Indonesia

As Palm Oil Farms Expand, It's A Race To Save Indonesia's Orangutans

10:40pm March 11, 2015

by Anthony Kuhn

Demand for palm oil is destroying the habitat of endangered Sumatran orangutans. One group is working to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce these often-orphaned primates back into the wild.

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo inspects an honor guard during a visit to Manila, Philippines, on Feb. 9. Widodo's supporters see him as very different from the strongmen who have long run Indonesia. But he has dismayed some of his backers with his stron

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Indonesia's President: Fan Of Megadeth, Defender Of Death Penalty

9:20am February 21, 2015

by Anthony Kuhn

Indonesia's recently elected President Joko Widodo is a heavy metal fan seen as an advocate for human rights and political change. But his strong stance on the death penalty has dismayed many.

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Crew members carry a bag containing the body believed to be a victim of AirAsia Flight 8501 to a waiting helicopter on the deck of Indonesian Navy ship KRI Banda Aceh, on the Java Sea, Indonesia, on Friday.

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First Attempt To Lift AirAsia Fuselage Fails

1:24pm January 24, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Ropes supporting the core piece of wreckage as it was lifted from the sea floor snapped just as the fuselage neared the surface, officials say.

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AirAsia Search: Singapore Ship Finds Aircraft's Fuselage

10:36am January 14, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

A Singapore official said images taken by a remote-controlled vehicle showed parts of the wing and words on the fuselage. Singapore has informed the Indonesian team that is trying to find the plane.

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AirAsia Search: Divers Recover 2nd Black Box

1:41pm January 13, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The cockpit voice recorder was removed from the Java Sea. The aircraft's flight data recorder was recovered Monday. Flight 8501 disappeared Dec. 28, killing all 162 people on board.

Crew members of Crest Onyx ship and Members of National Search And Rescue Agency unload the wreckage of part of the ill-fated AirAsia Flight 8501 on Sunday.

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Divers Retrieve Flight Data Recorder From AirAsia Flight

12:15am January 12, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Divers went down Monday to the bottom of the Java Sea and retrieved part of the so-called "black box" from the wreckage of the Airbus A320.

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AirAsia Flight's Tail Spotted In The Java Sea, Official Says

12:07pm January 07, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

It might offer clues to why the flight crashed on Dec. 28 with more than 162 people on board. An aircraft's black boxes — the flight data and cockpit voice recorders — are located in its tail.

Relatives of Juanita Limantara, one of the victims of the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crash, weep during the handover of her body to the family at a police hospital in Surabaya today.

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More Bodies, Wreckage, Recovered From AirAsia Flight

3:02pm January 04, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Search-and-rescue teams have recovered another four bodies from the Java Sea, bringing the number to 34 from the crash of Flight QZ8501, which was carrying 162 passengers when it went down a week ago.

Indonesian Navy personnel carry a body bag from AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed off the coast of Indonesian Borneo a week ago.

Large Objects Found In Java Sea Believed To Be AirAsia Jet

1:02pm January 03, 2015

Bad weather continues to hamper the search for bodies, but the chief search official says a remotely operated vehicle has found parts of the missing jet that crashed last Sunday.

An Indonesian police officer in Kumai port in Pangkalan Bun carries part of a plane found floating on the water near the site where AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared on Sunday.

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A Break In Weather Allows Search For AirAsia Jet To Resume

1:34am January 01, 2015

by Martha Ann Overland

Blue skies and calmer seas mean divers can enter the water to look for bodies. Also a source close to the investigation says radar shows the jet climbed steeply before crashing into the Java Sea.