The Indonesian Canadian Congress invites you to join the ICC Annual Picnic. The picnic is open for everybody.

This is a fun outdoor acticities for the whole familiy and public.

The Democrat Party, the party of current Indonesian president, got the most votes at the 2009 Indonesian Parliamentary election held on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at the Embassy of Indonesia, Ottawa. The Democrat Party got 41.13% of the votes, followed by Prosperous Justice Party with 17.74% of votes, and Golkar and Indonesian Democratic Party – Struggle with the same 6.45% of votes.

The result is only for the voter who casted their vote by came directly to the polling station. Most of the voter in Canada are casting their vote via post, which will be counted on Saturday, April 18, 2009.

The participation of the voter who came to the poll for this election is around 66%.

The polling was held from 9:30am until 07:00pm, which then continued by the counting process started from 08:15pm until 09:20pm.

JAKARTA – A wall of water from a burst dam killed 52 people on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Friday, crashing into hundreds of homes while many residents slept, officials said.

While landslides and floods are common during the rainy season in Indonesia, the latest disaster was probably caused by torrential rain and poor maintenance, some officials said, reflecting years of under-investment in much of the country’s crucial infrastructure.

The dam, which retained water in Lake Situ Gintung in Tangerang District, 20 km (12 miles) southwest of Jakarta, dated from the 1930s in the Dutch colonial era, according to local media reports.

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