Indonesia

AT least 49 people died and scores more were injured today when a jet carrying 10 Australians crash-landed and burst into flames at Yogyakarta Airport.

A number of Australians are among 50 passengers still unaccounted for. The 10 Australian passengers on board include one Foreign Affairs Department official, a Federal Police officer and "at least five media representatives".

"We found 48 dead bodies at the spot. One person died at Sardjito hospital," provincial secretary Bambang Susanto said, referring to the city's main medical centre.

The media contingent was covering Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's visit to Indonesia. Mr Downer was not on the flight.

AUSTRALIA and Indonesia have agreed to a new broad-ranging security treaty, seven years after Jakarta tore up a previous agreement secretly negotiated by president Suharto and Paul Keating. Under the terms of the new pact, Jakarta and Canberra have pledged not to support separatist causes in each other's country. This was a key demand made by Jakarta in the wake of the crisis generated by the granting of temporary protection visas to 43 Papuan asylum-seekers earlier this year after they landed on Cape York. The two countries have also agreed to "do everything possible, individually and jointly, to eradicate international terrorism and extremism", including rapid, practical and effective responses to terrorist attacks. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and his Indonesian counterpart, Hassan Wirajuda, will sign the new pact on the Indonesian island of Lombok on Monday after nearly two years of discussions and negotiations.