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/ 15 January 2007
Two weeks after an Indonesian plane vanished with 102 passengers and crew, investigators admitted on Monday they still did not know exactly where or why the aircraft apparently came down. All they have found in two frustrating weeks of searching is a fragment of tail-fin and a few pieces of cabin debris washed up on the shore.
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/ 14 January 2007
Rescuers have found 24 bodies and 10 people are still missing after floods and landslides hit a small island off Indonesia’s Sulawesi, a report said on Sunday. The floods hit Tahuna, district capital of the Sangihe islands, about 250km north of the North Sulawesi provincial capital, Manado, on Friday.
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/ 11 January 2007
A strong undersea earthquake of a magnitude 6,2 struck eastern Indonesia, about 70km south-west of the provincial capital of Ambon, an official at the country’s Meteorological and Geophysical agency said on Thursday. The official said by telephone the quake struck at 9.31pm local time and was at a depth of 57km.
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/ 11 January 2007
Pieces of an Indonesian airliner that vanished with 102 people on board have been found in the ocean, officials said on Thursday, after a painstaking 10-day search from jungles to stormy seas. Parts, including a tail stabiliser and flight attendant seats, were confirmed or reported found in the sea and on beaches near the town of Pare Pare on the west coast of Sulawesi Island.
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/ 10 January 2007
A United States navy ship helping hunt for an Indonesian plane missing for nine days should be able to shed light on whether metal objects found on the sea bed are wreckage, an Indonesian navy commander said on Wednesday. The search for the plane has chiefly focused on large metal objects detected on Monday by Indonesian ships using sonar in deep water.
An Indonesian navy ship, part of the search effort for a missing commercial airliner, on Monday detected a large object under the sea off the west coast of Sulawesi, but it has not been confirmed whether it is the plane. The 17-year-old Boeing 737-400 operated by Indonesian budget carrier Adam Air went missing in bad weather on January.
Fourteen people on board a ferry that sank in Indonesia were picked up by a passing cargo ship after spending nine days on a life raft, a rescue official said on Monday. The Senopati Nusantara car ferry had 628 people on board when it sunk late on December 29 in the Java Sea.
Indonesia beefed up its search for a missing passenger plane on Sunday, despatching more spotter aircraft to try to locate the jet nearly a week after its mysterious disappearance. Relatives of missing passengers, who were allowed to overfly part of the search area, admitted it put the scale of the task into perspective.
Survivors from an Indonesian ferry that sank in stormy weather recalled desperate days adrift at sea during interviews on Friday as hopes faded of rescuing about 400 people still missing a week after the ship went down. Indonesia has been wracked in recent weeks by seasonal storms.
Indonesia has widened the search for hundreds of people missing after a ferry sank, as survivors were found hundreds of kilometres from where the ship went down, a navy officer said on Thursday. A seven-year-old boy was among 13 people rescued on Wednesday clinging to an oil rig in the Java sea.
United States and Singapore air-force planes were on Thursday set to join a massive air, land and sea search for a missing Indonesian passenger jet with 102 people on board. The Adam Air Boeing 737-400, with 96 passengers and six crew, vanished from radar screens on Monday.
Indonesian rescuers launched new sea, land and air searches on Wednesday for a missing plane with 102 people aboard after initial reports its wreckage had been found turned out to be false. Senior government officials have apologised for erroneously saying the 17-year-old Boeing 737-400 had been spotted in the mountains of Indonesia’s eastern Sulawesi island.
Senior Indonesian officials said on Tuesday reports that an airliner with 102 people on board had been found on Sulawesi island were wrong, and the plane was still missing. Officials had earlier said that wreckage of the Adam Air plane had been found after it had crashed into the mountains in heavy rain. There were reports 12 people had survived the crash.
Rescue ships collected scores of bloated corpses on Monday from seas close to where an Indonesian ferry sank in the Java Sea, but search teams also spotted survivors on life rafts and dropped food and water to them, officials said. Weeping relatives camped out at ports and a local hospital, desperate for news of the roughly 400 people still missing from the ferry.
Rescuers found the smoldering wreckage of an Indonesian jetliner that crashed into mountains during a storm, and officials said 90 people were killed and that 12 survived the country’s second major transportation disaster in days. The Boeing 737-400 sent out two distress signals half way through its two-hour flight on Monday from the main island of Java to Sulawesi.
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/ 31 December 2006
Indonesian fishermen on Sunday found 18 more survivors as navy ships continued the search for over 500 people missing after a ferry sank in a storm off the coast of Java, police said. The 17 men and one woman were picked up by fishing boats and taken to Rembang hospital, where most of the survivors of the ferry disaster have been taken for medical check-ups.
