Indonesia

Significant changes will soon be made to the curriculum of Turkish schools abroad, which have been taken over from the network of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S. based preacher widely believed to have orchestrated the July 2016 coup attempt, according to the chairman of the Maarif (Education) Foundation.      

A 5000 sq km iceberg, approximately the size of the island of Mali in Indonesia, is ready to be detached from West Antarctica.

According to scientists from the Swansea University in the UK, the iceberg is among the 10 biggest ever recorded and its surface is 85 times bigger than Manhattan!

The hidden danger to wildlife posed by imported consumer goods - an espresso coffee in Beijing, a tofu salad in Chicago - can now be pinpointed and measured, researchers said Jan. 5.

Crunching huge amounts of data, they unveiled a global "threat map" detailing the impact on endangered species of exports to the United States, China, Japan and the European Union.

Indonesia has cut some ties with JPMorgan Chase & Co after the bank's research analysts issued a negative report on the country, the latest in a series of skirmishes between Wall Street banks and governments in emerging markets.

An enhanced presence of movies from Central Asia, the Caucasus, India and Indonesia will complement this year's Middle East and North Africa (MENAR) Film Festival beginning next week in Sofia, organizers say.

Dozens of feature films, documentaries and shorts, as well as a selection of Central Asian, Armenian and Azerbaijani movies will be screened between January 12 and 29.

Twenty-three people have been killed and dozens injured after a fire ripped through a boat carrying nearly 250 people to islands north of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the city’s search and rescue agency says.
The Zahro Express caught fire shortly after leaving Muara Angke port in North Jakarta.

Winning cartoons from the 33rd Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Contest and other select caricatures have gone on display at Istanbul's Okan University Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture. 

Thirteen people have died after an Indonesian military transport plane crashed in the east of the country on Dec. 18, officials said, marking yet another air accident for the armed forces.

The minority Christian governor of Indonesia's capital sobbed in court on Dec. 12 on the first day of his blasphemy trial as he recalled the role of Muslim godparents in his childhood and said he would never intentionally insult Islam, The Associated Press reported.

At least 97 people were killed and scores injured when a strong earthquake struck western Indonesia Dec. 7 and flattened hundreds of homes and mosques, with officials warning the death toll would likely rise.

The shallow 6.5-magnitude quake struck Pidie Jaya district in Aceh province at dawn as many in the mainly Muslim region on Sumatra island were preparing for morning prayers.