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What can you bring on board your flight? Proper planning is crucial to avoid parting with your prized possessions at airport security screenings.

As a country vulnerable to disasters, Indonesia needs to strengthen its mitigation efforts and readiness. Such mitigation can take any form: technological, ...

- as the spearhead of disaster mitigation, as well as with local governments. "The role of BSN is more of a supporter, but in some cases, it also ...

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The government of Indonesia, on National Disaster Preparedness Day on Tuesday, incorporated livestock evacuation as a new and important element of disaster ...

The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has continued to take steps to ensure that people can carry on with their lives during times of volcanic activity in ...

The installation of early warning systems for natural disasters is meaningless without proper information dissemination and community preparedness, head of ...

The Indian government saw protests over mining projects, building dams, toll roads and anything else as having been provoked by the Maoists (communists).

Lessons from volcano warnings, Next pandemic, Pandemic

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Merapi continued to erupt Friday, forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country’s most active volcano. The volcano on the densely populated island of Java unleashed clouds of hot ash shortly before midnight Wednesday into early morning Thursday and fast-moving pyroclastic flows — a mixture of rock, lava and gas — traveled up to 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) down its slopes.