News Indonesia Bangka-Belitung Islands: Wetland destruction for mining, oil palm tied to crocodile attacks in Indonesia
BANGKA, Indonesia — Residents of a centuries-old coastal settlement in the world’s largest tin-mining outpost — Bangka Island — fear that the environmental damage over just a few decades is behind a frightening rise in reports of violent deaths. In February, local fisher Jauhari became the latest person here on Bangka’s west coast to be […]
News Indonesia Bangka-Belitung Islands: Indonesia's 65.5 mln MSMEs absorb 119 mln workers: govt
The Ministry of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) has said that Indonesia has 65.5 million MSMEs that alone employ 119 million workers, a significant chunk of the ANTARA News mataram 34 ...
News Indonesia Bangka-Belitung Islands: From Singapore to Thailand, higher food costs hit Lunar New Year reunion dinner festivities
The 33-year-old said that just a couple months ago, cooking oil prices in the provincial capital of Indonesia's Bangka Belitung Islands, near Sumatra island, increased to around 50,000 rupiah (US$ ...
News Indonesia Bangka-Belitung Islands: Indonesia steps up fight against climate change
JAKARTA, Oct 30 (Jakarta Post/ANN): President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has pledged that Indonesia is fully ... Riau, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung, West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, North ...
