The crash of a passenger aircraft that left no survivors, a magnitude-7.4 earthquake which literally swallowed up a town, and another series of quakes that ripped through a resort island for weeks on end.
Almost 3,000 people were killed and many injured or made homeless in these disasters that hit Indonesia in just the last three months or so.
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