The New7Wonders Foundation announced the first count of vote results of the provisional New7Wonders of Nature, which includes Komodo, on its official website Friday.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will share Indonesia`s experience in maintaining cultural diversity for the sake of unity at the upcoming UNESCO General Assembly in Paris.
The International Youths Conference 2011 is expected to inspire youths from around the the world to do something about climate change. “The youths with innovative and creative ideas are the government’s partners and that they deserved a role in the fight against climate change,” Youths and Sports Affairs Ministry’s deputy for youth empowerment Alfira Salam [...]
Unicef says it has allocated US$4 million for the development of education programs in Papua and West Papua provinces for the 2010-2012 period. The support is being provided in efforts to improve the quality of education offered in the two provinces, Sri Karna, a member of Unicef’s education staff in Biak, said on Friday, as [...]
Indonesia has been selected to host the ASEAN Coordinating Center for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management which will operate starting this year, a minister said. “The heads of state/government of ASEAN member countries have agreed that the AHA Centre should be set up in Indonesia this year,” Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono said [...]
A total of 403 students from Gateway College in Norway will be leaving for Bali to study in the coming semester, the Indonesian Embassy in Oslo says. The students would study philosophy, cultural psychology, sports, tourism management, economics and Indonesian language, the embassy’s third secretary for social affairs and culture Febby Fahrani said in a [...]
Indonesia proves to be the first country to extend humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people in 2011. “We welcome the humanitarian assistance from the Indonesian people to the Palestinian people, and this is the first foreign assistance for Palestine in 2011,” said Chairman of Egypt’s North Sinai Red Crescent Gen. (retired) Osama Serghani in Rafah, [...]
The Army is building 775 houses for natural disaster victims in seven provinces throughout Indonesia. The head of the Military Headquarters Colonel Minulyo said here Monday the houses are built with cooperation of the Social Affairs Ministry. He said the rehabilitation, reconstruction and relocation of the houses are for this year`s natural disaster victims in [...]
Indonesia will submit three of its national cultural assets to UNESCO in 2011 to be appraised for inclusion in its list of World Cultural Heritages, a culture ministry official said. “The three cultural assets to be submitted to UNESCO are a number of Balinese dances, the indigenous Papua household article called Noken, and the Beautiful [...]
Yogyakarta remains a safe place to visit despite the fact that the region was also affected by the recent eruptions of Mount Merapi, Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said here Wednesday. “Mt Merapi eruptions are over and Yogyakarta is now as safe as before for visitors. This is proven by this Wisdom 2010 international [...]
