by Yohanes Obor | Oct 8, 2015 | News, Newsmakers, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is on Thursday (Oct. 8) expected to inspect the efforts to extinguish forest fires in Jambi province, Sumatra Island. It will be President Jokowi’s fourth visit to the forest fires areas in Sumatra and Kalimantan....
by Haryanto Suharman | Oct 7, 2015 | News, Newsmakers, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Three local residents have lost their lives while hundreds of thousand of other residents suffer respiratory illnesses due to thick haze from forest fires blanketed parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan. The last death victim, according to Kompas.com...
by Haryanto Suharman | Oct 6, 2015 | News, Newsmakers, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) hinted another examination session over Secretary General of Nasdem Party Patrice Rio Capella related to further investigation into bribery scandal implicating infamous lawyer Otto Cornelis (OC) Kaligis...
by Haryanto Suharman | Oct 6, 2015 | News, Newsmakers, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Team (Basarnas) will start the evacuation of the victims and debries of Aviastar’s DHC-6 Twin Otter plane this morning (Oct. 6) after finding the location of the missing plane Monday (Oct. 5) afternoon....
by Haryanto Suharman | Oct 5, 2015 | News, Newsmakers, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Team (Basarnas) has continued their efforts to find the missing DHC-6 Twin Otter plane that lost contact with air traffic controllers since last Friday (Oct. 2) during the flight from Masamba to...
by Haryanto Suharman | Oct 5, 2015 | News, Newsmakers, People
JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – 100 Indonesian pilgrims have lost their lives so far after a stampede in Mina during the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The National Police’s Disaster Victims Identification (DVI) will continue to identify the victims of the Mina stampede...
