Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) on January 18 decided to extend the search for the bodies of passengers and debris of the crashed Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ-182 for another three days.
Disasters and the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic have claimed nearly 4,000 lives in Indonesia since the start of this year, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas).
At least one person died and 12 others went missing as an overloaded wooden boat capsized in a river in West Kalimantan province of central Indonesia on January 21.
Indonesian rescuers on December 25 used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 373 people and injured more than 1,400 others.
Tanjung Priok port has been one of the four centres handling the debris of the Indonesian Lion Air carrier which crashed into the sea off the coast of Karawang in Indonesia’s West Java province on October 29, killing 189 people on board.
The search for the Lion Air plane that crashed into sea on October 29 is scheduled to last for seven days, and if there remain unfound victims after this, the search will be extended for another three days, Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) said on October 30.
Search and rescue efforts for passengers aboard a Lion Air plane that crashed into sea on October 29 were underway throughout the night under an order from Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
No Vietnamese citizens were marked as onboard the Lion Air passenger plane of Indonesia, which crashed into the sea on the morning of October 29, the country’s Vietnamese embassy confirmed.
The death toll from earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has amounted to 384 and hundreds of injured people remained in hospitals, said the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) on September 29.
As many as 1,091 hikers have been evacuated from Mt. Rinjani in West Nusa Tenggara of Indonesia after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake triggered landslides on the mountain on July 29 morning.
Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency is scrambling to rescue 139 passengers from a ferry that sank off the coast of the island of Sulawesi, killing at least four on July 3.
Indonesian authorities said on June 25 that they have pinpointed the location of vessel KM Sinar Bangun that sank a week ago in Lake Toba, one of the world’s deepest lakes.
The number of missing people from a sunk vessel on Lake Toba in Indonesia two days ago climbed to 192, according to the latest report issued by the National Search and Rescue Agency on June 20.
Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (NSRA) found the wreckage of a missing cargo plane and the bodies of four victims on board in the country’s easternmost province of Papue on November 1.
A cargo plane with four people, including two pilots, on board went missing on October 31 morning in a mountainous area of Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua.
A total of 71 passengers have been saved from a ferry accident in the strait between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java, but four are still unaccounted for, local officials said on March 4.
The Indonesian government called off a tsunami warning issued earlier after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Padang city in West Sumatra on late March 2.
The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) on October 20 announced an end to its search for the Eurocopter EC-130, which fell into Toba Lake in Sumatra province on October 11.
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