|
|
Welcome to blog.indahnesia.com, the place where you will find all kinds of things related to Indonesia in one way or another. Currently we have 16,189 entries on this blog available for you. Please log in first to react on blog entries. The items earlier published on story.indahnesia.com have been moved here as well, you can find them in the blog's archive.
 To receive an email when a new blog entry is made on blog.indahnesia.com, simply login first and go to your 'Settings' page to change your settings.
|
|
To submit an article for placement on the blog yourself, simply login first and then go to the 'Submit article' page to fill in the form there.
|
|
|
|
Indonesia will declare bird flu a national disaster, giving the government access to special funds to combat the disease that has killed 63 people nationwide, the planning minister said Wednesday. "It has become an epidemic," Paskah Suzetta told reporters in the capital, where authorities were preparing for the compulsory slaughter of thousands of backyard chickens as part of high profile efforts to fight the H5N1 virus.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia will ask technological support from Japan, the United States and France to lift black boxes of the missing Adam Air plane from the sea floor in Majene water, Sulawesi, local press said Monday. Local authorities said the government had no equipment to pick up the cabin voice recorders from the sea bed at a depth of 1,700 meters, reported major national newspaper The Jakarta Post's website.
|
|
|
|
|
Rising sea levels because of global warming stand to inundate around 2,000 islands in Indonesia by 2030, the country's environment minister said Monday. The assessment by Rachmat Witoelar was the government's bleakest yet of the effects of global warming on the Southeast Asian nation that is made up of some 18,000 islands, most of them unpopulated.
|
|
|
|
|
Renewed trouble in Indonesia's central Sulawesi island, long the site of deadly Christian-Muslim rivalry, underscores how communal tensions may help reinvigorate the country's militant Islamic movement.
|
|
|
|
|
The Indonesian government will begin enforcing a nearly 20-year-old regulation requiring airplane passengers to show an ID during check-in at airline counters. "Airlines must implement the policy, stipulated in a 1989 Transportation Ministry decree, by March 31 or face sanctions," Air Transportation Director General M. Ikhsan Tatang said Saturday during a discussion at the ministry.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia has called on the military to help fight bird flu, a day after a young girl became the country's sixth victim this month. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the military chief to deploy soldiers to help fight the disease, Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi told reporters. "He called on governors, regents, mayors to be more active in leading efforts to fight bird flu in affected areas," Silalahi said after ministers held talks with Yudhoyono.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia decided to continue pursuing fugitive Muslim militants in troubled Poso of Central Sulawesi, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Thursday. "The president said the operation to enforce law and to pursue the wanted militants was continuously conducted," Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Widodo Adi Sucipto told a press conference after a security meeting led by president Susilo at the State Palace.
|
|
|
|
|
A controversial new movie about the 2002 Bali bombings premieres in Indonesia Thursday. More than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists, died in the bombing of a nightclub by Muslim extremist group Jemaa Islamiya. The Long Road to Heaven goes where Indonesia's timid media have feared to tread, examining the role of religion in the attacks.
|
|
|
|
|
The USNS Mary Sears` Towed Ping Locater (TPL) was on Wednesday reported to have detected the black box of the missing Adam Air jetliner in waters off the coast of West Sulawesi provinceThe black box was first detected on Tuesday at 8 a.m. local time in waters off the coast of West Sulawesi`s Majene district, at the coordinate points of 03 41 02 southern latitude and 118 08 53 eastern longitude.
|
|
|
|
|
An passenger plane broke its front wheel while landing after aborting a flight Thursday, an airport spokesman said, in the latest of string of aviation incidents here. All 18 passengers and three crew were unhurt after the accident, involving a Dirgantara Air Services Casa-212 plane at Hasanuddin airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi.
|
|
|
|
|
The killings of 15 alleged Islamic militants by police on conflict-ridden Sulawesi island this week risk inflaming Indonesia's terrorist movements and should be independently investigated, a think tank said. The police defended the raid, denying allegations in local media that three of those killed were innocent bystanders and insisting that officers opened fire after they came under attack by well-armed militants.
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama fought back against an allegation that he was educated at a radical Islamic school as a child in Indonesia, determined to avoid being tripped up by unsubstantiated charges like those that undermined Sen. John Kerry in 2004. Interviews by The Associated Press at the elementary school in Jakarta found that it is a public and secular institution that has been open to students of all faiths since before the White House contender attended in the late 1960s.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia terminated the way to borrow funds from international organizations through the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) forum, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saidWednesday. The president told reporters that the decision was made to prevent dictation from the forum.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia has announced a ban on land sand exports. Land sand is used in the construction industry to produce cement. Singapore says it is disappointed but it believes the ban is unlikely to have a significant impact on the construction industry. Indonesia says the ban on the export of sand is due to environmental reasons and to protect Indonesia's borders.
|
|
|
|
|
Avian influenza is now endemic in Indonesia because of past delays in dealing with H5N1 bird flu, with the virus now well established and a major concern in SouthEast Asia, says an Australian veterinary scientist. But Laurence Gleeson, a regional manager with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and other UN officials, were positive over steps taken to control bird flu in SouthEast Asia when speaking to reporters today.
