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Australia asylum policy `draconian`: Rights group

Australia has damaged its human rights record by persistently undercutting refugee protections, including a ...

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, ...

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 ...