Kompas TV showed footage of firefighters trying to put out huge flames from the top of a building in Banten province in western Java

A fire at a jail in Indonesia has killed 40 people, authorities have said.

The fire in the prison in Banten province broke out at some time between 1am and 2am on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the prison department of the law and human rights ministry said.

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