Sexy and Indonesian #4: Nine pictures of Julia Perez

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:19:00 +0100

LIPPO CIKARANG - This time not just one picture, but set of pictures of a well-known Indonesian woman, Julia Perez. She is known from Indonesian television, where she acts and presents. The also is a dangdut singer and also a model, as you can see below. Because of her relation with Damien Perez she was able to feature as a model in FHM and Maxim magazines in France, so she is not only known in Indonesia. ...

Video: Eruption of Mount Karangetang volcano

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:08:00 +0100

JAKARTA - The Mount Karangetang volcano on the island of Sitaro in North Sulawesi has erupted again early this morning. The volcano started erupting last Thursday, but the intensity of the eruption is still growing. The volcano shot lava and molten rock as high as two kilometers in the air. Authorities have started to organise emergency shelters for those living on the slopes of the volcano. ...

35 million gone in two minutes

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:18:00 +0100

NGANJUK - A businessman in sugar cane from Sumber Sari in the district of Nganjuk became the victim of a robbery on Friday afternoon. Sutrisno (56) picked up his identity card that he forgot from the Sugar Cane Farmers Corporation (KPTR) in the district of Patianrowo when his car was approached by two people using a motorcycle. ...

1,000,000 supporters for KPK deputies on Facebook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:01:00 +0100

JAKARTA - Over one million people from across the globe, but mainly from Indonesia, have joined a group on the social networking website Facebook to show their support of the two deputies of the Corruption Eradication Commission KPK that were arrested by the police last week. Both are suspected of being involved in a bribery and extortion scandal that has rocked Indonesia.

Stones thrown at PLN office because of power outages

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:15:00 +0100

TERNATE - The offices of state-owned power company PLN in Ternate, Maluku province, has once again become the target of angry people. The office was the target of stones thrown by angry people because power outages have hit the area for quite some time now. A number of windows of the building located along Jalan A. Yani has been scattered. ...

Mount Karangetang in North Sulawesi erupts

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:04:00 +0100

JAKARTA - The Mount Karangetang volcano on the island of Sitaro in North Sulawesi has just started erupting. The volcano exhausts hot lava and volcanic debris from it's crater. The volcano rumbled to life two days ago but the intensity of the eruption was still increasing. ...

Batavia Air flies to Singapore from Jakarta and Semarang

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:32:00 +0100

JAKARTA - The Indonesian airline Batavia Air has announced that they will start with two new routes. They will fly direct daily between Jakarta and Singapore as well as Semarang in Central Java and Singapore. The flight between Semarang and Singapore is fairly remarkable, as national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia ceased operations on that same route. ...

The mess at PLN Cikarang #3

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:23:00 +0100

LIPPO CIKARANG - Last contact with PLN dated back to July this year. Indeed I was not called back or did I receive information in any other way from them. So until that very moment I did not have a clue about what was going on and how I was able to pay for my monthly electrical bill. ...

Police insists on accusing KPK leaders

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:51:00 +0100

JAKARTA - The national police chief in Indonesia, Bambang Hendarso Danuri, said that investigators had solid evidence in the bribery and extortion case involving two officials of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). He said there was evidence that businessman Anggoro Widjojo was implicated in the case as well. ...

West Sumatra quake survivors lack water and sanitation

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:30:00 +0100

PADANG - Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia's West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say. ...

Flood submerges hundreds of homes in Medan

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:53:00 +0100

MEDAN - A huge flood has submerged hundreds of houses and public facilities in some parts of Medan, North Sumatra, as of Thursday afternoon. Students of the elementary school in Sei Mati village were forced to leave the school while some employees did not go to work. ...

18 civil servants fired for data manipulation

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:07:00 +0100

LABUHAN BATU - Eighteen civil servants (PNS, pegawai negeri sipil) of the Labuhan Batu district in North Sumatra have been fired after it was found out that they manipulated their data to become civil servants in the first place. After the regional council received information about what the 18 had done, a meeting was convened as soon as possible. ...

Direct flights to Phuket from Medan and Jakarta with AirAsia

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:12:00 +0100

JAKARTA - Budget airliner AirAsia has opened up two new routes that link the Indonesian cities of Medan in North Sumatra and the capital city of Jakarta with the popular beach resort town of Phuket in Thailand. AirAsia is the first airline to fly direct flights between the locations, which will be flown by new Airbus A320 planes belonging to Thai AirAsia. ...

Advertisements everywhere: the ATM receipt

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:53:00 +0100

LIPPO CIKARANG - Advertisement in Indonesia is just like the average Indonesian: to be found everywhere but in general you will not have a problem with it. Normally spoken I am not bothered by advertisements that you will find everywhere in the daily life in Indonesia. Everywhere there are advertisements. I am happy most of them are not interactive ones, but mainly billboards, banners and stickers. ...

Release of wiretaps fuels corruption debate

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:35:00 +0100

JAKARTA - Yesterday, hours of recorded wiretaps were broadcasted live on Indonesian television when showed in the Constitutional Court after months of accusations between the national police and the corruption watchdog KPK. The tapes involve key law enforcement officials and put even more pressure on president Yudhoyono to defend his anti-graft credentials. ...

Bali named 'number two' by Lonely Planet

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:51:00 +0100

DENPASAR - Bali has been named one of the best regions in the world to visit in a new Lonely Planet travel guide. The famed Island of the Gods came in second behind Alsace in France, and ahead of Fernando de Noronha in Brazil. Lake Baikal in Russia was the other Asian region to make the top 10 list. ...

