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Twelve quakes jolt regions of Indonesia
An analyst with the Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said on Sunday there had been 12 tectonic earthquakes over the last two weeks.
The latest quakes struck parts of Sulawesi and Singihe islands on March 21 and March 22, respectively, with magnitudes of 6.3 and 5.2 on the Richter scale (RS), the BMKG analyst, Ardhitama, said.
Frenchman Suspected in Indonesian Embassy Bombing in Paris
Indonesia is hunting a radical group with links to Indonesia that may be behind a bomb outside its Paris embassy.
Indonesia’s anti-terror agency said yesterday that a group active in France was behind the explosion in Paris last week.
Indonesia’s Anti-Pornography Task Force Considers Short-Skirt Ban
sked to define pornography, an American Supreme Court justice once famously said: “I know it when I see it.” The way Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali sees it, the answer to the same question might well be: “Short skirts.”
Angry Indonesians protest proposed fuel price hike
Massive protests against a proposed fuel price increase failed to materialize in Jakarta on Tuesday, but smaller rallies, some of them violent, took place across the country.
Indonesian government urged to declare national disaster for extreme weather
A fishermen’s association and an environmental watchdog are calling on the government to officially recognize extreme weather events as national disasters in the hope that mitigation efforts will lower the impacts of such incidents.
3,000 kiloliters of fuel saved during Nyepi in Bali
Bali, whose residents are predominantly Hindu, saved up to 3,000 kiloliters of subsidized fuels at Nyepi, the Hindu Day of Silence, on Friday.
The resort island consumes an average of 2,300 kiloliters of premium fuel and 7,000 kiloliters of diesel fuel a day on normal days.
Balinese Silent Day approaches and so do the Ogoh Ogoh (monsters)
Tomorrow Bali celebrates its New Year as a Silent Day called ‘Nyepi’ .
However, the celebrations start today and, by contrast, today is called ‘noisy day’ – and for good reason!
For weeks the Balinese youth have been making giant ‘Ogoh Ogoh’ out of bamboo frames covered in paper mache and then decorated to look like incredibly evil monsters called ‘Ogoh Ogoh’ (actually these pics are from last year).
Terrorists or Robbers?
Bali Police Public Relations Head, Commissioner Hariadi said the five people shot on Sunday evening may have come to Bali as robbers, not terrorists.
Police have not found any evidence that there would have been a bombing.
5 Terror Suspects Killed on Bali
An elite anti-terrorism squad shot dead five suspected militants and seized several weapons in raids on Indonesia’s popular tourist island of Bali, police said Monday.