Indonesia

The national disaster agency said the eruption lasted 4 minutes and 30 seconds and spread lava and incandescent rocks.

Election Commission showed President Joko Widodo won 55.5 per cent of the votes in the April 17 poll.

'The number of people dead was six,' he said, adding that hospitals were conducting post mortems to determine the cause of death.​

Widodo won with over 85 million of the total 154 million votes cast in the world's third-largest democracy.

Approximately 80 per cent of the total 193 million voters cast their ballots in more than 8,00,000 polling stations located across country.

Some 12,000 people have been evacuated while many buildings, bridges and roads have been damaged by the severe weather, officials said.

A specially signed version of the stamp will be on display at the Philately Museum in Jakarta, the statement said.

Polling stations opened at 7 am (2200 GMT on Tuesday) in the east and will close at 1 pm (0600 GMT) in the west.

A strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia on Friday.

The investigation into the crash, which killed all 189 people on board, has taken on new relevance at the US FAA.

At least 89 people are known to have died after flash floods and landslides tore through Indonesia's Papua region.

At least 77 people have been killed by flash floods in Indonesia's eastern Papua province.

Photos released showed rescue workers on muddy hillside scrambling to pull out survivors and carry them away on stretchers during the night.

Jakarta asked for a 5 percentage point cut in India’s import tax to match the tariff of 45 pc New Delhi charges on products from Malaysia.

The incident occured after the accused women was told to pay a $4,000 fine for overstaying her visa by several months.

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian coast early Tuesday.

The 2-month-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet plunged into Java Sea just minutes after taking off on Oct. 29, killing all 189 people on board.

It took 4 staff to haul endangered creature back to sea, just the latest in a string of turtle rescues along the country's devastated coast

Indonesia is one of most disaster-prone nations due to its position straddling 'Pacific Ring of Fire', where tectonic plates collide.

Experts say Anak Krakatoa emerged around 1928 in the caldera of Krakatoa, a volcanic island that violently erupted in 1883.