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Queensland family Noelene Bischoff and 14-year-old daughter Yvana died on Saturday, the day after they checked in to a resort on Bali ...

Villagers have been evacuated after the volcano in North Sumatra province, Indonesia, erupted again. The volcano has erupted sporadically since September ...

s booming explosion just after midnight on Sunday triggered a panicked evacuation. Men with ash-covered faces streamed down the scorched slopes on motorcycles, followed by truckloads of women and children, many crying. Officials shouted instructions on megaphones as stones and debris rained from the sky. More than 50 eruptions on Saturday sent lava and searing gas tumbling out of the volcano in the...

The international hub of the false eyelash industry is the town of Purbalingga in Central Java, Indonesia, where young women work for as little as 20p a day making the must-have fashion accessory Gethin Chamberlain ...

s Katy Perry range of false eyelashes in Indonesia start on about £50 a month – equivalent to 29p an hour, or about 8p for every pair they make. The lashes sell for £5.95 in the UK. Kieran Long, senior V&A curator in charge of the collection, has argued that "ugly and sinister objects demand the museum's attention just as much as beautiful and beneficial ones do". The decision to acquire the Primark...

s resort island of Bali. The incident happened around 3am on Friday as the 4.5-metre (15ft) python was crossing a road near the Bali Hyatt hotel, said Agung Bawa, an assistant security manager at the hotel, which is closed for renovations until 2015. The victim, Ambar Arianto Mulyo, a 59-year-old security guard at a nearby restaurant, had offered to help capture the snake, which had been spotted several...

Andreas Harsono:  Aceh civilians, especially women, are under siege from Sharia-inspired criminal bylaws which have become increasingly common across Indonesia Andreas Harsono ...

Agnieszka Sobocinska for The Conversation:  Tourists are often a burden on host communities. For decades, Balinese and Indonesians have expressed concern about the cultural degradation brought about by mass tourism Agnieszka Sobocinska ...

s second largest jet engine manufacturer had bribed Tommy Suharto, son of Indonesia's former president General Suharto, with $20m (£13m) and a blue Rolls-Royce car. The SFO said on Monday that its director, David Green, had decided to step up its probe and had "opened a criminal investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption at Rolls-Royce". The move comes in the same month that the SFO suffered...

s The Act of Killing. A documentary on the Indonesian mass-killings of the 1960s, Oppenheimer uses his brutal and brilliant film to invite the cinephile killers of the Suharto era re-enact their crimes for the camera • The 10 best films of 2013, No 2: The Great Beauty • More from the 10 best films of 2013 • Show us your favourite films of 2013 using our Movie Mashup interactive Indonesia's military...

s events and reflecting on what they have taught us. A good starting point is an image, posted online in May , which provides a valuable lesson. It drew a circle centered on Hong Kong with a radius of roughly 2,500 miles (or about a four or five hour flight). Within this circle is the majority of the world's population. 2013 was not a good year for the people inside this circle. They suffered through...

I never saw anything so magnificent as the effects of the volcanic eruption at Krakatoa' To the editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir:- I notice in today's issue a paragraph from a letter written by Hicks Pasha, under date of September 24 last, respecting the green sun. It may not be inappropriate for one who witnessed the dreadful, but to an observer at a safe distance the splendid, effects of the...

US president has recommended principles for targeting foreign leaders that would have prevented incident, says Scott Ludlam Paul Farrell ...

Natasha Stott Despoja:  In my new role of ambassador for women and girls, I will work to promote women’s rights internationally. For women to be equal participants in public life is essential Natasha Stott Despoja ...

Nick Cowdery says it is difficult to believe news of a well-planned attack was not picked up by defence intelligence beforehand Marni Cordell ...

clear national security reasons' to justify tapping Indonesia...

People smuggling is a crime in Indonesia, and I do think that Indonesia should resume co-operation with us,...

habitat, leaving just 200 of the animals struggling for existence Even in the first light of dawn in the Tripa swamp forest of Sumatra it is clear that something is terribly wrong. Where there should be lush foliage stretching away towards the horizon, there are only the skeletons of trees. Smoke drifts across a scene of devastation. Tripa is part of the Leuser Ecosystem, one of the world's most ecologically...