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Two orang hutans are posing for the camera in a resort for their species on the island of Sumatra. The animals are still poached while government and NGO's are making efforts to prevent the species from becoming extinct.
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The right answer was not given this week. So what was on the picture then? The rectorate of the Andalas University. The Andalas University ('Universitas Andalas') is the oldest university in Indonesia outside of Java. The university consists of nine faculties, with most located at the main campus Limau Manis, twelve kilometers from the center of Padang, West Sumatra. The campus occupies five square kilometers, at an elevation of about 100 meters.
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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.
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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'.
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Allthough the right answer was not given on blog.indahnesia.com, we will reveal what the picture was about.
It was an image of a surfboard belonging to the lifeguards on the beach of Seminyak in South Bali. To view the picture in our new large format, please visit the picture gallery ' Seeing is believing'.
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Because the first few pictures that were published here on the blog were a big hit - little reactions but many, many views - we are continuing with the 'Sexy and Indonesian' series for now. This time it is Fifi Buntaran that is on our blog. If you are in need of more, pictures can be found on Flickr.
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However the right answer was not given on blog.indahnesia.com, we will reveal what the picture was about. It was an image of one of the towers of the Jembatan Barelang on the island of Batam in the Riau Archipelago. To view the picture in our new large format, please visit the picture gallery ' Seeing is believing'.
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However the right answer was not given on blog.indahnesia.com, we will reveal what the picture was about. It was an image of a tower on the Balongan oil refinery in the regency of Indramayu in West Java province. To view the picture in our new large format, please visit the picture gallery ' Seeing is believing'.
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Behind the scenes of this website, there are always things to be improved. Normally the visitor does not see these changes, because it's just improving already existing processes. One of those changes is how blog articles behind are created and published the scenes for example. The eventual result however can be seen by visitors.
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Indonesia is to count it's islands - all of them - in the coming three years. Currently estimates of the actual number of islands in the Indonesian archipelago vary from 14,000 to some 17,500 islands, but the exact number is not known. Indonesia is to catalog all islands, including giving them a name and registration number for reporting them to the United Nations.
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Abu Jibril, the father of fugitive terrorism suspect Mohamad Jibril, has said that the arrogance of which anti-terrorism unit Densus 88 executed their task. A 20-man team of Densus 88 searched the house of Abu Jibril last night. According to the father of eight children - yes the one who was pictured on this blog with a gun yesterday - they don't have any politeness in their guts.
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The Indonesian contestant currently competing in the Miss Universe competition, Zivanna Letisha Siregar, leads the online poll sponsored by the event. In the poll, in which tens of thousands of visitors have voted for their favorite woman, the Indonesian is followed by Brazilian Larissa Costa and Guatemalan Lourdes Figueroa.
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It has been a day or two ago now, and I didn't even notice it when we reached the number of posts. All together we succeeded in posting over 100.000 messages on the forum. In this number the removed messages - spam and those irritating users - not even counted. Those are few and far between however.
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Want to have your news on this website as well? Do you think we skipped something important? Or do you just want to tell something? Please let us know by using the ' Submit article' link in the left menu on the blog. When logged in, you can enter your article there to be reviewed by a staff member as soon as possible.
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It needed some heavy reprogramming. The RSS feeds on indahnesia.com were terribly outdated and did not comply to standards that are currently widely used by all kinds of feed readers and other websites to integrate blog entries, forum topics and news events from indahnesia.com. Here they are, brand new and perfectly in line with current standards for RSS feeds.
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Here at indahnesia.com we have been working hard to improve out services. We have installed this new fancy blog and are in progress of updating the forums as well, but outside that we would like you to take a look at the 600+ hotels we are currently offer.
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Earlier today there was a blog item about the fact that some 7.500 villages all over Indonesia's most remote islands did not have power supply from the state power company PLN. But it can be much worse than that. In the civilized world that we call Riau, in Southern Sumatra at just a stones' throw away from the Indonesian capital Jakarta, they do have power lines, but no power.
