattened buildings in some of the worst affected areas.

Indonesia

Biden and Xi meet in person for the first time as presidents

The leaders of US and China greeted each other with smiles and a handshake at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agreed to cooperate, despite the stiff competition between the two superpowers.

Russia

Russia denies that foreign minister Lavrov hospitalised at G20 summit

Moscow said the media reports were "the height of fakery".

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Quiz: Can you name the countries that are still closed to travellers?

After two and a half years of pandemic restrictions, the world is opening up. But some places are still closed.

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Mourners mark 20th anniversary of Indonesia's Bali bombings

Mourners visit the Bali bombings memorial site in Kuta, on the 20th anniversary of the deadly blasts which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. A memorial marks the names of those killed where the Sari Club, a popular nightclub, used to stand before bombs were detonated.