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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — An Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 188 passengers and crew crashed into the sea Monday, officials said, moments after it had asked to be allowed to return to Jakarta. The jet vanished from radar just 13 minutes after taking off from the Indonesian capital, plunging into the ocean. Search and Rescue Agency spokesman Yusuf Latif said authorities were still searching for the remains of the plane, which lost contact with air […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia(AFP) — The Indonesian Lion Air passenger jet feared to have crashed on Monday was carrying 188 passengers and crew when it went missing shortly after take-off, a transport ministry official said. “The aircraft was carrying 178 adult passengers, one child and two babies, with two pilots and five flight attendants,” said Sindu Rahayu, directorate general of Civil Aviation at the transport ministry. “The plane had requested to return to base before finally disappearing […]
Indonesia (AFP) — At least 22 people have died and many are missing after heavy rain unleashed flash floods and landslides in western Indonesia, an official said Saturday. Heavy downpours since Wednesday triggered flooding and landslides that hit several districts on Sumatra island. At least 17 people were confirmed killed in the last three days in North Sumatra province, while five others were killed in West Sumatra, authorities said. “Eleven students of an Islamic […]
PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday visited the disaster-ravaged Indonesian city of Palu, where an earthquake and tsunami killed 2,000 people and left thousands more missing, presumed dead. A 7.5-magnitude quake and a wall of water struck the city on Sulawesi island on September 28, leaving entire neighbourhoods in ruins and 200,000 people desperate for humanitarian assistance. Rescue teams scoured the wreckage for a fortnight before calling off the search […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte arrived in Davao City early morning Friday from his “successful” participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders’ Gathering in Bali, Indonesia where he stressed his commitment to peace and stability in the region, and a “stronger ASEAN.” Duterte also personally conveyed to Indonesian President Joko Widodo his condolences to the people of Indonesia for the successive earthquakes and other calamities that claimed many lives in […]
(Eagle The humanitarian aid assistance of the Philippine government to the victims of 7.5 magnitude earthquake that devastated the country is now in Indonesia. The Lockheed C-130 “Hercules” cargo ship that departed on Wednesday, October 10 had arrived at Balikpapan Kalimantan Airport on the same day. The relief goods and other supplies that arrived were only the first batch of assistance from the Philippines. The second delivery is scheduled to arrive on Sunday, October 14. […]
(Eagle News) — Philippie president Rodrigo Duterte and other leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the International Monetary Fund were already in Bali, Indonesia when a fresh tremor struck Indonesia anew on Thursday dawn, Oct. 11. The magnitude 6 quake that rocked Indonesia on Thursday killed three people and rattled hotels where IMF delegates and leaders of the ASEAN are attending a major summit, a fortnight after a quake-tsunami killed […]
PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — The search for those killed in Indonesia’s quake-tsunami disaster was called off Thursday, despite there being around 5,000 people still missing. The magnitude 7.5-quake and a subsequent tsunami razed whole swathes of Palu to the ground on September 28. More than 2,000 bodies have been recovered since the twin disaster on Sulawesi island. But authorities fear 5,000 more could be buried beneath the ruined city, where entire villages were swallowed. Rescuers […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, Oct. 11, denied a media report another Filipina was on death row for drug smuggling. The Inquirer in particular quoted Philippine Ambassador to Indonesia Leehiong Wee as saying it was monitoring the situation of the Filipina in Semarang, Central Java. In a statement, the DFA said only Mary Jane Veloso, who is detained in a prison in Yogyakarta, was given the death sentence after being […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is now in Indonesia to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Leaders’ Gathering today, October 11. The President arrived at the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday night, October 10, for the ASEAN meeting set on the following day. Duterte was invited to participate in the event by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The ASEAN Leaders’ Gathering is a High-Level Assembly that is a […]
JAVA, Indonesia (AFP) — A shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali early Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said, causing panicked people to flee their homes. The head of Indonesia’s geophysics agency said there had been no reports of casualties or damage, although information was still being gathered in East Java province. “The quake didn’t trigger any tsunami for sure,” Dwikorita Karnawati told AFP. The strong […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines on Wednesday, October 10 sent off to Indonesia much needed supplies and humanitarian assistance for the victims affected by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on September 28. The aid supplies were loaded onto a Lockheed C-130 “Hercules” cargo ship. Relief goods and other assistance, including six water filtration units, six generators, 100 tents, 4,400 assorted sleeping kits, were among the supplied loaded to the […]
