•British national Lindsay Sandiford sentenced to death in 2013 over drug trafficking in Indonesia Indonesia signed an agreement today to repatriate two British nationals, including a seriously ill grandmother on death row for more than a decade on drug charges, a minister said. Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest drug laws, but has move...
An oil tanker undergoing repairs at a shipyard in western Indonesia caught fire early today, killing 10 people and injuring 21 others, local police said. The blaze broke out aboard the MT Federal II at around 4:30 am (2130 GMT yesterday), while the vessel was docked at a shipyard on Batam island, near Singapore, local […]
•Rescue personnel search for survivors The death toll in an Indonesian school collapse rose to 14 today, an official said, as rescuers moved to deploy heavy machinery to recover dozens more victims believed still buried under the rubble. Part of the multi-storey Islamic boarding school collapsed suddenly on Monday as students gathered for afte...
•Rescue personnel search for survivors after a building collapsed at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia Rescuers pulled two survivors from a collapsed school in Indonesia today as frantic parents demanded searchers speed up efforts to find dozens of children believed still trapped in the rubble two days on. Part of the multi-storey boardi...
•Donald Trump and Indonesia President Joko Widodo US President Donald Trump said yesterday that he had struck a deal with Indonesia — without providing specifics of the agreement — a week after threatening steeper tariffs on the Southeast Asian country. “Great deal, for everybody, just made with Indonesia,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social plat...
•Peter Obi Labour Party’s presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi, has blamed poor leadership for the rising poverty levels in Nigeria. He lamented that, in comparison, Nigeria has more poor people than China, Indonesia, and Vietnam combined, reports Channels TV. Obi made this assertion while delivering a lecture titled “Politics and Change ...
Nigeria’s revenue from crude oil is currently being threatened, as one of its importers, Indonesia, plans to decrease imports from other countries, while increasing imports of crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas from the United States by around $10 billion, as part of its tariff negotiations, energy minister Bahlil Lahadalia told local media...
Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Thursday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law. While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation — it is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of […...
•Police officers face off with protesters in UK Countries including Nigeria, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, and Canada have warned their citizens against travelling to the United Kingdom following violent riots across the country. According to Reuters, the unrest began after a knife attack at a children’s dance class in Southport, northwest E...
•Indonesia volcano The total number of hikers found dead after a volcano eruption in Indonesia has risen to 13 after two more bodies were found, a local rescue official said today. “The total number of people who have died is currently 13,” Abdul Malik, head of Padang Search and Rescue Agency said, adding that 10 […]
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