Nine people are presumed dead following a selfie attempt in a popular Indonesian hot spot earlier this month. According to reports, a group of 19 people were aboard a boat on the Kedung Ombo Boyolali Reservoir in Central Java. As the boat, captained by a 13-year-old, was about to dock at a floating stall, a […]
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Climate change is erasing humanity’s oldest art
Enlarge / Detailed rock-art recording by ARKENAS archaeologist in Maros-Pangkep. (credit: Adhi Agus Oktaviana) The limestone caves and rock shelters of Indonesia’s southern Sulawesi island hold the oldest traces of human art and storytelling, dating back more than 40,000 years. Paintings adorn the walls of at least 300 sites in the karst hills of Maros-Pangkep, […]
9,000 fliers may have had reused swabs jammed up their noses in Indonesia
Enlarge / BANGKA BELITUNG ISLANDS, INDONESIA – DECEMBER 21, 2020: Health workers carry out a rapid antigen test on a passenger at Deapti Amir Airport, Pangkal Pinang City. (credit: Getty | Roni Bayu) Since last December, more than 9,000 airline passengers who took a coronavirus rapid test as they flew out of Kualanamu International Airport […]
AWFUL!! Two Men Accused Of Gay S*x Publicly Flogged 77 Times In Indonesia!!
Uh, what year are we living in again? Because last time we checked it was 2021 — and somehow there are STILL people in this world being persecuted for their sexuality. On January 28, Acehkini ID — the news portal of the conservative Aceh province in Indonesia — posted a YouTube video showing two males […]
This painted pig is the world’s oldest figurative art
Enlarge (credit: Brumm et al. 2021) A pig painted on the wall of an Indonesian cave is the world’s oldest figurative art—that is, it’s the oldest known drawing of something, rather than an abstract design or a stencil. The 45,500-year-old ocher painting depicts a Sulawesi warty pig, which appears to be watching a standoff between […]
Eddie Van Halen’s Small Known Fight Against Racism Growing In Southern California!
Eddie Van Halen might have passed off as an audio legend using throngs of followersbut matters weren’t easy for him and his loved growing up in Pasadena, California. In reality, earlier Van Halen‘s rise to popularity, the two Eddie (envisioned in 2016, previously, combined with inset in the 1992 American Music Awards) and brother Alex […]