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Kalla asks PMI volunteers to be ready for overseas deployment

Vice President Jusuf Kalla has asked volunteers from the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) to be ready for an overseas ...

Natural disasters inflict Rp30 trillion loss per year in Indonesia

Indonesia suffers an average of Rp30 trillion in economic losses per year due to natural disasters, Head of the ...

Indonesia braces for La Nina-induced heavy rainy season

Indonesia was hit hard by the El Nino weather phenomenon last year and has been described by experts as one of the ...

Indonesians have own ways to face terrorism

The bomb blasts and shoutout that occurred last Thursday at a Starbucks coffee shop and a police station in Jalan ...

Indonesia govt optimistic of achieving its tourism target in 2015

The Indonesian government is optimistic that it will achieve the target of attracting 10 million foreign tourists this ...

41 million Indonesians live in 174 landslide-prone districts and cities

Around 41 million Indonesians live in 174 districts and cities which are prone to landslides, a spokesman of the ...

P&G Releases 2015 Sustainability Report, Detailing Progress against 2020 Environmental and Social Goals

- The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) released its 17th annual sustainability report ...

NTT Communications Opens Top-Scale Data Center in Thailand

- NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within ...

Paris agreement to decide planet`s future

The agreement, which will be reached at the ongoing 21th Conference of Parties (COP 21) in Paris, will become a ...

President Jokowi hopes for implementation of sustainable fire prevention efforts

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has expressed hope that several provincial administrations would undertake sustainable ...

Coral reefs provide protection from storms, rising seas: study

Coral reefs may offer a comparable but "significantly cheaper" alternative to artificial coastal defenses to protect ...

Myanmar urges ASEAN leaders to address climate change

Myanmar President U Thein Sein on Sunday urged leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member ...

Kalla allocates one helicopter for Riau

Chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) M. Jusuf Kalla had allocated one helicopter to the PMI branch in Riau ...

Natural Disasters in Indonesia Not Over Yet

Over the last few months, various regions in Indonesia have been hit by natural disasters such as floods, landslides, ...

President Yudhoyono kicks off consultation on disaster risk reduction

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace, here on Tuesday officially opened the Global Thematic ...