|
|
|
|
|
A mud volcano that inundated dozens of villages was probably triggered by commercial gas drilling, research published in a respected scientific journal shows, contradicting an Indonesian Government Minister who insists it was a natural disaster. ``It is very likely'' that the mud flow in Sidoarjo, eastern Java, which has spewed a million barrels of mud a day for eight months, is manmade, four researchers say in the February issue of Geological Society of American's GSA Today.
|
|
|
|
|
Some schools were closed in Indonesia's troubled Poso region on Tuesday a day after 12 people were killed in a clash between police and suspected Islamic militants, but there was no more violence, officials said. One policeman was among those killed in the clashes after a raid on a militant hideout.
|
|
|
|
|
Adam Air Monday promised to give 500 million rupiah (42.500 euro) compensation to each passenger of its plane, which has disappeared since Jan. 1 when it was on its way from East Java's capital of Surabaya to North Sulawesi's capital of Manado. The plane has disappeared together with its 92 passengers and 10 crew members.
|
|
|
|
|
A dispute erupted Monday between Indonesia and Total, the French oil group, after Jakarta said it would seek to renegotiate the terms of its contract for the Mahakam oil and gas block off the coast of Borneo. Total immediately said it saw no reason to change anything. The war of words began as Thierry Desmarest, Total's chief executive, announced an extra $6bn of investment in the block over the next five years after meeting Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian president, during a visit to Jakarta.
|
|
|
|
|
Nine militants and one policeman were killed in a gunbattle when Indonesian police trying to capture wanted-militants allegedly played leading role in the communal clash years ago in Poso of Central Sulawesi province of Indonesia, provincial police chief Badrodin Haiti said.
|
|
|
|
|
Police raided a suspected Islamic militant stronghold in central Indonesia on Monday, touching off a gunbattle that killed an officer and two civilians, police said. The clash took place in Poso town on Sulawesi Island, the scene of bloody fighting between Muslim and Christian gangs six years ago and sporadic bombings and shootings by Islamic extremists since then.
|
|
|
|
|
One child was killed and five people were injured in a violent earthquake that rocked north Sulawesi Island in Indonesia Sunday night. The epicenter was in the Molucca Sea at 1927 (1127 GMT), some 160km (100 miles) south-east of the city of Manado. The earthquake, which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale, was centered some 51km under the seabed, the Indonesian Antara news agency reported here Monday.
|
|
|
|
|
200701201.
|
|
|
|
|
A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.3 shook buildings in this provincial capital in Indonesia's northern Sulawesi island on Sunday and sent residents fleeing from their homes, a Reuters eyewitness said. "You could feel shaking up and down and to the left and right," he said. "People panicked and ran out of their homes. They are still outside their homes," he said about 30 minutes after the quake struck in the Molucca Sea about 165 km (100 miles) to the east of Manado near the northern tip of Sulawesi.
|
|
|
|
|
7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday about 30 miles under the Molucca Sea in northeastern Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the major quake was about 80 miles from the city of Ternate, in north eastern Indonesia, it said. It had a depth of more than six miles below the ocean floor.
|
|
|
|
|
ensions remained high in Indonesia’s volatile region of Poso Saturday, January 20, after a key Islamic militant admitted to taking part in the killing of three Christian high school girls there in 2005. He reportedly also confessed to shooting the Rev. Susianty Tinulele to death in Palu in 2004.
|
|
|
|
|
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale occurred in the waters of Taliwang, West Sumba district, West Nusa Tenggra, at 10:10 a.m. (0310 GMT) on Saturday. "The earthquake took place under the sea water, some 291 km to the south east of Taliwang," Fausi of the Meteorological and Geophysics office said here on Saturday.
|
|
|
|
|
Massive flooding in Malaysia and Indonesia, the world's top two exporters of tropical timber, has forced timber prices up sharply, according to a new industry report. "The incessant rainfall and widespread flooding drove prices for Malaysian timber products sharply up," the International Tropical Timber Organisation was quoted by AFP as saying in its latest newsletter.
|
|
|
|
|
Efforts to find the wreckage of Indonesia's Adam Air plane that went missing during a flight from Java to North Sulawesi Jan.1 had not yielded any positive results, said Antara News Agency on Sunday.
|
|
|
|
|
A minor tectonic earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale shook Yogyakarta at 5.56 a.m. on Saturday. Traumatized by last year`s quake which killed thousands of people in the province, residents living near the epicenter were made panicked. Tiar Prasetyo of the Meteorological and Geophysics (BMG) said that the epicenter of the quake was located at 8.0 south latitude and 110.5 east longitude at a depth of 10 km.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia, the world's second largest palm oil grower, may curb unprocessed exports of the commodity to encourage the development of local refining, an official at the Trade Ministry said. Curbing overseas sales of crude palm oil (CPO) is among the options that will be discussed at a meeting on January 22, Agus Tjahyono, agricultural exports director, said in an interview yesterday. "There are lots of options besides taxes to discourage exports," Tjahyono said. "We can impose regulations."
|
|
|
|
|
Bird flu has killed a woman in Indonesia, the 62nd death from the virus in the country with the highest human fatality rate, a health ministry official said on Saturday. The 19-year-old woman from West Java died on Friday, Dr. Muhammad Nadirin at the ministry's bird flu centre, told Reuters. "She was sick since Jan. 11, got a high temperature and cough and then entered Garut hospital on Jan. 17," he said.
