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The Mount Karangetang volcano on the island of Siau 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.
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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.
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The USGS has released an earthquake intensity map of the area hit by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck the area of Padang and Pariaman in West Sumatra yesterday late in the afternoon. The map only indicates estimates of damage that could be expected after such an earthquake and is not based on news reports.
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Heavy rainstorms have hit the greater Jakarta area overnight. Rain started to fall down from around 20.00 local time yesterday evening and did not stop until the early hours of today. Rain of this intensity and length is rare, since it is in the middle of the dry season in the area. The heavy rains caused some streets to flood immediately.
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted waters off Bengkulu Province of Sumatra island in western parts of Indonesia on Monday morning, Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said here. The quake struck at 6:10 a.m. local time time (2310 GMT) with epicenter at 73 km southwest Bintuhan of Bengkulu Province and at 57 km under sea bed, an official of the Geophysical and Meteorological Agency BMKG, Hendra Rahman, told.
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Mount Barujari, the most recent volcanic cone of the Mount Rinjani volcano on the island of Lombok in the Lesser Sunda Islands is once again erupting. The volcano erupted for the first time last Wednesday. The eruption of the almost 4.000 meter high volcano does not cause tremors. Local residents are not worried about the current eruption of the volcano.
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The Anak Krakatau volcano in the Sunda Strait is once again exhausting hot rocks. The current condition of the volcano forced the Volcanologic and Geological Mitigation Center to raise the alert status of the volcano from 'aware' to 'careful' earlier today. According to seismographic readings there were 126 small eruptions, 149 exhausts of hot steam and over a hundred tremors over the course of a week.
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An aftershock measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted Talaud district in North Sulawesi province, on Saturday at 1.30 pm local time. The quake's epicenter was located at 4.02 degrees northern latitude and 126.86 degrees eastern longitude, 132 km northeast of Melonguane, Talaud District, at a depth of 10 km below sea level, information of the Manado meteorological, geophysics, and climatology office, said here on Saturday.
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Two more medium-sized aftershocks shook the area around Manokwari, West Papua. The first earthquake had an intensity of 5.5 on the Richter Scale and had place around 12:41 lokal time. The second quake, which had a strength of 5.4 on the Richter Scale came just a little while later, at 13:07 local time.
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A powerful shallow quake with magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter Scale rocked West Java province of Indonesia on Tuesday, with a potential for a tsunami, the Indonesian Meteorology Agency said. The quake was felt up nearby Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, with intensity of 2 to 3 MMI (modified mercally intensity), an official of the agency, Hidayanti, said.
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Floods have flooded dozens of homes in the city of Semarang. Heavy rain that hit the area since yesterday afternoon until yesterday evening was the cause of these floods which were mixed with mud as well. The flood originated from the Kaligarang river, which was already at a high level because of the heavy rainfall. The worst flood occurred in the sub-sub-district of Sukorejo in sub-district Gunungpati. Floodwaters here reached up to one meter. A part of the residents, mainly elderly and children, had to evacuate themselves to a mosque.
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The Meteorological and Geophysical Agency predicts that in the coming days big parts of Indonesia will be hit by rains with an intensity between light and very heavy together with strong winds. There are warnings outstanding for the new years celebrations in Jabodetabek where it will most likely rain throughout the day. This information was released by Achmad Zakir, who is head of the information department of BMG.
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Eruptions still take place at the Mount Semeru volcano in the district Lumajang in eastern Java, but it's intensity is going down. Seismic data from the observation post Gunung Sawur in Lumajang shows that there are some 40 eruptions every day. Earlier this was somewhere between 55 and 130 times a day.
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Non-stop tremors rock the deadly Mount Kelud volcano on Friday, clearly signaling that a powerful eruption could be imminent, according to scientists. Villagers living on the slopes of the volcano however still refuse to flee, hoping that if they keep quiet, the volcano would not erupt. The intensity and frequency of the tremors inside the volcano already exceeded numbers reached in the days and hours before the eruption in 1990. The tremors are an indicator that an underground reservoir of magma is trying to break to the surface.
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Mount Krakatau - in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra - has been put on the second-highest alert because it has been spewing ash for several days now. Saut Simatupang, from the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, said that the increased activity of the Anak Krakatau volcano posed a big danger so people have been advised to stay outside a three-kilometer danger zone around the volcano.
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Open Letter to the Rector and Students Senate of the Diponegoro University in Semarang
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Officials from Indonesia's avian flu commission said today that the H5N1 avian influenza virus may have mutated in a way that makes it more transmissible from birds to humans, but a World Health Organization (WHO) official said the WHO had seen no evidence of such a change, according to news services.
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Weather forecasts for the coming days show a big portion of heavy rain will be arriving in Sumatra, especially the southern part of the island. CNN reported that however the rains would not be there for days, the intensity would be very high, indicating that local floods may occur in the coming hours to days.
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This report has been prepared by the UN HC/RC Office in Indonesia based on information provided by the National Coordinating Board for the Management of Disaster (BAKORNAS PB), the Provincial Coordinating Unit for the Management of Disaster (SATKORLAK PB) Jakarta, the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG), and media reports.
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Torrential rain triggered floods in the capital, Jakarta, on Friday, blocking roads and trapping residents in their homes as torrents of muddy water reached a depth of 2m, police and witnesses said. Floods during the rainy season in Indonesia are common, but the heavy rains this week have caused chaos on roads and shut some train lines around Jakarta, police said.
