Indonesia News

           Bad news for Indonesia’s biodiversity  Last week, two Sumatran elephants and a Sumatran rhino died in Indonesia, a terrible piece of news for these endangered species.  Last week, a female Sumatra elephant was found dead in Aceh province. The authorities think that the 25 years old female had been poisoned or electrocuted because the body was found next to a palm oil plantation. Elephants - especially during the rainy season - visit palm oil plantations and eat palm fruit.  Sadly, another Sumatran elephant was found dead earlier this week in Riau province. This elephant had been killed by poachers, who left it decapitated without its tusks. Heru Sutmantoro from the Natural Resources Conservation Agency in Riau said that the tusks off the 40 years old male had been cut off by a sharp tool.  The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) think that the remaining Sumatran elephants are between 2400 and 2800 in the who...

One year after report tells more about Lion Air Crash  In October 2018, 189 people died in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX. Lion Air flight 610 crashed in the Java Sea thirteen minutes after it took off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.  A recent report lists many factors.  According to the final report of the Indonesian investigators on the accident, the plane crash was not due to a problem of conception. Actually, the factors of the crash were multiple.  The investigator Nurcahyo Utomo found nine. First of all, the plane used an automated system with a single sensor; the miscalibration of this sensor during the latest plane repair caused the defective balance of the plane. The other problem was about the absence of flight and maintenance document; the bad health of a pilot -one was ill, he coughed fifteen times during the latest hour before taking off, which could account for the fact that the pilots and the rest of the crew on board co...