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Orangutans living outside natural habitat need attention

Orangutans are usually cute, adorable and smart that some people want to keep them as pets. Besides, orangutans and ...

Earthquake jolts Bengkulu

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island, on Sunday at 11.05 am local ...

Lampung seaport police confiscate 10 kgs of marijuana from passenger

Lampung`s Bakauheni seaport police have confiscated a package containing 10 kilograms of dried marijuana from an ...

Conflicts between wild elephants and humans on the rise in Riau

Wild elephants often go on a rampage in several villages of Riau province, and the latest such incident took place in ...

floods expand in several Indonesian provinces

Floods that have hit some parts of Indonesia since November 2012, are currently expanding in a number of provinces ...

Nuclear power plant to meet energy needs

Given its reliability and low operational costs, a nuclear power plant is the most feasible option to meet rising ...

Indonesia can manage nuclear power plant

Indonesia has enough experts who are capable of managing a nuclear power plant (PLTN), according to Research and ...

Long and winding road towards Sunda Strait Bridge

Indonesia has been dreaming of building the Sunda Strait Bridge, a mega project that will connect Indonesia`s two ...

Indonesia's Parliament Sends Delegation to Gaza to Support Palestine

Since Israeli aggression in Gaza began earlier this month, a number of Indonesian cities have seen daily rallies ...

Rainy season sees parts of Indonesia hit by floods, landslides

The rainy season has only begun in Indonesia, which has only two seasons, rainy (November to March) and dry (June to ...

Indonesian Muslims condemn Israeli aggression on Gaza

Over the past two consecutive days, Indonesian Muslims staged rallies in front of the US embassy to protest the ...

Teluk Bayur port has potential for export-import activities

Padang city`s Teluk Bayur port in West Sumatra has immense potential to support Indonesia`s import and export ...

Artificial rains being considered to put out forest fires

Forest fires have hit several provinces in Indonesia over the past few months and produced haze that has had an effect ...

Rice fields converted into oil palm plantation in Bengkulu

Hundreds of hectares of rice fields in the sub-district of Talang Empat in the regency of Bengkulu Utara of the ...

Eight killed in ferry boat accident

Eight people were killed after the ferry boat in which they were traveling sank in Sunda Strait early Wednesday, ...