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/ 30 December 2006
More than 500 people were still missing in stormy seas off Indonesia’s Java island on Saturday, almost a day after a ferry from Borneo capsized, officials said. The sinking was the second Indonesian ferry disaster in as many days after a vessel overturned on Thursday in rough seas off Sumatra
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/ 29 December 2006
Aid has finally reached the most isolated areas of Sumatra island a week after flash floods killed more than 100 people and forced 400 000 to flee, Indonesian officials said on Friday. Relief workers had faced problems with slow and limited supplies, as well as access difficulties due to the floods and landslides which have destroyed roads and bridges in worst-hit Aceh
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/ 27 December 2006
Indonesian troops and rescue workers were on Wednesday struggling to deliver food supplies to thousands of people stranded for at least five days by floods that have claimed 115 lives. Torrential rains last week triggered flash floods and landslides that have forced more than 400 000 people to flee their homes.
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/ 26 December 2006
Indonesia on Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 168Â 000 people in Aceh as the province suffered a new disaster. Aceh bore the brunt of the massive tsunami triggered by a 9,3-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra island in 2004.
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/ 25 December 2006
Floods and landslides in Indonesia’s Aceh and North Sumatra provinces have killed at least 80 people and forced tens of thousands to flee to higher ground, authorities in the region said on Monday. Aceh, still feeling the devastating effects of the 2004 tsunami, was hardest hit.
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/ 24 December 2006
The death toll from devastating floods in Indonesia has jumped from 15 to at least 60, with hundreds of other people still missing, local officials said on Sunday. "We have evacuated 60 bodies from Aceh Tamiyang district," Ghufran Zainal Abidin, the local chairperson of the Prosperous Justice Party, said from the worst-affected area in Aceh province.
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/ 19 December 2006
Dozens of new species of animals and plants including a catfish with protruding teeth and a tree frog with striking bright green eyes have been found in the past year in the forests of Borneo, a WWF report said on Tuesday. The discoveries include 30 unique fish species, two tree frog species, 16 ginger species, three tree species and one large-leafed plant species.
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/ 18 December 2006
A quake that struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed at least seven people, injured 150 and brought down hundreds of homes, local officials and police said on Monday. Three aftershocks sent residents rushing out of their homes in the region, where memories of the 2004 tsunami, which devastated Aceh further to the north, are still fresh.
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/ 15 December 2006
Landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island killed 17 people on Friday, most of them worshippers in a mosque, a rescue official said. Satria Arjuna, chief of the emergency team in the area, said workers were searching for 11 more people missing after the landslides struck two villages in the remote area of western Sumatra.
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/ 14 December 2006
Paparazzi-hating Hollywood stars have nothing on a young Indonesian tiger that destroyed three camera traps during a 10-day rampage through the jungle of Sumatra. In each case, the film inside was spared and revealed that the same culprit was responsible for all three incidents, said conservation group the WWF.
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/ 29 November 2006
A strong undersea earthquake struck near the Moluccas islands in northern Indonesia on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said on its website, but there were no reports of a tsunami or casualties. The agency put the strength of the quake, which struck at 10.32am (1.32am GMT), at a magnitude of 6,1.
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/ 5 November 2006
A colonial-era railway that was once the lifeblood of Indonesia’s Aceh could paradoxically be revived in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, which obliterated the coastline of the province. Built in 1876 by the Dutch, the 600km single-gauge railway in the north of Sumatra island sank into oblivion a century later amid unrest.
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/ 31 October 2006
An Indonesian university student got almost four months in jail for calling the president and his deputy ”cat excrement”. Fahrur Rohman (19) was found guilty of publicly insulting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice-President Jusuf Kalla and handed a sentence of three months and 23 days on Monday, a clerk at the South Jakarta court said.
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/ 11 October 2006
Hundreds of people prayed for rain on Wednesday in an Indonesian province hard-hit by forest fires as south-east Asian environment ministers prepared to gather to discuss ways to tackle smoke haze covering the region. Dry season fires caused by farmers and big businesses such as plantations have been burning for weeks in parts of Indonesia.
A cry for help from a man desperate for a date was one of two million text messages sent to Indonesia’s president since he set up the service last year, a report said on Wednesday. ”I need a job Mr President! I also need a wife and I want to have a date! Please help me! You are the president, right?” said one of the messages sent to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Western foreign policy and a tendency among some Muslims to impose their idea of truth have been key factors in the the rise of radical Islam, Muslim writers say. ”Islam is about peace and submission. But there are certain realities that we cannot hide from,” said Ziauddin Sardar, a Britain-based writer best known for his book, Why Do People Hate America?”.