The news of a very painful road accident has come to light from Central Java province of Indonesia. In the early hours of Monday (22 December 2025) in Semarang city, a bus traveling at high speed suddenly lost control and overturned. In this accident, at least 16 passengers died on the spot, while 19 people are said to be seriously injured.

The accident occurred at a busy intersection near the Krapyak toll exit, where the bus overturned after hitting the roadside safety barrier. According to the local administration, the speed of the bus was very high and the driver could not control the vehicle due to sudden loss of control.

Passengers trapped in bus as it overturned

Eyewitnesses said that the collision was so severe that the bus completely overturned on the road. There was chaos immediately after the accident. Many passengers were trapped inside the bus because the windows were broken and the body was badly twisted. Hearing the screams at the spot, people nearby ran to help, but the condition of the bus was so bad that it was not possible to go inside without special equipment.

Rescue operation lasted for hours

Budyono, head of the Semarang Search and Rescue Office, said that the relief and rescue operations were very difficult. The bus was badly damaged and a path had to be made with the help of machines to reach the people trapped inside. The rescue team had to take extra precautions due to broken pieces of glass and bent parts of iron. After several hours of hard work, all the injured and the dead could be taken out of the bus.

Treatment of the injured is going on in the hospital.

According to international news agency Xinhua, all the injured have been admitted to different hospitals in Semarang. The condition of some of the injured is said to be very critical. Police are busy identifying the dead and injured and investigation into the exact cause of the accident is underway.

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In the Ache province of Indonesia, two men were ordered to be beaten publicly, as they were found kissing and embracing each other in the public toilet. On Tuesday (August 26, 2025) in the park of Banda Ache Bandanusalatin, Banda Ache was sentenced to whipping in the presence of about 100 people on a platform. The court had ordered both of them to kill 80-80 whip. However, he was killed by 76 whip due to his already spending four months in custody.

This incident was like a public performance. Both were parked in turn in front of the crowd and the police beat them. People present in the crowd kept watching this scene quietly as if it was a common part of religious discipline. Even these two men were not involved in this incident. On the same day, a total of 10 people were killed for different crimes such as extramarital affairs, closeness from people of opposite sex and online gambling.

International Response and Criticism of Amnesty International
Institutions like Amnesty International strongly criticized this decision. Amnesty’s Regional Research Director Montse Ferler said that declaring equal gender conduct as a crime is not just in a fair and human society. Human rights organizations believe that such public punishment is not only physical violence, but also an attack on the honor and privacy of the victims. The international community has been appealing to the Government of Indonesia for a long time to reconsider the law. However, a large number of people still believe that this law is necessary to maintain the religious and moral structure of the society. This is the reason that such punishments often get public support here.

Sharia law in Ache province
Indonesia’s Ache province is the only area in the country, where Sharia law is in force. After receiving special orders in 2001, the province started implementing Islamic religious laws. Under these laws, gambling, drinking, extramarital sex, wearing tight clothes of women and men’s absence from Friday prayers are considered a crime.

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