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Low demand causal to low lending: Indef Economist

Senior economist at the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) Fadhil Hasan attributed limited ...

Nutmeg gives Banda Islands lingering scent of profit

Nutmeg, or Myristica fragrans Houtt, appears to thrive on almost all inhabited islands of Banda. The spice has held a ...

5.2-magnitude quake jolts Aceh Jaya

An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 rattled Calang, Aceh Jaya District, Aceh Province, on Sunday night, the Meteorology, ...

Blitar earthquake has damaged 287 houses in Malang: govt

The Malang Disaster Mitigation Agency reported that the 5.9-magnitude earthquake that jolted southeast of Blitar ...

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Tracking the spice trail to Banda

  On July 3, 1468, Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, married Margaret of York at the home of a wealthy ...

Pekanbaru-Bangkinang Toll Project employs 5,800 workers

Physical construction of the Pekanbaru-Bangkinang Toll Road will absorb 5,800 workers for the Labor Intensive Program, ...

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On the scent of the Dutch nutmeg on Banda Islands

The Islands of Banda have stood witness to the nutmeg trade in its heyday, when the spice, which was endemic to the ...

North Sulawesi hit by 5.1-magnitude quake

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 struck North Sulawesi on Friday at 15:17:43 Western Indonesian Standard Time (WIB), ...

Magnitude-7.2 quake rattles West Nias, North Sumatra

An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude rocked West Nias District, North Sumatra Province, on Friday, with the tremor being felt ...

North Sulawesi's Melonguane hit by 5.5-magnitude quake

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 rattled northwest of Melonguane, Talaud Islands, North Sulawesi, early on Tuesday, ...

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Trail Hongitochten in North Maluku

The spice-hunting adventure by European nations began when the Ottoman dynasty in the territory of Turkey hiked prices, ...

A 5.7-earthquake rattles North Maluku's West Halmahera

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled West Halmahera District, North Maluku Province, on Wednesday morning but it did not ...

4,000 workers in Aceh lose jobs due to pandemic

More than 4,000 people in Aceh have lost jobs since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in Indonesia in March 2020, Chief ...

5.3-magnitude earthquake rocks Banda Aceh on Friday night

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Friday night jolted Banda Aceh, a city in the northernmost tip of Sumatra Island which ...

Several Indonesian regions to experience heavy rains, lightning

The Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) has forecast torrential rains accompanied by ...