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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
Indonesia said on Wednesday its shared colonial past with Zimbabwe meant it could ”understand” that country’s controversial programme of seizing white-owned farms and giving them to blacks. ”As a country that has also experienced land reform and a colonial past, we understand,” said Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda.
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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.
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/ 24 October 2003
United States President George W Bush this week sought, on a flying visit to Indonesia, to mend fences with the Islamic world but faced harsh criticism of his Iraq and Middle East policies when he met three of the country’s moderate Muslim leaders.
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/ 1 September 2003
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, the Indonesian who has been sentenced to death for the Bali bombings, appeared in public on Monday for the first time since his conviction and testified that he was involved in an earlier deadly attack.
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.
The bomb which ripped through a hotel in the Indonesian capital Jakarta was detonated by a mobile phone, police said on Wednesday.
Indonesian National Police Chief General Da’i Bachtiar said there were similarities between the scenes of the bomb attack on a Jakarta hotel on Tuesday and the devastating blast in Bali last October.
A car bomb ripped through the American-owned JW Marriott hotel in the business district of Jakarta on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and leaving more than 100 injured, police said.
Too many countries in East Asia and the Pacific continue to fail their children despite dramatic economic growth in parts of the region, the United Nations children’s fund Unicef said on Monday.
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/ 30 September 2002
Former South African President Nelson Mandela on Monday intensified his criticism of US policy on Iraq, and alleged that race was a factor in countries questioning the United Nations.
Indonesia has arrested the alleged leader of a militant Islamic group suspected in last week’s Bali nightclub bombings and blamed the attack on al-Qaida and its allies in Southeast Asia.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela on Monday intensified his criticism of US policy on Iraq, and alleged that race was a factor in countries questioning the United Nations.
A bus carrying kindergarten children on a picnic plunged into a ravine in Indonesia’s East Java province on Tuesday and the state Antara news agency said at least 16 of them were killed.