Islamic militant Umar Patek was found guilty on Thursday of key involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Australian police said that initial reports suggested up to 75 asylum seekers had died after their boat capsized off remote Christmas Island en route from Sri Lanka.

Police have found the body of an Australian man by a roadside in Jimbaran, southern Bali.

An Indonesian air force plane crashed into a military housing complex in Jakarta on Thursday, killing all seven crew on board and two children and an elderly woman on the ground.

Australian authorities said an asylum-seeker boat believed to be carrying 200 people capsized on Thursday off remote Christmas Island with an unknown number of survivors.

Hundreds of tribesmen armed with bows and arrows clashed in Papua, northwest of Bali, leaving one man dead in the latest outbreak of deadly violence in the region.

A verdict is due shortly in the terrorism trial of Umar Patek, accused of masterminding the 2002 bombings in Bali that claimed the lives of 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.

An Indonesian anti-drugs group challenged in court on Wednesday a presidential decision to slash the jail term of Australian drug-trafficker Schapelle Corby.

A New Zealand woman has been arrested in Bali over the alleged theft of chocolate from a supermarket in Seminyak.

Foreign tourists paid a collective US$56.4 million to enter Bali last year, a figure the local authorities predict will rise in 2012.