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MANADO, Indonesia (AFP) - Indonesia's remote Mount Ruang volcano erupted several times on Tuesday, authorities said, issuing the highest level of alert and ordering thousands of people to evacuate due to the threat of a tsunami from debris sliding into the sea.
The country's volcanology agency had warned the threat from the volcano was…
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JAKARTA: A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Sunday morning, spewing an ash tower more than two miles into the sky and prompting officials to warn people to keep away.…
" JAKARTA: Indonesia’s election commission formally declared Prabowo Subianto as the next president of the world’s third-largest democracy Wednesday, after the country’s constitutional court shot down challenges to his first-round majority victory.
Indonesian defence minister Prabowo, 72, is due to take the reins in October from outgoing leader Joko Widodo, more popularly known as Jokowi,…
" Indonesia’s central bank hiked interest rates Wednesday to their highest for seven years, an unexpected move to boost the rupiah, which continues to weaken against the dollar despite several interventions in currency markets.
Economists had predicted Bank Indonesia to hold the seven-day reverse repurchase rate at six percent but it instead raised it 25…
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Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday designated special status for Jakarta, keeping the metropolis as the country’s economic epicentre, amid plans to move the capital city to Borneo island.
Indonesia plans to move its capital city away from congested and sinking Jakarta, to Nusantara, a $32-billion city under construction in the jungles of East Kalimantan on…
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JAKARTA: Rescuers in Indonesia recovered four bodies including those of two children after a landslide and flooding hit a village on Java island, while six others remain missing, an official said Wednesday.
Cibenda village in West Java Province became inundated just before midnight on Sunday evening after hours of torrential rain when many villagers…
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JAKARTA:
More than 70 Rohingya are "presumed dead or missing" after a boat they were on capsized off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, while 75 have been rescued, the UNHCR refugee agency said on Friday.
The UNHCR said in a joint statement with the International Organization for Migration that if the death toll was…
" ACEH JAYA, Indonesia: The bodies of two Rohingya refugees were retrieved and several more were spotted at sea Saturday, local rescuers said, days after a wooden boat believed to be carrying around 150 people capsized, leaving many missing or dead.
The mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar, and thousands risk their…
" A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the shore of Indonesia’s Java island on Friday, at a depth of 10km (6.21 miles), Indonesia’s geophysics agency (BKMG) said.
The epicentre was located 132 km north of Tuban in East Java province, BMKG said.
The tremors were felt strongly in East Java, its capital Surabaya, as well…
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ANKARA:
The Banda Aceh Search and Rescue (SAR) Office said a rescue team found 42 men, 18 women and nine children in the Meulaboh waters, according to the Antara News Agency.
"The victims were found floating in the waters of the sea about 21 miles (33 kilometers) from the Jetty Ujong Karang Harbor, Meulaboh, on…
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JAKARTA (AFP) - The death toll from flash flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 26, an official said Monday, with at least 11 people still missing.
Torrential rains on Thursday triggered the disaster in West Sumatra province, where rivers overflowed and landslides swallowed homes. "Eleven people are still missing…
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ANKARA:
The death toll from flash floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island has risen to 21, with tens of thousands of people fleeing to temporary government shelters, officials said on Sunday.
A river burst its banks and ripped through mountainside villages in West Sumatra's Pesisir Selatan district late Friday, Doni Yusrizal, a spokesman for…