Huge waves that struck Reunion Island and coastlines across Indonesia earlier this month all originated from the same storm that occurred south of Cape Town, South Africa, and were tracked across the entire Indian Ocean for some 10 000 kilometres over a nine-day period by ESA's Envisat satellite.

A top U.S. diplomat briefed Indonesian leaders about the North Korean nuclear standoff Tuesday, saying Indonesia has an important role in global affairs as a new, non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest oil producer, will change the formula it uses to price the country's crude exports starting July to help boost revenue.

The Indonesian Health Minister says her country has resumed sharing samples of the H5N1 bird flu virus with the World Health Organisation (WHO) after a five-month gap.

Indonesian health officials say they are hopeful a new international agreement will be reached next week over the sharing of bird flu samples for vaccine research. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta, where Indonesia's 75th human death from bird flu has just been announced.

While metals like copper, gold, nickel and uranium have been center-stage in the recent surge of commodities exploration and investment excitement, tin, the duller cousin, has largely been considered unworthy of notice. In the last six months, however, tin prices have risen by 40%.

Rice farming in Indonesia is greatly affected by short-term climate variability and could be harmed significantly by long-term climate change, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University, the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin.

Orangutans are highly intelligent and are one of man's closest relatives. Found primarily in Indonesia, their name in English means "People of the Forest." Just a century ago, their numbers were plentiful, but deforestation, illegal hunting and natural disasters have left these large, red apes on the verge of extinction.

Indonesia's transport minister says his country's air safety standards will be completely overhauled within the next two years. Most air crash investigators agree that if there was no road or embankment at the end of Yogyakarta's runway, Garuda Flight 200 would have come to rest with much less deadly force.

Hippity, hoppity"¦click! So went the latest appearance of one of the world's rarest rabbits, captured on film by a camera trap in the rain forests of Indonesia, according to researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Efforts by Indonesia to avoid food shortages by increasing its rice production have received an important boost with the signing of a new agreement to help the nation's millions of poor rice farmers with new technologies.

Indonesia has agreed to resume its sharing of bird flu samples with the World Health Organization (WHO), ending a four-month standoff between the two sides.