The mess at PLN Cikarang #2

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:02:00 +0100

LIPPO CIKARANG - Early July, I headed for the local office of PLN in Lippo Cikarang, located almost besides the local post office, so that was not too difficult to find. I expected it to be a short visit, but that would turn out to be a completely different. My address was not found in the system of the cashier as well and I was not able to pay my bill here as well for the time being. ...

Men join in the fight against polygamy

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:23:00 +0100

JAKARTA - Indonesian pro-polygamy groups are not only facing protest from angry housewives and women's rights activists; a new group of men calling themselves the Men�s Coalition against Polygamy (Kolmi) has also joined the struggle. Kolmi spokesman Abdul Hamim Fauzie said via a statement in the capital Jakarta on Sunday that the coalition considered the practice of polygamous marriage degrading, not only to women, but to men as well. ...

Kuta Beach shoreline eroding again

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:16:00 +0100

KUTA - The investment of substantial sums in recent years to reclaim and protect Kuta's shoreline has done little to prevent severe erosion in the last days of October 2009. A major stretch of Kuta has lost 15 meters of beach depth along a stretch 200 meters long. A member of Commission B of Bali's House of Representatives (DPRD), Wayan Puspa Negara, said the erosion damage was severe and has been taking place over the past several months. ...

More aid for West Sumatra quake victims

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:41:00 +0100

JAKARTA - Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization, and the Australian government agency AusAID have extended relief aid worth A$250,000 for victims of the magnitude 7.9 earthquake that devastated much of West Sumatra last month. ...

This was in the picture! #7

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:17:00 +0100

LIPPO CIKARANG - The right answer was not given this week. So what was on the picture then? It was a phallic symbol in Candi Sukuh, a Hinduist temple in the village of Sukuh in Karanganyar regency in Central Java. The temple is located at some 40 kilometers east of the city of Surakarta on the slopes of Gunung Lawu ('Mount Lawu'). To view the picture in our new large format, please visit the picture gallery 'Seeing is believing'. ...

Eight dead in bus-truck collision

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:52:00 +0100

TUBAN - Eight passengers of a bus died, while 13 others were wounded when their bus collided with a truck in the village of Socorejo, Tuban regency yesterday. All victims were residents of Sumber Mulyo village in the regency of Purbolinggo. They were among 65 people on board of a bus that was heading for a graveyard in the city of Kudus. ...

Bali reports hotter than usual weather

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:52:00 +0100

DENPASAR - Tourists and residents across the island are complaining that temperatures on the island are exceptionally hot. According to Kompas.com, Bali's hotter-than-normal-heat-wave have seen sunbathers, who used to spend the entire day on Kuta Beach, abandoning the shoreline at 9:30 a.m. to escape the escalating heat. ...

Bali's rabies crisis spreads to new areas

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:39:00 +0100

DENPASAR - Radar Bali confirms that Bali's rabies epidemic has now spread to five of the island's nine regencies and metropolitan areas. According to Ida Bagus Alit, the Head of Bali's Animal Husbandry Department (Dinas Peternakan) confirmed that Karangasem and Bangli now have confirmed cases of the deadly disease in their dog populations, while previously cases of rabies were confined to Denpasar, Badung and Tabanan. ...

Stamp release: Joint issue Indonesia - Singapore

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:47:00 +0100

LIPPO CIKARANG - Indonesia and Singapore have issued a set of stamps together on October 31, 2009. The Indonesian part of the issue contains a mini sheet with eight stamps, four full sheets with stamps, a first day cover with one set of stamps and a special presentation pack. On the stamps are images of well-known places in Indonesia and Singapore. ...

Muslim residents almost force Bashir to leave

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:27:00 +0100

SERANG - The leader of the Islamic boarding school in Ngruki, Abu Bakar Bashir, was almost forced to leave a village near the city of Serang in West Java early this morning. Some fifty residents of Kaujon village visited the residence of Mamah Suhaemi, a former leader of the Mujahidin Council of Indonesia, where Bashir spent the night. ...

Sancaka train derails near Nganjuk

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:11:00 +0100

NGANJUK - The Sancaka train on route from Surabaya to Yogyakarta derailed near the village of Awar-Awar, Wilingan, in the regency of Nganjuk in East Java last evening. The cause of the derailment is not known yet. The train left from Surabaya at 17:00 local time, and should arrive in Yogyakarta around 23:00. Many people on several stations were stranded because of the derailment. ...

What's in the picture? #7

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:21:00 +0100

LIPPO CIKARANG - What is in the picture below? It's just a cut-out of a larger picture that will be published on indahnesia.com tomorrow, but we give you some head start to guess what the picture might be. The exact name would be perfect, but a description of what you are seeing and where the location might is okay too. We will provide more details tomorrow when this picture is published in the picture gallery 'Seeing is believing'. ...

The mess at PLN Cikarang #1

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:13:00 +0100

LIPPO CIKARANG - However I can arrange most things here in Lippo Cikarang at the offices of their own company, there are always a few exceptions - unfortunately. In most cases those exceptions are government companies. The best example is the power supply in this area. Power here in Lippo Cikarang is also supplied by PLN. ...

Yudhoyono: 'Show me the damned evidence!'

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:48:00 +0100

JAKARTA - The ongoing war between the Indonesian police, known to be one of the most corrupt bodies in Indonesia, and the corruption watchdog KPK with president Yudhoyono in the middle is heating up once more after the arrest of two other top members of the KPK two days ago. President Yudhoyono asked the police once more to release any evidence related to the case, because until now the police only pointed fingers but never produced any evidence. ...

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