Indonesia

Rally at the Indonesaian Supreme Court

On 12th of march, it is the anniversary of the Trisakati tragedy back in 1998. thousands of university students flocked to the street and surrounded the supreme court yesterday.They urged the institution to fully investigate the shooting tragedy of four students during the early reform movement in 1998. Student’s president of Trisakti University, Ilham Basari […]

May 13th, 2008 - Posted in Indonesia News

International flights to resume to Indonesia’s Yogyakarta

International flights are set to resume to and from the Indonesian ancient cultural city of Yogyakarta as Southeast Asia’s largest economy seeks to boost tourism, an official said Friday.
The head of Yogyakarta’s tourism office, Tazbir, said that flights from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur would be served by Malaysian Airlines and Air Asia, with […]

January 6th, 2008 - Posted in Art and Culture, Indonesia News, Travel and Shoping, Yogyakarta

Indonesia losing crops, fish stocks to global warming

Indonesia is losing tonnes of crop production each year and its fish stock is dwindling as a result of global warming, a UN report said on Tuesday, putting the greatest pressure on the nation’s poor.
Millions of poor Indonesians will suffer loss of livelihoods, undermining the government’s efforts to fight poverty, the report by the United […]

November 27th, 2007 - Posted in Yogyakarta

Indo Mines to invest $600 million in Yogyakarta for pig iron plant

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 […]

November 20th, 2007 - Posted in Indonesia News, Yogyakarta