"The majority who died were hit by buildings," said one local official Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human interest vertical at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017.

A rescue official in Indonesia says a passenger bus crash has killed at least 16 people on Indonesia’s main island of Java. The official says a bus carrying 34 people ...

BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — A natural stone quarry in Indonesia’s West Java province collapsed on several people who were working in it on Friday, killing at least 10 people and leaving six workers ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers retrieved four more bodies after they resumed their search Wednesday for people missing after floods and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java, ...

Girls decorated with flowers on their heads participate in a celebration for the traditional Ngarot Festival in Indramayu, ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Two trains collided on Indonesia’s main island of Java on Friday, causing carriages to buckle and overturn and killing at least four people, officials said. The accident ...

JAKARTA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday spewing a cloud of ash 15 km into the sky and forcing the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people, authorities said, as they issued their ...

An earthquake shook Indonesia's main Java island Monday afternoon, killing at least 162 people, local officials said. Around 700 people were injured, National Disaster Mitigation Agency chief ...

Rescuers were digging through debris on Tuesday to find survivors of a powerful earthquake that toppled homes and buildings in a highly populated area of Indonesia’s West Java province, killing at ...

CIANJUR, Indonesia — The death toll from the earthquake that shook the Indonesian island of Java leapt to 268 on Tuesday as more bodies were found beneath collapsed buildings, and 151 people are still ...