Yogyakarta-based journalists who survived the powerful May 27, 2006, earthquake have received equipment distributed by the local branch of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI).
Chairman of AJI Yogyakarta, Bambang Muryanto, said Monday that 42 journalists received donations of MP4 players, digital cameras and computers.
“In total we distributed 20 computers, 12 MP4 players and eight digital […]
Indonesia’s economy expanded 5.68% in 2005, which was revised from the preliminary figure of 5.60%.
“Natural disasters in 2006, such as the Yogyakarta earthquake (in May) and floods in some rice-producing areas (in the fourth quarter) took away some growth potential,” agency chairman Rusman Heriawan told reporters at a media briefing.
Heriawan said Indonesia recorded growth in […]
Indonesia grounded seven Boeing 737-300s operated by budget airline Adam Air after the fuselage of one plane cracked during a hard landing, forcing a temporary airport closure, officials said Thursday.
The incident came weeks after an Adam Air plane plunged into the sea halfway through a two-hour flight, killing all 102 people aboard. The cause […]
Indonesia’s vice president has urged the country to create a national development bank to provide long-term financing for state projects, a minister said Monday.
Sugiharto, Indonesia’s Minister for State Enterprises, told reporters that Vice President Jusuf Kalla had said a national development bank could provide multi-year financing for infrastructure projects more effectively than foreign lenders.
“The vice […]
The first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years is on his way “home” to Indonesia to help save the species from extinction.
Andalas is expected to arrive Tuesday from the Los Angeles Zoo and will then be transported by road to a rhino sanctuary in the Way Kambas National Park on […]
United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF) representative for Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces of Indonesia, I Made Sutama, said the organization was raising USD 3.5 million worth of fund to help Indonesia preclude the spread of bird flu virus on Wednesday.
“The UNICEF at present is negotiating with donor countries to collect fund for Indonesian government […]
Even after more than 60 years, the defiance remained as Jan Ruff O’Herne described her refusal to submit to the Japanese soldiers who repeatedly raped her as a young woman in Indonesia.
She told U.S. lawmakers how she shaved her head to make herself unattractive. How she hid, one time even in a tree. How she […]
The envoy who brokered the peace deal that ended the long-running war in Indonesia’s Aceh province called Friday on Aceh’s new leaders to quickly carry out reforms.
Martti Ahtisaari, a former Finnish president, negotiated an end to one of history’s longest wars by bringing together the Indonesian government and rebels from the Free Aceh Movement in […]
Indonesia’s AIDS epidemic is among the fastest growing in Asia, especially among intravenous drug users and commercial sex workers, and half of new infections have been found in the easternmost Papua province, the World Health Organization said.
“Indonesia is facing a huge threat,” Bjorn Melgaard, WHO’s senior health consultant, said Saturday after an independent review team […]
No Malaysian students were affected by a whirlwind which struck Yogyakarta, Sunday afternoon or the strong winds and heavy downpour that are still lashing the city, once the ancient royal capital of Indonesia.
Malaysia’s Ambassador to Indonesia Datuk Zainal Abidin Mohamed Zain said none of the 385 Malaysian medical, dentistry and pharmaceutical students studying at Gadjah […]
East Kalimantan Police invite ethnic Chinese to take part in a selection for candidates of police officers.
Provincial police chief Ins. Gen. Indarto said Saturday that all Indonesians, including ethnic Chinese, have equal rights to become police officers.
“We have ethnic Chinese dentist in East Kalimantan Police headquarters…, But so far there is no ethnic Chinese applies, […]
The Chinese-Indonesian community in Yogyakarta celebrated Sunday’s Chinese Lunar New Year in style, holding a Chinese cultural week on Jl. Ketandan, near the southern end of the Malioboro strip.
The 500-meter-long, four-meter-wide road has been decorated with various festive accessories, including the ubiquitous and essential red paper lanterns. At the end of the road a banner […]