Indonesia

Muslims around the world celebrate Eid under lockdown restrictions

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Muslims around the world on Sunday began celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a normally festive holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, with millions under strict stay-at-home orders and many fearing renewed coronavirus outbreaks. The three-day holiday is usually a time of travel, family get-togethers and lavish daytime feasts after weeks of dawn-to-dusk fasting. … Read more

Markets selling bats, dogs and snakes continue to operate across South-East Asia despite coronavirus

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Wet markets selling live animals including bats, dogs and snakes are continuing to operate across South-East Asia, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Shocking pictures and videos show the animals crammed into tiny cages at markets in countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and China, where the outbreak is believed to have first emerged.  One … Read more

Tunguska event was caused by an asteroid that bounced back to space

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Russian scientists suggest the mysterious ‘Tunguska event’ explosion of 1908 was caused by an iron asteroid that entered the Earth’s atmosphere and then bounced back into space. The flying asteroid is thought to have skimmed the planet at a low altitude above Siberia, causing an explosion that flattened around 80 million trees over an area … Read more

Bali reopens for business: Holiday island plans to invite tourists to return in MAY

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Bali reopens for business: Holiday island plans to invite tourists to return in MAY – with Chinese visitors welcomed in first Indonesian officials are confident the pandemic will be over by next year  Balinese tourist bosses said the resort island could reopen next month  Tourism businesses in Bali were among the hardest hit by the … Read more

World’s newest species of primate will be appear on UK TV for the first time

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World’s newest species of primate – the Tapanuli orangutan – will be appear on UK TV for the first time in new documentary filmed in Indonesia Primates is narrated by Chris Packham, and begins on BBC One next Sunday It follows Tapanuli orangutan in Batang Toru, northern Sumatra, Indonesia They were identified as a new species … Read more

Documentary Newtopia shows how a man quits the West to live with an Indonesian tribe for 3 years

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‘I learned how to just be and follow the rhythm of nature,’ Audun Amundsen says, reflecting on his life off-grid in the jungle with the Mentawai tribe, where there was little on the daily agenda other than making arrows or canoes and hunting for food such as monkeys, bats or shrimp. The Norwegian engineer and … Read more

Documentary Newtopia shows how a man quits the West to live with an Indonesian tribe for 3 years

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‘I learned how to just be and follow the rhythm of nature,’ Audun Amundsen says, reflecting on his life off-grid in the jungle with the Mentawai tribe, where there was little on the daily agenda other than making arrows or canoes and hunting for food such as monkeys, bats or shrimp. The Norwegian engineer and … Read more