A website of Nias people, culture and current affairs
This the English page of Nias Online, which has been online since 17 April 2006. Formerly it was based in sub-domain: http://niasonline.net/eng/. Since March 2009 it was moved to the home page of Nias Online as a Category.
Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan Donor agencies, international organizations and the body in charge of rebuilding Aceh and Nias promised Wednesday to ensure public accountability and to make it… Read more »
An Interview With Basyral Hamidy Harahap Introduction: Recently Yaahowu website held an Online Discussion with a topic â€Welcoming and Reflecting on the Formation of the Tapanuli Provinceâ€, from 10 July… Read more »
Jakarta – A moderate earthquake struck Nias Island off the western coast of Indonesia’s North Sumatra Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of structural damage or casualties, an official… Read more »
CILACAP, Indonesia (UCAN) — Brigita Denis Dwinatalia’s dream of studying psychology at state-run Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta crumbled when an earthquake hit south-central Java Island on May 27.
By Bill Guerin JAKARTA – The outpouring of foreign aid and donations to Indonesia in the wake of the December 2004 tsunami is being pilfered by corrupt government officials and… Read more »
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has opened the first two of nearly 370 permanent schools it has agreed to build in Indonesia in a $90-million project to replace those… Read more »
Yayasan Pusaka Nias (Nias Heritage Foundation) has launched a website. Please visit the website at the following link: http://museum-nias.org.
NIAS ISLAND, INDONESIA The early nineteenth-century Omo Sebua, or traditional chief’s house, in the Omo Hada complex in Hilinawalö Mazingo is one of only five surviving buildings of its type… Read more »
Ridwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Anticorruption watchdogs are urging an exhaustive probe of possible irregularities in rebuilding projects at the Aceh and Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency (BRR)…. Read more »
Monday, September 04, 2006 Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan Geologists are warning people living along North Sumatra’s western coastal areas that a major earthquake is likely during the next… Read more »
By Robin StringerSept. 6 (Bloomberg) — Indonesian primary school children in disaster-hit regions Aceh and Nias are suffering stunted growth and retarded intellectual development, according to a study by the… Read more »
ADB has signed agreements with five international organizations to accelerate its program to build houses in earthquake and tsunami affected Aceh and Nias. Housing remains a top priority for the… Read more »
Adisti Sukma Sawitri, The Jakarta Post, Depok NGO activists are treating reconstruction projects as “battlefields” to compete for donor funding and misuse it for their own benefit, leaving locals to… Read more »
Due to a number of enquiries from visitors, Nias Online contacted two airlines operating in Nias: Merpati and SMAC (Sabang Merauke Air Charter) and received the flight information which can… Read more »
International institutions may laud the BRR Aceh-Nias performance (read this news), but in Nias, BRR has started losing people’s support, according to SIB newspaper report (16/08/06). The way BRR handles… Read more »