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RI to send agricultural expert team to Gambia

The Indonesian government is to send some agricultural experts to Gambia as part of its commitment to assisting other ...

News Focus: anticipating impacts of US, Europe debt crises on Indonesia

The global economy is still shaky having just begun to recover from the 2008 global recession, and yet the world is ...

Foreign investors to shift funds to Asia

Economist Guntur S. Siboro predicted here on Tuesday that the current financial crisis in the US and Europe would ...

Flood inundates tens of houses

Tens of houses and hundreds of hectares of paddy field in West Aceh district were flooded on Sunday following ...

AU troops, would-be bombers killed in Mogadishu

Two African Union soldiers and two would-be suicide bombers were killed Monday during a shootout in Mogadishu, an AU ...

AU forces battle rebels in drought-hit Mogadishu

Somali government forces and African Union troops battled insurgents on Thursday in heavy fighting in the capital ...

Indonesians must eat less rice

The government must be able to reduce per capita rice consumption to 60 kg in 2030 from the current 130 kg a year to ...

Thousands of Houses in Gorontalo Flooded

A flood triggered by incessant rains inundated thousands of houses in Gorontalo province on Wednesday. The flood ...

Thunderbolts Kill 21 In Bangladesh

At least 21 people including two children were killed and 19 others injured in lightning strikes in six Bangladesh ...

Somali troops, peacekeepers advance on Bakara market

African Union peacekeepers and Somali government forces advanced on Mogadishu`s Bakara market, a rebel stronghold, ...

Long-awaited decree on deforestation moratorium draws mixed responses from NGOs

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono finally signed the long-awaited Presidential Instruction on deforestation ...

Four kinds of exceptions to apply in forest clearing moratorium

The government is to make four kinds of exceptions in the implementation of Presidential Instruction No. 10/2011 on ...

Somalia shelling kills 14 civilians at market

Shells fired in battles between insurgent militant Islamists and African Union forces at a Mogadishu market on ...

Minister calls on regional govts to preserve paddy fields

Agriculture Minister Suswono called on all regional leaders to keep productive rice fields in their respective regions ...

Floods affect 62,686 ha of paddy fields since early 2011

The Agriculture Ministry recorded floods affected 62,686 hectares of paddy fields in the January-March 2011 period ...