Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:02:42 +0000
Yogyakarta Police have opened an investigation into a sexual assault case after an official at Gadjah Mada University (UGM), the school of both alleged victim and perpetrator, reported the case to the police against the victim’s wishes.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 07:24:09 +0000
Soldiers, police and residents fanned out across a damaged Indonesian village Tuesday, searching in the mud for possible victims of a landslide.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 02:59:01 +0000
JAKARTA — Officials and religious leaders in Aceh have called on Muslims in the province not to celebrate the New Year for religious reasons.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 02:47:24 +0000
JAKARTA — More than 500 Indonesian couples tied the knot on New Year’s Eve at a free mass wedding held under tents in pouring rain in the capital Jakarta.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 03:06:54 +0000
JAKARTA — Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait has shrunk to almost a third its original height, from 338 meters to 110 m, after a series of eruptions triggered a tsunami last week, killing more than 400 people and injuring thousands.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 07:28:54 +0000
Scientists say Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano island is now only about a quarter of its pre-eruption size.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:21:23 +0000
The number of people evacuated after Indonesia’s deadly tsunami has nearly doubled to some 40,000.
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Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 21:32:34 +0000
Indonesia on Thursday raised the danger alert level for an erupting volcano that sparked a killer tsunami at the weekend, after previously warning that fresh activity at the crater threatened to trigger another deadly wave.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:36:34 +0000
A towering stack of marijuana that weighed a hefty 800 kilograms went up in smoke Thursday as Indonesian police lit up the contraband.
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Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 10:29:59 +0000
Gembira Loka Zoo in Yogyakarta is gearing up to open in January a new section named Zona Cakar (Claw Zone) that will house such powerful predators as lions and hyenas.
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