Palembang, Indonesia News

Fires on Borneo and Sumatra On Sumatra, a chain of steep mountains runs along the western coast and tapers down to a low-lying coastal plain in the east.

And what an atmosphere they have here in Jakarta! More than 1200 registered to come and bloggers travelling from all over to attend.

The Strait of Malacca, which stretches between the Malaysian peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Indonesia will hold commemoration of the World Habitat Day on Oct. 4 - 5 in South Sumatra's provincial capital city of Palembang to support the habitat agenda drafted by the United Nations through Vancouver Declaration 1976 which promotes proper houses for all people.

Did we take our culture from other lands? Yes, says our columnist. We took what was given willingly to us over the centuries and made it uniquely our own.

ONE day in June 2007 Dago Simamora, a junior high-school teacher in Palembang in South Sumatra, picked up his nine-year-old son from school.

Police arrest poacher for brutally killing tiger Jon Afrizal , THE JAKARTA POST , Jambi Thu, 09/03/2009 11:28 AM The Archipelago Police have arrested a man suspected of brutally killing a Sumatran tiger in its zoo enclosure in Jambi last month.

MALAYSIA'S community airlines, Firefly Sdn Bhd, has suspended its planned Singapore-Melaka route scheduled for commencement on September 1, said managing director Eddy Leong.

"There is no loophole. This is a race between us and that group," he said after attending Friday prayers, referring to the network which goes by various names including Brigade Firaqul Maut .

IT was described as a "follow-up bomb" - a device similar to the two used in last Friday's Jakarta terrorist attack, as well as to an unexploded laptop bag bomb found afterwards, and to yet another seized in a raid in the southern Sumatra city of Palembang a year ago.

Southeast Asia's most wanted Muslim militant is said to be a masterful bomb-maker and aspiring regional commander for al-Qaida, who has eluded capture for nearly a decade.

Some Islamic schools have a magnetic quality for radicals in Southeast Asia, but this does not mean that all such institutions, teachers and students are the problem.

JAKARTA: Five Singaporeans and an Indonesian allegedly linked to key militants of the Jemaah Islamiyah regional jihadi network have been arrested in Indonesia, police said yesterday.

INDONESIAN police have nabbed a Singaporean identified as Husaini Ismail who allegedly plotted to hijack a plane in Bangkok and crash it into Singapore's Changi airport in 2001, according to a report on Tuesday.