South Kalimantan

The AP's Ben Thomas has the story.

Wildfires driven by an intensifying El Nino and prolonged dry season raged across Indonesia's West, Central, and South Kalimantan provinces on the island of Borneo in August and September, destroying thousands of hectares of forest habitat for the endangered orangutan.

But Indonesian conservationists rescued eight, three mothers with infants and two adolescent males, stranded in human plantations and cut off from their natural food sources.

While malnourished and dehydrated, they survived with no broken bones or life-threatening injuries, no burns, and no open wounds.

Nursed back to health, they were moved in the past week to a protected forest in West Kalimantan province, where they climbed back into the trees to the cheers and applause of their rescuers.

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Wildfires driven by an intensifying El Nino and prolonged dry season raged across Indonesia's West, Central, and South Kalimantan provinces on the island of Borneo in August and September, destroying thousands of hectares of forest, habitat for the endangered orangutan.

But Indonesian conservationists rescued eight, three mothers with infants and two adolescent males stranded in human plantations and cut off from their natural food sources.

While malnourished and dehydrated, they survived with no broken bones or life-threatening injuries, no burns, and no open wounds.

Wildfires driven by an intensifying El Niño and prolonged dry season raged across Indonesia's West Central and South Kalimantan provinces on the island of Borneo in August and September, destroying thousands of hectares of forest, habitat for the endangered orangutan.

But Indonesian conservationists rescued eight, three mothers with infants and two adolescent males stranded in human plantations and cut off from their natural food sources.

While malnourished and dehydrated, they survived with no broken bones or life-threatening injuries, no burns, and no open wounds.

When Leahy finished, we went up.

And Tees had just taken over all of BHP's coal operations in Borneo, in East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.

Yep.

And I went over there as the project director, so I had all of those reporting through me.

The death toll from a ferry disaster in Indonesia has risen to 66, with 69 people still missing more than two weeks after the vessel capsized.

The Virgo Transport 8 was carrying 243 people when it overturned in bad weather on September 13 while traveling between East Java and South Kalimantan.

Divers searching the wreck are facing unstable debris, leaking fuel and other hazards as they try to reach cabins inside the vessel.

So far, 108 people have been rescued as the search for those still missing continues.

So it's, yeah, it's, and then there's, there's been some rain in Riel province in Sumatra, and Jakarta has had some rain.

But none in central Kalimantan yet.

In fact, there's not even any moisture in the atmosphere, so they can't do any cloud seeding.

Oh, can't

That's true.

Yeah, there's more activity, more transportation.

This was a ferry that was primarily transporting heavy equipment from Surabaya to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan.

And so it's full of trucks and excavators and stuff and mostly the drivers.