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Jakarta. Two fishermen have died and 15 were still missing on Sunday after their boat capsized following a collision with a bulk carrier in the Java Sea, Indonesian authorities said.

Other members of the 32-person crew on the Barokah Jaya fishing boat were evacuated and taken to hospital after Saturday’s crash with the Habco Pioneer bulk carrier.

Both vessels are Indonesian-flagged.

One of the victims’ corpses was found stuck in a fishing net and the other in the vessel, 50 metres from the Habco Pioneer, Indonesia’s search and rescue agency Basarnas said.

Hundreds of rescuers - including divers - were scouring the waters, said Deden Ridwansah, head of Basarnas’ local Bandung office, in a statement on the agency’s Instagram.

There were no reports of casualties on the 30,000-tonne capacity Habco Pioneer, which is owned by tugboats and barges company PT Habco Primatama.

Authorities did not give a reason for the collision. (Reuters)

Jakarta. Lecturers need to change assessment methods for their students during online learning, an education expert from UTS College Australia pointed out.

The teaching staff needs to have more appropriate assessment methods to enable their students to achieve better results, Amanda White wrote on the press release here on Sunday.

In assessing their academic achievement, the students, for instance, should not have a closed book examination as a form of the assessment method.

Instead, they can get an open book examination as long as the questions require them to do an analysis to answer. Therefore, the students do not only memorize the teaching materials they have received, she said. 

The quality of direct learning at the campus may get lowered due to online learning. However, the phenomenon does not happen at her college. The learning quality does not change though an online learning method is applied, she pointed out.

White, UTS Deputy Head – Students and Subjects Faculty of Business, noted that the most important point is to trigger the students to study together in fun ways. Moreover, the lessons learned will match to jobs they aspire.

Thus, both lecturers and students necessitate discussing current issues that will lead them to identify and create their contribution to the business sector and local communities.

Previously, UniSadhuGuna International College (UIC College) under PT UniSadhuGuna along with global partner, UTS College held a workshop on the topic “Understand What Are Employers Seeking and How to Keep Building Career Readiness During this Uncertain Time”.

Head of UniSadhuGuna at the Pondok Indah Campus, Yani Oktaviana, said that the discussion was aimed at giving the students the exposure and insight to face the unpredictable changes. In addition, it offers solutions on how to become qualified human resources and make changes to be ready to work in any industrial sector.

Oktaviana added that this fast-changing world needs to be well-adapted. Therefore, conducting some training for students is important to give them exposure and insight in line with global issues.

“As one of the educational institutions, we want to focus on preparing future leaders during the study period until they have to plow through the real world, career world,” she pointed out. (Antaranews)

Jakarta. Flash floods unleashed by torrential rains killed 41 people on the Indonesian island of Flores on Sunday, the disaster management agency BNPB said, and at least three more were reported killed in neighbouring East Timor.

At least 49 families were hit on Flores, in the east of Indonesia’s sprawling archipelago, Raditya Jati, a BNPB spokesman said in a statement.

“Dozens of houses were buried in mud in Lamanele village... residents’ houses washed away by the flood,” Raditya said, referring to the eastern part of Flores.

On Adonara island to the east of Flores, a bridge collapsed and rescuers were battling heavy rain, strong wind and waves, he added.

In neighbouring East Timor, a two-year-old child was among at least three people killed in a landslide on the outskirts of the capital, Dili, a Reuters witness said, although there was no official toll of casualties or deaths.

“Heavy rains and overflowing water have drowned people’s homes and have also claimed the lives of several victims,” East Timor deputy prime minister José Reis said in a statement.

“There are roads that have collapsed, trees have fallen, and made it difficult to access some areas,” he said, calling the incident the worst in East Timor in 40 years.

Power supplies were cut and the presidential palace was flooded as heavy rain and strong winds have lashed Dili since late on Saturday.

Civil protection officials in East Timor could not immediately be reached for comment. Social media posts showed collapsed buildings and vehicles submerged by flash floods.

Indonesia’s weather agency said a tropical cyclone was approaching the Savu Straits between the southern part of Nusa Tenggara province and East Timor’s north coast, warning that it could bring yet more rain, waves and winds. (Reuters)

Jakarta. A flood, triggered by incessant heavy rain, has claimed two lives and affected 27,808 people or 9,245 families in 29 villages of Bima District, West Nusa Tenggara Province, since Saturday.

"The Bima Disaster Mitigation Office (BPBD) reported that two local residents died in the disaster, and 9,245 families comprising 27,808 people were affected," Raditya Jati, the office's spokesman, said here on Sunday.

A number of people were displaced by the flooding, he added.

The flooding submerged 294 hectares of farming areas, 25 hectares of ponds, and 9,245 houses. It also damaged 12 of the flood-hit houses, and four bridges.

Downpour fell for around nine hours incessantly on Saturday throughout Bima, causing several dams in four sub-districts to overflow.

The affected sub-districts were Madapangga, Bolo, Woha, and Monta.

The Bima BPBD has coordinated with the authorities in the affected areas to distribute relief aid and deploy personnel to help flood victims.

It has also deployed rubber boats and provided emergency tents for displaced people.

Earlier, the Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has warned that extreme weather such as heavy rains, strong wind and huge waves were forecast to occur in parts of Indonesia, including West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara Provinces. (Antaranews)