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Last year`s Jakarta floods worse than this month`s

The floods that hit Jakarta and surrounding areas early last year were worse than the current floods in the capital ...

President will visit Sinabung refugees on January 23

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and First Lady Ani Yudhoyono will visit the refugees of Mount Sinabung disaster in ...

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 ...

Flooding forces 1,545 people to leave houses in Jakarta

Flooding has forced 1,545 people to leave their houses in Jakarta and live in refugee camps.Flood water is as deep as ...

Govt urged to sternly deal with Australia`s boat turn-back policy

Indonesia is observing a moratorium on cooperating with Australia on people-smuggling following a spying scandal ...

Turned-back refugees claimed being tortured by Australian naval officers

Four of the 47 African and Middle Eastern asylum seekers claimed that they were tortured by the Australian Naval ...

Australia not good neighbor: Juwana

Australias behavior as a neighboring country was deemed bad when illegal immigrants from Africa and Middle East, ...

Opick holds charity concert for Palestine in Aceh

Aunur Rofiq Lil Firdaus (Opick), Indonesian singer and writer of Islamic songs, held a charity concert for Palestine ...

18,412 Refugees from Sinabung Eruption Celebrate Christmas Away from Home

As many as 18,412 refugees from the Mount Sinabung eruption in North Sumatra wake up to Christmas at refugee camps ...

122 Mt Sinabung refugees suffering from acute respiratory infection

A total of 122 Mount Sinabung eruption refugees in the Karo District, North Sumatra, are reportedly ill and still ...

Arab Spring Adds To Palestinian Refugees` Suffering

On the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, commemorated on November 29, the ...

UNRWA Urges Indonesia To Increase Assistance For Palestinian Refugees

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has called on Indonesia to ...

Java's Merapi erupts again

Mount Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia, spewed volcanic material and thick smoke on Monday morning at ...

Kenya piles pressure on Somali refugees to return home

Kenya on Friday said Somali refugee camps were being used as a safe haven for Islamist militants and said the time had ...