Jakarta - Hundreds of Indonesian Muslims demonstrated outside the US embassy in Jakarta Wednesday, denouncing the Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip that killed hundreds of people.

More than 1,000 protestors, including activists from the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), waved Palestinian flags and shouted slogans to protest Israeli aggression.

It was the latest in a series of protest rallies in Indonesia since Israel attacked Gaza over the weekend.

Jakarta  - An Indonesian district court on Wednesday unexpectedly acquitted a former senior intelligence official of charges of murdering a prominent human rights activist.

The South Jakarta district court declared Muchdi Purwoprandjono "not guilty" of involvement in the assassination of Munir Said Thalib, who died of arsenic poisoning aboard a Garuda Indonesia flight to Amsterdam in 2004.

Jakarta - At least 10 people were killed, 17 survived and an unspecific others were believed to be missing after a small boat capsized off Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday morning, officials said.

The accident took place at about 10:00 am (0300 GMT) when a small wooden boat packed with around 30 people overturned in the Java Sea off the northern coast of central Java district of Pemalang, about 300 kilometres east of Jakarta, police and health officials said.

New Delhi, Dec 26 : Indonesia commemorated the fourth anniversary of the tsunami that devastated the coastal areas of Indian Ocean on December 24, 2004, and killed over 230,000 people, with 170,000 of them in Aceh province.

According to head of the provincial development agency Rahman Lubis, the commemoration took place in Meulaboh town at the west coast of the province in the northern tip of Sumatra island, which was hit the hardest during the tsunami triggered by a strong quake in December 2004.

Jakarta - Indonesia Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, with thousands of people scrambling up to higher ground on the coast of North Sulawesi as sirens blared in a drill.

In Aceh at the northern end of Sumatra, where more than 170,000 people were either killed or went missing when a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami on December 26, 2004, hundreds of survivors prayed at mosques across the staunchly Muslim province, the state-run Antara news agency reported.

Hundreds of others prayed at mass graves or gathered along the Aceh coast to honour victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed up to 230,000 lives in 11 countries and displaced more than 1.8 million people.

Jakarta  - At least 12 people were killed and more than 20 others injured after a bus carrying a wedding delegation plunged into a deep ravine in southern Sumatra province of Lampung, media reports said Saturday.

The accident occurred Friday afternoon when a passenger bus with 38 people on board was en route from Muaradua district of Lampung province to Manna of the adjacent Bengkulu province, the state-run Antara news agency reported.