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Posted by: Roy Tupai on 07, 21 2006 @ 08:19 am The installation of a nationwide tsunami early warning system is scheduled for completion in mid-2008 and will cost about Rp1.3 trillion ($142 million),...

Villagers living on the upper slopes of Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, are being urged to prepare for evacuation after authorities warned that a major eruption may be imminent...

The government has ignored calls for an independent inquiry into ongoing violence and terror attacks in Central Sulawesi and instead decided to form a new security command in the province. The result...

The government is sending emergency food and medical supplies to Papua province after reports that at least 55 people have starved to death there over the past month. Another 117 people are said to...

The team of foreign monitors overseeing the peace process in Aceh province has welcomed the Indonesian government's initial provision of economic welfare payments to former separatist rebels. In a...

By Roy Tupai Reconstruction work in tsunami-devastated Aceh province is proceeding slowly at best. The government claims this is because not all of the promised foreign aid has arrived. President...

The Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) says it has prepared a contingency plan in the eventuality that the peace deal between the government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) is scuttled by the rebels. ...