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Pomelo Fruit: Bali
By Wombat | 
2 Comments » I was reading an article in the Jakarta post on the weekend about the Bali Polemo fruit. The homestay where I reside when in Bali, Prawita cottages, has a few of these trees growing in the gardens. The fruit is forever dropping off the trees and Candika gathers them up for a later feast.
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Rush of Bird Flu Cases: Indonesia
By Wombat | No Comments » Scientists are worried about a sudden flurry of human bird flu cases in Indonesia, warning that a failure to control the situation may raise the chances of a virus mutation and lead to a pandemic.
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Image of the Day: Amidst the Clothes, Pasar Seni, Sukawati, Bali
By Wombat | 3 Comments » Lampung Mangroves Decimated: Bandarlampung, Sumatra, Indonesia
By Wombat | No Comments » Illegal loggers in Lampung have cleared tens of thousands of hectares of mangrove forests, the green belt along Sumatra’s eastern coast.
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Lampung - An Overview: Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia
By Wombat | 2 Comments » Ancient Chinese travel chronicles refer to a place in the most southerly part of Sumatra called “Lampung” or “place of the Southerly winds“.
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Women and Traditional Health: Indonesia
By Wombat | No Comments » Although there was a 3.2 percent annual decline in infant mortality since 1960, in 1990, according to some accounts, nearly 5.5 percent of babies born to Indonesian mothers still did not survive to their first birthday, the lowest figures for all ASEAN countries.
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Chinese-Indonesians and Discrimination: Indonesia
By Wombat | 1 Comment » Chinese-Indonesians have been discriminated for decades in Indonesia. Being a prominently Islamic nation, some experts say this is the cause, but, there are other underlying factors.
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Bali Mega Property Project Commences: Jimbaran, Bali
By Wombat | 1 Comment » After six years of delay, PT Bali Pecatu Graha (BPG) has started work on the major Pecatu Indah Resort real estate development on a 400-hectare site on barren Pecatu Hill in Jimbaran, south of Bali according to a report in today’s Jakarta Post.
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Garuda Assists Aid Workers: Jakarta, Indonesia
By Wombat | 2 Comments » State airlines Garuda Indonesia and Merpati pledged Monday to give free rides to aid and rescue workers bound for the quake-stricken province of Yogyakarta.
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Merapi Activity Triples: Central Java, Indonesia
By Wombat | 1 Comment » Activity at Mount Merapi volcano has tripled since Saturday’s earthquake, and a large eruption is still possible, a volcanology official said Monday.
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