Yogyakarta, Indonesia News

BANGALORE: The Geological Society of India is conducting an entrance test on January 24 in 21 cities to select 20 students to attend a training camp in Earth Sciences at Bangalore.

Dotted with spectacular religious monuments and ruins, the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta is a popular destination for pilgrims and historians.

Duke University Press is about to publish a revised version of Stanley Ann Dunham's 1992 dissertation : The book runs about 300 pages and focuses on a blacksmithing village called Kajar, in the province of Yogyakarta on the island of Java.

Pandansimo beach is located at Poncosari Village, Srandakan, more or less 20 kilometres on the southwest of Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

The Ph.D. dissertation of S. Ann Dunham, President Obama's mother, is being published, 15 years after her death.

Kon Wei Keong, a student from Chung Hwa Middle School Bandar Seri Begawan , has made his school proud by winning the bronze medal at the Sixth International Mathematics and Science Olympiad for Primary Schools 3009 held in Jogjakarta, Indonesia early this month.

In a country of 220 million people, spread across some 17,000 islands, transport systems are crucial to keeping Indonesia moving.

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Getty photographer looks at life as a transgendered Muslim. A November 11, 2009 12:29 PM A A A A Maryani poses at a special prayer school for transgendered Muslims or 'waria' on November 9, 2009 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Getty photographer looks at life as a transgendered Muslim. A November 11, 2009 12:29 PM A A A A Maryani poses at a special prayer school for transgendered Muslims or 'waria' on November 9, 2009 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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MALAYSIAN and Indonesian oil palm growers yesterday withdrew their objection to the introduction of greenhouse gas criteria under the production certification standards by the Roundtable on Sutainable Palm Oil .

While I abhor bigotry, I cherish individual rights, and that's my concern after reading your news article "Official won't wed mixed-race couple." Actions are being taken by the American Civil Liberties Union against a Hammond justice of the peace, Keith Bardwell.

When Fulbright Scholar Dr. Mukhtasar Syamsuddin discusses the "Muslim World," he has several different world to discuss.

"I think it's pronounced 'Shar-ga'," says Alistair Bailey who saw this sign in a mall in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Tiger owned by Purworejo Regent Confiscated Wednesday, 07 October, 2009 14:04 WIB TEMPO Interactive, Yogyakarta: A four-year old Sumatran tiger belonging to suspended Purworejo regent, Kelik Sumrahadi, was confiscated yesterday at the Purworejo Hall by the Central Java Natural Resources Conservation Agency, given that Kelik did not have the ...

Two massive seismic jolts similarly deadly, but as yet unrelated brought chaos and destruction to a vast swath of the Pacific Rim yesterday, killing several hundred people and leaving thousands more feared trapped under piles of rubble on a day when nature showed her deadly hand.

UNITED States President Barack Obama had it down pat when he described Indonesia as a country that had known 'extraordinary hardships from natural disasters'. From earthquakes to floods to landslides, Indonesians - especially those who live in the country's tectonically active areas - have witnessed death and destruction at first hand.

International aid organizations began arriving in force in Padang on Friday in the aftermath of the murderous earthquake that destroyed huge swaths of this provincial capital two days ago.

Another strong earthquake rocked Indonesia early Thursday as the Southeast Asian nation was reeling from an earlier jolt that killed more than 500 people and caused widespread destruction.