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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.
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Muhammad Nasir has more than earned the right to cast a vote in the upcoming historic elections in Indonesia's strife-torn Aceh province. Only 18 months ago, the 39-year-old was languishing in jail, a political prisoner from the armed Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which had waged a guerrilla war against the Indonesian government since 1976.
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter Scale rocked parts of West Java this morning, in particular places like Bogor, Sukabumi and Cianjur. The head of the Bandung based branch of the State Meteorology and Geophysics Office (Badan Meteorologi dan Geofisika, BMG) told that the earthquake took place at eight o'clock in the morning. The epicenter of the quake was at 7.08° South, 106.80° East.
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Thick smoke from forest fires in Indonesia has shut airports and slashed visibility to below 100 metres (330 ft) -- and there is no respite in sight, officials said on Wednesday. The fires have been raging for weeks, spreading smoke across much of Southeast Asia and triggering fears of a repeat of the environmental disaster in 1997-98 when dry conditions linked to the El Nino weather pattern caused a choking haze that cost the region billions of dollars in economic losses.
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The activities of smoldering Mount Merapi in Central Java province increased remarkably, expelling hot clouds at frequent intervals and sending trails of lava down its slopes, local media reported here on Saturday. The volcano sent out hot clouds every 10 minutes and lava at three-minute on average on Friday, the Jakarta Post reported.
The lava and the clouds flowed to south toward Sleman regency and Klaten regency in Central Java.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has planned to visit eartquake-hit Yogyakarta on Sunday, Elshinta Radio reported here on Saturday. Yudhoyono and his entourage will take an overland trip to Yogyakarta because minor damage at the runway of Adi Sucipto airport due to the earthquake in the city makes it impossible for the president to take an air trip.
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The government insisted Tuesday that Muslims and non-Muslims alike in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam should be tried by the planned Islamic Court in the predominantly Muslim province. State Secretary Yusril Ihza Mahendra told the special committee deliberating a bill on the province's administration that non-Muslims accused of committing ordinary crimes, such as theft and adultery, would be tried under the sharia-inspired bylaws (qanun).
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All over the world bilateral relations and regional cooperation are flourishing, even if only a few people have noticed. The globalization of the economy is being followed by the globalization of politics. In the next ten years new worldwide networks will arise in response to global issues. Governments and societies are seeking closer ties with one another in the face of new threats and challenges.
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In order to make way for wider pedestrian sidewalks, the owners of 22 buildings along Jl. Thamrin, Central Jakarta, have agreed to take their fences back a notch. The additional width provided by the buildings varied from 0.6 meter to 3.5 meters, said head of the City Parks Agency open spaces division Mochamad Setyadi, on Monday.
"Not all sidewalks will be six meters wide as initially planned," he said.
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Indonesian police have defused a bomb found in front of a church in the restive province of Central Sulawesi. The state Antara news agency says the low-intensity bomb was found wrapped in paper in front of a church in Parigi Moutong district. Police who arrived on the scene alerted the bomb squad, who safely defused the device.
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Indonesian students seized five petrol trucks in the capital on Wednesday as thousands of protesters rallied in at least 10 cities across the country demanding a rollback of recent utility price hikes. Around 2,000 students gathered outside the presidential palace in Jakarta calling for President Megawati Sukarnoputri to stand down, some burning tyres and mock coffins and shouting "Democracy is Dead".
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The confirmed death toll from the devastating bomb blast in Bail has risen to 190, officials said here on Tuesday. The final toll could be much higher, as forensic scientists continue trying to match fragments of body parts, and several bodies were believed to have been reduced to ash by the intensity of the explosions and fire.
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An earthquake shook Indonesia's remote eastern province of Papua, killing at least one person, injuring dozens and tearing a two-mile crack in the ground, officials said on Friday. Thursday night's quake measured 6.4 on the Richter scale, causing a landslide, flooding and damaging dozens of homes in the Ransiki district on the bay of Manokwari, 2,000 miles northeast of Jakarta.
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On a Friday just before noon prayers in the simple wooden mosque, soldiers stormed into this village, herded the people together and, according to two residents, marched them toward a neighboring hamlet, setting fire to houses as they went. After six weeks, the village elder, Bin Ali, 52, and his neighbor, Agus Salim, 35, summoned the courage to return to the ashes of their life's possessions. In the debris of Mr. Bin's home, only a white porcelain serving dish, a present to his wife, survived intact. Next door, Mr. Agus, choking with emotion, fingered the charred wreckage of his motorcycle. It had been his sole means of livelihood. Empty military ration cans were strewn on the red earth, silvery reminders of who had been here last.
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Three years ago, Kadir Faizal commanded great respect on the waterfront. Nobody cared that the Muslim leader of the longshoreman's union was married to a Christian and lived in her neighborhood. But now, Faizal is an infidel in the eyes of his Muslim colleagues at the harbor.
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Up to 163 illegal immigrants were feared drowned off Australia's north coast Wednesday when two boats disappeared in treacherous waters en route from Indonesia. Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said credible reports from Indonesia said the two boats, carrying people from various Middle Eastern countries, had left on the two-to-three day trip from Java to Ashmore Reef in Australian waters last week but failed to arrive.
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