At the Java Sea, Admiral Doorman led a desperate Allied force against a stronger Japanese fleet. Outmatched, outgunned, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

fresh examination of Chinese ceramics and other cargo from an important Java Sea shipwreck has led researchers to conclude that the vessel sank a century earlier than previously thought, providing ...

Civil society activists have questioned whether a sanctioned alternative to the seine net will help fish stocks recover in Indonesia’s fishing zones. Fishers on Java’s northern coast are struggling to ...