A #volcano in eastern #Indonesia erupted on Monday, spewing a huge ash tower more than five kilometres (three miles) into the sky after authorities raised its alert level to the second-highest last week.
No damage or casualties were immediately reported but images showed a column of ash soaring into the sky on #Halmahera island in #NorthMaluku province.
One man dead in suspected #Indonesia tiger attack, hunt ongoing in Riao province, Sumatera. #tootsea
Tigers used to kill durian collectors as they carried the huge ripe fruits in baskets on their backs. Durian was the only fruit wild tigers loved enough to get close to humans.
Wow... sepertinya tidak perlu jadi HACKERMAN untuk bisa menghambat/menghentikan lingkungan digital di #Indonesia, cukup dengan mengajukan laporan ke Kominfo bahwa ada
"konten negatif baik berupa situs/website, URL, akun media sosial, aplikasi mobile, dan software yang memenuhi kriteria sebagai Informasi dan/atau Dokumen Elektronik bermuatan negatif sesuai peraturan perundang-undangan."
Secara teoritis, Github bisa diblokir. Archive.org bisa diblokir. Heck, bahkan Wikipedia tidak luput. Wow. 🤔
The Bugis are Muslim, but their belief is strongly influenced by their ancestral #religion.
One #belief centres around the Monitor lizard. The animal is believed to have a human #soul & to be the twin of children. They are treated with respect.
Bugis also categorize people into 5 genders. Each is needed to keep the universe in balance.
Bissu, the #gender which is neither man nor woman, is the intermediary between humans & #gods.
A young girl gazes out of a window in Jakarta, Indonesia, to a flooded street.
With over 80,000 kilometers of coastline comprising more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia faces an imminent threat from rising sea levels. Experts predict that by 2050, thousands of the country's islands and nearly one-third of Java, home to the capital Jakarta, will be under water.
So long, DailySocial. There goes Indonesia’s longest running tech industry blog. I broke a lot of stories and broke down moronic government policies with them for a few years which gave me a bit of reputation among the startup and government circles.
The new company ownership and structure will focus on the consultancy and research part of the business, shutting down the media side. This also means leaving the Djarum portfolio of companies under its GDP media group.
Indonesia’s customs office has been under fire this past week thanks to a few cases going viral.
First case was someone being charged 3x the value of the shoes he bought online. Customs said because there was a mistake in item value entered into the system by the sender (under invoicing) the recipient is now liable for the $1800 fine.
Second was a toy influencer receiving their self transforming Megatron toy two weeks late, damaged box, opened by customs, and being given a runaround by the customs office. He was supposed to be part of a global unboxing event last week. A special staff to the finance ministry responded on X but he got piled on due to bureaucratic speak and evasive responses. Customs also charged him based on the price for the Grimlock model which is twice as much.
Third one, prototype equipments for a special needs school given by a South Korean company has been held by customs since 2022 because the school hadn’t paid the import tax bill totaling more than $6,000. There’s no price available online because it’s a prototype so the office decided the value on their own. The school got tired of explaining and gave up in January 2023. Finance Minister made a statement on Instagram yesterday on expediting the process and dropping all fees.
All of these cases were resolved only after they went viral on X.
The placenta has always been seen as something mystical.
In #Australia, if it was believed that, if the mother had launched the afterbirth into the water, the baby would have been a good swimmer.
Batak¹ people from Sumatra, #Indonesia, buried it under the house; it was believed to be the newborn's sister or brother.
Similarly, Baganda² from #Uganda believed that the placenta was a doppelgänger of the child – this is similar to the #Irish (or #British, in general?) concept of fetch.³
It’s really funny that the two major parties backing Anies Baswedan for presidency have given the clearest signals that they will support Prabowo.
The expansion of the Advance Indonesia Coalition means that the President-elect will have the backing of the majority of the next parliament, leaving the current party in opposition, PKS, and the current ruling party, PDIP, potentially in opposition together for the next five years.
The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. CNN explores one place where a lot of it ends up: the Western coast of Java in Indonesia.
Tsunami warning issued following multiple major eruptions of an Indonesian volcano, ( www.infoterkiniviral.com )
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