|
|
|
|
|
Malaysian police have detained five Indonesian men believed to have been trying to smuggle in 90 blocks of marijuana worth 180,000 ringgit (39.100 euro), a news report said Friday. Police from the central Selangor state discovered the drugs hidden in a car driven by one of the suspects late Wednesday, said head of narcotics Abdul Jalil Hassan.
|
|
|
|
|
Sangihe district in North Sulawesi province needs Rp 129.5 billion (11.0 million Euro) in funds to rehabilitate a number of facilities damaged in last Thursday`s landslides and flash floods. The head of Sangihe district, Winuslangi Salindeho, told ANTARA News, the rehabilitation will be carried out through urgent, short-term and middle-term programs. The urgent program itself will cost around Rp 29.5 billion (2.5 million Euro), he said.
|
|
|
|
|
Giant multinational coffee-shop chain Starbucks denied a World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) allegation Thursday that it purchased illegally-planted coffee in Lampung province, while Switzerland-based food producer Nestle said it regretted buying the beans. Ratih Gianda, head of investor relations for PT Mitra Adi Perkasa, Starbucks' Indonesian partner, said in a written statement sent to The Jakarta Post that the WWF report alleging that Starbucks had bought illegally-planted coffee from the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in southern Sumatra was inaccurate.
|
|
|
|
|
A moderate earthquake shook parts of Indonesia's central Java island on Friday, although there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, a meteorologist said. The magnitude 5.7 quake struck south of Java at 9.44 a.m. (0244 GMT) at a depth of 33 km, an official at Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said by telephone.
|
|
|
|
|
In a bid to stem a surge in human deaths from the H5N1 virus (bird flu), the Indonesian government will slaughter hundreds of thousands of backyard chickens over the next week, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said here Wednesday. This is a new and concrete measure taken by the Indonesian government in facing with a critical situation since several bird flu patents died recently. But the policy has met with different reaction and opposition from owners of fowls.
|
|
|
|
|
Fears of strengthening monsoons in Asia could spell trouble for parts of Australia and Indonesia which will see longer and more frequent droughts in the future, according to a study published in Nature on Thursday. By examining the chemical makeup of corals off Indonesia's Sumatra island, researchers found that stronger monsoons in Asia 6,500 years ago led to greater ocean cooling in the eastern Indian Ocean, which reduced evaporation and, in turn increased the droughts in Indonesia and Australia.
|
|
|
|
|
Search teams have located 10 more bodies from an Indonesian ferry that sank in rough seas off Java Island late last month, but more than 300 people remained unaccounted for, a rescue official said Wednesday. Lieutenant Priyono, an official at the National Search and Rescue Agency in Surabaya, capital of East Java province, told DPA that the evacuation process for the bodies spotted is still underway by two Indonesian Navy ships.
|
|
|
|
|
Budget carrier Adam Air said it plans to replace its fleet of Boeing 737s with Airbus 320s from next year. Adam Air sales director Gugi Pringwa Saputra said the additional aircraft would enable the company to open new routes. 'We will operate 40 Airbus planes in stages starting in 2008 to meet the demand of passengers for a more convenient and comfortable flight,' Saputra told reporters.
|
|
|
|
|
As the tropical monsoon clouds roll in, obscuring the towering volcanos along the Bali coastline, the pristine neighboring island of Lombok seems a world away from Indonesia's premier tourist destination. In fact, it almost is.
|
|
|
|
|
A moderate earthquake rocked parts of Papua province on Wednesday but there were no reports of any damage. The 5.9 magnitude quake hit 140 kilometers southwest of Jayapura, the provincial capital, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia readied more hospitals to deal with a spike in bird flu cases while Japan confirmed its first outbreak of H5N1 in poultry in three years on Tuesday as the virus flared anew in Asia, mirroring past winters. Concern about the disease have rippled across the region, with an Indonesian hospital overwhelmed by human cases this week, and the virus spreading among flocks in Vietnam and flaring again in Thailand.
|
|
|
|
|
A landslide triggered by heavy rains struck a remote island in north-east Indonesia, killing at least 28 people and displacing more than 3,000 others in three villages, an official said yesterday. The floods hit Tahuna, district capital of the Sangihe islands, about 250km north of the North Sulawesi provincial capital Manado, at about 2am last Friday.
|
|
|
|
|
Illegal coffee bean growing in an Indonesian wildlife park could wipe out already endangered local tigers, elephants and rhinos within 10 years, the WWF conservation group warned on Wednesday. The coffee growers are clearing vegetation in Bukit Barisan Selatan park, a World Heritage Site on the southern tip of Sumatra Island, to make room for the crop which brings much needed export revenue to the impoverished region.
|
|
|
|
|
Four years ago, young pilots lined up to join a new contender in Indonesia's booming aviation industry. But at least 20 left Adam Air within months, citing concerns that poor maintenance, corruption and rule-bending could lead to a crash - charges the airline denied. "I didn't want to wait until I had lost my friends," said Feisal Banser, 30, a former Adam Air flight captain who knew several crew members on a passenger jet that crashed Jan. 1 with 102 people on board.
