http://niasonline.net/eng A website of Nias culture, language and current affairs - online since 17 April 2006 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:44:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 30 May 2008 Dozens of children crowd excitedly around Juwita Kristina Zebua, a 24-year-old Indonesian Red Cross volunteer in Nias. They watch with fascination as she demonstrates cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid using mannequins. “What will you do if you see somebody is injured?” asks Juwita. “Help him!” yell the primary school students ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2008/06/01/indonesia-nias-community-learns-how-to-prepare-for-future-disasters/ Editor's note: In a conference on Nias architechture held in Vienna on October 2006, the participants of the Conference established the so-called Nias Island Research Network (NIRN). To know more about this Network, E. Halawa* from Yaahowu website requested an interview with the Ntework's Coordinator, Petra Gruber. The following are ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2008/05/11/interview-with-petra-gruber-%e2%80%93-nias-island-research-network-coordinator/ By Ahmad Husein, International Federation's communications coordinator in Indonesia On Nias Island, an Indonesian Red Cross initiative has mobilized and trained more than 800 new volunteers in just ten months. When a community based first aid programme was launched on the Indonesian island of Nias in March 2007, there was little indication ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2008/02/04/indonesia-from-zero-to-heroes/ Sunday, December 30, 2007 George Junus Aditjondro Stone jumping (hombo batu) and surfing are the two most well-known attractions for tourists coming to the island of Nias, 75 miles west of Sumatera, which only take place in Teluk Dalam on Nias' south coast. Young Nias men jump over 2-meters stone walls for ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2008/01/07/nias-not-just-stone-jumping-and-surfing/ By Aubrey Belford - Agence France-Presse JAKARTA--When Kuntoro Mangkusubroto dashed in to lead reconstruction of Indonesia's Aceh in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, it was with little immediate help from his own government. Despite leading an organization set up by presidential decree in May 2005, Mangkusubroto was forced to ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2007/12/23/indonesias-tsunami-reconstruction-chief-lauds-progress/ Nias, Indonesia, The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and UN-HABITAT this week handed over 486 new homes to survivors of two disasters that left a trail of destruction in the region. Keys to the new homes were presented to their new owners at a special ceremony in the Nias Island village of ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2007/11/30/indonesia-asian-development-bank-un-habitat-hand-over-new-homes-to-disaster-survivors/ *total 102.063 houses for Tsunami and Earthquake victims in Aceh dan Nias Banda Aceh, 31 October 2007- Director of the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Executing Agency for Aceh and (BRR) Kuntoro Mangkusubroto announced today that more than 100.000 houses have been built till the end of October 2007 for the victims of ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2007/11/03/more-than-100000-houses-were-built-in-aceh-nias/ *An Interview with Prof.Dr.med. Ingo Kennerknecht by E. Halawa & MJ Daeli Editor’s note: On 10 Augutst 2007 Yaahowu sent 9 interview questions to Prof.Dr.med. Ingo Kennerknecht of the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Munster, Germany, regarding his research on genetics of Nias People (see article: Merunut Asal-Usul Orang Nias ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2007/10/19/no-commercial-interests-and-no-patents-will-be-applied/ Note: In 2002 and 2003 Prof.Dr.med. Ingo Kennerknecht visited Nias for a research on the origins of Nias people. The preliminary results of this research was presented by Prof.Dr.med. Ingo Kennerknecht at the Conference on Traditional Architecture And Art On Nias at the Museum for Ethnology, Vienna, October 30th & ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2007/10/13/the-genetics-of-nias-concepts-and-first-data/ ALOR STAR, Oct 9 (Bernama) -- Mahathir Mohamad, an orphan whose parents died in the earthquake that hit Pulau Nias in Indonesia two years ago, today began a new life at the AlBukhary Orphanage here. He arrived from Medan with Panti Asuhan Al-Wasliyah orphanage principal Juharman Hairefa to join 50 other ... http://niasonline.net/eng/2007/10/10/mahathir-begins-new-life-at-albukhary-orphanage/