Jogja City

Indonesia’s capital faced more misery on Monday from floods that officials estimate have killed at least 20 people and displaced 340,000, as swollen rivers and canals spilled muddy water onto the city streets.
The flooding in parts of the tropical city of nine million people has been up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep, causing blackouts, […]

After running the administration from Gedung Agung presidential palace in Yogyakarta since May 27, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono returned to Jakarta on Wednesday.
The Indonesian head of state began attending to his state duties from Gedung Agung presidential palace in Yogyakarta a few hours after a deadly quake hit Yogyakarta and Central Java killing over 5,400 […]

Asia’s rapid economic expansion in the pastdecade has turned its skies into some of world’s most pollutedand is blamed for more than 500,000 premature deaths annually,delegates told a clean air conference.
Some 900 experts and government officials from 20 countriesmeeting in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta urged the region toimpose tighter regulations on emissions, boost investment […]

A year ago today, the historic heartland of Java––Yogyakarta––was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. More than 6,000 people lost their lives and another 30,000 were injured in this densely populated part of Indonesia. The whole nation, just recovering from the onslaught of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, was again in tears. The international […]

Brunei Darussalam is donating a sum of $400,000 to help rebuild infrastructure in Yogyakarta hit by an earthquake in May last year.
Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Pehin Udana Khatib Dato Paduka Seri Setia Ustaz Hj Awg Badaruddin Pengarah Dato Paduka Othman said Brunei contributed a total of $400,000 out of which $35,000 was from Yayasan […]

Scalpers are a common and exasperating sight at train stations here. You attempt to buy a ticket from the booth, slump in dejection as you are told the train is booked out, accept that you’re just not going anywhere this weekend — and then, lo and behold, here’s a nice gentleman who does have tickets […]

Two men who had been trapped in a bunker on Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano have been found dead.
The bunker where the two men had taken shelter was inadequate, vulcanologist Triyani said.
“The first person was in a singed condition because of hot steam,” regency disaster management chief Widisutikno said. The second body was intact when recovered […]

Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said here Thursday that the government had decided to stop receiving more foreign medical personnel to help the survivors of last Saturday’s earthquake which hit Yogyakarta and some parts of Central Java, the Indonesian news agency ANTARA reported.
“So far the domestic and foreign medical personnel are already adequate, because the […]

Australia-based Indo Mines Limited will go ahead with plans to build a US$600 million pig iron plant in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, having secured the government’s approval for a 30-year contract of work for the operation, an official says.
Simon Sembiring, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry’s director general for geology and mineral resources, said Monday the […]

The Republic of Korea has donated cement worth US$1 million (US$1=RM3.67) for victims of the earthquake that rocked Yogyakarta and Central Java last May 27, a South Korean official said.
The assistance was part of the Republic of Korea’s contribution to a rehabilitation and reconstruction project in Yogyakarta and Klaten, the worst affected area in Central […]