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The Dog Meat Free Indonesia (DMFI), Yogyakarta band Shaggydog and beauty peagant Puteri Indonesia 2018 winner Alya Nurshabrina launched two videos to campaign against dog meat consumption on Thursday in Yogyakarta.

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Yogyakarta court jails dog meat trader in landmark case

A court in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta on Monday sentenced the suspect to 10 months in jail and slapped him with a 150 million rupiah ($10,000) fine.

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A resident sits near houses at the scene of a landslide triggered by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake at Trunyan village in Bangli, Indonesia's Bali island, on October 16, 2021.

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Bali earthquake kills three, injures seven

The quake affected the Karangasem and Bangli districts on the eastern side of the tourist island and a search has been concluded, the agency said in a statement, but authorities were continuing to monitor situation.

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A woman takes part in a simulation of Covid-19 health protocols at the international airport in Tuban on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on October 9, 2021, ahead of the island reopening to tourists on October 14.

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No international flights scheduled as Bali reopens

Tourism-reliant Bali is scheduled to reopen on Thursday and though its Ngurah Rai international airport has carried out simulations preparing for the tourists to return, it is not expecting much to happen soon.

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People enjoy the sunset at Kuta beach near Denpasar on Indonesia resort island of Bali on September 6, 2021.

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Bali surf school eagerly awaiting imminent return of foreign tourists

Halfia's business at Kuta Beach is among hundreds of tourist businesses to have been crippled by the Indonesian government's decision to suspend all international flights to and from the popular island destination from April 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Precious creature – Irma, a one-year old silvery gibbon, or locally known as Owa Jawa, undergoes a rehabilitation at Javan Gibbon Center (JGC) in Bedogol Resort in Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park (TNGGP), Bogor, West Java. Customs officers confiscated Irma when she was about to smuggle abroad at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

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Indonesia's race to preserve habitat of Javan gibbon

Also known as the silvery gibbon, the primate is unique to central and western Java, where it plays a role in regenerating forest vegetation by dispersing seeds.

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Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Panjaitan speaking in Jakarta on Tuesday (30/6). He was thanking Nestle Indonesia for providing food aid to scavengers and protective gear to health workers amid COVID-19.

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Bali to reopen to some foreign tourists from mid-October

Visitors will be required to quarantine for eight days, Luhut said.

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People walk through 'Terowongan 4444' or 4444 tunnel, built from plastic bottles collected from several rivers around the city in three years, at the plastic museum constructed by Indonesia's environmental activist group Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation (ECOTON) in Gresik regency near Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia, September 28, 2021.

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East Java museum made from plastic bottles, bags highlights marine crisis

The outdoor exhibition in the town of Gresik in East Java took three months to assemble and is made up of more than 10,000 plastic waste items, from bottles and bags to sachets and straws, all collected from polluted rivers and beaches.

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This handout picture taken and released on October 1, 2021 by the Indonesia National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) shows a boy wading through floodwaters towards a community health centre in Pariaman, after torrential rain triggered floods and landslides in the area.

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Seven killed in West Sumatra landslide

A day after the landslide hit two adjacent houses in Padang Pariaman district on Wednesday, seven bodies were pulled out of the mud, while another person was rescued alive with broken bones.

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