Indonesia

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the near the western coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Friday at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), the country’s geophysics agency BMKG said. The earthquake’s epicenter was on land and had no tsunami…
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Indonesia began testing a homegrown Covid-19 vaccine on humans Wednesday after getting the green light from the drug regulator as the country faces a rising wave of virus cases. Research on the “Merah Putih” (“Red White“) vaccine — named…
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Indonesia has temporarily banned foreign tourists entering the country through Jakarta's airport, the transport ministry said, in a bid to slow a spike in coronavirus infections driven by the Omicron variant. The Southeast Asian country…
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Indonesia's holiday island of Bali welcomed its first direct flight carrying foreign tourists for nearly two years on Thursday, but just a handful of visitors were on board to enter strict quarantine on arrival. A Garuda Indonesia flight…
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Indonesia opened up two islands close to Singapore to visitors from the city-state on Monday, officials said, as part of calibrated moves to reboot its tourism sector while controlling the spread of Covid-19. Singaporeans can visit Batam…
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More than 100 Rohingya refugees who had been adrift on a sinking boat off the western coast of Indonesia were allowed to disembark early on Friday, after authorities relented following international pressure to allow the group to seek…
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An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale struck 95km north of Maumere in Indonesia today, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. Indonesia issued a tsunami warning after the earthquake, which the country's authorities…
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Rescuers dug out the body of 13-year-old boy with their bare hands on Monday, as improved weather conditions allowed them to resume their search after the highest volcano on Indonesia’s Java island erupted with fury, killing at least 15…
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Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi met her Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan in the island state on Tuesday to hold talks on the opening of a travel lane between the two neighboring Southeast Asian countries. The meeting…
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