The search and rescue team has found difficulties to deploy heavy equipment to evacuate victims of the landslide in Sukabumi district in West Java due to rain and the hard access to the location, a spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.

"It was raining in the location. The road was too steep and stony, and under this rain it would be difficult for the team to evacuate the victims," Sutopo said in a statement in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Sutopo said, the electricity and communication network in the area were shut down.

"Communication with our team in the field were made via handy talkie," he said.

He confirmed that the landslide in Cimapag Village of Sukabumi on Monday has claimed two lives, 41 others went missing, three injured and 61 people are in evacuation camp.

The rescue team continued to search the victims. As of 2.30 a.m. on Tuesday the agency has recorded 32 families or 107 people were affected by the landslide.

The Regional Natural Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Sukabumi has sent a tram to the site.

"For now, we have recorded 30 houses were buried by the landslide," Sutopo said. (ANTARA)

A landslide killed at least two people, seriously injured four and caused 41 others missing in Cimapag village, Sukabumi District, West Java Province, on Monday afternoon.

Some 60 people survived in the landslide that buried 30 houses in the village, Marwan Hamami, district head of Sukabumi said here, Tuesday.

Four survivors were rushed to a local hospital to receive medical treatment for their serious injuries.

A joint team comprising local officers, military and police personnel, continued to search for survivors despite bad weather that hampered the rescue operations. (ANTARA)

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has signed Presidential Decree No. 30 of 2018 on National Wayang Puppet Day.

The decree, signed on December 17, 2018, stipulates that National Wayang Day be observed on Nov 7, every year.

Indonesian wayang has developed into a national cultural asset, with high value in building character and identity of the Indonesian nation.

The Wayang puppet theatre was inscribed in 2008 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

This ancient form of storytelling originated on the Indonesian island of Java. Wayang has spread to other islands -- Lombok, Madura, Sumatra, and Borneo -- where various local performance styles and musical accompaniments have developed.

These carefully handcrafted puppets vary in size, shape, and style, with the two principal types prevailing are the three-dimensional wooden puppet, called wayang klitik or gol?k, and the flat leather shadow puppet, called wayang kulit, projected in front of a screen lit from behind. Both types are characterized by costumes, facial features, and articulated body parts.

Wayang shows are major social occasions. They have traditionally been featured at weddings, circumcision parties, and festivals. (ANTARA)

South Korean President Moon Jae-in hopes that the friendship and cooperation between his country and Indonesia will be stronger and stronger in 2019 and in the years to come.

That statement was conveyed by Moon in Indonesian as a greeting to welcome the New Year 2019.

The statement was posted on the official Twitter account of the South Korean presidential office @TheBlueHouseEng which was inserted in Moon`s personal account @moonriver365, marking that the words were made by the South Korean President.

According to South Korea`s Ambassador to Indonesia Kim Chang-beom, the statement was a sign of the closeness of the relations between Indonesian and South Korean leaders.

"It shows the closeness of friendship and partnership between them," Ambassador Kim Chang-beom said via a short message received by Antara here Sunday.

In the remarks linked to the official account of President Joko Widodo @jokowi, @Kemlu_RI (the official account of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry) and the Indonesian people, Moon expressed his appreciation for Indonesia`s support for South Korea which has been fighting for peace for the past year.

"We are able to show great strength because you are always with us," President Moon said as quoted from his post on December 27, 2018.

In the last link, Moon hopes that President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and the Indonesian people will always be healthy and happy.

Earlier, on December 24, 2018, President Moon sent a letter to President Jokowi to express his condolences over the tsunami that hit the coasts of the Sunda Strait on December 22, 2018. (ANTARA)