The Indonesian government is seeking the release of six traditional fishermen from South Sulawesi caught by Timor Leste police some time ago.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is cooperating with the South Sulawesi provincial administration in a program to increase access to clean water and sanitation particularly for poor urban communities in six districts/cities.

South Sulawesi provincial government has disbursed Rp86 billion in the past two years for foreign scholarships, Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo said here on Tuesday.

The construction of national roads in West Sulawesi will get a budget of Rp252 billion in 2012.

The gas city project in Wajo regency, S Sulawesi, is scheduled for inauguration in January 2012 following the completion soon of the project's supporting infrastructure.

A flood is inundating more than 100 hectares of rice field in Maros district, South Sulawesi, following heavy rains in the past week.

Mamuju District Chief H.Suhardi Duka has added his signature to a statement issued by the customary communities of two subdistricts opposing the construction of a hydropower plant by a Chinese investor.

Hundreds of cataract patients from various districts in South Sulawesi Province have free operation at Anwar Makkatutu hospital in Bantaeng district in a charity program on Saturday, an official said.

Eight people were killed after the giant wall fence of Villa Mutiara housing complex in Makassar, South Sulawesi, collapsed and fell on them at 02.30 p.m. on Sunday.