Indonesia

JAKARTA - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic visited the National Museum of Indonesia and the National Monument during a first day of his official visit to the Republic of Indonesia on Tuesday.
    
President Nikolic signed the guest book at the National Museum.
    

Indonesia and Serbia "enjoy good and friendly relations and should improve economic cooperation."

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and President of Indonesia Joko Widodo agreed on this during their meeting in Jakarta on Wednesday, Tanjug is reporting.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Tuesday started his three-day visit Indonesia, at the invitation of his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo.

Nikolic's official Facebook page on Tuesday featured a photograph from the airport in Jakarta, that showed a welcoming billboard with images of the Serbian president and his wife and those of Widodo and his wife.

A massive earthquake struck on March 2 off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a region devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami, but initial fears of another region-wide disaster faded as tsunami warnings were cancelled. 

Militants launched a gun and bomb assault killing at least six people in Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday.

Police said the attack followed a threat by Islamic State fighters to put the country in their “spotlight”, as Reuters reports.

Multiple bomb and gunfire attacks have left several people dead and other injured in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Thursday.

According to media reports, at least four people have been killed by the explosions which occurred at several locations throughout the city.

The Air Asia passenger flight QZ8501 that crashed in bad weather on December 28 during a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore was found to have been triggered by a faulty computer that led the crew to accidently turn off the jet’s autopilot system. As a result, the pilots lost control of the aircraft as it plunged into the Java  Sea.

Indonesia agreed Oct. 8 to accept international help to combat forest and agricultural fires cloaking Southeast Asia in haze, after weeks of failed attempts to douse the blazes that have infuriated its neighbours.

A plane that crashed in eastern Indonesia was on August 18 found "completely destroyed" with the bodies of all 54 people who had been aboard amid the wreckage in a fire-blackened clearing at a remote site in dense jungle.

An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia's remote and mountainous region of Papua on Aug. 16, a government official said, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the Southeast Asian nation.