"Fourteen passengers of the bus and two people from the oil tanker died [in the crash]," BPBD official Hasbi Hasidqi said by telephone as local TV broadcast images of wreckage in flames.

Four people were hospitalized, three of them with serious burns, according to another emergency official.

Initial information suggested one of the bus tires had burst, Hasbi said.

The driver "lost control and crashed", causing "a massive fire" that engulfed both vehicles, he added. The tanker was transporting diesel.

Transport accidents are not uncommon in Indonesia, a vast archipelago nation where buses, trains and even planes are often old and poorly maintained.

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Last month, a long-distance train slammed into the last, women-only carriage of a stationary commuter train near the Bekasi Timur station in West Java on Monday, killing 16 women and injuring at least 90 people.

Days later, a train hit a car in Central Java, killing four people including two children.

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