Word: indonesianness
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Despite an onslaught of international media coverage months earlier, last month’s earthquake in Indonesia received an alarming lack of thorough media coverage. The death toll of the 8.7 magnitude earthquake, which hit 125 miles off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is estimated at over 1,000, minimal in comparison to the 270,000 casualties of this past December’s tsunami. While the earthquake did not cause the widespread devastation seen in the previous earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the island of Nias was ravaged...
...photos beamed around the world last week of flattened town centers and relief helicopters swooping onto stricken Indonesian islands were a heartbreaking flashback to the wider tragedy of the December tsunami, which left nearly 300,000 people dead or missing across the Indian Ocean region. But this time, it soon became clear that the region has?in just 12 weeks?become significantly better prepared to sound the alarm. Touring Nias last week, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told TIME that his country's official response to last week's quake was "faster" than to December's?and he could have...
MAHAYATI INADIMAN, Indonesian woman, 27, in the aftermath of an 8.7-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 500 people in Sumatra, which had barely recovered from the December tsunami
...Magnitude of last week's earthquake off the Indonesian coast, about half the power of the 9.0 shock last December that created the massive tsunami
...Number of pirate attacks reported worldwide in 2004, down from 445 in 2003 93 Number of 2004 attacks that occurred in Indonesian waters, the world's most dangerous seas...