Angry Indonesia

Indonesian police officers react to tear gas fired by their colleagues as they scuffle with Muslim protesters during a demonstration against American-made film "Innocence of Muslims" that ridicules Islam and depicts the Prophet Muhammad, outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012.
Indonesians angered over the anti-Islam film clashed with police outside the embassy in Jakarta, hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails and burning tires outside the mission. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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Indonesians feed 'hungry ghosts'

Chinese Indonesians throw fake money to honor their ancestors during the Hungry Ghost Festival in Medan, North Sumatra, Aug. 31. During the festival, Chinese perform ritual prayers so that the spirit-soul of their ancestors will go to heaven. According to tradition, ghosts and spirits are believed to come out from hell to visit earth during the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar called the Ghost Month.
The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, or Yu Lan is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese in many countries.

Stop violence against Rohingya muslims

Covered in mock blood, Muslim protesters perform a die-in during a rally outside the embassy of Myanmar in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. Dozens of people staged the rally calling for an end to the violence against ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State of Myanmar.

Stranded whale shark

A rescue team member tries to tie a rope around a whale shark that died after being stranded on Parangkusumo beach, near Yogyakarta, Indonesia,  Aug. 4. It is the second whale shark to die after being stranded near Yogyakarta this week. The first was found dead 5 miles west three days ago.
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Colorful rocks

Mine in East-Java is probably one of few places where no tourist would like to go for enjoyment. This area is full of danger and sulfur pollution. Photo journalist Philipp Aldrup went there and took these pictures of labor working in that dangerous zone. Showing the amazing yellow, gray and blue rocks with hard working miners ruining their health for $5 a day so that the whole world will get vulcanize rubber, bleach sugar, fertilize flowers...
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Dual disasters in Indonesia

A rescuer carries an elderly woman to a temporary shelter as she is evacuated from her home on the slope of Mount Merapi, in Pakem, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi)
Indonesia was rocked by two separate disasters earlier this week - a 7.7-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami on Monday that swept onto the Mentawai Island chain in western Indonesia, and less than 24 hours later and a few hundred miles away, Mount Merapi erupted multiple times, unleashing searing pyroclastic flows that destroyed villages and blanketed the countryside in ash. Rescue personnel are only now reaching some of the more remote areas, but as of this writing, it is estimated that nearly 300 people were killed by the tsunami, and at least 30 died near Mount Merapi. Collected here are early photos from the dual disasters, and the rescue and recovery efforts just underway. (37 photos total)