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Flood inundating thousand houses in S Sumatra for week

The flood that has inundated thousand houses in Banyuasin district, South Sumatra, since a week ago has not yet ...

Whirlwinds strike S Sulawesi`s villages, killing one

Whirlwinds hit 11 sub districts in Pinrang District, South Sulawesi Province, on Monday evening, killing one person ...

President receives report on Aceh quake management

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has received the report on the government response to the powerful earthquake which ...

Tectonic earthquake jolts South Sulawesi

A tectonic earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolts South Sulawesi on Monday at 09.17 a.m. West Indonesian ...

West Aceh needs more sirens for tsunami warning system, BNPB

Chief of Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency Teuku Ahmad Dadek said West Aceh district needs more sirens for tsunami early ...

Aceh flash flood destroys 162 houses

A flash flood that hit Southeast Aceh district on Thursday night left at least 162 houses damaged, the National ...

Boat with illegal immigrants still missing

A wooden boat carrying some 50 illegal immigrants from the Middle East which allegedly went down southwest of Maluk ...

Five dead in Aceh quake

The National Disaster Management Board (BNPB) on Thursday reported five people were dead after a powerful earthquake ...

round-up: huge quake again hits Aceh, no report of death

Only a couple of days after the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) or Aceh province held simultaneous regional head ...

Indonesia launched South-South and triangular cooperation programs

Indonesia launched South-South and Triangular cooperation programs for developing countries here on Monday. "We ...

Bali earthquake damages 19 buildings in Denpasar

Denpasar city`s Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) here on Thursday said 19 buildings were damaged due to 6.8 ...

Bali rocked by magnitude-6.8 earthquake

Bali was shaken by an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale on Thursday morning. The earthquake located ...

One dead as typhoon nesat slams into Philippines

Typhoon Nesat slammed into the Philippines Tuesday, killing at least one person, a baby, as it brought heavy rain and ...

Evacuations as typhoon nears Philippines

Philippine authorities on Monday ordered more than 100,000 people living along the country`s east coast to evacuate as ...

New seismograph installed on mount Lewotobi

A seismograph near the top of Mount Lewotobi was damaged in a recent forest fire but has now been replaced, a local ...