More volunteers are needed to help flood victims in Aceh Tamiang district, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) province, which has been inundated since Thursday (Dec. 21), a regional legislator said.
“We need more volunteers to help clean up mud and garbage which were brought by the floods,” Jamaluddin T Muku, a member of the NAD Legislative Council, […]
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has expressed concern about the late distribution of food among 200,000 Indonesian hajj pilgrims who are about to perform “wukuf” or the most important rite of the pilgrimage in the Arafat plain in Saudi Arabia.
“The president has instructed Religious Affairs Minister Maftuh Basyuni and Hajj Leader Tarmizi Taher to take firm […]
The Bank of Korea and Bank Indonesia have signed a second bilateral swap arrangement (BSA), allowing the two countries to secure short-term loans from each other through a rupiah-for-dollar or won-for-dollar swap to a maximum value of US$2 billion.
Under the agreement, both countries can use the swap facilities when they need short-term liquidity, Bank Indonesia […]
Ibu Wiwik sits on her front steps, all that remains of her house. “It’s gone,” she said, waving a tired hand at the pile of wooden planks and roofing, half-submerged in water and mud. “All gone.”
Over 100 people are dead and an estimated 400,000 have been left without shelter after days of torrential rain that […]
The Gesellchaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) or German Technical Cooperation has sponsored a training session on disaster awareness among primary school communities in Yogyakarta and Central Java.
Part of the post-May 27 earthquake program, the training started earlier this month in 16 sub-districts in both provinces.
“We have planned to hold the trainings in two batches. The […]
A massive “mud volcano” which has forced thousands of people to flee their homes on the Indonesian island of Java is now threatening to sumberge a key railway line, a minister said Thursday.
A gas well near Surabaya in East Java has spewed steaming mud since May, submerging villages, industries and agricultural land and forcing 13,000 […]
Australia warned on Thursday of possible militant attacks in Indonesia over the Christmas and New Year period, mirroring a U.S. warning issued this week.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, has in recent years been hit by a series of bomb blasts blamed on Islamic militants.
“There is a credible threat of terrorist attack in Indonesia […]
Two years after the tsunami killed some 220,000 people, Indonesia’s Aceh province is on the road to peace and tourists are flocking to Thailand’s beaches.
But in Sri Lanka conflict and corruption are threatening efforts to rebuild after the disaster.
Early on December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered an […]
As the ballot counting continues from last week’s elections in Aceh, it is clear voters favored independent candidates with ties to the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), giving them a mandate to introduce needed changes to the province.
Many eligible voters said they no longer had confidence in Jakarta, which they accused of decades of unfulfilled promises.
Bahctiar, […]
The German government has provided a 20-million-euro (US$24-million) debt swap to Indonesia to support the rehabilitation of schools in Yogyakarta and Central Java that were devastated by an earthquake earlier this year.
Germany has also provided another 6 million euros in additional grants, bringing the total amount of money involved to 26 million euros, for post-tsunami […]
Filmmaker Garin Nugroho has turned to ancient Sanskrit legend and traditional Javanese culture to portray the inequality and violence that have plagued Indonesia’s emergence as an independent nation.
Nugroho has previously explored dark episodes in his country’s history — “A Poet” was set in 1965 during the massacre of hundreds of thousands of “communists” and government […]
A group of Asian nations have agreed to tackle the growing problem of climate change and are set to clamp down on vehicle emissions.
Following a meeting of 20 Asian nations meeting in Indonesia last week, the countries have established the Yogyakarta Summary, which is a non-binding document setting out their commitment to improving air quality […]