The 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Simelue regency, Aceh, had injured 20 people as of 3 p.m., a statement from the Health Ministry said.
The quake had not killed any residents and no evacuation process had been conducted, the statement added.
The injured victims have been treated in hospitals' parking lot.
According to the release, the local hospitals and the Simeulue Health Agency thus far could still manage the situation.
As many as two community health centers (Puskesmas) and one assisting health centers underwent a medium-scale damage, while six health centers and two assisting health centers experienced mild-scale ones.
Kamis, 08 April 2010
SBY promises to protect local industries
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promises the government will protect sectors threatened to be harmed with the full implementation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA).
The President told a press conference here Wednesday the government was paying considerable attention to the Indonesian public’s concerns over the implementation of ACFTA and promised it would seek solutions for any problems possibly emerging from the agreement.
Many local industries have expressed fear over possible influx of cheap Chinese products that will harm their own as a result of the full implementation of ACFTA.
The government has been criticized for not being able to address the matter.
“The government is paying attention to ACFTA problems,” Yudhoyono said in response to the concerns.
“It is of our agenda to improve the partnership between the two countries, and we will discuss well any problems concerning certain sectors possibly emerging from (the implementation of ACFTA), and find
solutions for the problems,” he added.
The President said the government would ensure that both workers and local industries were well-protected from negative impacts of the ACFTA.
“Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will visit Indonesia in late April… We will discuss a partnership that will be of great benefits for both China and Indonesia,” he said.
The President explained that both countries had signed a strategic partnership in a number of fields, including the economy.
He added that China had expressed intention to boost cooperation with the archipelago in the field of infrastructure, energy and trade.
The President told a press conference here Wednesday the government was paying considerable attention to the Indonesian public’s concerns over the implementation of ACFTA and promised it would seek solutions for any problems possibly emerging from the agreement.
Many local industries have expressed fear over possible influx of cheap Chinese products that will harm their own as a result of the full implementation of ACFTA.
The government has been criticized for not being able to address the matter.
“The government is paying attention to ACFTA problems,” Yudhoyono said in response to the concerns.
“It is of our agenda to improve the partnership between the two countries, and we will discuss well any problems concerning certain sectors possibly emerging from (the implementation of ACFTA), and find
solutions for the problems,” he added.
The President said the government would ensure that both workers and local industries were well-protected from negative impacts of the ACFTA.
“Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will visit Indonesia in late April… We will discuss a partnership that will be of great benefits for both China and Indonesia,” he said.
The President explained that both countries had signed a strategic partnership in a number of fields, including the economy.
He added that China had expressed intention to boost cooperation with the archipelago in the field of infrastructure, energy and trade.
Obama heads to Prague to sign arms deal
President Barack Obama's vision of a world without nuclear arms moves closer to reality on Thursday when he and President Dmitry Medvedev sign a pivotal treaty aimed at sharply paring U.S. and Russian arsenals while working to repair soured relations.
Obama has not been able to deliver on all of the nuclear aspirations he outlined in Prague just a year ago - visions on disarmament that helped earn him the Nobel Peace Prize. Back then, a landmark speech to an enthusiastic crowd gathered in a Prague square included a promise to quickly seek ratification of a comprehensive nuclear test ban.
That goal remains unfulfilled. But on Thursday, the Czech capital will serve as the venue of a pledge achieved.
At noon in the Spanish Hall - a lavish Renaissance chamber within the Czech's capital's ornate presidential castle complex - the U.S. and Russian presidents will sign the "New START" treaty. With that, they will commit their nations to slash the number of strategic nuclear warheads by one-third and more than halve the number of missiles, submarines and bombers carrying them, pending ratification by their legislatures.
The new treaty will shrink those warheads to 1,550 over seven years. That still allows for mutual destruction several times over. But it will send a strong signal that Russia and the U.S., which between them own more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons, are serious about disarmament.
And it opens the way for further cuts. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that Obama has instructed his national security team to pursue another round of arms reduction talks with Russia, to follow up on the replacement for the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty being signed Thursday.
The aim would be to conduct wider talks to include for the first time short-range U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons as well as weapons held in reserve or in storage.
Beyond deeply reducing nuclear arsenals, the U.S. sees "New START" as a key part of efforts to "reset" ties with Russia, which had become badly strained under the Bush administration and engage Moscow more in dealing with global challenges. Among these is Iran's defiance of U.N. Security Council demands that it curb its nuclear program to ease fears it seeks to make nuclear arms.
