At least 11 dead and 12 missing after Marapi volcano erupts in Indonesia
75 people have survived and 49 have already been evacuated after the strong eruption.
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Thai-Indonesian Joint Operation Targets Major Drug Trafficking Network
BANGKOK, Sept 14 (TNA) – Thai police join international operations to dismantle the drug network of “Fredy Pratama,” a major drug trafficker in Indonesia. Indonesian Court Condemns 8 Taiwanese to Death for Drug Smuggling Thai Royal Police representatives, led by Pol Maj Gen Pantana Nutchanart, deputy commissioner of the Immigration Bureau joined Indonesian police officials […]
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Indonesian school shaves hair of 14 girls for ‘improperly’ wearing hijab
The teacher who applied the punishment was suspended and the school will offer psychological assistance to the affected girls, the principal added.
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Powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake shakes Indonesian waters
Indonesian authorities initially activated tsunami warnings, but they were eventually withdrawn.
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Miscommunication forces Jetstar aircraft flying from Australia to Bali to U-turn
Jetstar Airways plane packed with hundreds of passengers is forced to make a sudden U-turn 4.5hours into its flight to Bali.
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Semeru volcano eruption forces evacuation of thousands in Indonesia
Indonesian authorities on Sunday raised to the highest level the risk alert around the Semeru volcano, in the southeast of the island of Java, due to the “increased volcanic activity” after the eruption recorded this morning, which caused the evacuation of about 2,000 people so far. The measure is due to the fact that “eruption […]
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At least 268 dead, most of them children, after 5.6 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia
An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 shook this Monday the province of West Java, with almost 50 million inhabitants, the most populated of Indonesia, leaving at least 268 dead, mostly children, and more than 300 injured, in addition to significant damage to homes and infrastructure. This was confirmed by Ridwan Kamil, governor of West Java, where […]
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Seven-meter python swallows woman in Indonesia
A woman named Jahra, 54, disappeared last Sunday in a rural village in the Betara district of southern Indonesia, and neither her family nor her neighbors had any news of her until locals recovered her body from the stomach of a nearly seven-meter-long python snake, according to police sources. The woman’s body was found inside […]
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