A bomb went off outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar during Sunday service. Police believe it was a suicide attack. The moment of the blast was caught on a CCTV camera. A video from the scene shows debris scattered near the gate at the building’s side entrance. Indonesian media quoted the South Sulawesi Regional Police spokesperson, Kombes E. Zulfan, who described the explosion... 

In the West, German President-Chancellor Adolf Hitler is vilified by state media as a genocidal maniac. However, elsewhere in the world, the former fuhrer is considered a political inspiration. Adolf Hitler is as much admired today as he ever was. Yet, Soviet dictator and unelected Winston Churchill are detested. Few people have heard of U.S. President Truman who at the end of World War II was also... 

A blazing fire breaking through the grey clouds in the sky was caught on camera, prompting social media users to come up with somewhat wild conspiracy theories. Impressive footage showing the sky bursting into flames and massive grey clouds of smoke has emerged from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, with the clip going viral on YouTube and being viewed nearly 10,000 times. While the reason for the... 

At least 235 people have been killed as a tsunami hit beaches around Sunda Strait in Indonesia on Saturday night, according to the country’s officials. Dozens remain missing, and hundreds have been injured. The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said the wave was not caused by an earthquake, but was possibly the result of an eruption of Mount Krakatoa. The agency... 

A plane operated by the low-cost Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed while on a domestic flight from Jakarta. It’s the first crash ever for Boeing’s new 737 MAX 8 model. “It has been confirmed that it has crashed,” Yusuf Latif, a spokesman for the Indonesian rescue agency, said, as cited by Reuters. The plane was on its way from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta to the city of... 

Indonesia’s geophysics agency lifted a tsunami warning just 34 minutes after it was first issued, as censors missed the warning signs for a tsunami that killed 832 people. A 7.5 magnitude quake on Friday evening triggered a tsunami which sent huge waves crashing into the northeastern coast of Sulawesi island, killing at least 832 and leaving thousands more homeless in the city of Palu and further... 

An earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude struck off the coast of Sulawesi island, Indonesia, on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey, just hours after a fatal quake in the region. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, BMKG, issued a tsunami warning for parts of the island in the immediate aftermath of the quake. The warning has since been lifted. It follows an earlier 6.1 magnitude... 

An Indonesian police officer shows the wooden boat used to transport the invaders. Indonesian maritime police have arrested 41 Vietnamese nationals on a boat which was heading towards New Zealand with the intention of illegally landing its passengers there, the Jakarta Post has reported. The newspaper said that police had arrested the Vietnamese after “receiving information about a boat carrying... 

North Korea has sent a letter filled with Trump-bashing to the Australian Parliament, urging MPs to condemn Washington’s saber-rattling, while at the same time assuring them of its “highest consideration.” The letter was penned by North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Committee and sent to Australia’s Indonesian embassy late September, but was received by Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop... 

Your Best Vacation in Bali Everyone who has spent their vacation in Bali, come back here with pleasure sooner or later in order to discover something new every time and allow themselves to re-look at this place. These tips were kindly provided by a European dating website: Romance Compass. Bali can be considered a truly magical place but not because the heroine of the movie “Eat, Pray, Love” found... 

Australian tourists in Bali are unknowingly being fed dog meat and supporting a brutal trade which sees the slaughter of thousands of animals. Horrifying footage shot by Animals Australia on the popular Indonesian island shows how dogs are caught with nooses, tied up and killed before their meat is sold as chicken satay sticks to tourists. ‘When we embarked on this investigation, we didn’t... 

An Indonesian Islamic court has sentenced two young men to 85 strokes of a cane each for having sexual relations, marking the first time the penalty for homosexuality has been used in the conservative Aceh province. The couple, aged 20 and 23, will both face the strokes in a public caning after being found guilty for breaking strict Sharia regulations against homosexuality. “The defendants are proven... 

“The world’s oldest person” passed away in his rural home in Central Java, Indonesia, at the ripe old age of 146 on Sunday. Mbah Ghoto lived through three different centuries, two world wars, and outlived all of his children. Sodimedjo, also known as Mbah Ghoto (grandpa Ghoto), was born in December 1870, according to his unverified birth certificate and identification papers. Indonesia only... 

Have you noticed that our planet has begun to shake, rattle and roll? Over the past few days we have seen major volcanic eruptions in Costa Rica and Indonesia, and according to Volcano Discovery 40 volcanoes around the planet are erupting right now as you read this article. Meanwhile, earthquakes continue to shake the globe with alarming regularity. Just last week, Ecuador was hit by a magnitude 6.7... 

“Why, instead of baying for Arab blood, is no one asking where the pages are which outline the US government’s own 9/11 related failings and culpability?” political analyst Barry Grossman says. The growing furor surrounding calls to declassify the “28 pages” in the September 11, 2001 attacks related congressional report written in 2002 appear to be a thinly veiled stunt to sell the official...