Indonesia
Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, Jan 2 (EFE).- The search for three Spaniards missing in Indonesia entered its eighth day Friday, a week after the tourist boat they were traveling on sank and killed one. Two other Spanish women survived the incident. All were members of the same family. Personnel involved in...
Jakarta/Valencia (EFE).– Indonesian rescue teams will resume on Sunday the search for a Spanish man and three of his children who have been missing since Friday following the sinking of a tourist boat near Padar Island, east of Bali, authorities said. In a statement, Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency (SAR)...
Bangkok (EFE).– The death toll from floods devastating Indonesia’s northern Sumatra Island climbed to 921 on Sunday, according to the latest figures from the emergency agency. Search and rescue teams are still trying to locate 392 people who are reported missing – a decrease of 128 compared to Saturday’s figures...
Jakarta (EFE).- At least 54 people, including students, were injured on Friday in an explosion at a mosque inside a school complex in Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, while authorities investigate the cause of the accident. «Some have minor injuries, some moderate, and some have already been discharged,» Asep Edi Suheri,...
International Desk (EFE).- Indonesia will press ahead with President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free school meals program, despite nearly 6,000 children suffering food poisoning since its launch in January, officials confirmed Monday. The government defended the multi-billion-dollar initiative, saying corrective measures are being taken, even as hospitals struggle to cope with...
Jakarta (EFE).- At least six people have died in Indonesia, two of them on the tourist island of Bali, due to flooding caused by heavy rainfall that continued Wednesday, as authorities searched for four missing people, local search and rescue agency Basarnas said. Abdul Muhari, head of the Basarnas Disaster...
Jakarta (EFE).- An Indonesian court sentenced a policeman Thursday to more than a year in jail for negligence in connection with a stampede at a soccer stadium that killed more than 135 people in October, while he acquitted two other defendants of the same charges. The court in the city...
Jakarta, Mar 8 (EFE).- Rescuers continued looking for 43 people missing after a rain-triggered landslide hit an Indonesian island and killed at least 12 earlier this week, the disaster management agency said. The agency (BNPB) said the search operation focused on the parts of the Genteng village after the landslide...
Jakarta, Aug 5 (EFE).- A crowd gathered in front of the Indonesian Parliament in the capital city of Jakarta on Monday to protest against the imminent approval of the country’s penal code, which, among other measures, will make sex outside marriage punishable with imprisonment. The reform in the penal code,...
Jakarta, Nov 23 (EFE).- At least 100 children have died in the shallow earthquake that shook Indonesia’s West Java province, according to the latest count provided by authorities on Wednesday. The National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB) also raised the death toll from Monday’s magnitude 5.6 quake to 271, of...
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