JAKARTA As reported in Kompas, the latest review of national airline safety issued by the Governments has determined not to increase the actual safety category rating of any national airline, despite an admission that actual scores have improved a number of air carriers.

In an announcement made by the Director General of Civil Aviation, Budhi Muliawan Suyitno, the Nation’s aviation regulators confirmed that while improvements are being made in the areas of airline safety and security, none of the results warrant a change in category.

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BANDUNG  Parts of the city of Bandung, in western Java, were hit by bad weather with strong winds and heavy rain. This time there was also hail, which is pretty rare in tropical regions. The small stones of ice with a size of about one centimeter dropped from the sky in various parts of the city while it was raining. The hail caused damage to a number of vehicles that were outside.

The hail came down in the areas of Buah Batu and Soekarno-Hatta in the city of Bandung. Haryawan, an astronomer from ITB, the Technological Institute of Bandung, said that hail is a rare phenomenon here. The hail can be formed when there are certain cold and warm circumstances inside a cloud.