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/ 21 December 2004
Indonesia’s efforts to stamp out counterfeiting have taken an unusual turn with police closing down two factories manufacturing fake Ecstasy pills after complaints from users of the party drug. Detectives swung into action on the resort island of Bali after hearing how people consuming the bogus tablets failed to experience the desired effect.
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/ 19 December 2004
A large explosion was heard over Jakarta on Sunday after a suspected meteor was seen streaking across the sky over the Indonesian capital. The blast, which came as the country is on heightened alert after warnings of an imminent extremist attack, caused brief alarm but astronomers said it was likely a large meteor exploding as it fell to Earth.
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/ 15 November 2004
An elderly woman became on Monday the latest victim of a powerful earthquake and aftershocks in eastern Indonesia, as a relief official appealed for tents to house thousands left homeless.The latest death brings to 23 the number who have died since Friday when the quake measuring six on the Richter scale hit Alor island near East Timor.
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/ 12 November 2004
At least 16 people were killed and 100 injured, many seriously, on Friday after a succession of earthquakes measuring at least six on the Richter scale rocked an island in eastern Indonesia, police said. The quake, which was felt in the nearby country of East Timor, left hospitals struggling to cope with the wounded.
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/ 15 September 2004
A strong earthquake rocked Indonesia’s famous tourist island of Bali on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring at least two others, officials said. ”People rushed out of their homes, they panicked. The quake was very strong and lasted a long time,” said Budi Sunarso, of Bali’s geophysics agency.
Uncluttered by tenses, prepositions and grammatical quirks, Indonesia’s national tongue was once a gift to travellers who quickly grasped the basics. Now a bizarre passion for acronyms is threatening to engulf the language, leaving visitors and even locals lost in translation as more phrases are mangled into this ugly alphabet soup.
A tropical-island volcano in northeastern Indonesia exploded in a major eruption on Thursday, hurling stones and spewing smoke, and warnings of further blasts kept thousands of villagers away from their homes on the mountain’s slopes. Nearly 12 000 people have been evacuated to a nearby town.
Rescuers continued searching on Sunday for five people missing after a landslide smashed into a passenger bus in Indonesia’s West Sumatra and killed 38 people, but had lost hope of finding survivors. The landslide completely buried the bus under soil, trees and bushes.
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/ 17 February 2004
An earthquake that struck Indonesia’s Sumatra island killed five people, damaged 60 homes and prompted many panicked residents to spend the night outdoors, officials said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, an earthquake in West Papua province with an estimated magnitude of 6,8 killed three dozen people.
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/ 7 February 2004
A major aftershock rattled the northwestern Papua town of Nabire on Saturday, one day after a powerful quake killed 24 people in the same town. The National Earthquake Centre at the meteorology and geophysics bureau said the aftershock measured 6,2 on the Richter scale.
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/ 6 February 2004
A series of powerful earthquakes measuring up to magnitude 6,9 struck Indonesia’s remote Papua province Friday, killing 26 people, injuring as many as 600 and destroying hundreds of houses, authorities said. The quakes hit hardest in the town of Nabire, damaging the local airport, a bridge, roads and buildings.
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/ 5 February 2004
Heavy storms hit parts of Indonesia’s Java and Bali islands, killing at least four people and severely damaging hundreds of houses, news report said on Thursday. The severe storms triggered landslides when rivers in the crowded East and Central Java provinces overflowed their banks.
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/ 3 February 2004
Indonesia said on Tuesday that tests have shown it is suffering from the same strain of bird flu that has killed 12 people in Thailand and Vietnam. Indonesia was among the last countries in the region to order a cull to stop the spread of the disease, which has hit 10 countries.
Germany tests two for bird flu
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/ 29 December 2003
Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 15m long and weighs nearly 450kg, a local official said on Monday. If confirmed, it will be the largest snake to date kept in captivity. Hundreds of people have flocked to see the snake at a primitive zoo in Curugsewu on the island of Java.
At least 54 people were killed when a three-vehicle collision in Indonesia exploded into flames, trapping the victims, most of them schoolgirls, inside their burning bus. Forty-nine girls, aged between 17 and 18, died in the inferno after the bus was crushed between two vehicles on Wednesday evening on a dark and busy highway.
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/ 18 September 2003
A remorseful Islamic teacher has been jailed for life by an Indonesian court after being found guilty of playing a key role in last October’s Bali bombings that left more than 200 people dead. Ali Imron admitted helping plot the attacks, which police blamed on the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network.
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/ 10 September 2003
The Islamic militant mastermind of the Bali bombings has been sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia after an Indonesian court found him guilty of an ”extraordinary crime against humanity”.
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/ 9 September 2003
An Indonesian court will Wednesday pass judgement on the Islamic militant accused of masterminding the bombing of two crowded Bali nightclubs, which killed 202 people last October. Investigators believe Imam Samudra is a leading member of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah.
The suspected suicide bomber who attacked the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta this week was recruited by the al-Qaeda linked regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, police said on Friday.
Myanmar’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that if his country releases pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi too soon it could trigger unrest.
Asian and African ministers are expected to focus on boosting economic cooperation between their mostly poor countries when they meet in the Indonesian town of Bandung on Tuesday.
Prosecutors urged a court on Monday to sentence a suspect in last year’s Bali bombings to death — in the first trial over the October 12 attack that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Suspected Bali bomber Amrozi was confronted on Monday by injured victims of the blasts, who testified about their night of terror as bombs ripped two crowded nightspots apart.
Amrozi, who on Monday became the first suspect to face trial over the Bali blasts, is a village mechanic who has been dubbed the ”laughing bomber” for his apparent indifference to the slaughter.
Some 110 ministers from around the globe began meeting in an attempt to draw up a declaration on promoting development while protecting the environment before the Johannesburg Earth Summit.
Delegates discussing how to develop the world without destroying it will need a ”miracle” to reach agreement on key issues.
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela this week revealed the ANC had received large donations from Indonesia
NELSON Mandela interceded on behalf of Dr Allan Boesak which had been ripped off in the Indonesia bank loan bungle
DR ALLAN Boesak’s embattled FPJ suffered huge losses in a $40-million bungled bank loan that lead to the doorstep of Indonesia’s President.