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West Aceh suffers Rp1 billion loss due to huge quakes, says official

The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) has said the West Aceh district administration suffered of one billion ...

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, ...

March inflation recorded at 0.07 percent, BPS

The National Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded an inflation rate of only 0.07 percent in March due to a drop in the ...

Police uncover fuel hoarding in West Sumatra

West Sumatra Police have uncovered eight cases of fuel oil hoarding in West Sumatra, West Sumatra Regional Police ...

Govt to create rice fields amid food scarcity threat

The government plans to create rice fields on 100 thousand hectares of land this year in anticipation of the threat of ...

BMKG detects drop in number of hot spots in w Sumatra

The Ketaping Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) in West Sumatra said that in the last week there ...

Mt Marapi spews volcanic ash

Mount Marapi in West Sumatra spewed volcanic ash up to 100 meters into the sky on Saturday afternoon. The ...

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 ...

Grandmother caught selling marijuana

Police caught a 73-year old grandmother while she was about to sell five kilograms of marijuana in front of the Matur ...

RI's govt called on to supervise fuel speculative buying

The Indonesian Consumer Institute (YLKI) for West Sumatra called on the regional government to keep watch on ...

Slovakian companies to invest us$1 bln in RI

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that a number of private Slovakian companies want to invest US$1 billion in a ...

news focus: U-23 soccer team wishes Singapore, Thai players to play friendly

The Indonesian under 23 years old (U-23) soccer team wished to play Singaporean and Thai senior soccer players to hold ...