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A 6.1-magnitude earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Java, causing buildings to sway in the capital, Jakarta, officials have said. The epicentre was located 180km (115 miles) west of the city, in the Sunda Strait, at a depth of 50.6 km (31.4 miles), the US Geological Survey said. There have so far been no reports of any damage or casualties. A more powerful 7.6-magnitude quake devastated western Sumatra last month and left more than 1,100 people dead. An official at the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, Suharjono, told the AFP news agency that Friday's tremor was the result of movement in the same tectonic plate, but that it was impossible to say whether the two events were related. "However, the epicentres are in the same bloc... due to a clash between the Indo-Australian and Euro-Asian plates," he said. Suharjono said the quake was not strong enough to cause a tsunami. In Cilegon, on the western coast of Java, residents said the ea...

NAIROBI (AFP) – Somali pirates attempted to storm the French navy's 18,000 tonne flagship in the Indian Ocean after mistaking it for a cargo vessel, the French military said on Wednesday. The crew of La Somme, a 160-metre (525-foot) command vessel and fuel tanker, easily saw off the brazen night-time assault by lightly armed fighters on two lightweight skiffs and captured five pirates, a spokesman said. "The pirates, who because of the darkness took the French ship for a commercial vessel, were on board two vessels and opened fire with Kalashnikovs," Admiral Christophe Prazuck said in Paris. La Somme is the French command vessel in the Indian Ocean, overseeing French air, sea and land forces fighting Somali pirates and hunting terrorists under the banner of the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom. Officers on the ship have directed commando operations to free French hostages in the hands of Somali pirates. The pirates tried to flee when they realised their mistake but were ...

Jessica Watson, 16, expects to spend around 230 days alone at sea on her around-the-world voyage. Photo courtesy of www.youngestround.com. Sydney. An Australian teenager on Tuesday kicked off preparations for her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. Jessica Watson, 16, left the northeastern Sunshine Coast region on a 10-day test run to Sydney ahead of her bid to sail around the world by April 2010. After the test run, Watson, who has been sailing since she was eight years old, will make final preparations before setting off for the Tasman Sea in her pink 10.4-meter sloop when the weather is favorable. “I plan on taking around 10 days to sail down to Sydney so that I get plenty of time on the water to test all the systems and give Ella’s Pink Lady a good run-in,” Watson wrote on her online trip log. She will attempt to break the record set in 1999 by fellow Australian Jesse Martin, who took 327 days, 12 hours and 52 minutes to sail ar...

Sudah beberapa kali TNI AL kehilangan pesawat jenis NOMAD, pesawat ini adalah buatan Australia, yang sudah tidak diproduksi lagi Seperti dikutip dari situs Departemen Pertahanan RI, pada Mei 1987 Nomad jenis N22 P-817 jatuh di perairan Pulau Mapur, Kepualauan Riau. Setahun kemudian pesawat Nomad juga jatuh di perairan China Selatan. Pada Desember 2007 Nomad kembali jatuh. Saat itu pesawat jenis P837 jatuh di Batu Daun, Kelurahan Ujung Kareung, Sabang, Nangroe Aceh Darussalam. Insiden itu menewaskan setidaknya tiga orang. Kini giliran pesawat Nomad P 837 milik TNI Angkatan Laut, yang hilang kontak sekitar pukul 13.00 WIB, ternyata jatuh Desa Sekatak, wilayah Bulungan dan lima penumpang dilaporkan tewas. Pesawat tersebut dalam perjalanan dari Long Bawan di Kabupaten Nunukan ke Bandar Udara Juwata di Kota Tarakan, Kalimantan Timur, Senin siang(7/9/2009). FOTO ANTARA/M Imron Rosyadi/Koz/mes/09. Pesawat Nomad P 837 dikenal sebagai pesawat pengintai. Pesawat ini kerap digunakan untuk mela...

JAKARTA (AP) — A small Indonesian military plane disappeared over Borneo on Monday with nine passengers and crew aboard, a navy spokesman said. The Nomad P837 light aircraft was on a routine patrol over the province of East Kalimantan when it lost contact with air traffic control at around 0100 p.m. local time (0600 GMT), navy spokesman Rear Adm. Iskandar Sitompul said. It was flying between regional airports on the Indonesian half of Borneo island, which is shared with the country's northern neighbor, Malaysia, he said. The Indonesian military has long complained that its fleet of aircraft are outdated and poorly maintained due to underfunding and a recently lifted U.S. ban on weapons sales. A series of military plane crashes has killed dozens this year in Indonesia. Indonesia is in the process of upgrading aviation safety regulations after commercial airline crashes in recent years killed more than 120 people, prompting a ban of Indonesian flights in EU airspace. Source :http://w...

This clip is built using video materials in Youtube: (1) KRI Diponegoro, and (2) KOPASKA TNI-AL. This is to show the use of Subtitle technique with "typewriting" effects such as use in Holywood movies which involve certain scenes, such as: military, FBI, or CIA headquarters KRI Diponegoro (365) merupakan kapal pertama dari korvet kelas SIGMA milik TNI Angkatan Laut. KRI Diponegoro merupakan sebuah korvet yang dibuat oleh galangan kapal Schelde, Belanda dimulai pada tahun 2005 khusus untuk TNI-AL. Bertugas sebagai kapal patroli dengan kemampuan anti-kapal permukaan, anti-kapal selam dan anti-pesawat udara. Pembuatan Kontrak pembelian dan pembuatan KRI Diponegoro dan KRI Hasanuddin (366) dilakukan pada bulan Januari 2004 dan efektif berlaku sejak 12 Juli 2004. Keduanya dibuat di galangan kapal Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (SNS), Vlissingen, Belanda.[1] Peletakan lunas KRI Diponegoro dilakukan bersamaan dengan KRI Hasanuddin (366) pada tanggal 24 Maret 2005. KRI Diponegoro diletak...

Indonesia berhasil menciptakan rekor dunia baru selam massal “Guinness World Record” yaitu “The Most People Scuba Diving Simultanously Was Achieved By Indonesian Navy At Malalayang Sea During The 64th Indonesian National Day Ceremony In Manado Indonesia Upacara peringatan Hari Ulang Tahun ke-64 Indonesia di dalam laut, memecahkan rekor baru.... Liputan6.com, Manado: Indonesia kembali mencatat sejarah dalam "Guinness Book of Records" untuk kategori penyelaman dengan peserta terbanyak yang melakukan kegiatan simultan. Ini terjadi dalam upacara peringatan Hari Ulang Tahun ke-64 Indonesia di dalam laut Perairan Malalayang, Manado, Sulawesi Utara, Senin (17/8). Bayangkan, 2.400 lebih penyelam berada di dalam air selama 29 menit. "Pemecahan rekor ini merupakan ketiga kali dari sebelumnya," Seru Laksamada Madya TNI Moekhlas Sidiq di tengah keramaian Pantai Malalayang. Rekor diumumkan langsung oleh Lucia Sinigagliesi, juri Guinnes Book of Records. Kado HUT RI ini mengalahka...