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Over the past couple of years, the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi has been in the news with alarming frequency for viral stories of children getting married, either among themselves or with much older adults.... Read more via Nairaland – http://bit.ly/2WTzSs5 Get More Nigeria Metro News

A volcano-triggered tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, officials said on Sunday, voicing fears that the toll would rise further, AFP reports. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed by...

An orangutan who was forced to become a sex slave and sleep with men on a daily basis has finally undergone rehabilitation after it was rescued from its kidnapper in an Indonesian village..... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2ADIeev Get More Nigeria Metro News

Last week a branch of the most influential Islamic body in Indonesia, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), issued a fatwa against the use of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine because it contains porcine gelatine and is not halal. In Islam a fatwa is a pronouncement made on … Read...

Many smokers pick up the habit at an early age, but there are probably not many who started as early as Rapi Pamungkas. This Indonesian 2-year-old apparently.... Read more via ModernGhana News – https://ift.tt/2MKrVV9 Get More Nigeria Metro News

A baby has been born in Indonesia with two faces because his conjoined twin did not develop properly in the womb. The two-month-old Gilang Andika, from Batam, a city in Indonesia about 20 miles (32km) across the sea from Singapore, has two faces and two brains but just one … Read more via...

A Frenchman detained for 18 years after trying to smuggle drugs into Bali arrived in Geneva on Sunday and was.... Read more via Punch Nigeria Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2LGWfvY Get More Nigeria Metro News

A man was crushed to death by his mother’s coffin, police in Indonesia said yesterday Samen Kondorura, 40, died when a bamboo ladder collapsed as pallbearers tried to carry the coffin onto the lakkian on the island of Sulawesi. A lakkian is a carved tower where the … Read more via The Sun...

An Indonesian woman who had been missing since Thursday was found dead inside a python on the island of Sulawesi READ MORE HERE

Indonesian police have confiscated a sex toy from a remote village after its inhabitants and some on social media mistook it for an "angel". READ MORE HERE

More than 100 people have died after drinking toxic alcohol this month alone in Indonesia. It comes after a crackdown on the sale of legal alcohol led to a boost in black market sales, which could be corrupted with methanol. The country has been shocked by images of distraught relatives and...