The Karimunjawa Islands in Central Java, Indonesia, are a tropical archipelago known for clear turquoise waters, sandy ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fishing communities on small islands in the Java Sea and farther afield have long complained that large purse seine vessels are encroaching on ...

For years, the Java Sea looked like a gap in the record. Some of the most important Homo erectus fossils ever found came from nearby Java, but the shallow seabed between the islands seemed to hold ...

Minutes after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport near Jakarta, Indonesia, a Boeing 737-500 plane came crashing down into the Java Sea on Saturday, according to government spokesman ...

Naval forces of Indonesia and Russia began their first joint military training drills in the Java Sea on Monday, the Indonesian navy said, which analysts say shows the Southeast Asian country's ...

A ferry carrying more than 600 passengers sank in the Java Sea between the island of Java and Borneo just before midnight on December 29, 2006, during high winds and rough seas. On January 1, 2007, a ...

A jungle-covered area on the east of Borneo island is set to be transformed into Indonesia’s new capital city. Concerns over the sustainability of the congested and rapidly sinking political center of ...

Civil society activists have questioned whether a sanctioned alternative to the seine net will help fish stocks recover in Indonesia’s fishing zones. Fishers on Java’s northern coast are struggling to ...

Alarms were blaring as the pilots of AirAsia flight 8501 desperately tried to right the plunging passenger jet as it crashed into the Java Sea on Dec. 28, killing everyone onboard, according to a new ...