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Turkey soccer coach Fatih Terim delays visit to Indonesia
Fatih Terim: (AP) Turkey soccer coach Fatih Terim has decided to delay his visit to Indonesia after one of his family members fell sick.“He just contacted us that he will delay his visit to Indonesia,” Deputy State Minister for Sports and Youth A…
Petrochemical factory blast kills 4 in Iran
Petrochemical factory on Iran (iranfocus)Iran’s official news agency says an explosion at a petrochemical factory on Iran’s largest oil terminal has killed four people.The Sunday report said high pressure in the central boiler of the factory led to a…
All porn sites will be blocked before Ramadhan: Tifatul
Tifatul Sembiring The Jakarta Post, Jakarta – Information and Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring said in Jakarta on Thursday that his ministry would block all local and foreign porn sites and the target for the completion of the blockage will…
Netherlands, Banten cooperate on educational program
The Jakarta Post, Banten – Serang Raya University (Unsera) of Banten has begun cooperation with Programma Uietzending Manager (PUM) of the Netherlands on a management program.“The joint program aims at developing enthusiasm of entrepreneurship amo…
New Semarang mayor installed
The Jakarta Post, Semarang, C. Java – Central Java Governor Bibit Waluyo installed new Semarang Mayor Soemarmo and Deputy Hendi Hendrar Prihadi at the Semarang council building on Monday.Soemarmo and Hendi will serve until 2015, replacing former may…
Girl in Central Java dies of avian flu
The Jakarta Post – A 14-year-old junior high school female student in Polokarto, Sukoharjo regency, Central Java died of avian flu on Saturday.Sukoharjo health agency head Agus Prihatmo said he received a confirmation about the cause of the girl death…
Christians complain, difficulties to build Jombang church
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta – Christians living in Jombang, East Java, have complained they have experienced difficulty obtaining a permit to build a church in the town for years.”We submitted a request to build a church four years ago, but there has be…
What will happen to small parties?
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta – The next legislative elections are four years away, but debate is already underway on a change to the parliamentary threshold, which will affect the number of political parties in the House of Representatives.Hadar Gumay,…
Saudi firms ‘stop’ recruiting RI workers
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta – Saudi Arabian foreign worker recruitment firms have stopped hiring Indonesians due to the high costs Indonesian recruitment agencies charge them, says a senior government official.“Saudi Arabian employers have applied a…
Bleak finding ahead of children’s day
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta – As National Children’s Day approaches, the Health Ministry presented bleak findings on the state of the country’s children, citing an ongoing survey that shows more than 11 percent of those under six had symptoms of u…
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