Indonesian minister threatens to unleash a "human tsunami" of asylum seekers towards Australia over fight to prevent execution.

Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson says he wants to speak to Indonesian President Joko Widodo in an effort to save those facing the death penalty in the southeast Asian country.

Australia's Prime Minister is going to extraordinary lengths to save the lives of the ringleaders of the "Bali Nine" drug smugglers facing execution in Indonesia.

The Bali Nine drug-smuggling ringleaders have had something of a small reprieve, but even so, their life expectancy is likely to be measured in days rather than years.

Andrew Chan lived for a year in NZ. The link emerged when Kiwi Owen Pomana, a former prisoner turned Christian evangelist, visited Chan over Christmas.

Owen Pomana and Bali Nine ringleader Andrew Chan perform an impromptu haka at the end of a Christmas Eve service.

Indonesian officials are now unable to confirm whether Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan will be executed this month.

Australia's Foreign Minister is disappointed the latest appeal to save the lives two men on drugs charges in Indonesia has failed.

The trial of a New Zealander accused of smuggling drugs into Indonesia was set to kick off today.

Bali Nine ringleader Andrew Chan's parents have said their goodbyes and flown back to Sydney ahead of his planned execution.

Australian officials will be advised of Indonesia's procedures for executing Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran at a meeting in Jakarta tomorrow.

The trial for a Wanganui beneficiary being held in Bali on charges he smuggled 1.7kg of meth could start at any time, his lawyer says.

Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are being moved out of their Bali jail to a secret location ahead of their execution for drug smuggling.

The mastermind behind the Bali Nine drug trafficking plot is reportedly living large after winning the lottery as two Australians face execution.

The captain of the AirAsia jet that crashed in December was out of his seat conducting an unusual procedure when his co-pilot apparently lost control of the plane.

Supporters are preparing a candelight vigil in Sydney as hopes fade the Bali Nine duo will escape an Indonesian firing squad.

The hunt for the man-eating Komodo, writes Rachel Williams, makes for one heart-stopping cruise excursion.

The AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month climbed faster than "normal speed" and stalled, Indonesia's Transport Minister has revealed.

A Kiwi facing the firing squad for allegedly smuggling 1.7kg of crystal meth into Indonesia will use a landmark legal strategy to argue his innocence - and plead for his life.

Divers have retrieved a black box from the crashed AirAsia flight from the bottom of the Java Sea, officials say.

Indonesian divers have said they are hopeful that the black box from doomed AirAsia flight 8501 has been located.

Pictures show the wreckage of flight QZ8501 lying on the bottom of the Java Sea, including what appears to be the tail fin showing the AirAsia logo.

AirAsia crash victim's family learned of their loved one's fate after being sent a selfie he featured in, taken on board flight QZ8501 as it prepared for takeoff.

The first official Indonesian report on the AirAsia crash says the accident was caused by "icing" that damaged the plane's engines - a finding experts immediately doubted.

Trip to meet dream woman landed "naive" New Zealander Antony de Malmanche in a police station cell with 27 others and facing the death penalty over drug smuggling.

The internet girlfriend of a Kiwi grandfather jailed in Bali after allegedly smuggling methamphetamine on to the island has been arrested, police say.

Crash experts say doomed AirAsia flight dropped almost vertically into the water as if being thrust down by a giant hand.

Indonesian search officials have now confirmed they have located the fuselage of AirAsia flight 8501 on sonar radar, upside down on the sea floor.