On July 16, West Sumatra governor Muchlis Ibrahim sent a letter to the central authorities.
In West Sumatra, officials registered about 2, 800 infants under five as severely malnourished.
Sources in West Sumatra claim higher-ups gave staff a per diem to demonstrate, and paid for protesters to visit Abeng's office in Jakarta.
One of the loudest voices against privatization belonged to Azwar Anas, a retired general, past two-time governor of West Sumatra and ex-CEO of Padang.
Indonesia's Tempo Interactive, a media outlet based in Jakarta, had trouble reaching its correspondent in the West Sumatra city, according to journalist Purwani Diyah Prabandari.
Having failed to elicit any interest from the police and the prosecutors in the shady doings of West Sumatra's provincial parliament, he alerted the media.
Shariah laws in force in a few conservative areas, such as Indonesia's Southern Sulawesi and West Sumatra regions, haven't captured the imagination of the wider public.
It was the province's largest enterprise, and its 1995 acquisition by East Java-based Gresik in a government-directed consolidation of state-owned cement plants was a traumatic experience for West Sumatra.
His other major agribusiness asset is pt Tidar Kerinci Agung, a palm-oil producer in West Sumatra that began as a joint venture with Malaysia's Robert Kuok, who has since exited.
The earthquake happened along a line where the Earth's Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates grind together, in the waters west of Sumatra.
The earthquake that rocked the west coast of Sumatra on the night of March 28th was not entirely unexpected.
Exercise IOWave11 re-enacted the 26 December 2004 earthquake event, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.
The scenario established for the "Exercise IOWAVE 11" re-enacts the events of 26 December 2004, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.
The earthquake measured 8.6 on the Richter scale, occurred 434km south-west of Banda Aceh Province in Sumatra at 08.38 UTC.
Among them: ethnic clashes in West Java, a riot following an earthquake in central Sumatra, and an anti-pollution protest that led to riots in Pasaruan, East Java.
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