News about Indonesia

  MELAKA (Sept 5): Apart from illegal immigrants, Melaka has a new trans-boundary issue – an invasion of wild pigs from Indonesia.

JAKARTA (Aug 13): Indonesian builder PT MNC Land has launched the sale of luxury condos and mansions in two projects in Indonesia.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 11): A lost truck driver went on a misadventure after that ultimately ended in his truck falling off a cliff and into a river after following directions from Google Maps, reported The Jakarta Post.

GEORGE TOWN (Jan 17): Cities are better off investing in a BRT (bus rapid transit) system than an MRT (mass rapid transit) system, especially when budget is a concern, said an international transport systems organisation director.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 4): United Malacca Bhd has entered into three agreements to dispose of several pieces of plantation land in Melaka and Negeri Sembilan with an aggregate land area of approximately 1,021.

PETALING JAYA (Dec 24): Jakarta assures that the situation — in which five Malaysians were accused of stealing wood, and were taken hostage by the Indonesian army — will not be repeated.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 23): Five Malaysians were reported to have been allegedly kidnapped by heavily armed Indonesian soldiers on the Sarawak side of the border and taken to Kalimantan.

IPOH (Oct 4): It can get quite quiet in parts of this sleepy Perak capital and when a loud bang and tremor was heard and felt this morning, some folk here got a tad curious/worried.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 21): United Plantations Bhd is acquiring seven pieces of agricultural land totalling 8,999.

PETALING JAYA (Aug 15): The smoke from fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia that have recently become worse are blowing into Sarawak, satellite images obtained by the Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department show.