The inauguration was attended by the Director General of Mineral and Coal (Minerba) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Bambang Gatot Ariyono; BPH Migas Committee, Muhammad Ibnu Fajar; Maluku Marketing Branch Manager PT Pertamina (Persero), Donny Brilianto; Assistant III South
Halmahera Regent, Yusuf Tauddin and Secretary of Central
Halmahera Regency, Saiful Ahmad.
Iksan Subur, an official with Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency based in the regency of South
Halmahera, near the earthquake's epicentre, said people in the area panicked and ran out of their houses.
As of Monday, 66 aftershocks had been recorded and some people in South
Halmahera were still taking refuge on higher ground fearful of a tsunami, Wibowo said.
Christian missionaries to
Halmahera. as elsewhere, offered themselves as a new source of knowledge.
Beschrieben wird die neue Art Hemiscyllium
halmahera auf der Grundlage von zwei Exemplaren mit 656-681 mm TL (Gesamtlange), die bei Ternate,
Halmahera, in Indonesien gefangen wurden.
Jaya said the financing could be used for the East
Halmahera ferronickel plant because the project needs supplies and equipment from abroad.
The quake's epicenter was located at 0.89 degrees southern latitude, 126.88 degrees eastern longitude, 132 km southwest of South
Halmahera, and at a depth of 10 km below sea level.
The smelter with a production capacity of 27,000 tons of ferronickel to be built in
Halmahera Timur is expected to be operational in 2014.
22 November 2011 - Norwegian oil major Statoil ASA (OSL:STL) said Monday it was awarded an 80% working interest and the operatorship of the
Halmahera II oil and gas licence, offshore eastern Indonesia.