The new pact is only part of the Obama administration's new nuclear strategy. It will be signed only days after the White House announced a fundamental shift that calls the spread of atomic weapons to terrorists or rogue states - nations, like North Korea or Iran that do not abide by nonproliferation rules - a worse menace than the Cold War threat of mutual destruction.
"For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda," Obama said Tuesday in detailing key components of an in-depth nuclear strategy review.
While the formal occasion is signing the treaty, Obama is expected to use the occasion to push for Russian support for new U.N. sanctions to punish Iran's refusal to give up uranium enrichment. Chances of enlisting China, an even more stubborn opponent of Iran sanctions than Moscow, improve if the Kremlin is on board.
Other U.S. nuclear initiatives will follow the Prague signing, with the White House planning to lead calls for disarmament in May at the United Nations during an international conference on strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Before that, government leaders from more than 40 countries will gather in Washington next week to discuss boosting defenses against terrorists seeking nuclear weapons.
The deep cuts in warheads and delivery systems and a legally binding system to ensure against cheating, makes "New START" the most significant nuclear arms treaty in a generation, and Medvedev, in comments published before the signing lauded it as "an important step" in disarmament and arms control efforts.
Some Russian arms control analysts say Russia badly needed the deal to ease the burden of replacing a large number of Soviet-built missiles which need to be decommissioned for age. "This treaty is in Russia's best interests," said Sergei Rogov, the head of the USA and Canada Institute, an influential think tank that advises the Kremlin on foreign policy.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the deal could "open new possibilities for developing the U.S.-Russian partnership" - but warned Moscow reserves the right to withdraw if the planned U.S. missile defense system grows into a threat.
Russia has welcomed Obama's decision to scrap the previous administration's plans for missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic while voicing concern about the prospects of a revamped U.S. project, including a planned facility in Romania.
Lavrov said that the site in Romania poses no immediate threat, but added that Russia will closely watch further U.S. missile deployments and could opt out of the new treaty if it sees that U.S. missile interceptors acquire a capability to intercept Russia's strategic missiles.
Russia shares Obama's goal of a nuclear-free world, but other nations must join the disarmament process, he said.
Moscow also warned that the U.S. plans to fit some of its nuclear-tipped missiles with conventional warheads could be an obstacle to ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
Lavrov argued that Russia views such weapons as just as destabilizing as nukes.
Russia hasn't tried to follow the U.S. example partly because most of its missiles lack precision for hitting pinpoint targets with conventional explosives. Its conventional military forces has steadily degraded, prompting the military to rely increasingly on nuclear weapons.
While the docile Russian parliament will do the Kremlin's bidding on the treaty, the ratification process in the U.S. Senate could be troublesome. Fearing potential trouble, Moscow has said that Russian lawmakers will synchronize their moves to ratify the deal with the U.S. legislators.
Sensitive to East European concerns, Obama is tending to other business while in Prague - hosting a dinner for leaders from 11 Central and Eastern European nations formerly in or near Moscow's orbit, who worry about the Kremlin's post-communist push for influence.
Obama has not been able to deliver on all of the nuclear aspirations he outlined in Prague just a year ago - visions on disarmament that helped earn him the Nobel Peace Prize. Back then, a landmark speech to an enthusiastic crowd gathered in a Prague square included a promise to quickly seek ratification of a comprehensive nuclear test ban.
That goal remains unfulfilled. But on Thursday, the Czech capital will serve as the venue of a pledge achieved.
At noon in the Spanish Hall - a lavish Renaissance chamber within the Czech's capital's ornate presidential castle complex - the U.S. and Russian presidents will sign the "New START" treaty. With that, they will commit their nations to slash the number of strategic nuclear warheads by one-third and more than halve the number of missiles, submarines and bombers carrying them, pending ratification by their legislatures.
The new treaty will shrink those warheads to 1,550 over seven years. That still allows for mutual destruction several times over. But it will send a strong signal that Russia and the U.S., which between them own more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons, are serious about disarmament.
And it opens the way for further cuts. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that Obama has instructed his national security team to pursue another round of arms reduction talks with Russia, to follow up on the replacement for the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty being signed Thursday.
