Rahul Gandhi leaves for foreign trip
India | Oct 28, 2019, 07:42 PM ISTFormer Congress President Rahul Gandhi has once again gone abroad, with a source saying he is travelling to Indonesia.
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has once again gone abroad, with a source saying he is travelling to Indonesia.
Indonesia has been immersed in a wave of mass protests against the regressive reform of the penal code that has put the nation's president, Joko Widodo, against the ropes.
Meanwhile, more than 8,000 people fled home as the quake triggered panic among locals, reports say.
An angry mob torched local government buildings, shops and homes and set fire to cars and motorbikes on several roads leading to the district chief’s office in Wamena city, said Papua police chief Rudolf Alberth Rodja.
According to a draft report issued on Sunday by the Wall Street Journal, the investigators also identified pilot errors and maintenance mistakes as causal factors of the October 29, 2018 crash, adding that a final version was expected in November.
Indonesia is set to pass a new penal code criminalising consensual sex outside of marriage, according to a report in CNN. This would effectively outlaw same-sex relations, a move criticized by rights groups as a "violation of basic rights."
There were no immediate reports of any injuries or casualties.
Under current laws, girls are allowed to marry at 16 and boys to marry at 19, while parents can also ask religious courts or local officials to authorize marriages of younger girls -- with no minimum age in such cases.
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Indonesia new capital news: Indonesia's president announced Monday that the country's capital will move from overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, known for rainforests and orangutans.
Indonesia is frequently hit by earthquakes as it sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone called "the Pacific Ring of Fire".
At around 6:10 pm the earthquake struck with an epicentre 62 km northeast of Labuhua in the province at the depth of 10km. Since the earthquake did not potentially trigger a tsunami, so a warning was not issued.
Trade between the two countries in 2016 was USD 12.9 billion. It rose 28.7 per cent to USD 18.13 billion in 2017 with Indonesia's exports to India reaching USD 14.08 billion and its imports from India standing at USD 4.05 billion, according to Indonesia's Central Statistics Agency.
During his meeting with Indonesian president Joko Widodo, the prime minister discussed ways to deepen bilateral cooperation in trade and investment, defence and maritime fronts.
A column of thick ash was spewed 7 km high to the sky from the crater of Mount Sinabung volcano in Sumatra Island of western Indonesia on Sunday, the country's national volcanology agency said.
The epicenter of the quake was registered 210 km (130 miles) north-east of the island of Lombok, situated near the island of Bali.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, which was centered at a depth of 17 kilometers (10.5 miles), had a magnitude of 6.8.
The 2-month-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet plunged into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, killing everyone on board.
Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) chief Soerjanto Tjahjono said that a military ship, KRI Spica, will sail towards Karawang, which is near the area where the accident occurred, if weather conditions were favourable.
The intensity of the quake was only felt 3 MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) in the province and Bitung of nearby North Sulawesi province.
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