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 With the death of a 19-year-old woman from West Java on Friday, Indonesia today counts a total of 62 persons who have died from the bird flu in Indonesia, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday (20/1/07). In an urgent bid to contain the spread of the disease, the government further announced that it will expand the ban against backyard poultry farming to 9 regions, that was at first to take affect in three provinces only, reports Reuters as quoted by Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News issued by the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy. |
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Tourism and Transportation
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
 Preliminary findings of the National Committee for Transport Safety, KNKT, concluded that two most probable reasons for Adam Air Boeing 737-400 disappearance were: Structural Failure and Abnormal Weather Conditions, said Chief Investigator, Frans Wenas to Bisnis Indonesia’s Hendra Wibawa. The plane, with 102 passengers and crew on board was on a routine direct flight between Surabaya on Java and Manado in North Sulawesi on 1 January, when it inexplicably disappeared from the radar screen at the Makassar Air Traffic Control tower. |
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Tourism and Transportation
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 Director General for Tourism Marketing and Promotion, Thamrin B. Bachri recently disclosed that Parliament had agreed to allocate a budget of Rp. 158 billion for international tourism marketing 2007 spending, of which Rp. 20 billion is earmarked to promote five priority destinations for 2007, reports Erwin Nurdin for Bisnis Indonesia. The five priority regions are West Sumatra, North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, West Nusatenggara and East Nusatenggara, that support the promotion of Bali and Yogyakarta.
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
 In a surprise statement on Wednesday, 24 January, - only hours after meeting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation led by Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato, - President Yudhoyono announced at the Palace that Indonesia will discontinue meeting donor countries grouped in the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) starting immediately this year 2007. For the past 15 years Indonesia was obliged to explain its development plans to CGI for assessment and criticism by the Group, reports Suhartono for the Kompas daily. |
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Health, Culture and the Environment
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
Barely two weeks into the new year and Indonesia already reported four more deaths from the bird flu, bringing Indonesia’s total to 61 fatalities, the highest in the world. The four cases occurred in Jakarta and Bandung, after contact with infected poultry.
A limited emergency cabinet meeting was called, in which the government decided that the main cause for the most recent re-emergence of the bird flu was the uncontrolled backyard poultry farms, that did not apply strict standards of hygiene and health of cages and poultry. Chicken, ducks, geese and doves were allowed to wander freely in densely populated areas, endangering public health. |
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