17 July 1997: Sempati Air Flight 304 - A Fokker F27 crashed onto a residential area near Bandung after one of its engines caught fire and failed in flight.
19 December 1997: SilkAir Flight 185, operated by a Boeing 737-300 plunged into the Musi River in Sumatra during a routine flight from Jakarta to Singapore, killing all 104 people on board.