Indonesia News

Terrible Demonstrations because of a law For few days, thousands of students have taken to the streets to protests against a new “disastrous” law. Jakarta police fired tear gas on Monday 30 October as they battled protesters angered by Indonesia's new corruption law and proposed criminal code. New Penal Code includes one-year prison sentence for sex outside marriage. The law also penalizes abortion, except in cases of rape or medical emergency, and prohibits criticizing the president and the state. Penalties of up to four years and fines are envisaged for those who have broken the law. Students are the ones most affected by this new law so they acted the most. For example, students hung banners on Parliament’s gates before being dispersed by police using water cannons and tear gas. These demonstrations resulted in the deaths of two students as well as 265 students and 39 police officers injured. These demonstrations did not affect that jakarta because similar clashes also to...

Violent forest fires cause toxic smoke Indonesian police said they have arrested 230 people on suspicion of starting some of the fires which have spread health-damaging haze across a large part of southeast Asia. At the origin of fires, they are often fires lit illegally to clear deforested land or for slash-and-burn crops.  Nearly 9,000 firefighters and soldiers are fighting tirelessly against the flames in Indonesia in an attempt to extinguish forest fires raging on Sumatra Island, as in Borneo, and release a vast cloud of toxic smoke that has seriously deteriorated air quality and disrupts air links. Fires burning since September have destroyed over 800,000 hectare s of  rainforest . T hese events occurred during the September ego and the city acted around September 19, 2019. The hardest fires to extinguish are those in areas of dry peatlands, which burn in depth, and emit a large amount of smoke. Weirdly, the toxic smoke that spreads over the city has take...

     An amazing archeological discovery  Two years ago, an Australian scientist and archaeologist team discovered very old cave art in Leang Bulu ‘Sipong 4, Sulawesi. This week, the findings about its date have been published in Nature by archaeologists from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.  The paintings would be at least 44,000 years old. While this is not the oldest drawing ever found compared to last year’s 73,000-year-old art discovered in South Africa, but it is the oldest cave art in the whole world.  It is very surprising because the images of this level of sophistication which have already been found were about 20,000 years old and was more basic creation such as handprints. The patterns of that painting show capacity for early imagination and some old myths.  However, caves like this one are discovered every year and a minimum 242 caves with similar paintings and cave art have been located in Indonesia....