JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia's death toll from swine flu has risen to four, the health ministry said Tuesday.

"A boy aged below five years has been confirmed as the latest fatality from swine flu. He died several days ago from severe pneumonia," director general for disease control Tjandra Yoga Aditama told AFP.

Indonesia had recorded 872 confirmed cases of the A(H1N1) influenza virus, which has killed over 1,000 people around the world since it was first detected in April in Mexico.

The first cases appeared in Indonesia in June after a British tourist and an Indonesian pilot tested positive. (AFP)