Day: February 13, 2021

Medan, North Sumatra – Mount Sinabung in Karo District, North Sumatra Province, erupted again, spouting hot cloud and incandescent lava as far as two kilometers away.   The eruption occurred on the night of Friday (Feb 12), and the lava glided reportedly to the east and southeast of Mount Sinabung, Armen Putra, head of the Mount Sinabung Observation Post, stated here on Saturday.   The volcano also spewed hot cloud to a height of some one kilometer toward the east, southeast, and south of Mount Sinabung. Hot clouds of the…

Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Ma’ruf Amin handed out President Joko Widodo’s humanitarian aid packages to the flood victims in Subang District, West Java Province, on Saturday.   The aid packages comprise 1,500 staple food packages, 200 house cleaning tools, one thousand rapid testing kits, 300 thousand face masks, five thousand cleaning gloves, and one thousand mattresses.   Vice President Amin, in the company of West Java Deputy Governor Uu Ruzhanul Ulum and Subang District Head Ruhimat, symbolically delivered the aid packages to two selected flood victims during an event…

Jakarta – Indonesian Ambassador to the Philippines Sinyo Harry Sarundajang, 76, passed away at Siloam Hospital, West Jakarta, on Saturday at 00:31 WIB, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.   Sarundajang’s body was kept at his residence in Kelapa Gading and RSPAD before being taken to his hometown in Manado, North Sulawesi Province, by plane, the ministry informed here on Saturday.   Sarundajang had served as the Indonesian ambassador to the Philippines and concurrently the Marshall Islands and Palau since February 20, 2018.     Source: Antara News

Jakarta – A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of Pesisir Barat district, Lampung province on Saturday, though no tsunami warning was issued in its wake, the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported.   The quake, which occurred at 11.30 a.m. WIB (Western Indonesia Time), was centered 134 kilometers southwest of Pesisir Barat, at a depth of 10 kilometers, the BMKG informed in a written statement released on Saturday.   The quake was felt in Krui, Way Krui, Pesisir Barat, Bangkunat, Liwa, and Suoh, it said.   The BMKG had earlier…