|
|
|
|
|
A jetliner with 102 people onboard probably went into a spiral at cruising altitude and plunged into the sea, a top transport safety official said Tuesday, deeming a mid-flight explosion unlikely. Setyo Rahardjo, chief of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the chance is small the Boeing 737 blew up because search and rescue teams have not found burnt wreckage or human remains since New Year's Day, when the Adam Air plane went missing.
|
|
|
|
|
A crowded car of an Indonesian passenger train derailed and plunged into a dry river bed early Tuesday morning, killing five people and leaving dozens of others with mostly minor injuries, police said. A 3-year-old child was among those who died in the accident near the Central Javanese town of Purokerto, said police Sgt. Sunaryro.
|
|
|
|
|
With four deaths from bird flu in Indonesia since New Year's Day, the government announced that faster diagnostic kits would only be available in March. "We are expecting that this diagnostic kit will be able to detect symptoms in patients before they suffer heavy breathing," Indonesia's Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari was quoted as saying by Detik.com on Sunday. "The government will also increase the training for health officers on diagnosing and handling bird flu cases," she added.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesian rescue workers scouring the seas for a commercial airliner that went missing two weeks ago have found a fuel spill believed to be from the doomed jet, an official said on Monday. Small pieces of the Adam Air Boeing 737-400 that vanished from radar screens on New Year's Day with 102 people aboard have been found in the past few days floating in the sea or washed up on beaches off the west coast of Sulawesi island.
|
|
|
|
|
Well into what should be the rainy season, Jakarta is suffering through record-high temperatures, and experts warn residents they can expect more of the same.The Meteorological and Geophysics Agency says Jakarta has recently seen temperatures as high as 36 degrees Celsius. Normally, the temperature in the city stays below 32 degrees in January. R
|
|
|
|
|
Four explosions shocked Poso on Friday night, causing fear to local people, Elshinta radio station reported on Saturday. The radio station quoted a senior police officer in Poso that the explosions were meant to terrorize local people.
|
|
|
|
|
Two more Indonesian women have died from bird flu, a health official said Saturday, pushing the toll this week to four in the latest cases to strike the country worst hit by the virus. One of the women died late Friday while the 22-year-old died early Saturday, said Nyoman Kandun, the Ministry of Health‘s director general of communicable disease control. Both had been treated in the same hospital in Jakarta, the capital.
|
|
|
|
|
Soldiers hunted on beaches and in the sea on Saturday for the black box from an Indonesian jetliner that crashed with 102 people aboard, but ocean depths of more than 1 1/2 kilometers (0.93 miles) were hampering the search. Experts said authorities had to find the box -- also know as a flight data recorder -- or significant pieces of wreckage such as the engines, cockpit and wings to determine what caused the Boeing 737 to crash.
|
|
|
|
|
The Indonesian haj probe team said Saturday it had collected information from various sources in Saudi Arabia and got a hint of the cause of the haj food supply shortage recently.
|
|
|
|
|
A landslide and floodwaters triggered by heavy rains barrelled into a village in northeastern Indonesia on Friday, killing 11 people and leaving more than 20 others missing, officials said. At least 64 houses and two churches were either swept away, buried or badly damaged on remote Sangihe Island, said Johannes Mongkaren, a local government disaster relief official.
|
|
|
|
|
The number of people suspected of being infected with the bird flu virus increased Thursday as Jakarta's Friendship hospital admitted two patients suspected of carrying deadly strain. Authorities said the patients are the husband and child of a 37-year-old woman who had been positively identified as being infected with bird flu virus on January 9.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesian police shot dead what they called a senior member of the regional militant group Jemaah Islamiah on Thursday on Sulawesi island, the same day a mob killed a policeman at a funeral for another militant. National Police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam said the militant, named as Riyan and also known as Abdul Hakim, died in a raid in Maengkol Poso in Central Sulawesi.
|
|
|
|
|
A fisherman found a piece of a Boeing 737 that disappeared more than 10 days ago, the first hard evidence that the plane carrying 102 people had crashed into the sea off Sulawesi, a top search official said Thursday. The piece of tail from Adam Air Flight KI-574 was recovered Wednesday in the Makassar Strait, 185 miles off Sulawesi Island's coast, said Eddy Suyanto, the head of search and rescue operations.
|
|
|
|
|
An International Forum for Islamic Parliaments (IFIP) meeting attending by Moslem members of parliament from 28 countries will be held in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, on January 18 to 21. A declaration on peaceful reform for a better future would be issued by the participants at the final session of the meeting, Antara news agency quoted steering committee chairman Irwan Prayitno as saying here on Tuesday.
|
|
|
|
|
The European Union and Indonesia, home to most of the world's orangutans, have agreed to negotiate a pact aimed at helping stop illegal logging which is threatening their habitat, the EU said on Tuesday. The voluntary accord, once complete, will provide assurance that Indonesian forest products imported to the EU are verified as legal. The EU is the third largest market for Indonesian timber after China and the United States.
