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National 2 days ago

NTB religious affairs officers nabbed for allegedly demanding share of post-disaster reconstruction fund

Mataram Police have caught two officials of the Religious Affairs Ministry’s West Nusa Tenggar...

National 4 days ago

New BNPB head wants TNI to guard disaster warning devices

The new National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) head Lt. Gen. Doni Monardo went as far as to...

National 1 week ago

Tornado hits Bandung, damaging houses

Dozens of houses in Rancaekek lost their roof tiles to the tornado.

Opinion 2 weeks ago

Commentary: Curb threat of malaria following Sunda Strait tsunami

The Sunda Strait tsunami of Dec. 22 has not only shown Indonesia’s high risk for natural disas...

National 2 weeks ago

Floods, landslides to dominate 2019 amid continuing environmental damage

BNPB says natural disasters are related to continued environmental damage.

SE Asia 3 weeks ago

Tsunami feared after 6.9-magnitude quake strikes off southern Philippines: USGS

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday.

Opinion 3 weeks ago

Heed lessons from Indonesia’s out-of-the-blue tsunami disaster

Proper attention and vigilance are needed against sudden tsunami that strike without any obviou...

National 3 weeks ago

Tsunami survivors face another whammy as floodwater swamps homes

The plight of tsunami survivors in Banten is far from over as floodwater has swamped their homes.&nb...

National 3 weeks ago

Survivor in Banten saw hundreds of people disappear under tsunami waves

A witness said the waves reached as high as 7 meters, but on Saturday the BMKG said the highest...

Entertainment 3 weeks ago

Seventeen loses band members in Sunda Strait tsunami

The band confirmed via a press release that bassist M. Awal Purbani, also known as Bani, and road ma...