"Sulawesi"

Luwuk, Indonesia - Some panicked residents of a quake-hit Indonesian island have refused to return home after the tremor triggered a brief tsunami warning and fears there was more to come, the disaster agency said Saturday.

MINAHASA, Indonesia - An Indonesian woman has been mauled to death by a huge pet crocodile on the island of Sulawesi, officials said on Wednesday (Jan 16).

A team from Wakatobi National Park found about 6kg of garbage inside the stomach of a dead whale that had beached on Kapota Island, Southeast Sulawesi.

Jakarta - Some 1,200 Indonesian convicts are on the run from three different detention facilities in devastated Sulawesi after the region was rocked by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, a justice ministry official said Monday.

Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) chairwoman Dwikorita Karnawati has confirmed that tsunami waves had struck several parts of Central Sulawesi after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the province on Friday afternoon.

Jakarta - Indonesia was rocked by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake Friday, just hours after a smaller jolt killed at least one person in the same part of the country.

At least 13 people died when a passenger boat overloaded with holidaymakers celebrating Eid capsized off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Wednesday, officials said.

The Indonesia island of Sulawesi is not only a marine paradise, but also home to the critically endangered black crested macaque