The aim would be to conduct wider talks to include for the first time short-range U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons as well as weapons held in reserve or in storage.
Beyond deeply reducing nuclear arsenals, the U.S. sees "New START" as a key part of efforts to "reset" ties with Russia, which had become badly strained under the Bush administration and engage Moscow more in dealing with global challenges. Among these is Iran's defiance of U.N. Security Council demands that it curb its nuclear program to ease fears it seeks to make nuclear arms.
The new pact is only part of the Obama administration's new nuclear strategy. It will be signed only days after the White House announced a fundamental shift that calls the spread of atomic weapons to terrorists or rogue states - nations, like North Korea or Iran that do not abide by nonproliferation rules - a worse menace than the Cold War threat of mutual destruction.
"For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda," Obama said Tuesday in detailing key components of an in-depth nuclear strategy review.
While the formal occasion is signing the treaty, Obama is expected to use the occasion to push for Russian support for new U.N. sanctions to punish Iran's refusal to give up uranium enrichment. Chances of enlisting China, an even more stubborn opponent of Iran sanctions than Moscow, improve if the Kremlin is on board.
Other U.S. nuclear initiatives will follow the Prague signing, with the White House planning to lead calls for disarmament in May at the United Nations during an international conference on strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Before that, government leaders from more than 40 countries will gather in Washington next week to discuss boosting defenses against terrorists seeking nuclear weapons.
The deep cuts in warheads and delivery systems and a legally binding system to ensure against cheating, makes "New START" the most significant nuclear arms treaty in a generation, and Medvedev, in comments published before the signing lauded it as "an important step" in disarmament and arms control efforts.
Some Russian arms control analysts say Russia badly needed the deal to ease the burden of replacing a large number of Soviet-built missiles which need to be decommissioned for age. "This treaty is in Russia's best interests," said Sergei Rogov, the head of the USA and Canada Institute, an influential think tank that advises the Kremlin on foreign policy.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the deal could "open new possibilities for developing the U.S.-Russian partnership" - but warned Moscow reserves the right to withdraw if the planned U.S. missile defense system grows into a threat.
Russia has welcomed Obama's decision to scrap the previous administration's plans for missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic while voicing concern about the prospects of a revamped U.S. project, including a planned facility in Romania.
Lavrov said that the site in Romania poses no immediate threat, but added that Russia will closely watch further U.S. missile deployments and could opt out of the new treaty if it sees that U.S. missile interceptors acquire a capability to intercept Russia's strategic missiles.
Russia shares Obama's goal of a nuclear-free world, but other nations must join the disarmament process, he said.
Moscow also warned that the U.S. plans to fit some of its nuclear-tipped missiles with conventional warheads could be an obstacle to ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
Lavrov argued that Russia views such weapons as just as destabilizing as nukes.
Russia hasn't tried to follow the U.S. example partly because most of its missiles lack precision for hitting pinpoint targets with conventional explosives. Its conventional military forces has steadily degraded, prompting the military to rely increasingly on nuclear weapons.
While the docile Russian parliament will do the Kremlin's bidding on the treaty, the ratification process in the U.S. Senate could be troublesome. Fearing potential trouble, Moscow has said that Russian lawmakers will synchronize their moves to ratify the deal with the U.S. legislators.
Sensitive to East European concerns, Obama is tending to other business while in Prague - hosting a dinner for leaders from 11 Central and Eastern European nations formerly in or near Moscow's orbit, who worry about the Kremlin's post-communist push for influence.
Senin, 29 Maret 2010
Light participation
Fish traders at Kramat Jati market in East Jakarta kept their lights on during the Earth Hour campaign, on Saturday evening when people were supposed to turn off their lights, although many were unaware of this. Many night workers had to keep their lights on between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Officials: Suicide bombs kill 35 on Moscow subway
Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow's subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 30, the city's mayor and other officials said.
Emergency Ministry pokeswoman Svetlana Chumikova said 23 people were killed at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow. The station is underneath the building that houses the main offices of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the KGB's main successor agency.
A second explosion hit the Park Kultury station about 45 minutes later. Chumikova said at least 12 were dead there.
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said both explosions were believed to have been set off by female suicide bombers as the trains entered the stations. In the first case, officials said the explosion was on the train; there was no immediate information on the location of the second blast.
