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The Express Tribune
March 25, 2018
JAKARTA: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, triggering a brief tsunami alert that was swiftly lifted, ... The quake's epicentre was located in a sparsely inhabited part of the Banda Sea, 222 kilometres northwest from Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands and 380ÃÂ ...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 25, 2018
JAKARTA: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, triggering a brief tsunami alert that was swiftly lifted, ... The quake's epicentre was located in a sparsely inhabited part of the Banda Sea, 222 kilometres northwest from Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands and 380ÃÂ ...
Vision Christian Media
March 25, 2018
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has in the Banda Sea off the coast of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands, the US Geological Survey says. The quake, which was initially reported at a magnitude of 6.5, struck early Monday and was centred 222km northwest of Saumlaki in the Tanimbar Islands, the USGS said.
Radio New Zealand
March 25, 2018
Indonesia's place in the Melanesian Spearhead Group has come under scrutiny from regional leaders and experts after allegations were made by Solomon Islands' deputy prime minister Manasseh Sogavare earlier this month that Fiji pressured other countries to accept Jakarta's bid to join the sub-regionalÃÂ ...
Channel NewsAsia
March 25, 2018
JAKARTA: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday (Mar 26), triggering a brief tsunami alert that was swiftly lifted, according to seismic monitoring organisations. The quake struck deep at some 171 kilometres (106 miles) below the earth's surface in the BandaÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
March 23, 2018
... West Papua, Indonesia, on the western half of the expansive island of New Guinea, for a cruise with SeaTrek Sailing Adventures, which runs educational and excursion-heavy 10-day trips on small, two-masted sailboats to remote Indonesian islands (all-inclusive Jewels of Raja Ampat cruise from $5,350).
The Straits Times
March 14, 2018
DENPASAR, Indonesia (AFP) - Indonesia's bustling tourist island Bali is set to go quiet with Internet service and flights temporarily halted for a "Day of Silence", while young people get ready to pucker up. Residents of the Hindu-dominated island stop regular daily activities for a day of meditation, fasting andÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
March 12, 2018
JAKARTA – Fast Retailing Co., Japan's leading casual wear chain operator, will open a Uniqlo brand shop on Sumatra Island, its first outlet outside Indonesia's most populous main island of Java. The shop will open Friday at the Sun Plaza shopping mall in Medan, in the northern part of the island, as partÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
March 1, 2018
The Raja Ampat Islands, in Indonesia's remote West Papua province, appear on the bucket list of many a diver. Some stay in the handful of low-key resorts, others reach the islands by liveaboard dive boat. Another way is by creating a bespoke tour, with itinerary and companions of your choice, and this isÃÂ ...
Colorado Springs Gazette
December 31, 1999
Animist war game ritual lives on on Indonesian Christian island – Religion News Service. By: Alexandra ... PULAU SUMBA, Indonesia (RNS) — On the island of Sumba, in central Indonesia, a ritual war game known as Pasola is celebrated annually between villages, and it draws large crowds of all ages.
WNPR News
November 26, 2017
Ash pours from Mount Agung during an eruption on Indonesia's resort ... the air around the volcano, located in the east of the Indonesian island.
NPR
November 26, 2017
Three Indonesian provinces have been officially listed as halal ... On Gili Trawangan, an islet off the coast of Indonesia's verdant Lombok island, tanned and .... of the halal gilis," the small islands that dot the Lombok coastline.
NEWS.com.au
November 26, 2017
A VOLCANO on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali sent plumes of grey ... Indonesia's volcanology centre has put out a red alert warning ...
Skymet Weather
November 25, 2017
Indonesia: More heavy rains, strong winds to batter tornado hit Java Island ... As per the weather models, Surabaya city of Java Island recorded a whopping 82 mm ... The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and ...
Irish Times
November 24, 2017
Its estimated 17,500 islands (even the government doesn't know ... the islands of Sumatra and Borneo (an island shared with Malaysia), or Javanese coffee. ... Moving to Indonesia's capital Jakarta, known to locals as the Big ... Traffic jams are known in Indonesian as macet, and macet defines your life here.
ReliefWeb
November 24, 2017
Severe weather, including heavy rain, strong winds and tornadoes, have been affecting Java island (Indonesia) over the past few days causing ...
VICE
November 24, 2017
The last time VICE's Indonesia office checked, a mere three months ago, that ... firing squads on Indonesia's prison island since Jokowi took office in 2014. ... "In the Indonesian context, every shooting is blown-up by the media ...
AccuWeather.com
November 23, 2017
Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation agency has recommended ... The volcano on the Indonesian tourist island has spewed ash and smoke ...
The Diplomat
November 22, 2017
Jokowi also hopes to better integrate Indonesian islands with global ... The naval base at Natuna Island has also been modernized and ...
The Weather Channel
November 22, 2017
Mount Agung erupted on the Indonesian island of Bali Tuesday. This is the peak's first eruption since 1963. Volcanologists said the eruption ...
Lonely Planet Travel News
November 13, 2017
Indonesia's Komodo Island is increasingly becoming one of the top tourist ... a local tourism official has called for the Indonesian government to ...
The Times
November 10, 2017
Island-hopping in Indonesia: beaches, volcanoes and Komodo dragons ... Not that I hopped all of the islands, of course — there are nearly ...
