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Massive eruption at Sinabung volcano, ash to 16.7 km (55 000 feet) a.s.l.
– Massive eruption at Sinabung volcano, ash to 16.7 km (55 000 feet) a.s.l.:
A high impact volcanic ash eruption started at Sinabung volcano, Indonesia at 01:53 UTC on Monday, February 19, 2018. Pyroclastic flows traveled 3.5 km (2.1 miles) and 4.9 km (3 miles) from the summit. Ash plume was reaching an altitude of 16.7 km (55 000 feet) above sea level, the Darwin VAAC reported 04:50 UTC. Aviation Color Code was raised from Orange to Red.
The eruption started at 01:53 UTC (08:53 local time) and lasted 4 minutes and 51 seconds, Sinabung Volcano Observatory reported.
Their best estimate of the ash cloud top at 02:13 UTC was 7.4 km (23 872 feet) above sea level. The observatory noted that the ash cloud is drifting to the east and southeast, adding that its top may be higher than what can be clearly observed from the ground. The Aviation Color Code was raised from Orange to Red.
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Indonesia to storm Papua rebel villages
– Indonesia to storm Papua rebel villages:
Around 200 Indonesian police and military personnel have been deployed in the eastern province of Papua where they say villages are being held by rebels.
Indonesian security forces in the eastern province of Papua are preparing to storm five villages that they say are being held by an armed rebel group, police officials say.
Around 200 police and military personnel have been deployed and are awaiting orders to secure the area, where an armed separatist group linked to the Free Papua Movement (OPM) is preventing about 1000 people from leaving an area near a giant copper mine, operated by the American miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc .
“Today the joint police and military forces have occupied various posts to be able to take action,” said Papua police spokesman, Suryadi Diaz.
“They will be taken dead or alive,” he said of the around 100 rebels that police say have tortured and abused the villagers since taking over the area several days ago.
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H/t reader kevin a.
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Files reveal US had detailed knowledge of Indonesia’s anti-communist purge
Spreading peace and democracy…
– Files reveal US had detailed knowledge of Indonesia’s anti-communist purge:
Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s.
The thousands of files from the US embassy in Jakarta covering 1963-66 were made public on Tuesday after a declassification review that began under the Obama administration.
The files fill out the picture of a devastating reign of terror by the Indonesian army and Muslim groups that has been sketched by historians and in a US state department volume that was declassified in 2001 despite a last-minute CIA effort to block its distribution.
In 1965, Indonesia had the world’s third-largest communist party after China and the Soviet Union, with several million members, and the country’s president, the charismatic Sukarno, was vociferously socialist and anti-American.
US officials were ecstatic when conservative generals imposed martial law in Jakarta, seized state radio and set out to annihilate the country’s communist party on the pretext that it had tried to overthrow the government. Within months, the army would prevail, shifting Indonesia’s political orientation to the US and opening its huge market to American companies.
The newly released files underline the US embassy’s and state department’s early, detailed and ongoing knowledge of the killings and eagerness to avoid doing anything that would hinder the Indonesian army. Historians had already established that the US provided lists of senior communist party officials, radio equipment and money as part of active support for the army.
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Indonesia: Tens Of Thousands Flee As Active Bali Volcano Set To Erupt
– Tens Of Thousands Flee As Active Bali Volcano Set To Erupt:
In the latest example of a natural cataclysm displacing tens of thousands of people, and as reported earlier this week, the number of people taking shelter in makeshift evacuation centers on the Indonesian island of Bali has surged to around 104,000, officials said on Thursday, as residents fled the area around a rumbling, active volcano that is expected to erupt momentarily.
Mount Agung, the largest volcano on the island, located some 50 miles from the tourist hub of Kuta, has been shaking since August, and its tremors have increased in both intensity and strength, prompting the Balinese government to evacuate prisoners from local jails and evacuated tourists and residents away from the base of the volcano. The island’s government has declared a state of emergency, according to Reuters.
Thousands more people have been forced to flee in recent day as the government set up an exclusion zone around the volcano’s perimeter.
According to experts who spoke with the Guardian, an eruption is imminent.
