Mon, 11/22/2010 - 23:28 by harsheeb
Jakarta -- Indonesia, which currently has three nuclear reactors, has geological conditions and enough material for reactors in "every province," a government expert said.
The country's National Nuclear Energy Agency said the country's existing nuclear power plants have a capacity of 90 megawatts but the country has the resources to build more than 30 plants, the Antara news agency reported Monday.
"Every province in Indonesia has potential to develop a nuclear reactor because there are ample material stocks and appropriate geological support," said Wawan Purwanto, an expert at the agency.
Korea, only a third the size of Java Island, has 20 nuclear reactors, and China has 30 reactors, he said.
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Sun, 10/10/2010 - 05:42 by harsheeb
Jakarta-- Erwin Arnada, a former editor of Indonesian Playboy, was arrested in Bali Saturday after ignoring three orders to turn himself in for indecency.
Arnada was first tried in 2007 and cleared of all charges, but in August he was sentenced to two years in prison for indecency.
"We picked him up from Bali today to fly him to Jakarta," South Jakarta chief prosecutor Mohammed Yusuf told the BBC Saturday.
Islamist groups forced Indonesian Playboy to shut down in 2006 after its first few issues were distributed, and the Islamist Defenders Front, or FPI, called Arnanda a "moral terrorist."
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Sun, 08/29/2010 - 22:02 by Deepika Garg
A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted early Sunday morning, filling the region with black smoke and ash and forcing thousands of residents to evacuate their homes. The volcano had been inactive for over 400 years.
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Wed, 06/02/2010 - 10:18 by Rakhi
Jakarta -- U.S. automakers Ford and General Motors have their eyes on Indonesia as a car market with growing potential, company executives said.
President of GM International Operations Tim Lee said he was "very, very optimistic" that the Indonesian market would blossom this year. His counterpart, Will Angove, president of Ford Motor Indonesia said, "There's a stable democratic government in place, which is in its second term (and) interest rates are at an all-time low," the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday.
Angove said, "People are feeling pretty good about things" in the fourth largest country in the world by population.
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Tue, 06/01/2010 - 10:33 by Rakhi
Jakarta -- An Indonesian mother brought her 2-year-old boy to the nation's capital seeking help for his addiction -- to cigarettes, officials said.
A video of the toddler inhaling deeply on a cigarette and blowing smoke rings showed up on the Internet last week, turning him into a local celebrity, CNN reported Sunday.
His mother Diana, who like many Indonesians goes by just one name, met at the Jakarta airport with Seto Mulyadi, chairman of Indonesia's National Commission for Child Protection.
The boy, named Aldi, is a victim of his environment, Mulyadi said.
"Smoking has been a part of our culture for so long it isn't perceived as being hazardous, as causing illness, as poisonous," Mulyadi said.
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Sat, 02/13/2010 - 09:54 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Porong, Indonesia -- Scientists and drilling experts say they're in disagreement about whether a gas exploration well triggered a fatal mud volcano in Indonesia.
The world's biggest mud volcano killed 13 people and displaced 30,000 more May 29, 2006, in the Porong sub-district of Sidoarjo, East Java. Mud from the volcanic dome destroyed four villages and continues to ooze enough to fill 50 Olympic-size swimming pools every day, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, said.
The drilling firm Lapindo Brantas has said an earthquake centered 174 miles away triggered the mud volcano, while an international scientific team, including the California researchers, allege it was caused by improper removal of a drill bit.
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Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:08 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Surabaya, Indonesia -- An Indonesian court acquitted a 9-year-old boy of charges stemming from a bee he allegedly placed on a classmate's desk.
The 9-year-old third-grader from Dr. Sutomo Primary School in Surabaya, identified by the court as DY, was acquitted Monday by Surabaya District Court of a charge of "tormenting" a female classmate by placing a bee on her desk that stung her on the cheek, The Jakarta Post reported Thursday.
The case began March 3 of last year, when Commissioner Supardi Astiko of the East Java Police's crime unit reported the boy to prosecutors for allegedly putting the bee on his daughter's desk. He was charged with "tormenting" his classmate.
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Tue, 08/18/2009 - 08:07 by Shruti Sharma
Jakarta -- An Indonesian admiral did the honors Monday, announcing a world record for a mass scuba dive of more than 2,500 divers.
Rear Adm. Moekhals Sidik confirmed that 2,562 scuba divers took the plunge for an underwater flag-raising in North Sulawesi that marked Indonesia's Independence Day.
"Indonesia should be proud of this achievement," Sidik said. "It shows that we can do something good for the country."
The Jakarta Globe said a representative of the venerable Guinness World Records was on hand to witness the even, which was part of the Sail Bunaken maritime festival.
The participants included 2,486 Indonesians and 76 foreigners.
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Wed, 06/17/2009 - 12:57 by preet_20
Jakarta, June 17: The toll in a coalmine explosion in Indonesia has risen to 28 Wednesday, with 12 miners still trapped and feared dead, officials said.
Rescuers pulled more bodies from the West Sumatra mine, which collapsed after an explosion of methane gas Tuesday, said Adri Chandra of the provincial crisis centre.
Chandra said nine people were injured, most with serious burns. Eight victims were treated at a local hospital in Sawahlunto while another one was sent to the provincial capital of Padang, due to his serious condition.
Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre in Jakarta, said 12 miners were still trapped in a 150-metre shaft and feared dead.
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Mon, 04/20/2009 - 11:13 by Salinder Kumar
Jakarta -- The Bank Indonesia says it has liquidated Bank IFI after the bank failed to meet sound banking conditions imposed on it while under regulatory supervision.
ANTARA News reported Sunday that Bank IFI's license was revoked, said Wimboh Santoso, Bank Indonesia`s head of financial system stability.
Wimboh said Bank IFI`s capital adequacy ratio was below 8 percent, while its non-performing loans reached 24 percent.
The bank had been under supervision since 2002. Bank IFI was under special supervision since September, ANTARA reported.
Wimboh said the liquidation would not have wide-ranging effects since Bank IFI's assets were 0.01 percent of the total assets of the banking industry.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Sat, 04/04/2009 - 12:52 by rcrchauhan
Jakarta, April 4 -- An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale Saturday jolted the eastern part of Indonesia, the meteorology and disaster management agencies said.
The quake occurred at 0541 GMT, with the epicentre 117 km northeast of North Sulawesi and 10 km under the seabed, an official said. No tsunami warning was issued.
"There is no report of damage or fatality. The people only felt a light shake," Panji Syahril Maulana of the disaster management agency said.
Indonesia with over 230 million people sits on a vulnerable quake zone called the Pacific Ring of Fire, where the two continental plates meet, which cause frequent seismic and volcanic movements.
copyright 2009 by IANS.
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Thu, 04/02/2009 - 14:39 by rcrchauhan
Jakarta, April 2 -- Mental hospitals across Indonesia are prepared to treat politicians who may need psychiatric therapy after they lose next month's legislative elections, the Health Ministry said Thursday.
More than 600,000 candidates are vying for some 18,000 seats in national, provincial and district legislatures in the April 9 elections, the third democratic polls since the fall of former autocratic president Suharto in 1998.
The Health Ministry has ordered the nation's 32 mental hospitals to anticipate a surge in patients after the results of the elections are announced, said Sumardi, a ministry spokesman.
"Legislative candidates spend huge fortunes to get elected. It is natural that losers may get depressed," said Sumardi, who like many Indonesians goes by a single name.
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