Indonesia Today

Anita: Nie, I just called my mom and she told me a story about the sermon she heard last Sunday.
Nie: Oh Really?
Anita: Ya, the preacher had a gift to see or dream about what would happen in the future. He had also seen Tsunami happening once in his dream. Last Sunday, he shared about his latest dream. He saw that in the coming moths, something big, even bigger than Tsunami will happen.
Nie: Hm,… *thinking and nodding
Golda: (unexpectedly come and join the conversation, heheheh – sorry Gol, just kidding!) Benny Hinn was in Indonesia last month,.. he kind of said a similar thing. Oh no,.. he said a good news, actually, that there would be a big revival in Indonesia.
Nie: (still) Hm,…
Anita: The preacher in Solo said that this happening would not only affect Indonesia, but the neighbors, too, like China and India.
Nie: Really,.. Hm,… (nodding)

Then,….

Nie: Oh my gosh,.. I read a couple days ago in Google News that ‘something’, like natural disturbance I think, was founded or at least felt in Indonesia, China and India. Will that be….?

Finally everybody was just nodding and thinking and hm-ing. We of course prayed for it personally everyday.

Thus, what is actually happening in Indonesia today?

JAKARTA (AFX) - A strong earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck off the western coast of northern Sumatra in Indonesia, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency here said.

The quake, centered 33 kilometers under the floor of the Indian Ocean some 300 kilometers west of Simeulue, was only moderately felt on the island, said Hardiyanto of the agency's office in the capital Jakarta.

There were no reports of injuries or damage from the quake, which struck at 2.36 am local time.

Solo, C Java (ANTARA News) - Mount Merapi`s condition is getting more worrisome eight days after it was declared under an alert status, a volcanology agency official said here on Wednesday.

He said the reflector planted at the mountain`s top had moved around five centimers away from its original position meaning that the lava vault had moved upward so that eruption was more likely.

He said based on the development the mountain`s slope area in the district of Klaten would likely risk three factual eruption fallouts namely lava flows, hot clouds and burning rocks.

According to him, three villages would likely be heavily affected if the mountain really erupted namely Tegalmulyo located only around three kilometers from the mountain`s top and Sidorejo as well as Balerante located around 10 kilomters from the top.(*)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - About 300 hardline Indonesian Muslims vandalized a building housing the office of
Playboy magazine on Wednesday in a protest against its publication in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Clad in white shirts and skull caps the protesters threw rocks at the front lobby, breaking the windows of the building in the south of Jakarta several days after the magazine hit news-stands for the first

time.

(CNN) -- A young girl in Indonesia died of highly pathogenic bird flu last month, bringing the country's total number of confirmed H5N1 human cases to 30, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday.

Thus, will those dreams and premonition come true? I don’t know,.. maybe you don’t know either, and probably the preacher don’t either. God knows. He is the One that we can rely on. He is the One that stays the same, forever and ever.

What we can do is praying for ourselves, our family and friends, and of course for Indonesia. The most important thing is turning back from our wicked ways and seeking God's face.

I recall a song I learned in Indonesia during my childhood…

Biarpun gunung-gunung beranjak
Dan bukit-bukit pun bergoyang
Tapi kasih setiaMu tak akan, beranjak dariku.

(even though mountains move,
And hills too
But your unfailing love will never move away from me.)