REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — PT Pertamina will put into operation a world’s largest most sophisticated liquified petroleum gas (LPG) tanker with a capacity of 50,000 tons. Pertamina Gas I is the type of “very large gas carrier” (VLGC), Hanung Budya, the marketing director of the state energy company said. Pertamina Gas I, to start operation on
Read moreKupang, East Nusa Tenggara. On New Year’s day, 45 asylum seekers in a ramshackle wooden boat slid ashore on a small island off the Australian city of Darwin. Four others had been swept overboard that morning in rough seas and were believed dead. The survivors, from Africa and the Middle East, stumbled onto the beach,
Read moreThe Indonesian Navy has intensified patrols in the waters off Merauke bordering Papua New Guinea (PNG) after five fishermen who were forced by the PNG Navy to swim ashore went missing. “We are deploying 25 marines from the Eastern Fleet to strengthen 12 marines from the local naval base for routine patrols,” the XI/Merauka Main
Read moreJAKARTA—The employers urged infrastructure improvement of distribution track to and from Tanjung Priok Port Jakarta following the severe damage to the main access export import in Indonesia. Chairman of Indonesia Logistics and Forwarder Association(ALFI) Jakarta Sofian Pane said flooding in Jakarta and surrounding region has paralyzed the activities of logistics and infrastructure damage in Tanjung
Read moreThe 2nd Program of ‘’Investigation Skills Training for People Smuggling Investigator’’ was conducted on Monday, 10/02/2014 located at the Auditorium Hall 4th Builing of Jakarta Center For Law Through Shared Experience (JCLEC) Semarang, Central Java. Thus, it was led by Police Brigadier General Soepartiwi as the Executive Director of JCLEC. Obviously, it was started on
Read moreThe Navy will place UK-made offshore patrol vessel KRI Usman Harun at its Eastern Region Fleet (Armatim) naval base in Surabaya, East Java. “KRI Usman Harun’s operating areas will cover regions across Indonesia. The vessel will be placed in the Armatim naval base in Surabaya but it can also move to areas coordinated under the
Read moreJayapura. Five Indonesian fishermen remained missing as of Sunday after military officers in neighboring Papua New Guinea allegedly told them to jump off their boat before setting it on fire. A total of 10 fishermen from the Papua district of Merauke were on board a fishing boat searching for sea cucumbers in waters off Merauke,
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