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Yesterday messages appeared about four Indonesian students - students for life most likely, they were there for over six years already and still not finished - being arrested, brought to prison and beaten up heavily on the suspicion that they were members of a terrorist cell. For your information, it all happened in Egypt, not in Indonesia.
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As from today, all news items that have been published on indahnesia.com ever since the year 2000 have been fully integrated with this blog. The main reason to do so is to give visitors more opportunity to react to entries posted on this blog. Earlier people could only react to news items when they were linked to the forum. Not the best solution, so this has changed now. Finally!
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Complain about the bad service you received and you can end up in jail for a couple of years and pay a fine of 261 milion rupiah. A 32 year old mother with 2 children complained about the service from the Omni international hospital by email to a friend. This email was send to several blogs and the hospital made a justice case of it because of disgrace. She lost the case and has to pay 261 million rupiah.
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Because of a technicality at the indahnesia.com forum I didn't allow display of blog entries on the forum. This technicality has been solved, so as of now, it is also possible to react on blog entries via the forum directly. For the time being, only blog entries with at least one reply are displayed. This is done to prevent too much blog entries from appearing in the forum topics.
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Holidaymakers in Bali have been given a grim warning: avoid traditional rice and palm wine on the Indonesian resort island or face an agonising death. At least 25 people have been killed in the past week, including four foreign tourists, after a batch of the liquor, known as arak, was heavily cut with methanol.
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Recently all news items that have been published on indahnesia.com have been fully integrated with blog.indahnesia.com. Now you can react to every single news item posted on indahnesia.com. Earlier on this was limited to a set of forum topics linked to news items.
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It just had to be done at a certain point, but it was lack of time and a wrong mood that prevented me from doing it for quite some time. Now it is finished, the results are here to see for all of you; a blog on indahnesia.com on which I hope to publish more store stories, but also typical blog items like pictures (outside the normal photobook on indahnesia.com) and others.
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Starting late May, all stories that have been published on indahnesia.com can now be found on blog.indahnesia.com. This is the first step of a full integration of stories and news on indahnesia.com into one blog.
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With the adoption of the 'anti-pornography' laws yesterday, Indonesia is approaching more and more the ideal image of a remote province of the Middle East. With adopting the law, which has been pushed forward by the radical-Islamic FPI (Islamic Defenders Front) and the MUI (Council of Islamic Scholars) for almost a decade now, it is now possible to act on your own when you see something that is not acceptable for you. In most countries that would be called 'taking matters into your own hands', but not anymore in Indonesia, where a young democracy is buried under a thick layer of radical-Islamic mud.
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After the Indonesian government has forced Indonesian internet providers (ISP's) to block a number of websites, they are now gradually being closed down by the providers. To avoid being left out from the outside world of YouTube, MySpace and other blocked websites, blog and social networks there is a very easy trick to step over the block, and that is by visiting websites that relay other websites, named 'proxy'.
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The Indonesian government has ordered internet service providers (ISP's) in Indonesia to block several websites, including YouTube and MySpace, after an anti-Islamic film sparked protests. Main internet providers in Indonesia told that they had already acted on the request from the government to block websites that feature the short film. Redaction of indahnesia.com however could still access all websites at the moment of this news message.
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To help the people in Yogyakarta in their recovery after the earthquake of 27 May 2006 and also to celebrate the 252th birthday of the city of Yogyakarta (7 October 1756 - 7 October 2008) everyone is invited to join the effort to set a new national or even international record so that the name of Yogyakarta will be known all over the world soon.
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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.
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The recent research conducted by the International Center for Islam and Pluralism (ICIP), the Indonesian Islamic Boarding School Association (BKSPPI) and AusAID, in which I was involved, shows that many pesantren (Islamic boarding schools), both traditional (salaf) and modern, in West Java reject pluralism as they perceive this as an acceptance of the relativity of religion -- or rejecting the notion that Islam is the absolute truth.
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