|
|
|
|
|
A jet plane from Canada arrived at Hasanuddin airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on Tuesday, to participate in the search for an Adam Air jetliner that went missing while flying from Java to Manado, North Sulawesi, last week, with 102 people on board. The air base`s spokesman, Captain Mulyadi, confirmed a King Air-200 with call sign N-857 from Canada had arrived here with three crew members.
|
|
|
|
|
A U.S. navy ship is set to join on Tuesday the search for an Indonesian airliner with 102 people on board missing for the past eight days, with the hunt focusing on a large metal object detected deep on the sea bed. The object was discovered on Monday by Indonesian ships with sonar technology about 1,000 metres (1,150 yards) under the ocean north of Mamuju in West Sulawesi province.
|
|
|
|
|
A four-year-old boy was killed and 12 people buried in a landslide in Indonesia's West Sumatra province that hit several homes and a small mosque, media reports said Tuesday. The landslide took place Monday in Sungai Sariak, a village on Sumatra island, following several days of heavy rain, the state-run Antara news agency reported.
|
|
|
|
|
A 37-year-old woman has tested positive for bird flu in Indonesia and is being treated in a hospital on the outskirts of the capital, a Health Ministry official said on Tuesday. The case comes after a 14-year-old boy tested positive for bird flu at the weekend, the country's first new infection in almost two months.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesian haj pilgrims need an integrated lodging complex or Indonesian Town in Mecca to give better services to them, Indonesian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Salim Segaf Al Jufri has said. The Indonesian ambassador made the reamrk in a press release available at the Religious Affairs Ministry`s Haj Media Centre here Sunday.
|
|
|
|
|
A total of 431 Indonesian Hajj pilgrims died in the Holy Land until late Monday (Jan 8) at 10 p.m. Saudi time, according to information from the Hajj Media Center of the Indonesian Religious Affairs Ministry on Tuesday. Up to Sunday (Jan 7), about 404,569 Hajj pilgrims from various countries left Saudi Arabia via the Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah and the Prince Mohammad bin Abdul Aziz Airport in Madina.
|
|
|
|
|
Jakarta's main stock index is set for further heady gains this year, supported by improving economic conditions, firm commodity prices and subdued inflation which should give corporate earnings a boost, encouraging fresh capital into the sharemarket, analysts said. They are picking a gain of between 16-43 pct, after last year's 55 pct surge, which saw the composite index repeatedly setting new records to finish 2006 at an all-time high of 1,805.522 points.
|
|
|
|
|
A cargo ship rescued 14 survivors of a ferry sinking some 500 kilometers from where the craft went down in Indonesia more than a week ago. The BBC reported Monday that the survivors were spotted in a raft off Java nine days after the ferry with 600 people aboard foundered. Officials said they survived on emergency rations and rainwater; however they were described as weak and dehydrated.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia and Exxon Mobil Corp. played down a deadline on Monday for the expiration of a contract to operate the Natuna D-Alpha gas block, although an official at oil watchdog BPMIGAS said the two sides remained far apart. Indonesia says it has terminated the contract, while Exxon Mobil has said its Natuna contract remains valid until January 2009 and still plans to develop the field.
|
|
|
|
|
As many as 700 personnel from the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Police were sent to Rantepau (South Sulawesi) and Mamuju in (West Sulawesi) to help search for the Adam Air`s missing plane. The armed personnel were seen off by the coordinator of the SAR Mission (an intergrated SAR team) Air Commodore Eddy Suyanto from the Hasanuddin airbase in South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar on Sunday.
|
|
|
|
|
As an immense search for Indonesia's missing passenger plane intensified on Sunday, records show that a string of aircraft have never been found in the archipelago nation after disappearing. The Adam Air plane with 102 passengers and crew vanished off radar screens on January 1, halfway through a flight from Surabaya on Java island to Manado on the northeast tip of Sulawesi island.
|
|
|
|
|
While the mudflow in Renokenongo village, Porong, Sidoarjo, could still not be stopped, a fresh mudflow burst has been detected in Kedung Cangkring village, Jabon subdistrict in Sidoarjo, East Java, Sunday. The new mudflow was strongly assumed to contain gas according to the result of a test conducted by Lapindo Brantas Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
During his Japan visit in November 2006, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gave indications about Indonesia’s willingness to extend its gas contract that’ll expire in 2011 with Japan. "We’re expectant that Indonesia will make a decision about extending its contract for supplying LNG ( Liquefied Natural Gas ) to Japan", said Satoru Satoh - Japanese Deputy Ambassador to Indonesia on December 14, 2006.
|
|
|
|
|
It was a fairly normal beginning of the new year, for as far the first day of the year can be a normal one. The sun was shining here and the weather looked good for the day. Maybe a little bit strange, since we are in the middle of the wet season here so in fact we have to expect a lot of rain almost every single day now. The weather is slightly strange since there is really bad weather of the Java Sea. From Southern Sumatra until as far east at the Moluccan Spice Islands the weather is bad; very high waves, strong winds and a lot of rain are pounding the area. At first you think that that is not a big deal there out at sea, at least there will be no victims in flash floods, landslides and other misery that comes with the wet season in Indonesia.
