A young Russian seafarer has been rescued eight hours after falling from a Japanese tanker off Indonesia.

Indonesia's navy said 22-year-old Russian Aboldin Artem was reported missing from the 51,000-dwt MR St Katharinen (built 2013) just after midnight local time on Friday (1700 GMT Thursday) off the Riau Islands.

The vessel, owned by Japan's Maruta Industries, was en route from Russia to Malaysia.