Social and Welfare

Jakarta, VOI News - Senior Radio and TV host Ebet Kadarusman is receiving intensive medical treatment at Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung after he fell into coma on Wednesday, Antara state news agency has reported. “He is in a coma following a cerebellum bleed as a result of a recurring stroke,” director of the hospital Rizal Chaidar told reporters. Rizal said Ebet was admitted to the hospital in a coma.  "There are no plans for surgery. All we can do is provide conservative treatment, such as to administer anti-stroke medicine,” said Rizal.

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Ternate, VOI News - A powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale jolted Labuha in South Halmahera, North Maluku province, at 9.50 a.m. local time on Sunday. Local meteorology and geophysics agency (BMG) spokesman Fauzi said the earthquake did not have potential to trigger tsunami or material damage.

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Bogor  VOI News - Agriculture Ministry and   Mekarsari Tourism Park plan to conduct research  about plant biodiversity  with  some researchers  from many countries in March 2010. This is the right way  to promote Mekarsari Tourism Park Bogor in International world, especially  for researchers. Besides,Mekarsari Tourism Park has  thousands of plantations to be developed. Head of public Relations of Mekarsari Tourism Park, Chatrine Da to Voice Of Indonesia in Bogor West Java today said Mekarsari Tourism Park has collected more than one thousand and five hundreds various plants in which  to develop  the potential plants.

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Bandung, VOI News - Head of West Java’s natural disaster management Udjwala Prana Sigit said the evacuation process of Tuesday’s landslide victims would be decided on Sunday morning.  "Whether the evacuation process will be continued or not will be decided this Sunday morning," he told reporters at the landslide-hit tea plantation area here. On Monday, the authorized persons, victims’ families, community leaders and members of local Council of Ulemas (MUI) would attend a meeting for talks about the end of evacuation, he said.

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Padang, VOI News - West Sumatra governor Marlis Rahman is unhappy about media reports that the province could be hit with a magnitude 8.9 earthquake. “Scientific research for academic consumption would be better if it were just published in scientific journals instead of the media, especially local media,” he told reporters Friday as quoted on vivanews.com.

Read more: Earthquake Science Causes Alarm, Says West Sumatra Governor

Jakarta, VOI News - A rescue official said Friday there was only a slim chance that more survivors would be found in the landslide that struck a West Java tea plantation this week, killing at least 23 people. More than 1,000 rescuers with sniffer dogs have been searching the plantation near the village of Ciwidey after Tuesday’s landslide crushed homes, offices and a processing plant.  “We have started the rescue effort again today. We’ve found 23 bodies so far, and there are 23 people who are believed to still be missing,” Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono said. “Their chances for survival are slim,” he said.

Read more: Hopes Fade for More Survivors in Indonesian Landslide