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A village on Java island has deployed a cast of “ghosts” to patrol the streets, hoping that age-old superstition will keep people indoors and safely away from the coronavirus.
"It’s scary. It’s beautiful. It’s filled with anxiety and fear and calm and peace. I vacillate between wanting to just get home and wanting to just stay put."
Experts estimate that fewer than 80 Sumatran rhinos remain on Earth, most of them in Indonesia.
The video, which showed an Indian family getting caught stealing hotel amenities in Bali, touched a nerve with many Indians on Twitter.
Tam, a critically endangered Sumatran rhino, died Monday. Fewer than 80 of the species now remain on Earth, almost all of them in Indonesia.
The big waves that followed the eruption of Anak Krakatoa hit communities along the Sunda Strait.
The tsunami decimated Indonesia's Sumur area, ripping houses from their foundations and bulldozing concrete buildings.
The death toll has risen to 373 and at least 128 people remain missing.
Hundreds were killed as waves smashed into houses, hotels and other beachside buildings Saturday night along Indonesia's Sunda Strait, in a disaster that followed an eruption and possible landslide on Anak Krakatau
This was the second deadly tsunami to hit seismically active Indonesia in 2018.