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JAKARTA, Indonesia(AFP) — Children are being put to work on tobacco plantations in Indonesia that supply some of the world’s biggest cigarette companies, putting their health at serious risk, Human Rights Watch warned Wednesday. Despite Indonesian law prohibiting child labour in hazardous industries, the rights group documented dozens of cases of minors — some as young as eight — falling ill from handling raw tobacco and mixing pesticides with their bare hands. Much of the […]
KARO, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian rescuers searched for survivors in scorched villages and devastated farmlands Monday after a volcano erupted in clouds of searing ash and gas, killing seven and leaving others fighting life-threatening burns. Witnesses have described sheer panic as waves of gas and fine rock were unleashed from Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island Saturday, consuming farmers trying to flee the slopes of the highly active volcano. The fast-moving flows — reaching temperatures of up […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Indonesia decided to join the Philippines and Malaysia in conducting joint patrols in the disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea. This, in spite of the fact that Indonesia insists that it is not a claimant of the disputed territories. Security experts were alarmed of Indonesia’s decision and fears that the move will increase tensions in the West Philippine Sea. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by […]
(Reuters) — Australian police have detained five men suspected of planning to sail a small boat from the far north of the country on to Indonesia and the Philippines and finally to Syria to join Islamic State, officials said on Wednesday (May 11). The men were held on Tuesday (May 10) after towing the seven-meter boat almost 3,000 km (1,865 miles) from Melbourne to Cairns in Queensland state, police said. “There have been reports that […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia guaranteed the conduct of regular joint maritime patrols in the Sulu and Celebes Seas by signing an agreement. The patrols are in response to the kidnapping incidents perpetrated by the Abu Sayyaf Group. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
YOGYAKARTA , Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines are to launch a joint patrol in their waters after a recent surge of kidnappings by a radical Islamic group, according to an agreement struck Thursday. The decision to patrol the Sulu and Celebes seas, which together form a key waterway between the three countries, comes just over a week after the southern Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf beheaded a Canadian captive. Abu Sayyaf gangs have earned […]
Indonesia has called for joint maritime patrols with the Philippines and Malaysia, after a spate of kidnappings in waters near the southern Philippines by suspected militants. Around 14 Indonesians and four Malaysians have been abducted in recent weeks by groups with suspected links to Abu Sayyaf bandits. Indonesian military spokesman Tatang Sulaiman they are trying to set up cooperation on coordinated patrols between Malaysia and the Philippines, adding Indonesia had already sent two warships to […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) – After four days of treatment, a young Sumatran rhinoceros succumbed to a leg infection in Indonesia on Tuesday (April 5). Ten year-old female Sumatran rhino, Najaq, died following efforts from environmentalists to keep her alive as she was suffering from an infection. “It’s because the rhino lived in the wild so we didn’t clearly know the status of its health at that time, but we noticed that she had a wound […]
(Reuters) — Authorities in the sprawling Indonesian capital are cracking down on child exploitation after a raft of cases ranging from child labour, sexual assault, and violence came to light in recent weeks, officials said. Tens of thousands of children are trafficked annually in Indonesia, with the majority of them forced into prostitution and manual labor, according to UNICEF. A wave of arrests late last month included several Jakarta residents who sedated infants and used […]
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit off the Indonesian island of java late Wednesday, US seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued. The earthquake hit at 9:45 pm local time (1445 gmt), the us geological survey said, some 110 kilometers (68 miles) south of the city of Banjar in West Java, at a depth of 35 kilometers. Indonesia sits on the pacific “Ring of Fire” where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity […]
By Sourabh Gupta Institute for China–America Studies (Courtesy East Asia Forum) — Western and Asian governments and commentators have pilloried the Chinese government for its inscrutability on the so-called ‘nine-dash line’ in the South China Sea. Because the nine-dash line allegedly lacks a basis in international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), they have hectored China to clarify the line’s meaning and to derive all maritime […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A series of early-warning buoys deployed after a 2004 tsunami devastated parts of Indonesia’s western Sumatra island were not working when a huge quake rocked the same area on Wednesday, an official said. The 7.8 magnitude, shallow undersea quake hit late Wednesday off Sumatra, sending panicked residents fleeing for the hills and briefly triggering a tsunami alert. But a tsunami was not generated and there have been no reports of casualties […]
