Tag: Jakarta
South-East Asian foreign ministers to meet over Myanmar crisis
dpa/GNA - South-East Asian foreign ministers will hold a special online meeting on Tuesday to discuss the political crisis in Myanmar after last...
Indonesian foreign minister scraps Myanmar visit after opposition
dpa/GNA - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has cancelled a visit to Myanmar following opposition to visiting the country, where the army recently...
Indonesia urges Myanmar military to listen to people’s wishes
dpa/GNA - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Wednesday urged Myanmar's military rulers to listen to the wishes of the people in Myanmar,...
Indonesia’s Merapi volcano belches hot ash cloud in new eruptions
dpa/GNA - The Mount Merapi volcano on Indonesia's Java island spewed searing ash and other volcanic debris that poured up to 1.5 kilometres...
Death toll from Indonesia earthquake rises to 91
dpa/GNA – The death toll from a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesia's West Sulawesi province last week has risen to 91, the national...
Indonesian president visits quake-hit town
dpa/GNA – Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Tuesday visited the province where at least 84 people were killed in a 6.2-magnitude earthquake last...
Indonesia’s Merapi volcano spews hot ash cloud
dpa/GNA - The Mount Merapi volcano on Indonesia's Java island spewed searing ash and other volcanic debris 1 kilometre down its slopes on...
Death toll from Indonesia earthquake rises to 81
dpa/GNA – The death toll from a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesia's West Sulawesi province rose to 81 on Monday, the national disaster...
Death toll from Indonesia earthquake rises to 73
dpa/GNA – The death toll from a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesia's West Sulawesi province on Friday rose to 73 as more bodies...
Aftershock rattles province as Indonesia quake death toll hits 45
dpa/GNA - A 5.0-magnitude aftershock on Saturday rattled residents in an Indonesian province where at least 45 were killed and more than 600...
First identified victim of Indonesian jet crash to be buried
dpa/GNA - The family of a flight attendant who was the first victim to be identified after last week's crash of an Indonesian...
Indonesia starts mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign with Chinese jab
dpa/GNA - Indonesia launched its mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, using the Chinese-developed CoronaVac jab.
President Joko Widodo was the...
Black box of Indonesia’s crashed plane retrieved
Divers on Tuesday retrieved a black box of of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plane that plunged into the waters off the coast of...
Death toll from Indonesian landslides rises to 19; many still missing
dpa/GNA - The death toll from two landslides in Indonesia's West Java province rose to 19, with many still missing, the country's disaster agency...
Indonesia deploys divers to grab crash aircraft’s flight recorders
dpa/GNA - Divers were deployed on Monday to look for flight recorders from a passenger plane that crashed into the Java Sea minutes after...
Landslide kills at least 11, injures 18 in Indonesia’s West Java
dpa/GNA - A landslide triggered by heavy rain overnight killed at least 11 people and injured 18 in Indonesia's West Java province, the...
Searchers find debris, body parts from missing Indonesian jet
dpa/GNA - Indonesian search teams on Sunday found debris and body parts believed to be from a passenger plane that went missing...
Radical Indonesian cleric Bashir freed from prison
dpa/GNA - Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was released on Friday after serving nearly 10 years of his 15-year sentence for funding...
Volcano belches hot gas, debris on Indonesia’s Java island
dpa/GNA - The Mount Merapi volcano on Indonesia's Java island spewed hot gas and volcanic debris down its slopes on Thursday, the country's...
Indonesia to start mass Covid-19 vaccination drive next week
dpa/GNA - Indonesia will start its mass vaccination drive against Covid-19 next week, the country's health minister said Tuesday.
President Joko Widodo will be...
Indonesia bans hard-line Islamist group over alleged ties to IS
Indonesia has banned the Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI), a hard-line and controversial Islamist group, for its alleged ties to Islamic State, the chief security...
Hundreds of Indonesians flee as Java volcano belches hot gas
More than 550 people fled their village after a volcano in Indonesia's East Java province spewed searing gas down its slopes early Tuesday, the...
Pompeo lauds Indonesia for rejecting Beijing’s South China Sea claims
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Indonesia on Thursday for its rejection of China's claims in the disputed South China Sea.
Earlier this year,...
Crocodile capsizes boat, kills fisherman in Indonesia
A fisherman was killed by a crocodile that capsized his boat on Indonesia's Sumatra island, police said Friday.
Rustam bin Ujang, 35, was fishing in...
Suspected rebels kill soldier, civilian in Indonesia’s Papua
Suspected separatist rebels killed a soldier and a civilian in Indonesia's restive Papua province, the military said Friday.
Insurgents stabbed a motorcycle driver to death...
Magnitude-6.9 undersea earthquake hits Indonesia
A magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck deep under Indonesia's Banda Sea, south of Sulawesi island on Friday, but did not generate a tsunami and there...
Man killed by suspected militants in eastern Indonesia
A farmer was killed by suspected Islamic militants in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province over the weekend, police said on Monday.
Two farmers were on...
FIFA officials to inspect 2021 U-20 World Cup venues in Indonesia
The delegates of the world football governing body, FIFA, will visit Indonesia in September to closely look at and assess the condition of the...
Death toll of Indonesian capital floods rises to 66
The number of people died from floods and landslides in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and its peripheral areas since the New Year's Eve...
Indonesia: Crude Palm Oil Export will carry no Tax for May
Indonesia's trade ministry has decided to hold zero percent export tax for crude palm oil (CPO) and 5 percent for cocoa for next month's...