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Opposition to Lady Gaga expands to other cities

A number of members of different organizations in several cities in Indonesia, including Pamekasan, Solo, Bandung and ...

NOAA satellite detects 12 hotspots in Riau

The US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) satellite has detected 12 hotspots at six districts in ...

Sunda Strait Bridge Project To Boost Economic Growth

Indonesia is likely to start construction on its most ambitious project - the 31-km-long Sunda Strait Bridge that will ...

BMKG detects six new hotspots in Riau

The Pekanbaru station of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has detected through the National ...

Orangutan number declining in Sumatra island

The number of Orangutans living in the wild in Sumatra island has gone down from 1,000 in early 2000 to less than 200 ...

Java island`s power plant to stop using fuel oil

The government aims to stop using fuel oil for electricity power plants situated in Java island by June 2012. "In ...

President receives report on Aceh quake management

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has received the report on the government response to the powerful earthquake which ...

West Aceh needs more sirens for tsunami warning system, BNPB

Chief of Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency Teuku Ahmad Dadek said West Aceh district needs more sirens for tsunami early ...

No casualties in Aceh quake

No casualties were reported in the magnitude-8.9 earthquake that struck Simeulue district, Aceh Province, last ...

round-up: huge quake again hits Aceh, no report of death

Only a couple of days after the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) or Aceh province held simultaneous regional head ...

Aceh quake felt in provinces in Sumatra, Singapore

The tremor of the 8.9 Richter in scale earthquake that hit Sumeulue district, Aceh province, on Wednesday afternoon is ...

Aceh major quake warns tsunami potential to five provinces

The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) released a tsunami warning to five provinces in ...

Trade minister calls for closer IMT-GT cooperation

Indonesian Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan has called for closer sub-regional cooperation between Indonesia, Malaysia, ...

30,000 ancient Chinese coins found in Bengkulu

Local residents in Central Bengkulu district, Bengkulu province, Sumatra Island, found a jar containing ancient ...

All of Sumatra regions share hot-spots

NOAA-18 Satellite operated by Singapore managed to detect 114 hot-spots throughout Sumatra island, analyst of the ...