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Indonesia: Sumatra’s Deadly Mount Sinabung Volcano Erupts
Sumatra’s deadly Mount Sinabung exploded early this afternoon, spewing ash 1½ miles (2.5 km) into the sky.
Thousands of villagers were evacuated from around the mountain and warned to stay at least 4.2 miles (7 km) away, the Daily Mail reports.
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Indonesia: Where you get a 2 year prison sentence, because you’ve claimed that the Koran does not forbid Muslims to vote for a Christian (Video)
The religion of peace strikes again.
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World’s ‘oldest person’ dies at age of 146 in Indonesia
– World’s ‘oldest person’ dies at age of 146 in Indonesia:
“The world’s oldest person” passed away in his rural home in Central Java, Indonesia, at the ripe old age of 146 on Sunday.Mbah Ghoto lived through three different centuries, two world wars, and outlived all of his children.
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Indonesia Terminates All Business Relationships With JPMorgan After Downgrade
– Indonesia Terminates All Business Relationships With JPMorgan After Downgrade:
We officially have a new definition ot “thin-skinned”.
In what may be one of the most dramatic retaliations to a downgrade report, Indonesia’s government said it has terminated all business partnerships with JPMorgan Chase after the U.S. bank downgraded its outlook on stocks in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The finance ministry announced it would stop using JPMorgan as a primary dealer and as an underwriter of its sovereign bonds, Robert Pakpahan, the ministry’s director-general for budget financing and risk management told reporters in Jakarta on Tuesday. The reason: Pakpahan said a November research report issued by the bank was not “accurate or credible.”
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More Than 150,000 Join Second Jakarta Protest Against Christian Governor
– Widodo Appeals for Calm at Second Jakarta Protest Against Ally:
Indonesian President Joko Widodo sought to ease tension in the world’s most populous Muslim nation by appearing at a rally of more than 150,000 people seeking to jail Jakarta’s Christian governor, an ally of his, over blasphemy allegations.
The president, also known as Jokowi, along with his deputy Jusuf Kalla, joined the mass gathering for Friday prayers around the National Monument in Jakarta and appealed for calm. The police detained about 10 activists ahead of the protest, including eight on alleged treason charges, Rikwanto, a national police spokesman, said in a televised address.
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BP: Indonesia’s Coal Consumption has Doubled Since 2010
– BP: Indonesia’s Coal Consumption has Doubled Since 2010:
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova – According to BP, Indonesia’s coal consumption has doubled since 2010, promoting coal to be the largest source of Indonesian energy.
Indonesia’s coal consumption remains high: BP
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The BP Statistical Review 2016 revealed on Wednesday that Indonesia’s coal consumption had doubled since 2010. Last year, coal became the country’s dominant source of fuel, accounting for 41 percent of total energy consumption.
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“MODERATE” INDONESIA: Protest against a Christian governor turns violent as more than 100,000 Muslims demand death for Christian governor who “blasphemed” Islam
JARKARTA: The biggest street protest in years shook this sprawling capital today in a stark display of the more conservative, militant strain of Islam taking hold in the world’s largest Muslim country. (Which Hillary Clinton has called a “shining example of a ‘moderate’ Islamic country”)
WSJ Police said an estimated 100,000 people turned out for a rally called by hard-line Muslim groups against the capital’s Christian governor, whom they accuse of having committed blasphemy. Blasphemy is a criminal offense in Indonesia and prosecutions have increased in the past decade.
President Joko Widodo had met with other political leaders amid calls for calm, but critics say he has been too slow since taking office in 2014 to respond to worsening tension for fear of being labeled anti-Muslim. “Religiosity is rising, especially among the middle class,” said Yon Machmudi, an Islamic politics expert at the University of Indonesia. “A sense of identification is increasing.’’
Indonesia: Muslim smiles and screams “Allahu akbar” as he gets 10-year sentence for jihad massacre
– Indonesia: Muslim smiles and screams “Allahu akbar” as he gets 10-year sentence for jihad massacre:
“Suridi showed no remorse in the court room.”
Why should he? He believes he has done a great deed for Allah, and will be rewarded in Paradise.
