Weekly Highlights: MH17 Final Report

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Liputan6.com ‘Weekly Highlights’ program has been set in motion to provide both Indonesian nationwide and worldwide audience with the latest information and development surrounding domestic and international affairs.

Four high-on-demand news which have the most appeal to our online user base and make it into our headlines within the period of one week will be the ones featured in our ‘Weekly Highlights’ program. The program uses the language English in delivering the news via our online news portal, Liputan6.com.

Specific news sections included in the ‘Weekly Highlights’ as follow:

International Affairs: covering stories on issues at the regional and international level.

Trending Topic: covering stories on issues that are most talked- about within the realm of social media.

What’s on Indonesia: covering stories on issues with focus placed primarily on domestic affairs.

Embassy Corner: covering stories on issues or events relating to Ambassadors of countries residing in Indonesia and activities launched by their embassies in Jakarta.

This October midweek, four news for each section have been carefully selected to fill in this week’s ‘Weekly Highlights’. On the International Affairs section, we have developing information on the investigation done over the downing of Malaysian Airline flight MH 17 conducted by the Dutch Safety Board. In the Trending Topic section, we have identified the issue of Indonesian haze impact with its dramatic turn from a national issue becoming a  largely regional one as a never- ending subject to be discussed by our online user base.

In our What’s on Indonesia section, the story we cover involves the rescuing mission of a 22 year old man who spent over two days stranded in the lake Toba in the northern Sumatera after the helicopter he travelled with crashed down due to power lost. As for our Embassy Corner, this week we decided to turn our heads directed onto the event that was held in the early week of October by the Italian Embassy in Jakarta to commemorate the 100th year of the First World War. 

(Akp/Ein)