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

Java Man, the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, has returned to Indonesia after over a century in the Netherlands. This ...

The parts of the skeleton – a skull cap, molar and thigh bone – were the first known specimens of Homo erectus ...

The Dutch Ministry of Culture also announced on Wednesday about returning approximately 28,000 other fossils to Indonesia.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency ( BMKG) recorded 1,242 earthquakes in West Java and surrounding areas throughout 2025, with seismic activity showing a ...

A tragic bus crash on Java, Indonesia's main island, resulted in at least 16 fatalities. The bus lost control on a toll road, ...

A bus carrying 34 passengers lost control on a curved exit ramp in Semarang, Central Java, killing 16 and leaving 18 injured, ...

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

According to search and rescue authorities, the bus was moving at a relatively high speed when it approached a turn, lost ...

"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.