Padang, West Sumatra (Berita): The death toll from the recent powerful earthquake that devastated West Sumatra province rose to 805 on Friday (9/10) evening. Most of the fatalities occurred in Padang City and Padang Pariaman district where the deaths numbered 312 and 341 respectively, according to official data obtained from the West Sumatra Natural Disaster [...]

Jakarta (Berita): The bodies of two suspected terrorists  — one believed to be Noordin M Top’s successor, an expert in recruiting suicide bombers — are still being examined by forensic experts at Kramat Jati Police hospital.  Police will announce on Monday the identities of the two dead terror suspects. However, police believe that the two [...]

Jakarta (Berita):  You can love and fight your immediate neighbors but if you get into some trouble at home and  shout for help, it is surely they who will be the first to hear and come to rescue you. That’s what happened in December 2004 when Aceh and Nias Island, both in the northern part [...]

Banda Aceh (Berita):  Sheikh Ahmad Badr Al-Din Hassoun, the Grand Mufti of Syria, is expected to visit Aceh, on October 13-14, 2009, a local religious affairs official said. Dr. Hassoun, who is also the head of the Supreme Council of Fatwa, would come together with his wife and be accompanied by Indonesian Religious Affairs Minister [...]

Banda Aceh (Berita):  The international humanitarian organization World Vision, which has up to now provided 4,600 packages of relief aid, will add five more trucks of assistance for the victims of the West Sumatra earthquake, its coordinator said. “We have distributed 4,600 family packages to the victims in Padang. We are still sending more packages [...]

Medan, N Sumatra ( Berita ) :  The Search and Rescue Office in Medan said on Friday it has pulled out its team from a flood-hit area in Mandailing Natal (Madina) district, North Sumatra. “Our task is over. It is now for the social service office to carry out the next task,” the office’s chief [...]

Medan, N Sumatra ( Berita ) :  Islam is not against any form of globalization as long as it is not contradictory to Islamic  universal values. Education and social affairs observer of the  North Sumatra Islamic Institute Phil Zainul Fuad said here Thursday  that the world has been marked with the spreading of globalization phenomena. [...]

Jakarta ( Berita ) :  Morocco and Jordan are ready to supply rock phosphate and potassium to Indonesia to meet the country’s need of the raw materials for its organic fertilizer industry. Indonesia’s agriculture minister Anton Apriyantono said here on Monday confirmation about the supply was important as the two rocks were the raw materials [...]

Jakarta ( Berita ) :  The hunting of Nordin Muhammad Top and his accomplices by the police after the bomb blasts which had ripped through  two American hotels in July this year should not be made as political commodity to curtail the activity of Islamic propagation in this country. The fight against terrorism should not [...]

Padang ( Berita ) :  The issue related to the sale of three islands in Mentawai District, West Sumatra, does  not disturb the sovereignty of the Unitary State of the Indonesian Republic (NKRI). The statement was made by director general of Indonesian Maritime and Fishery Resources Management and Control (P2SKP), Aji Sularso, in a press [...]