Ahmad Pathoni

The Tourism Ministry says more than 10,000 foreigners have come especially for the event.

Canadian administrator and a local colleague are found guilty and given increased jail terms.

Local Air Force spokesperson Major Hamdi Londong says the pilot and two people on the ground were killed.

Search chief Bambang Sulistyo says many of the bodies were burned beyond recognition.

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Analysis of the flight data recorder and the  cockpit voice recorder not completed.

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Cockpit voice recordings so far show no foul play, investigators say.

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The tragic stories have triggered public anger and allegations of corruption.

A Malaysian tourism commercial aired on Discovery Channel has sparked an uproar in Indonesia because it featured a traditional Balinese dance.

Foreign ministers of the grouping who met in Bali yesterday failed to emerge with a strategy for dealing with its recalcitrant member.

Almost 1,000 forest fires and blazes started to clear land in Sumatra are blamed for the smog that has blanketed peninsular Malaysia for more than a week.

They say that big palm oil producers in Sumatra and Kalimantan had for years used the slash-and-burn method to clear land for their plantations but little action was taken by the government to stop the practice.

Foreign ministers from Asia and Africa held talks in the Indonesian capital yesterday with the aim of drafting an agreement on a strategic alliance ahead of a weekend summit of leaders from both continents.

Malaysian professor Azahari Husin who built the bombs used in last year's devastating attack on Bali headed a 16-strong group which blasted a Jakarta hotel this month, say Indonesian police.