Indonesia Travel News

Rabies is threatening to run out of control in the dogs in Bali. Australia has just given an extra $750,000 to help Indonesian authorities vaccinate dogs, collar them and research the best methods of control.

The Australian Embassy in Jakarta is continuing to call for applications for the 2010 Australia-Indonesia Exchange Programme for Young Muslim Leaders with the deadline for applications closing on December 4, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported Thursday.

Landcare is starting in Indonesia. The grassroots movement, which began 20 years ago in Australia, helps landholders protect the environment.

The United Nations World Tourism Organization has chosen Indonesia's Bali for the destination of tourism, according to local media on Monday.

Attempts to rescue the beached whales, a rare occurrence on Bali, have been abandoned, said Bali's Fisheries and Marines Department officer Nyoman Wirna Ariwangsa.

Bahasa Indonesia, or the Indonesian language, is spoken by virtually all of Indonesia's roughly 240 million inhabitants, making it one of the most spoken languages in the world.

Rivers and canals in the Indonesian capital run black and putrid from the garbage that builds up along their edges.

TRAVELLERS heading for Jakarta and Semarang in Indonesia will have another airline to choose from when Batavia Air starts flying out of Changi Airport on Wednesday.

Indonesia wants to expand its relations with Brunei Darussalam in the areas of food security, agriculture and environment protection.

In mid-July the European Commission lifted a ban on four Indonesian airlines, including flag carrier Garuda, from entering European airspace.

Indonesia is scheduled to hold an international democracy forum to be attended by heads of state and heads of government from Asian countries from Dec 10 to 12 in Bali, Indonesian foreign affairs ministry spokesperson Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.

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Brunei's former envoy to Indonesia yesterday told the Magistrate's Court that investigating officers from the Anti-Corruption Bureau "threatened" him to admit to the crime of illegally asking money from Indonesian employment agents in exchange for issuing hundreds of work visas.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said Friday he would visit some of his old 'haunting grounds' in Indonesia during a visit next year to the nation where he spent part of his childhood and is hugely popular.

THE Rudd Government is considering ways to allow more Sri Lankans to emigrate legally from war-torn regions of the country to reduce the incentive for them to travel to Australia with people smugglers.

Nine fishermen returned home safely to the central province of Quang Ngai in July after their vessel was sunk by a foreign ship Indonesian authorities will ensure the safe repatriation and humane treatment of Vietnamese fishermen found in Indonesian waters, Ambassador Pitono Purnomo told Thanh Nien Weekly.

The awesome view of an ancient volcano caldera and the challenge of climbing up an active volcano mountain in Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park, Indonesia, leave RIZAUDDIN IBRAHIM breathless IN most parts of Indonesia, volcanoes are part of the landscape.

I loph you full Indonesia, youthful, artistic expressions of nationalism by the roadside.

The Greens have called on the Government to investigate fully reports that oil from the Montara spill is polluting fishing grounds in Indonesia.