Suara Rakyat Riau

PEKAN BARU: The Riau Immigration will soon deport 11 Greenpeace activists from Semenanjung Kampar, in Pelalawan district, as they are considered to have violated the use of their visitor's visas to Riau, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported.  

... earlier promised them permission to stay in Australia if they had papers confirming their refugee status from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Under an agreement between the Australian and Indonesian governments, the 78 ...  

Indonesian television says a passenger ferry with more than 200 people onboard sank in rough waters near Sumatra island.Yasin Kosasih, a police chief in Riau province, says the Dumai Express 10 left on an inter-island voyage Sunday morning and reportedly sank in poor weather 90 minutes into the trip.The passenger manifest says it was carrying 228 passengers including 15 children from the port of Batam to Dumai in Riau, Sumatra.Local police...  

Greenpeace activists --who set up a camp last month and sealed the heavy-duty equipment of PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) in Kampar Peninsula, Riau, two days ago -- left the location on Saturday after police gave them until 6 pm to leave the place.  

A search and rescue team is looking for passengers of ship KM Dumai Express 10, which sank in Tukong Iyu waters, Karimun regency on its way from Batam to Dumai, Riau Islands Sunday morning.Read More  

Karimun, Riau Islands (ANTARA News) - A total of 232 victims of "Dumai Express 10" which went down in Tukong Iyu ... Most of them were passengers from North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau and Batam. While this report was still being filed, evacuation ...  

The Australian government cannot force Srilankan immigrants currently on board an Australian-flagged ship in Indonesian waters to move to an immigration detention center in Riau province, an Indonesian official said.  

Kampar Peninsula, Riau, (ANTARA News) - Greenpeace Thursday ended a 26-hour dramatic non-violent direct action at the loading facility of Sinar Mas subsidiary of the Asia Pulp and Paper ... Our non-violent activities in Sumatra over last five weeks ...  

Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an actiRead More  

A search and rescue team has discovered the remains of five more victims from a ship that capsized and sank in waters off Takong Hiu four days ago, bringing the death toll from the accident to 32 aRead More  

Pekanbaru (ANTARA News) - British minister of energy and climate change Joan Ruddock said his visit to a peatland area in the Sumatran province of Riau was not connected with the recent Greenpeace action in the region. "No. It has nothing to do with ...  

Trees on the Kampar Peninsula in Riau province. Environmentalists have claimed a small victory after Indonesia ordered one of the country's biggest pulp and paper companies to halt forest clearing activities in the Kampar Peninsular. Greenpeace activists  

the Batam, Bintan and Karimun (BKK) free-trade zone. Hajime Kinoshita, former president director of PT National Panasonic Gobel Indonesia, has been appointed to lead the representative office in Osaka. To reach a wider Japanese market, the administration  

(The Jakarta Post) - Customs officials in Riau Islands have foiled an attempt to smuggle 75 tons of pure ammonium nitrate, which could be used for improvised explosive devices, on a ship from Malaysia bound for Selayar Island in South Sulawesi.Riau Islands Customs and Excise Office head Nasar Salim said Friday that the wooden ship was intercepted by a customs patrol team off the coast of Mapor Island near Bintan on Wednesday.The crew had...  

s investment and trade potentials in Norway on Monday, Nov. 23, to boost the bilateral trade partnership between Indonesia and Norway. The seminar which was held in Asker was officiated by the Indonesian Embassy’s Charge d’ Affaires Ad-Interim