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500 military personnel deployed to guard Mt. Sinabung danger zone

Some 500 military personnel have been deployed to prevent local villagers from entering a danger zone of erupting ...

Angelina Jolie visits camp for Syrian refugees in Turkey

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie on Saturday (June 20) called for more international action to help refugees as ...

President Jokowi chairs meeting on Sinabung, Rohingya refugees

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) led a limited cabinet meeting to discuss ways to handle the refuges evacuated from ...

UNHCR urged to handle Rohingya refugees in Indonesia

The student wing of the Pancasila youth organization (SAPMA) urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ...

Japan seizes passport of journalist trying to visit Syria

Tokyo (ANTARA News - Japan has seized the passport of a journalist planning to travel to Syria following the brutal ...

Yogyakarta students develop easy-to-assemble temporary disaster shelter

Students of Yogyakartas Gadjah Mada University have created and developed an easy-to-assemble temporary shelter for ...

UN to help Lebanon cope with Syrian refugee crisis

The UN and the international community are focusing on projects that could help the Lebanese to cope with the current ...

flooding sends thousands of Ifndonesians back to refugee camps

New waves of flooding has forced thousands of Indonesians to leave homes to suffer in refugee camps again. The ...

RI hit by 203 disasters in January: BNPB

A total of 203 natural disasters hit Indonesia in January 2014, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency ...

Sinabung`s deadly clouds claim 15 lives in a single day

Over 30 thousand people across 34 villages have been displaced since last September 2013, as a result of the sporadic ...

Death toll of Jakarta floods reaches 11

The Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has reported that the death toll due to the floods in Jakarta has ...

Refugees of Mt Sinabung Survive Four-Month Ordeal

Though the floods in Indonesia took over media space over the past week, it certainly does not indicate that the ...

30 thousands residents displaced by flood in Jakarta

At least 30,784 residents have been displaced by floods in Jakarta caused by incessant rain for the last several days, ...

President Yudhoyono chairs plenary cabinet meeting

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono chaired a plenary cabinet meeting to discuss three important issues - economic ...

Jakarta flood problem cannot be resolved overnight

The floods, which repeatedly strike Jakarta and its neighboring areas with sickening regularity almost every year, is ...