|
|
|
|
|
The Indonesian government is making efforts by setting up PT. Pangan Energi Nusantara (PEN) to enable the country to become self-sufficient in food, especially in rice, as well as to empower its farmers' economy. "The plan is based on a strong will to improve the country's food resilience by empowering the farmers' economy," Antara news agency quoted State Enterprises Minister Sugiarto as saying on Saturday.
|
|
|
|
|
A 14-year-old boy tested positive for bird flu in Indonesia, marking the country's first case in almost two months and its 75th overall, a Health Ministry official said. The boy is being treated at Persahabatan Hospital in Jakarta after showing flu-like symptoms on Jan. 1, Muhammad Nadirin, an official at the Health Ministry's avian flu information center, said in a telephone interview today.
|
|
|
|
|
After five days of searching, there's still no still no trace of an Indonesian jetliner missing with 102 people aboard. American experts arrived on Indonesia's Sulawesi island earlier today to help investigate the apparent crash of budget carrier Adam Air. The Boeing 737 vanished after battling fierce winds and storms.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesian state electricity firm PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) cut its losses by over three quarters in 2006, the Jakarta Post newspaper reported on Friday. PLN’s chief commissioner Alhilal Hamdi said the start of operations at new power plants in Cilegon, Tanjung Jati and Cilacap helped the company reduce losses to 1.08 trillion ($120.1 million) from 4.92 trillion a year ago, the paper said.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia Saturday denied there has been discrimination in the rescue efforts pertaining to two transport mishaps in the republic recently. Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said the authorities had worked hard to search for and rescue passengers of a ferry, KN Senopati Nusantara, that sank in Central Java waters and an Adam Air aircraft that went missing in the air space over the Sulawesi islands.
|
|
|
|
|
The Indonesian attorney-general's office plans to file a civil lawsuit against former president Suharto by the end of this month, the Jakarta Post reported on Saturday.
The Jakarta Post quoted Attorney-General Abdul Rahman Saleh as saying his office was still calculating how much money it aimed to seize from Suharto. "I don't know the exact amount. One thing for sure, it's a lot of money," he said.
|
|
|
|
|
A jetliner with 102 people aboard that disappeared after encountering 80 mph winds over northern Indonesian waters twice changed course, an official said, as authorities widened the search Friday for the Boeing 737. A U.S. National Transportation Safety Board team arrived to help investigate the apparent crash of Adam Air Flight KI-574, which disappeared from the radar Monday near the Sulawesi coastal town of Majene without issuing a mayday.
|
|
|
|
|
The captain of an Indonesian passenger ferry that capsized off the northern coast of Java last week, leaving hundreds missing, was one of 13 people rescued from an unmanned oil rig, officials said Thursday. A group of 15 other survivors who also were found Wednesday clinging to a reef near Kangean Island, off the coast of East Java province, were transported Thursday afternoon by the Indonesian Navy to Surabaya, the provincial capital.
|
|
|
|
|
The United States will assist the search for an Adam Air Boeing 737-400 plane which went missing in West Sulawesi waters on Monday afternoon through satellite imaging devices placed around the assumed crash site. "They will assist through satellite imaging," Commander of the Indonesian Defence Force (TNI) Marshal Djoko Suyanto said when ANTARA News asked for a confirmation here Thursday.
|
|
|
|
|
Adam Air Flight KI-574 took off on New Year's Day with 102 people. An hour into what should have been a short hop between islands, the pilot reported heavy winds. Then the plane vanished, sparking a massive search. Thousands of soldiers battled rugged jungle terrain, a fleet of aircraft took to the skies and ships scoured the sea for a third day Thursday, spanning a 28,000-square-mile area - roughly the size of Ireland, or the U.S. state of California. But by nightfall they had found no trace of the Boeing 737.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia’s Director General of Mining said the government is hoping Parliament will approve a new mining law in March forcing companies to process ore within Indonesia instead of exporting it to foreign smelters. Director General Simon Sembiring said the new law aims to ensure that "mining ore must be processed into metal in Indonesia" but that it will allow existing mine operations a period of transition.
|
|
|
|
|
Bank Indonesia predicts the country`s economy will grow between 5.7 and 6.3 percent this year while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts it will grow by six percent.
"The central bank`s board of governors predicts Indonesia`s economy will grow even higher and macro-economic stability would be maintained," BI governor Burhanuddin Abdullah said here on Thursday.
|
|
|
|
|
It's been four days since budget carrier Adam Air's Flight 574 disappeared over the Indonesian archipelago, and despite a search and rescue effort involving ships, planes and ground patrols, authorities are no closer to finding the wreckage or any possible survivors. The Boeing 737-400, which took off from Indonesia's main island of Java en route to the popular diving destination of Manado with 102 people on board, emitted a signal from its emergency beacon over the mountainous island of Sulawesi before dropping out of sight on New Year's Day.
|
|
|
|
|
Almost two week after the 7.1 Richter Scale earthquake in the Taiwan peninsula that has disrupted internet access across Asia, Internet access in Indonesia has almost recovered to normal. Some Internet service providers as well as cellular operators claim their Internet access has gone backed to normal starting end of December.
|
|
|
|
|
The proliferation of budget airlines across Asia has made air travel affordable for millions, but this week's aircraft disaster in Indonesia has underlined the challenge for governments to ensure safety standards are met. Analysts say there is no hard evidence that budget airlines are more accident-prone than full-service carriers, but admit they have a harder job convincing the public they are not cutting corners as well as costs.
