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Bird Smuggling / Yellow-crested Cockatoo

Smuggling Suspect Caught In Indonesia With Endangered Birds Stuffed In Plastic Bottles

Police in Indonesia on Monday apprehended a man suspected of trying to sell endangered birds which he stuffed into plastic water bottles. The suspect is now facing prison sentence for alleged smuggling.

Rally for Mary Jane Veloso

Indonesia Executes 8 Drug Smugglers By Firing Squad, Spares Filipina At Last Minute

Indonesia stood by its stand that drug smugglers don't deserve to live. At 12:25 a.m. of Wednesday, it executed by firing squad eight convicted drug smugglers, including Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran of Australia.

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran

Indonesia Set To Execute Foreign Death Row Inmates Despite World Appeals

Global appeals to stay the executions and commute the sentences to life term would likely be ignored by Indonesia for the 10 people on death row even if it would cause diplomatic tensions. It has gone through the same route a few months ago.

South China Sea dispute

Indonesia Criticizes China’s Claim On South China Sea Over ‘Nine-Dash Line’

Indonesian President Joko Widodo claimed that China has no legal basis in the international law over its claims over large areas in South China Sea.

Chintu Sukumaran, brother of Australian in death row, speaks with media in Indonesia's island prison, March 11, 2015.

Indonesia Postpones Executions Of Convicted Foreigners For Half A Month

Indonesia is postponing for half a month any executions of foreigners in its death row, in line with the system of the Attorney General's Office that carry out the death sentences in batches, all at once, instead of individual executions.

Andrew Chan

Bali Nine Ringleader Andrew Chan Gets Engaged Despite Death Sentence

Bali Nine's ringleader Andrew Chan reportedly asked his girlfriend named Febyanti Herwila to marry him and now they are engaged despite him being on death row and the recent announcement that the execution will push through after his plea for clemency was rejected.

Bali Nine

Bali Nine Convicts To Face Indonesian Firing Squad

Two Australian drug smuggling convicts of the Bali Nine were taken away from their Bali prison cells on Wednesday and brought to the island of Nusakambangan where they will be executed through firing squad.

MH370

MH370 Aftermath: New System To Result In Faster Tracking Of Airplanes

Aircrafts may soon be tracked every 15 minutes instead of the previous 30 to 40 minutes, if a new method to enhance the tracking of aircrafts will be implemented.

AirAsia Captain Left Seat

AirAsia Captain Out of Seat Before Plane Crashed: Report

The captain of the AirAsia Indonesia plane that crashed into the Java Sea in December left his seat for an unusual step when the aircraft spun out of control, Reuters reported, quoting two sources privy to the air crash investigation.

AirAsia QZ8501

Ill-Fated AirAsia Plane Climbed Too Quickly -Indonesia Transport Minister

Doomed AirAsia flight QZ8501 ascended to an unusually high altitude at above normal speeds moments before it disappeared and crashed into the Java Sea last month, Indonesia's transport minister said on Tuesday.

Indonesia Executed Drug Smugglers

Indonesia's Execution of Drug Convicts Angers Brazil, The Netherlands

Brazil and The Netherlands recalled their ambassadors to Indonesia for consultation, following the Saturday midnight execution of six drug smugglers, including two from the two nations.

Marco Moreira

Death by Firing Squad: Indonesia to Execute 6 Drug Smugglers at Midnight

Jakarta will push through with the scheduled execution of six drug smugglers on Saturday midnight, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said. He assured that ending the life of the six by firing squad - five foreigners and a local woman - would not affect Jakarta's ties with foreign governments.

AirAsia Flight 8501 Black Box Retrieved

AirAsia Flight 8501 Data Recorder Recovered by Indonesian Searchers

Divers from the Indonesian navy have recovered one of the black boxes - a flight data recorder - of doomed AirAsia flight QZ8501, which can provide the important pieces of the puzzle why the plane crashed into the Java Sea on December 28.

AirAsia 8501 Tail Recovered

AirAsia Flight 8501 Black Boxes Found -Indonesian Searchers

Divers will try to raise the black boxes of AirAsia flight 9501 from the bottom of the sea on Monday after investigators believe they have zeroed in on their signal, an Indonesian search coordinator said on Sunday.

AirAsia QZ8501

AirAsia Tail Might Have Been Found Already, Officials Report

A naval patrol vessel might have already located a section of the crashed AirAsia flight, where the black box voice and the flight data recorders are situated, according to reports by Indonesian officials.

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