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Social solidarity called powerful tool for dealing with national problems

Having more than 1,300 ethnic groups and 400 distinct languages and dialects, are certainly challenges for the ...

Pidie Jaya earthquake brings back memories of 2004 tsunami

While many people were asleep, a strong shallow earthquake rocked Pidie Jaya and neighboring districts in Aceh ...

Nias has great fishery and tourism potential: President Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said Nias Island has two great potentials in the form of tourism and the fishery ...

President Jokowi officiates over groundbreaking ceremony of power project in Nias

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) officiated at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Nias 70-kV high-voltage power line ...

12,569 villages in Indonesia still without electricity: Minister Said

A total of 12,569 villages in Indonesia still have no access to electricity and so have become the target of the ...

World`s traditional games to enliven 6th TAFISA World Games in Jakarta

Traditional games and sports from all over the world will highlight the 6th TAFISA World Sport for All Games which ...

5.8-magnitude quake hits Gunung Sitoli in N. Sumatra

An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter Scale shook Gunung Sitoli city in North Sumatra on Friday, but there were ...

VPower Set to Supply Clean Power to Drive Development of Nias Island

- The latest signing calls for a cooperative relationship between VPower and the Nias government to pursue reliable, ...

Disaster mitigation among TNI`s top priorities

Disaster mitigation is among the key priorities of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI), stated Defense Minister ...

Vice president leads 10th commemoration of Aceh tsunami

Vice President M Jusuf Kalla led a function to commemorate the 10th anniversary of deadly tsunami that devastated ...

Year-ender: Aceh Gears Up For 10th Anniversary of Deadly Tsunami

Although a decade has passed by, but Ricky Muzakirs near-death experience of almost being swallowed by the gigantic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aceh major quake warns tsunami potential to five provinces

The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) released a tsunami warning to five provinces in ...

Islamic approach to tackle AIDS in Indonesia

World Vision Indonesia (WVI) launched the "Channel of Hope" (COH) with an Islamic context in response to HIV and ...