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Families of the victims of the Boeing plane crash want a judge to reject the plea deal
Boeing has pleaded guilty in the US and agreed to pay a $2.2-billion fine for violating an agreement to make safety improvements after two crashes of its 737 Max jets. In 2019, a Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff in Indonesia killing all 157 people on board. In 2018, another Boeing 737 Max…
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Prabowo Subianto is an ex-general who ran for president in Indonesia
Indonesia’s Defence Minister and ex-general Prabowo Subianto, who had been barred from entering US for alleged human rights abuses, has claimed victory in the country’s presidential election. Subianto was barred from entering US in 2020 on the same grounds. “Indonesians forgive Prabowo’s sins in their own way,” said an activist who survived abduction, interrogation and…
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The Boeing planes were grounded because of a hole that blew in one of the flights
Boeing’s 737 Max 7 passenger jet was forced to land after a window and a piece of the fuselage on one of the aircrafts exploded mid-air, US authorities said. The incident comes after a Lion Air plane carrying 189 people crashed into the sea off the coast of Indonesia on Sunday. This is the second…
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The controversy swirls around the claim that there’s an ancient pyramid
Researchers have claimed the massive buried structures at Indonesia’s Gunung Padang are older than Egypt’s pyramids. They said that the buried layers weren’t the result of natural weathering and movement of rocks over time. “The neatly arranged, shaped and massive nature of these rocks, some weighing up to 300 kilograms, dismisses the likelihood of transportation…
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Gaza’s hospitals are concerned about Israeli strikes
Indonesia has denied Israel’s claims that its hospital in the Gaza Strip was hit by an Israeli airstrike, saying that it’s a facility built “entirely for humanitarian purposes and to serve the medical needs of the Palestinian people in Gaza”. Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi further said that the hospital “is a facility built by…
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There are claims of children dying as refugees face starvation in Bay of Bengal.
The UN’s refugee agency has said that over 100 Rohingya refugees had arrived in Indonesia after their boat broke apart on its way to India. It said that 58 people from the boat were thought to have been rescued on Sunday. The second boat also started its journey in late November and began to break…
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Indonesia’s new sex laws will affect tourists.
Indonesian tourism industry said that the country’s new criminal code, which bans adultery, cohabitation before marriage and apostasy, will put foreigners off visiting and hurt the country’s global reputation. Indonesia’s largest tourism group, the Association of The Indonesian Tours and Travel Agencies, said that the law will be “very counterproductive” in regards to the tourism…