|
|
|
|
|
The number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia between January and November 2006 dropped by 4.60 percent compared to that in the same period of the previous year, head of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Rusman Heriawan said. Foreign tourists visiting Indonesia through 13 gates between January and November, 2006, numbered 3,59 million or decreased by 4.60 percent compared to 3.76 million in 2005, Rusman said here Tuesday.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia has asked for foreign help in finding a missing passenger jet as anger grows over inaccurate official statements that the plane's wreckage was found. Military officials say Singapore and the United States have been asked to assist in the search effort. Rescue teams are conducting searches by air and sea, scouring waters off the coast of northern Sulawesi Island as well as its dense tropical forests. Bad weather is complicating the process.
|
|
|
|
|
A 6-year-old boy and 11 men who were on an Indonesian ferry that sank last week with more than 600 others aboard were rescued Wednesday from an offshore oil rig, navy officers said. The survivors, who were weak after spending more than four days in the Java Sea, were picked up some 120 miles from where the ferry sank after drifting in heavy waves, said Navy spokesman Lt. Col. Tony Syaiful.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia's inflation rate in 2006 plunged to 6.60 per cent from 17.11 per cent a year earlier, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said. Inflation in December 2006 reached 1.21 per cent with the food stuff group contributing the highest inflation data of 3.12 per cent to the monthly figure, BPS chief Rusman Heriawan said here Tuesday.
|
|
|
|
|
Furious media accused authorities Wednesday of lying after officials erroneously reported that rescuers had found wreckage and survivors from a missing airliner carrying 102 people. "The people have been lied to," said the Pikiran Umum daily, as search and rescue teams hunted for the plane which vanished off radar screens Monday en route from central Java island to the island of Sulawesi.
|
|
|
|
|
An Indonesian Air Force surveillance plane used to search for the Adam Air Boeing 737-400 plane believed to have gone missing in West Sulawesi made an emergency landing at the Balikpapan air base in East Kalimantan on Wednesday due to bad weather. "After it took off at around 06.00 am central Indonesian time and did a search (for the missing aircraft), the plane stopped its flight due to bad weather," spokesman of the Indonesian Air Force Headquarters Air Commodore Daryatmo said on Wednesday.
|
|
|
|
|
Search teams will Wednesday scan the seas off the island of Sulawesi for a plane which went missing with 102 people on board, officials said after reports the wreckage had been found on the island proved false. The Adam Air plane with 96 passengers and six crew on board vanished from air traffic control radar screens Monday. The Boeing 737-400 had sent distress signals an hour after taking off from Java island en route to Sulawesi.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesia's transportation minister now said rescuers haven't yet found the wreckage of an Indonesian jetliner that crashed Monday. Earlier, aviation officials reported that the wreckage had been found, and that 90 bodies were scattered at the crash site. There were even reports of 12 survivors, although officials later disputed that.
|
|
|
|
|
[Update] 02 January 2007 21:05 WIB - Earlier message on this page concerning incorrect information about the fact that the plane had been found has been replaced with a message that the plane has not been found until now. Earlier messages proved to be wrong.
|
|
|
|
|
Heavy downpours continue to cause severe problems throughout the Indonesian archipelago. In several places flash floods and landslides occurred in the last few days. Indahnesia.com gathered several messages and put them together as a news item.
|
|
|
|
|
[Update] 02 January 2007 20:37 WIB - Senior Indonesian officials said on Tuesday reports that an airliner with 102 people on board had been found on Sulawesi island were wrong, and the plane was still missing. Officials had earlier said that wreckage of the Adam Air plane had been found after it had crashed into the mountains in heavy rain. There were reports 12 people had survived the crash.
|
|
|
|
|
[Update] 02 January 2007 20:37 WIB - Senior Indonesian officials said on Tuesday reports that an airliner with 102 people on board had been found on Sulawesi island were wrong, and the plane was still missing. Officials had earlier said that wreckage of the Adam Air plane had been found after it had crashed into the mountains in heavy rain. There were reports 12 people had survived the crash.
|
|
|
|
|
Bloated bodies washed up along Indonesia's coastline days after a ferry sank in stormy weather leaving 400 people missing, but rescue teams refused to give up hope with survivors still being found in life-rafts, some desperately waving their arms. Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa said Monday nearly 200 had been found alive and vowed to keep up search and rescue efforts for at least a week, as an air force plane dropped food and water to some survivors stranded in the Java Sea.
|
|
|
|
|
Adam Air has released a list of names of people on board of the still missing flight KI-574 operated by Adam Air. Four members of the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) and a newly-wed couple were among passengers of missing Adam Air plane plying Jakarta-Surabaya-Manado route on Monday, reports said. Two of the four military personnel were middle-ranking officers who were tasked in Manado naval base, Eastern Fleet command`s spokesman Lt. Col. Tony Syaiful said.
