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More than 50 Indonesian companies are being punished for their role in causing the haze that blanketed South East Asia earlier this year. The government has not named the firms, but released the initials and general location of 30 of the 56 companies who are being punished Only one of the companies was confirmed to be foreign-owned. Another is a supplier to one of the World’s Biggest Paper and Pulp Producers Asia Pulp & Paper. […]
An earthquake measuring 6.9 magnitudes on Wednesday evening rocked the Malaku provincial capital of Ambon, Indonesia. According to the U.S. Geological survey, the epicenter of the earthquake was located at 111 kilometers southeast of Ambon. The USGS reported that the earthquake hitting at a depth of 33.9 kilometers. According to officials there was no damage and causalities reported from the quake. <em>(Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
Indonesian President Joko Widodo welcomed Finland president Sauli Niinisto to the capital Jakarta on Tuesday for a two-day visit aimed at enhancing bilateral relations. The visit by the Finnish delegation, made up of representatives of 11 businesses, was very important to enhance trade cooperation between the two countries as according to foreign ministry data Indonesia’s trade increased about 780 million U.S. dollars, while Finnish investment also increased from 800 thousand to 3.6 million U.S. dollars. […]
According to seismologists, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the Indonesian province of West Papua. There is no tsunami warning raised in the aftermath of said earthquake. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Dexter Magno, MRFaith Bonalos)
(Reuters) — Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupted on Tuesday (September 15), sending volcanic ash three kilometers into the air. Footage on local television network, Metro TV, showed ash covering a residential area nearby. Activity of the volcano remains at “dangerous”, the highest alert level, spokesman of Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. BNPB said this was the biggest eruption since June. More than 2,500 people were evacuated at the time of the […]
(Reuters) — More than 140 people were feared dead on Wednesday (July 1) after a military transport plane ploughed into a residential area shortly after take-off in northern Indonesia on the previous, in what may be the deadliest accident yet for an air force with a long history of crashes. Hundreds of rescuers from the military, police and national search and rescue team continued to search for victims at the crash site in the Sumatra […]
(REUTERS) — An Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a hotel and residential area in the northern Sumatra city of Medan on Tuesday (June 30), killing at least 30 people, a national search and rescue agency official said. Military spokesman Fuad Basya said that 12 personnel, including the pilot, had been aboard the C-130 Hercules. The bodies of five of them had been found. Local television showed a neighbourhood of houses and hotels in flames […]
JUNE 16 (Reuters) — Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott said on Tuesday (June 16) he was confident Australian agencies acted “within the law” as calls grew for an inquiry into reports that officials paid people smugglers thousands of dollars to turn the their boat carrying asylum seekers back to Indonesia. “I am absolutely confident that at all times Australian agencies have acted within the law,” Abbott said. “Does that mean that that did happen?,” asked […]
Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupted on Saturday (June 13), sending ashes to to the sky as more than 2,700 people are evacuated. Saturday’s eruption was the latest round, since the volcano was placed at its highest alert level earlier in June. Columns of ash spewing as high as three kilometres was seen from a nearby town. Lava spread around one kilometres to the south and east, local media reported. No casualties were reported as most of […]
Living conditions for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar should be improved to discourage them from making risky sea journeys at the hands of human traffickers, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State said on Friday (May 22). Antony Blinken made the comments after holding talks with the government in the capital Naypyidaw, to discuss the migrant crisis that has left thousands of people stranded on overcrowded boats in the Bay of Bengal. Myanmar’s military chief said […]
Myanmar’s navy has brought ashore 200 Bangladeshis found in a boat off its coast, after its military chief said some of the thousands of migrants that have landed in Malaysia and Indonesia this month are pretending to be Rohingya Muslims to get UN aid. In response, a senior U.S. official said on Friday (May 22) that the majority of the more than 3,000 migrants that have come ashore are Rohingya fleeing desperate conditions in Rakhine […]
MAY 18 (Reuters) — Local Indonesian authorities in Aceh said on Monday (May 18) that shelters for migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, lack basic showering facilities. Nearly 800 migrants came ashore in Aceh in Indonesia on Friday (May 15), taking the number that have made land in Indonesia and the northwest of Malaysia to more than 2,500 over the past week. One local Indonesian government official said while they had enough food for the migrants, […]
