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Past Year Marked By Intense RI-UNESCO Engagement

The year 2011 has been quite special for Indonesia and UNESCO as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spoke at a UNESCO ...

The Freeport Case, government's lost conscience

The Political and security situation in Papua is still heating up, beginning with the repeated shootings spree at ...

VP says investments in Papua safe

Vice President Boediono said investments in Papua remained safe and so investors need not worry. "Papua is safe. ...

Russians start voting in key parliamentary elections

Moscow (ANTARA News/AFP) Russians in the Far East began voting Sunday in key parliamentary elections expected to hand ...

Police arrest 12 suspected OPM members in Papua

Police in Papua have arrested 12 suspected separatist Free Papua Organization (OPM) members who had attacked a ...

More prehistoric artifacts waiting to be unearthed in Indonesia

More and more prehistoric artifacts have been surfacing in Indonesia`s islands from Sumatra to Papua over the years, ...

Gorontalo aspires to become world-class corn producing region

Gorontalo is preparing itself to host a World Maize Conference (WMC) in 2012 which it sees as a forum that will bring ...

RI,Vietnam to discuss remote indigenous community development

The social affairs ministry and the Tribes Committee of Vietnam will discuss efforts to empower remote indigenous ...

Jagger honorary "ambassador" in Peru`s Amazon

Rock legend Mick Jagger was named an honorary ambassador for tourism in the Madre de Dios region of the Amazon ...

W Sumatra`s forests suitable for kyoto protocol projects : observer

West Sumatra`s forests have the potential of being ideal hosts for climate change projects under the Kyoto Protocol, ...

9 killed in small plane crash in Bolivia`s Amazon jungle

Nine people aboard a small plane in Bolivia were killed when the plane crashed into a remote part of a jungle in the ...

Aboriginal sacred stone pulled from U.K. auction

A sacred Aboriginal stone, which according to tradition should never be viewed by women, was reportedly withdrawn from ...

MP3EI, strategic breakthrough to accelerate regional development

As part of the agenda of "development for all", the government last May 2011 launched the Master Plan for the ...

Govt to focus on development acceleration projects

Implementation of the Indonesian Economic Development Acceleration and Expansion Master Plan (MP3EI) will be one of ...

Papua referendum idea not popular among local people

Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said the demand for a referendum as voiced by a group of Papuan people recently ...