"The first data that the FSB has given us is that there were two female suicide bombers," Luzhkov told reporters at the Park Kultury site.
Russia's top investigative body also said terrorism was suspected.
The last confirmed terrorist attack in Moscow was in August 2004, when a suicide bomber blew herself up outside a city subway station, killing 10 people.
Responsibility for that blast was claimed by Chechen rebels and suspicion in Monday's explosions is likely to focus on them and other separatist groups in the restive North Caucasus region.
The Moscow subway system is one of the world's busiest, carrying around 7 million passengers on an average workday, and is a key element in running the sprawling and traffic-choked city.
The blasts practically paralyzed movement in the city center as emergency vehicles sped to the stations. Helicopters hovered over the Park Kultury station area, which is near the renowned Gorky Park.
Passengers, many of them in tears, streamed out of the station, one man exclaiming over and over "This is how we live!"
At least a dozen ambulances were on the scene.
Emergency Ministry pokeswoman Svetlana Chumikova said 23 people were killed at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow. The station is underneath the building that houses the main offices of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the KGB's main successor agency.
A second explosion hit the Park Kultury station about 45 minutes later. Chumikova said at least 12 were dead there.
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said both explosions were believed to have been set off by female suicide bombers as the trains entered the stations. In the first case, officials said the explosion was on the train; there was no immediate information on the location of the second blast.
"The first data that the FSB has given us is that there were two female suicide bombers," Luzhkov told reporters at the Park Kultury site.
Russia's top investigative body also said terrorism was suspected.
The last confirmed terrorist attack in Moscow was in August 2004, when a suicide bomber blew herself up outside a city subway station, killing 10 people.
Responsibility for that blast was claimed by Chechen rebels and suspicion in Monday's explosions is likely to focus on them and other separatist groups in the restive North Caucasus region.
The Moscow subway system is one of the world's busiest, carrying around 7 million passengers on an average workday, and is a key element in running the sprawling and traffic-choked city.
The blasts practically paralyzed movement in the city center as emergency vehicles sped to the stations. Helicopters hovered over the Park Kultury station area, which is near the renowned Gorky Park.
Passengers, many of them in tears, streamed out of the station, one man exclaiming over and over "This is how we live!"
At least a dozen ambulances were on the scene.
KPK questions BI deputy governor Budi Mulya in Century case
The Corruption Eradication Commission [KPK] questioned deputy governor of Bank Indonesia Budi Mulya Monday about his possible involvement in the Bank Century bailout case.
“It’s a continuing investigation following a previous probe of [another] BI deputy governor Pak Budi Rochadi [some time ago],” KPK spokesman Johan Budi said as quoted by kompas.com.
Budi Mulya was being questioned in relation to BI's Rp 689 billion (US$75.1 million) liquidity assistance to the ailing Bank Century in 2008.
The antigraft body is focusing its investigations on graft that allegedly occurred in Bank Century's handling of the BI liquidity assistance and the Rp 6.76 trillion (US$716 million) bailout, and the subsequent channeling of funds.
“It’s a continuing investigation following a previous probe of [another] BI deputy governor Pak Budi Rochadi [some time ago],” KPK spokesman Johan Budi said as quoted by kompas.com.
Budi Mulya was being questioned in relation to BI's Rp 689 billion (US$75.1 million) liquidity assistance to the ailing Bank Century in 2008.
The antigraft body is focusing its investigations on graft that allegedly occurred in Bank Century's handling of the BI liquidity assistance and the Rp 6.76 trillion (US$716 million) bailout, and the subsequent channeling of funds.
Bakrieland to build Disneyland in Sukabumi
PT Bakrieland Development is planning to expand its entertainment and recreational properties by building a Disneyland park, following the development of its Jungle Water Park at the Lido tourism spot in Sukabumi, West Java.
The American-based Disneyland project plan is in line with Bakrie’s 54-kilometer toll road project that will connect Ciawi and Sukabumi, kompas.com reported Monday
Bakrieland president director Hiramsyah S. Thaib, however, declined to elaborate on the proposed Disneyland project.
The American-based Disneyland project plan is in line with Bakrie’s 54-kilometer toll road project that will connect Ciawi and Sukabumi, kompas.com reported Monday
Bakrieland president director Hiramsyah S. Thaib, however, declined to elaborate on the proposed Disneyland project.
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