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 ...

Fishing communities on small islands in the Java Sea and farther afield have long complained that large purse seine vessels are encroaching on traditional fishing grounds. On Sembilan Island, between ...

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 ...

A pair of search crews spotted signs of a possible plane crash, but officials say it's too early in the process to draw any conclusions. An Indonesian helicopter searching for a missing AirAsia plane ...

Dive into the gripping story of the Battle of the Java Sea and the heroic, yet tragic, figure of Commander Karel Durman! Discover how this epic WWII naval clash shaped history, changed strategies, and ...

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 ...

If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in the Pacific as recorded by the British, then this is the book for you. The account of each engagement is drawn ...