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Buddhists in several regions celebrate Vesak Day

Indonesian Buddhists in several regions on Tuesday celebrated Vesak day with ceremonies particularly at the Borobudur ...

Singaporeans sonstitute 57 pct of tourists in Batam

Around 57.87 percent of foreign tourists visiting Batam city in 2011 came from Singapore. "The majority of ...

Social minister concerned about marijuana legalization demand

Social Services Minister Salim Segaf Al Jufri has expressed concern over the current efforts of a group of people to ...

Tourist arrivals in Batam up

Over 2,500 foreign tourists visited Batam city in the first quarter of 2011, up 4.03 percent from a year earlier. ...

Over 60 hectares of mangroves in Batam damaged

The dockyard industry and housing development in Batam in 2011 have caused damage to about 60 hectares of mangrove ...

Some 3,200 people smuggled into Indonesia in 2010 : IOM

About 3,200 people from conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and Afghanistan were smuggled into Indonesia in ...

Batam to become ASEAN Batik trading center

Batam city in Riau Islands, Sumatra, will be declared a batik cloth trading center for the ASEAN region in an ...

Asean to share experiences in dealing with piracy

Three out of ASEAN`s member countries have become victims of Somali pirates so far, therefore it is considered ...

74,444 Singaporean tourists to Kepri in March

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said that 55.71 pct of 133,620 foreign tourists visiting Riau Island Province ...

PKS denounces Bintan`s planned beach party fashion show

The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has denounced the Bintan district tourism office`s plan to organize a beach party ...

Addressing malaria global elimination

- Malaria is known as a frightening specter across the world, especially in countries with vast tropical forests, such ...

RI, S`pore still differ about DCA

Discussions on the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) between Indonesia and Singapore have come to a deadlock because ...

Defense minister launches Indonesian-made warship

Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro here Monday launched the "KRI Clurit", a 40-meter-long ship made in Indonesia to ...

ASEAN Charter cited as basis to settle border problems

Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said he hoped Indonesia-Malaysia and Indonesia-Singapore border problems could be ...

MP opposed to discourse on Natuna`s integration into W Kalimantan

A lawmaker has asked Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi to stop an unprecedented discourse on the integration of ...