Coffin maker becomes millionaire as rare meteorite crashes through his roof
- 18-Nov-2020
The meteorite smashed through the porch along the outside of Josua Hutagalung's house when he was working on a coffin in Kolang, North Sumatra.
Indonesian man jailed for Facebook post allegedly insulting Islam
- 30-Apr-2018
JAKARTA: An Indonesian was jailed for five years Monday for a Facebook post deemed offensive to Islam, his lawyer said, the latest conviction under the country’s controversial electronic information law. Alnoldy Bahari, 39, was found guilty of spreading hate speech for a post in which he claimed to have experienced God’s presence and questioned the […]
In pictures: 25-foot python attacks man before being eaten by villagers
- 04-Oct-2017
JAKARTA: A giant python attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm, before hungry villagers chopped up the reptile and ate it, a police chief said Wednesday. Security guard Robert Nababan crossed paths with the giant creature while patrolling an oil palm plantation in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra island on Saturday. “The […]