Postcards: Indonesia fishing village grapples with piles of trash brought in by tides
WILLY KURNIAWAN, of Reuters, reports from the fishing village of Teluk…
Indonesia’s Java escapes 6.4 magnitude quake with few casualties, light damage
Jakarta, IndonesiaReuters A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java on Friday evening, injuring at least 10 people, while one person died of suspected heart attack during the quake, the country’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said. A resident shows a damaged house after an earthquake struck off the?Indonesian island of Java in […]
Indonesia’s race to preserve habitat of Javan gibbon
Petungkriyoni Forest, Indonesia Reuters Indonesian officials and researchers are working to preserve a small pocket of forest on the heavily populated island of Java as the habitat of the Javan gibbon, which they say is endangered by climate change and human encroachment. Also known as the silvery gibbon, the primate is unique to central and […]
Death toll continues to climb after Indonesian tsunami
The death toll from a tsunami which struck parts of the coastline of the western Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra has reached at least 430 with almost 1,500 more injured. The tsunami, which hit coastal communities on Saturday night, was triggered by volcanic activity on Anak Krakatau, a volcano located in the Sunda Strait. […]
More than 220 killed as tsunami strikes parts of Indonesia
At least 222 people have died and hundreds more been injured in Indonesia after a tsunami struck parts of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide caused by an erupting volcano. Officials were quoted as saying the disaster resulted from volcanic activity on Anak Krakatau and that with many affected areas still out of communication, […]
Cutting of burial cross in public cemetery in Indonesia “against constitution” say church leaders
World Watch Monitor The removal of a cross on the grave of a Catholic before he could be buried in an Indonesian public cemetery has been condemned by the country’s church leaders, reports the Catholic news agency UCAN. Albertus Slamet Sugihardi died in the village of Purbayan, in the province of Central Java. His funeral was […]
Three churches closed in Indonesia in permits dispute
World Watch Monitor Three churches were closed in an Indonesian village last week amidst rumours Muslims were planning to protest against the churches’ presence because they did not have the required permits. But a pastor from one of the affected churches in West Kenali village, Alam Barajo district, in Sumatra’s central Jambi province, told World […]
Indonesia’s religious minorities protest against closure of worship places
World Watch Monitor Indonesian Christians and Ahmadiyya Muslims gathered together in West Java last weekend to protest against the closure of several of their places of worship, Catholic news agency UCAN reports. More than 100 people took part in a range of events, including the sharing of personal stories of discrimination. The participants included members of […]
Sword-wielding man attacks Indonesian church, injuring four
BosNewsLife Indonesian police say a sword-wielding man who attacked a church congregation and injured four people during Sunday Mass wanted to join the Islamic State group. Monday’s announcement came after some 100 people were attending the service at a Catholic church in Yogyakarta province on Java island when the 23-year-old suspect, identified as Suliyono, barged […]