Recent Stories from Indonesia
Good for the teeth
10 Jun, 2008
Team in Indonesia works with a Malaysian dentist to help provide dental care to people in a poor rice farming community.
Earthquake in Indonesia7 Jun, 2006
OM Indonesia is seeking to respond to the devastating earthquake which hit central Java last week. Leader Bagus Surjantoro lives just 100km from the affected region. He writes, "Recently we have been anxiously watching the smoke from the Merapi Volcano, which could erupt at any time. But, instead of the eruption the earthquake measuring 6.3 Richter scale killed thousands on Saturday 27 May." The death toll currently stands at more than 6,200 with half a million people left homeless. Two days after the quake, Bagus drove 70km to Klaten, one of the worst affected regions.
INDONESIA REPORT31 Dec, 2004
Nearly 80,000 people are confirmed dead in Indonesia, whose western island of Sumatra was closest to the epicentre of the earthquake.
Ethic, religious and social tensions persist as the world’s most populous Islamic nation seems headed for more tumultous times22 Feb, 1999
Ethic, religious and social tensions persist as the world’s most populous Islamic nation seems headed for more tumultous times. New clashes in the island of Haruku, near Ambon (some 2,300 km east of Jakarta), is the latest in a spate of Christian-Muslim violence which began in this region last month. Nineteen people were reported to have died in the Haruku attacks, believed to be triggered off by the burning of a Christian house last week.