Travel news
Weekly news round-ups from 2008.
News Week Ending 05/10/08
It has dominated the news this week. An Islamic militant on death row over the 2002 nightclub bombings on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali pledged " retribution " Wednesday if his execution goes…
News Week Ending 28/09/08
I thought we’d start the week with a bit of culture. Following the recent discovery of the Majapahit town square, archaeologists from various universities have been challenged to locate the palace of…
News Week Ending 21/09/08
Sad beginning this week with at least 23 Indonesians were crushed to death Monday while trying to collect $4.25 in cash handouts from a rich family at a charity event marking the Islamic holy month.
News Week Ending 14/09/08
I have to start this week of with the latest form of tourism . Mud tourism is about the only thing that is flourishing in Porong, in East Java that two years ago became a disaster zone when hot…
News Week Ending 07/09/08
Let’s start the week with a bit of election news. Love them or hate, celebrities often get involved in campaign rallies and so it’s no surprise that some of them might fancy themselves as a…
News Week Ending 31/08/08
Being on a quake zone is no laughing matter as many residents in West java found out early in the week.
News Week Ending 24/08/08
Sumatra is having its fair share of woes lately. The train crash last week has certainly been a sad one.
News Weekending 10/08/08
A great way to start off the week is with politics. Former president Megawati Soekarnoputri and her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) would sweep to victory in both the legislative and…
News Weekending 03/08/08
It always pays to have the correct vaccinations and carry with you medicine for the prevention of illnesses when you travel in the archipelago of Indonesia. Here’s a good reason why.
News Weekending 27/07/08
Let’s start the news off this week with a surprising poll. Results of an online survey conducted by international magazine TravelWeekly listed the resort island of Boracay in Western Visayas as the…
News Weekending 20/07/08
Let’s start the week with some positive news on the environmental front. The tree adoption program organized by the Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park and Jakarta's Green Radio is proving very…
News Weekending 13/07/08
Something that is been going on for decades is the abuse of Indonesian workers overseas.
News in Brief – Week Ending 06/07/08
At the beginning of the week there was a good article about the upcoming elections in 2009 and my favourite pollie Megawati is still courting favour with the people of Indonesia.
News in Brief – Week Ending 29/06/08
Ain’t it a bitch when you lose something and then suddenly find it. It appears an Indonesian military airplane with 18 people on board crashed Thursday in Mount Salak, West Java.
News in Brief – Week Ending 22/06/08
Let’s start the week off with a bit of Sharia justice. Residents in a North Aceh village almost cut off a thief's hand in what was the first known attempt at sharia-style punishment of its kind in…
News in Brief – Week Ending 15/06/08
Let’s start with the illegal fishing that has become rife in the waters of North Sulawesi and the fish poaching has inflicted a loss of Rp462 billion to the state in 2008.
News in Brief – Week Ending 08/06/08
Let’s start the week with a bit of almost deadly hilarity. It appears a group of honey bears have stormed a residential site for tea plantation workers in Solok regency in West Sumatra.
News in Brief – Week Ending 01/06/08
Let’s start the news this week with the US State Department lifting its travel warning for Indonesia .
News in Brief – Week Ending 25/05/08
Some guys have all the luck and this certainly wasn’t the case for the Indonesian police when South-East Asia’s most-wanted terror suspect, Noordin Top, evaded a massive manhunt and fled Indonesia.
News in Brief – Week Ending 18/05/08
The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has protested against a plan to build hotels and villas in a number of districts in Bali province in support of the tourism industry.
News in Brief – Week Ending 11/05/08
No crazy news to start the week but instead, sad news. A report by the Center for Orangutan Protection says just 20,000 of the endangered primates remain in the tropical jungle of Central Kalimantan,…
News in Brief – Week Ending 04/05/08
Crazy week eh. The unprecedented world shortage of rice is astounding and Indonesia intends not to sit on their bum.
News in Brief – Week Ending 27/04/08
There are many ways to dispose of a body when you are dead. Burn it, inter it, embalm it or even put it in a luxury place.
News in Brief – Week Ending 20/04/08
Heart-rendering story starts this week’s news with doctors having removed almost 2kg of warts from an Indonesian man dubbed " Tree Man " because of the bark-like growths on his hands and feet.
News in Brief – Week Ending 13/04/08
Sobering start to the week with East Timorese pro-integration leader Eurico Guterres eventually walking free from the Cipinang maximum-security jail. You should remember this guy.
News in Brief – Week Ending 05/04/08
First up off the rank this week is the story of a nine-year-old boy who ran away from his home in Jakarta with more than $US10,000 ($11,000) in cash belonging to his father.
News in Brief – Week Ending 30/03/08
Hardline Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has likened tourists to "worms, snakes, maggots" and called for signs to be placed in Muslim areas warning them to dress modestly.
News in Brief – Week Ending 23/03/08
Another odd assortment of news this week with a few surprises, well one of them is not really a surprise.
News in Brief - Week Ending 16/03/08
It’s been a strange week around the archipelago with the usual earthquakes and of course a few cases of corruption, none better than a public prosecutor.
News from Around the Archipelago
Thought I would start a new posting on Indonesialogue every Sunday about some of the relevant news from around the archipelago of Indonesia .