Badung, Denpasar's Big Sister

"Badung Regency, south coast of Bali When the other rival kingdoms in south Bali were defeated by the Dutch in 1900, Badung Kingdom gained an expansive links trade. But it was last only for six years as Badung was finally invaded in 1906 through a massive battle known as...

Malnutrition death toll rises in East Nusa Tenggara

" The death toll from malnutrition in East Nusa Tenggara has increased to 23 following the death of a child in Sumba regency on June 14. East Nusa Tenggara health office head Stefanus Bria Seran said in Kupang on Monday that his office was making efforts to limit the...

Bloody Easter in Atambua

"Chaos broke out in Atambua, capital of Belu regency in the East Nusa Tenggara - Timor Leste border region, on Easter Sunday, following the killing of Paulino Lopes, a resident and former East Timorese refugee by allegedly drunk youths on the eve of Easter. East Nusa Tenggara...

Magnitude 5.8 quake hits Sumbawa

"Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA News) - An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted Sumbawa district, West Nusa Tenggara province, on Monday at 08:28 am local time.The quake`s epicenter was located at 8.14 degrees southern latitude and 117.16 degrees eastern...

Security coordination near Timor Leste border intensified

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA News) - Commander of the Military Regional Command IX/Udayana Major General GR Situmeang has instructed the Sub-regional military command (Korem) 161/Wirasakti officers to intensify security coordination with Timor Leste in patrolling the...

RI-Mideast business forum participants inspect airport project

Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA News) - Participants of a two-day business forum between Indonesia and Middle Eastern countries on Wednesday visited a number of tourist objects in West Nusa Tenggara province and the site of the Lombok International Airport (BIL) project....

Abused Indonesian maid returns home from Malaysia

""I don't want to go back to Malaysia. I will start a business at home," she said, adding that she had enough money to start over in Tuapakas village, located some 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Kupang.Bonat's case made headlines in Malaysia, with photographs of the severe...

Indonesia, Timor Leste to sign MoU on food and drug supervision

""The MoU will be signed when Timor Leste`s prime minister visits Indonesia next January," Haerani of the Ministry of Home Affairs said.She made the remarks at a national seminar on management of border areas in Indonesia which was held in East Nusa Tenggara`s provincial...

Australian youths arrive in Indonesia to promote friendship

"The 18 Australian young people will be accompanied by their 18 Indonesian counterparts, who have just completed a successful two-month stay in Melbourne, Australia, under the bilateral youth exchange.Established in 1982, AIYEP operates under an MoU between the Indonesian and...

Minister: all types of forests must be given compensation

"Minister Kaban said that Indonesia received appreciation for its achievement in reducing forest degradation in the Forest-11 plus 18 meeting attended by 18 countries having tropical forests and advanced countries such as Germany, Britain, the US and Japan which had been held...

Yudhoyono asks developed nations to do more to address climate change

""In global cooperation, any nation must be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Developed nations which are historically responsible for global warming must do more," he said when addressing the 13th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework...

UNFCCC delegates observe silence for car bomb attack in Algiers

Nusa Dua, Bali (ANTARA News) - Delegates to the UN climate change conference Tuesday observed a minute silence in honor of those killed in car bomb attacks on UN office in Algiers. "In honor of those killed in the incident, let us observe a brief silence," President of the...

Ministry mulls legal action against party intending to sell islands

""The advertisement (which appeared in an internet website recently) is false and illegal" and therefore had to be investigated and acted against, he said.The website advertisement said the 13-hectare Panjang Island and 5-hectare Meriam Besar island near Teluk Santong village...

Australia`s Rudd hands Kyoto papers to U.N. in Bali

"Kyoto binds 36 industrialised nations to curb emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Developing nations are exempt from targets under the pact's first phase and over the past 10 years emissions from nations such as India and China have...

UNFCCC delegates expected to visit other parts of Indonesia

""We have prepared special tours for UNFCCC delegates who wish to visit other tourist destinations in the country," the minister said.He said the tours among others included visits to Yogyakarta, Tanah Toraja, West Nusa Tenggara and several other tourist destinations.To make...