ABC News
October 25, 2017
Indonesian counterterrorism police said they arrested nine suspected ... on Islamic militants since the 2002 bombings on the tourist island of Bali killed ... militants have not made a big impact with their attacks in Indonesia, but ...
GovInsider
October 25, 2017
How does a sprawling country like Indonesia, made up of thousands and thousands of islands, combat high rates of malaria? The answer, one ...
The Straits Times
October 25, 2017
Indonesia tries to assure tourists Bali is safe as volcano rumbles ... NETWORK) - The Indonesian government is trying to convince tourists across the globe that the resort island of Bali is a safe destination despite the increased ...
Deutsche Welle
October 24, 2017
The islands of Raja Ampat are set to be Indonesia's next tourism hotspot ... Redweik-Leung said at a lookout above the Pianemo island group.
New Straits Times Online
October 18, 2017
Malaysian actor Benjy jailed for 11 years over Indonesian drug smuggling ... methamphetamine hidden in his rectum into the Indonesian island of Sumatra. ... Indonesia has some of the world's toughest anti-narcotics laws and ...
Express.co.uk
October 17, 2017
MOUNT Sinabung in Indonesia has been pictured spewing a cloud of ... On the Indonesian island of Bali, another volcano, Mount Agung, has ...
The Japan News
October 15, 2017
The Japanese government anticipates demand from island nations in the ... The Japanese and Indonesian governments are considering deploying ... Nations such as Indonesia and the Philippines have many islands that ...
BBC News
October 10, 2017
In Indonesia, where the ocean has long been the highway between the more ... But it's the big schooners, called phinisi in Indonesian, that tell the most intriguing story. ... At the time, nutmeg only grew in the Banda Islands.
CNN
September 28, 2017
On the Indonesian island of Bali, more than 144,000 people have been ... airlifted to evacuation centers on Vanuatu's Pentecost and Maewo islands. ... Journalist Mochamad Andri in Bali, Indonesia, contributed to this report.
Firstpost
September 27, 2017
Bali: The exodus from a menacing volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of ... now fled the area around Mount Agung in the northeast of the island. ... Indonesia, an archipelago of thousands of islands, is prone to seismic ...
The Independent
September 25, 2017
Indonesia's National Disaster Management Authority has raised the ... It says ferries to and from the neighbouring islands of Lombok and Java ...
Gizmodo
September 25, 2017
A 10,000-foot peak on the Indonesian island of Bali has begun ... in Indonesia created a 3-kilometer exclusion zone surrounding Agung in the ...
The Independent
September 22, 2017
Thousands of residents were evacuated from villages near an active volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali, officials said on Friday, ...
NEWS.com.au
September 20, 2017
... as an 'angel' whose death has hit her island community hard. ... midnight when it crashed in Kuta, the busiest region of the Indonesian island.
Xinhua
September 20, 2017
The tournament on the Asian Development Tour (ADT) will be played at the New Kuta Golf Club located in Indonesia's resort island of Bali fromÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
September 20, 2017
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A conservation group in Indonesia says ... and only found in the wild on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and onÃÂ ...
Mongabay.com
September 20, 2017
On the Indonesian island of Sumba, scientists unearthed the bones of tiny ... is because there are simply so many islands in Indonesia to study,ÃÂ ...
ANTARA
September 19, 2017
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia has lauded global efforts to restore ... and disasters experienced by the Caribbean Island countries due to Hurricane ... Islands on September 7-9, 2017," the Indonesian Consulate Office inÃÂ ...
Power Engineering International
September 19, 2017
Indonesia is made up of around 18,000 islands and its people account ... The topic of tackling island electrification was also addressed by KenjiÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
September 19, 2017
INDONESIAN officials have more than doubled the size of a no-go zone around the Mount Agung volcano on the tourist island of Bali.
The Sun
September 18, 2017
Jack Camilleri, a keen competitive rower from Reading, Berks, died in "an accident" in the Indonesian island over two weeks ago - but news ofÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 30, 2017
The Indonesian archipelago has more than 17,000 islands, and I wanted ... for the first time in Indonesia we could let the kids walk on their own.
Insurance Journal
March 17, 2017
The 4,200-ton cruise ship M.V. Caledonian Sky entered the waters of Radja Ampat in West Papua province on March 4 after visiting the surrounding islands for bird watching and art performances. When it started to sail to Bitung off Sumatra island, it ...
The Australian
March 17, 2017
Defence Minister Marise Payne has stopped short of committing Australia to joining Indonesia in patrols of the contested South China Sea, despite theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 17, 2017
Earlier this year baby Paichit, one of the critically endangered Sumatran elephants, was found stranded and starving in a palm oil plantation in Aceh, on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island. Paichit's father ... In that case he'd set up a ...
Traveller
March 17, 2017
If you imagine that all cruising involves megaships, pool parties and predictable port calls then you've missed one of the hottest trends in travel at the moment: the rise of small ship expeditions for the adventurous traveller.
TODAYonline
March 15, 2017
The tiny island of Pedra Branca, where Singapore administers a lighthouse, sits at the entrance to the Singapore Strait about 30 km (19 miles) east of the cityÃÂ ...
Voice of America
March 14, 2017
The relaxed, if somewhat seedy, resort island, has become a hotspot for Southeast Asian Salafis, who practice a fundamentalist form of Sunni Islam.
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