Good News From Indonesia

By Ahmad Cholis Hamzah Krakatau Mountain is located in Sunda strait between Java Island and Sumatra Island of Indonesia. It is a volcanic Mountain and has attracted people around the globe. The American Nature Magazine in 1946 wrote that when people in the world awed by the mighty blast of Atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima [...]

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[The Jakarta Post]: Surabaya, East Java, and Surakarta, Central Java, are the two cities with the cleanest air in Indonesia, the Environment Ministry announced on Wednesday. The two cities beat 24 other cities in the ministry’s Langit Biru (Blue Sky) program, which rated cities’ air quality based on four main considerations. “The four main parameters [...]

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University of Indonesia (UI) has been ranked 22nd out of 142 universities according to a recent study on environmentally-friendly campuses. “UI was the only Indonesian university in the top 30 green universities around the globe,” the university said in a press statement as quoted by kompas.com on Wednesday. Universities from 42 countries participated in the [...]

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The global climate change negotiations — underway from 28 November to 9 December in Durban, South Africa — have people asking once again whether countries around the world will agree on solutions to tackle climate change. It is also an appropriate event to assess the involvement of developing countries like Indonesia, and particularly to understand [...]

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[The Jakarta Globe]: It takes six hours to drive from Kendari in Southeast Sulawesi to the town of Kolaka, and then another three hours to reach the Mekongga mountain range region, where a team of Indonesian and American scientists begin their trek — the real start of their epic journey. “If you get in there [...]

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The great mystery awaits to be unveiled: is it true that the mountain contains a huge pyramid of which size is more superior to Giza Pyramid in Egypt? In Bosnia, six years ago in 2005, a hill named Visocica gained fame. An archaeology enthusiast and businessman, Semir Osmanagic, found unusual appearance on the shape of [...]

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Jakarta (ANTARA News) – All regions in Indonesia simultaneously planted thousands of trees to mark Indonesian Tree Planting Day and National Planting Month led by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Merah Putih Hill, Sentul, Citeureup, Bogor, West Java Province, on Monday (Nov 28). The presidential tree planting ceremony was the signal for the simultaneous execution [...]

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[Kate Wong in Scientific American] A study of bird remains from the same cave that yielded bones of a mini human species called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the hobbit has cast new light on the lost world of this enigmatic human relative. The findings hint that the hobbits’ island home was quite ecologically diverse, and [...]

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Tanpa kita sadari, air merupakan elemen utama kehidupan yang telah memberikan manfaat tidak ternilai bagi kelangsungan hidup umat manusia. Air adalah salah satu sumberdaya yang mendukung keberlangsungan hidup manusia dan juga mahluk hidup lainnya. Air merupakan kebutuhan pokok sehari-hari, sehingga harus dilestarikan sebagai bentuk rasa syukur manusia terhadap anugerah Tuhan. Cuma sayangnya kita seperti tidak [...]

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The United States and Indonesian governments signed an agreement September 29, 2011 that will result in $28.5 million in funding to protect a large block of forest land in the Indonesian region known as the Heart of Borneo. WWF and The Nature Conservancy worked with the two governments to develop this innovative conservation financing approach. [...]

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