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Mataram city govt plans to return disaster relief funds: official

The Mataram city government is planning to return the disaster relief funds allocated by the government for repairing ...

Indonesia eyes narrowing down disaster-triggered GDP contraction

Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan highlighted the government's target to ...

Nine disasters reported per day in past year: BNPB

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has recorded a total of 3,253 natural disasters in the one year since ...

Pandemic an opportunity to strengthen disaster resilience: Widodo

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has said that the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has offered an opportunity to ...

Forest restoration following Mount Merapi eruption to take few years

The Mount Merapi National Park Center (BTNGM) pegged that the process of restoring the forest destroyed by the eruption ...

Hot clouds billowing from erupting Mount Merapi spread 1.9 kilometers

Mount Merapi, located on the border separating the Yogyakarta Special Region and Central Java, erupted twice on ...

Damage caused to hospital, govt buildings following S Halmahera quake

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake that hit South Halmahera District in North Maluku on Friday caused no fatalities, albeit ...

Mount Merapi belches out hot clouds, lava on Tuesday morning

Mount Merapi, straddling Central Java and Yogyakarta, spewed hot clouds and fiery red lava in the southwesterly ...

Two earthquakes rattle Papua's Jayapura district

Two earthquakes rocked northwest of Jayapura District in the Indonesian province of Papua on Wednesday but they did not ...

Mount Merapi belches lava up to 1.5 kilometers on Tuesday

Mount Merapi, straddling Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces, spewed red hot lava 12 times, with a maximum glide ...

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Five volcanoes erupting sporadically in Indonesia since Jan 2021

Indonesia has the largest number and highest density of active volcanoes worldwide, as the country lies in the Pacific ...

5.5-magnitude quake shakes Pesisir Barat in Lampung

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of Pesisir Barat district, Lampung province on Saturday, though no tsunami ...

Mt Sinabung shoots out ash clouds one km into sky

Mount Sinabung in Karo district, North Sumatra province, erupted again on Friday afternoon, hurling columns of volcanic ...

Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 hits southwest of Sumatra

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported that a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of ...

Mount Raung spouts ash nearly 2,000 meters high into sky

The 3,332-meter-high Mount Raung, on the borders of Banyuwangi, Jember and Bondowoso Districts, East Java, Monday ...