|
|
|
|
|
A number of relatives of passengers of the missing Adam Air aircraft were on Monday busy seeking information on the whereabouts of the ill-fated aircraft which lost contact with air control in Makassar at 14:07 while on its way to Manado, North Sulewesi, from Surabaya, East Java. Reports from Manado said a number of people related to passsengers on the missing plane came to Sam Ratulangi Airport on Monday evening to enquire about the aircraft`s whereabouts at the Adam Air ticket sales counter.
|
|
|
|
|
AN Indonesian passenger plane carrying 102 people was feared to have crashed after it disappeared in stormy weather yesterday. Rescue teams were sent to search an area where military aviation officials said the Boeing 737-400 may have crashed. The transport minister, Hatta Radjasa, said a distress signal was picked up over Sulawesi, a major island in the Indonesian archipelago, about 500 miles from the Adam Air flight's destination. It was unknown if the aircraft disappeared over sea or land.
|
|
|
|
|
The Boeing 737-400 belonging to Adam Air airline company which went missing on a flight from Surabaya to Manado on Monday afternoon was reported to be still air worthy.
"The certificate of its airworthiness will expire on January 19, 2009," Director General of Air Transportation Muhammad Ikhsan said in a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Monday evening.
|
|
|
|
|
An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 102 people disappeared in stormy weather Monday and rescue teams were immediately deployed to the area where military aviation officials feared the Boeing 737 may have crashed.
|
|
|
|
|
A passenger plane lost contact with flight controllers Monday as it flew between Java and Sulawesi islands, officials said. Aviation authorities are unable to contact Adam Air flight KI-774, Gunawan Suherman, Adam Air's chief executive, told The Associated Press.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesian navy ships on Monday renewed efforts to reach survivors of a ferry disaster who spent a third night on the open sea as continuing rough weather hindered the search for hundreds still missing. "Navy ships are still searching now. We're still trying the best we can," Central Java navy commander Colonel Yan Simamora told AFP.
|
|
|
|
|
More survivors from an Indonesian ferry sinking were brought ashore early on Monday, but hundreds were still missing and victims' bodies were scattered along beaches stretching for many miles of Java's coastline. By late Sunday Indonesian rescuers had found nearly 180 survivors from the ferry that went down in stormy seas around midnight on Friday with close to 700 people on board.
|
|
|
|
|
Indonesian search and rescue teams have found all 11 passengers and crew from a ferry which sank off the resort island of Bali, reports said Monday. Nine were rescued by a passing cargo ship on Monday after they were found floating in their lifejackets in the Java sea, AFP reported citing ElShinta radio. Two others had managed to make it to Pantai Bukti beach on the northeast of Bali on Sunday.
|
|
|
|
|
JUST three months after Indonesia invaded East Timor 30 years ago, the Australian government of the prime minister, Malcolm Fraser, was covertly supporting the tiny colony's complete integration into its giant neighbour, according to cabinet documents from 1976, released today.
|
|
|
|
|
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here Sunday asked people from all walks of life to be aware of various kinds of natural calamities as disasters not only in Indonesia but also in other states. "I hope all people will continue to be aware (of natural disasters)," the head of state said at the beautiful Indonesia-in-miniature park (TMII) where he observed a security preparation for East Jakarta area during the New Year`s eve.
|
|
|
|
|
Rescue teams recovered some 28 survivors and two bodies in Mandalika waters, Jepara, Central Java, on Sunday night, sources said. Sources at the Search and Rescue Team said here that eight survivors were evacuated by a Navy warship to Rembang`s port on Sunday afternoon, nine were recovered by Caraka Jaya vessel and evacuated to Surabaya, East Java.
|
|
|
|
|
Quite a lot back in time, about two-and-a-half to three years already, but when I found these bills again there were certain memories returning to my mind. It's time once more to write down some of them here on this virtual paper, so I can reduce my current heap of entrance- and parking tickets and other useless prove of payment. I always keep all of them, just in case. But there is never a just in case until I find them again, like today.
|
|
|
|
|
| ABOUT THIS BLOG |
Add this blog to your email, your own blog, MySpace, Facebook, or whatsoever via AddThis:
|
|
Looking for e-tickets for flights in Indonesia? Here's your solution! Order your e-tickets at ticketindonesia.info.
|
| BLOG ARCHIVE |
· 2015, 28 entries
· 2014, 591 entries
· 2013, 750 entries
· 2012, 1061 entries
· 2011, 792 entries
· 2010, 644 entries
· 2009, 916 entries
· 2008, 504 entries
· 2007
· December, 50 entries
· November, 55 entries
· October, 58 entries
· September, 47 entries
· August, 40 entries
· July, 38 entries
· June, 41 entries
· May, 51 entries
· April, 68 entries
· March, 76 entries
· February, 85 entries
· January, 116 entries
· 2006, 1014 entries
· 2005, 723 entries
· 2004, 558 entries
· 2003, 525 entries
· 2002, 375 entries
· 2001, 162 entries
|
| POPULAR TAGS |
Automatically generated every hour
|
| EXCHANGE RATES |
@ 17 May 2018 18:12 CET
|
@ 17 May 2018 21:58 CET
|
@ 15 May 2018 08:42 CET
|
@ 07 May 2018 07:48 CET
|
@ 16 May 2018 09:18 CET
|
@ 17 May 2018 00:46 CET
|
|
| Go to 'exchange rates' |
|
'Events' feed