“Militant smiles and praises Allah after being sentenced to 10 years for Jakarta terror attack,” Associated Press, October 20, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced an Islamic militant to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a suicide bombing and gun attack in the capital Jakarta earlier this year.
Indonesian president says chemical castration ‘will reduce sex crimes’
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has defended the introduction of chemical castration for paedophiles, saying there can be “no compromise” when it comes to tackling sex crimes.Chemical castration involves using drugs to reduce libido and sex drive. Mr Widodo introduced a series of tough punishments for child sex offenders in May through an emergency decree, including chemical castration and the death penalty, following an outcry over the fatal gang-rape of a schoolgirl.
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Deaths reported after 7.8 quake strikes off Indonesia, tsunami warning issued
– Deaths reported after 7.8 quake strikes off Indonesia, tsunami warning issued:
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Indonesia, killing an unconfirmed number of people. The country has issued a tsunami warning, the National Meteorological Agency reported.The shallow quake led to multiple deaths, according to Indonesia’s search and rescue agency.
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Indonesia Impaled: Currency Crashes To 1998 Asian Crisis Low As Exports Crater
– Indonesia Impaled: Currency Crashes To 1998 Asian Crisis Low As Exports Crater (ZeroHedge, Aug 18, 2015):
On Monday we laid out the rather dire road ahead for the world’s emerging economies in the face of China’s entry into the global currency wars. The path ahead is riddled with exported deflation and decreased trade competitiveness for a whole host of emerging economies [and] all of this is set against a backdrop of declining global growth and trade, a trend which many had assumed was merely cyclical, but which in fact may prove to be structural and endemic.” Well don’t look now, but trade just collapsed for Indonesia as exports and imports plunged 19.2% and 28.4% (more than double to consensus estimate), respectively in July. Meanwhile, the rupiah is sitting near multi-decade lows.
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Pyroclastic flow on Mount Sinabung, Indonesia – July 27, 2015
– Pyroclastic flow on Mount Sinabung, Indonesia – July 27, 2015 (The Watchers, July 27, 2015):
Effusion of viscous lava continues at slow pace to feed the lava dome with two active lobes on the SE and E upper flanks of Indonesian Sinabung volcano.
At 12:22 local time today, a small part of the eastern lobe collapsed into a medium-sized pyroclastic flow that traveled approximately 2.5 km (1.55 miles) towards the outskirts of the (already evacuated and destroyed) villages of Bekerah and Simacem, Volcano Discovery reports.
Video courtesy of Ingrid Smet / Volcano Discovery.
During July 18 to 19, BNPB reported pyroclastic flows traveled 2.5 -3 km (1.86 miles) E and SE, ash plumes rose as high as 1 km (0.62 miles), and lava was active as far as 1.5 km (0.93 miles) SE. Seismicity was high and the lava dome continued to extrude.
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Indonesia Just Sank “A Large Chinese Vessel” And 40 Other Fishing Boats In The South China Sea
– Indonesia Just Sank “A Large Chinese Vessel” And 40 Other Fishing Boats In The South China Sea (ZeroHedge, May 21, 2015):
According to The China People’s Daily, Indonesia has just sank a large Chinese vessel and 40 other foreign ships caught fishing in The South China Sea. AP confirms that Indonesian authorities blew up and sank the 41 vessels… which seems like something that might just lead to some serious escalation if true…
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Indonesian authorities blew up and sank 41 foreign fishing vessels Wednesday as a warning against poaching in the country’s waters.
Massive evacuations as floods hit Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
People carry their belongings as they escape flood waters from heavy seasonal rains on a street in Dayeuhkolot, West Java, December 23, 2014 – photo Antara Foto. About 100,000 people in affected regions of Indonesia’s West and Central Java had to leave their homes.
– Massive evacuations as floods hit Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand (RT, Dec 28, 2014)
Indonesia: Major Volcanic Eruption Kills At Least 14
– Major Volcanic Eruption Kills at Least 14 in Indonesia (New York Times, Feb 1, 2014):
MOUNT SINABUNG, Indonesia — An Indonesian volcano that has been rumbling for months unleashed a major eruption on Saturday, killing 14 people just a day after the authorities allowed thousands of villagers who had been evacuated to return to its slopes, saying that activity was decreasing, officials said.
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