2007 in Indonesia

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Events from the year 2007 in Indonesia

Incumbents

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Events

=January=

  • January 1 – Adam Air Flight 574 vanishes over the Makassar Strait, Indonesia.
  • January 1 – A speed boat capsized in the coastal area of Java Sea, Central Kalimantan. Fifteen people were killed in this accident.
  • January 1 – Whirlwind and landslides hit Lampung.
  • January 2 – Floods inundated 107 houses in Sambas, West Kalimantan.
  • January 2 – Strong whirlwind hit Bali and Nusa Tenggara, One person was killed, and one temple and three houses were damaged.
  • January 3 – Four-meter high ocean waves destroyed 65 houses in the southern coast of Huangobotu village, Gorontalo.
  • January 7 – New mudflow eruption was detected in Kedung Cangkring, Jabon, Sidoarjo, approx. 1.5 km from the first eruption.
  • January 9 – Bakri, a local fisherman, found a piece of the tail of the Adam Air 574's missing Boeing 737 in Makassar Strait, 8 km south of Pare Pare, and about 300 m from the shore. The debris is right tail horizontal stabilizer, Tag Number 65C25746-76. As a result, all of the passengers died.
  • January 11 – Following the discovery of the right tail horizontal stabilizer, a life vest and some parts of airline seats had also been found in Pare pare.
  • January 12 – Landslide hit the island of Sangihe, North Sulawesi and killed at least 16 people.
  • January 13 – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono attend the ASEAN Summit in the Philippines.
  • January 16 – Indonesian passenger train derailment killed at least five and injured more than a hundred people. The train derailed when passing a bridge in Banyumas, Central Java about 11 km west of Purwokerto, Central Java.
  • January 21 – A earthquake measuring 7.5 {{M|w}} struck near Sulawesi. The intensity VI (Strong) shock left several people dead and some buildings damaged.{{cite web|title=M7.5 – Molucca Sea|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000f34b#general_summary|publisher=United States Geological Survey}}

=February=

  • February 2–February 12: The 2007 Jakarta flood causes 76 fatalities and Displacing Over 500,000.
  • February 21 – Adam Air Flight 172 suffers cracks from the fuselage when landing in Surabaya. Everyone survived but this was a hard landing.

=March=

  • March 6 – March 2007 Sumatra earthquakes: A Magnitude 6.4 Earthquake strikes Near Padang in West Sumatra.
  • March 7 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 overshoots the runway at Adisutjipto International Airport in Yogyakarta causing the plane to crash into a rice field. 21 of the 40 passengers died.

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=September=

  • September 12 – 2007 Bengkulu earthquakes: A Magnitude 8.4 Earthquake occurred along the Sunda megathrust, resulting in 25 deaths and thousands displaced.

See also

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