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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 ...

Trans Sumatra toll road project to start this year, minister

The construction of Trans Sumatra toll road is expected to start this year, State-Owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan ...

One by One, Sumatran Tigers Fall Into Illegal Traps

Over the past two months, at least two Sumatran tigers (Pantera Tigris Sumatrae) have fallen into illegal traps ...

Orangutans Free At Last

In the Indonesian or Malay language, the word "orangutan" literally means "man of the forest", and this is not so ...

Again, tiger injured after being illegally trapped in Bengkulu

An injured sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) was rescued after it was found illegally trapped in Air Rami ...

Indonesian Muslims discouraged from observing Valentine's Day

  Saying that Valentine's Day is not in accordance with Islamic teachings as embodied in  shariah, ...

US satellite detects 61 hot spots in Sumatra

The US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) has detected 61 hot spots on Sumatra Island, according to ...