Lisa Siregar – Internet users in Indonesia are now spending more time online than they are reading newspapers or listening to the radio, according…
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July 26, 2011
Jakarta Globe - July 26, 2011
Jakarta Globe - July 26, 2011
The statement by former general Slamet Singgih on Tuesday about a secret meeting to plan the infamous July 27, 1996, attack on the headquarters of…
ABC Radio Australia - July 26, 2011
Tiny East Timor has its first airline. Timor Air was launched yesterday and will operate daily flights between Dili, and Darwin in northern…
Jakarta Globe - July 26, 2011
A retired military intelligence official said on Tuesday that he had been part of a group that planned a notorious and deadly attack against…
Jakarta Post - July 26, 2011
Purwokerto – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is looking to bounce back from its poor performance at the ballot box…
Jakarta Globe - July 26, 2011
Anita Rachman – After re-electing its chairman earlier this month, the United Development Party on Monday decided on its new executive leadership…
July 25, 2011
Jakarta Post - July 25, 2011
Jakarta – A group of NGOs have called on lawmakers to include principles of food sovereignty in their draft revision to the 1996 Food Law to…
Jakarta Globe - July 25, 2011
S.K. Zainuddin – In the fight against poverty, the yardstick used to measure progress has long been statistics.
Every government around the…
Jakarta Globe - July 25, 2011
Ulma Haryanto – Corruption Eradication Commission spokesman Johan Budi said the antigraft body would not ignore allegations leveled…
Jakarta Post - July 25, 2011
Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A preponderance of procurement-related graft cases should prompt the government and the House of Representatives to…
Jakarta Post - July 25, 2011
Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The repressive methods applied in Indonesia' fight against terrorism, particularly those reportedly being applied…
Jakarta Globe - July 25, 2011
Dion Bisara – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono vowed on Monday to boost spending on infrastructure next year at the cost of subsidy cuts on…
Jakarta Post - July 25, 2011
Donny Syofyan, Padang – Democratic Party executives are supposed to question themselves over the party's politicians getting entangled in…
Jakarta Post - July 25, 2011
Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A former combatant of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in front of his coffee…
New Matilda - July 25, 2011
Alex Rayfield – In an extraordinary media statement dated Monday 18 July the chief of the Army in Indonesian occupied West Papua, Major-General…
Jakarta Globe - July 25, 2011
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party says it will tap into the booming popularity of social networking sites in the country to carry it to…
Australian Associated Press - July 25, 2011
Larine Statham – East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta says he supports Australia's refugee swap deal with Malaysia.
Dr Ramos Horta on…
Jakarta Globe - July 25, 2011
Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Sentul, West Java – The Democratic Party wound up its national coordination meeting here on Sunday leaving its…
July 24, 2011
Jakarta Post - July 24, 2011
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Sentul – There have been few signs of concrete action by Democratic Party politicians during their two-day working meeting to…
Jakarta Post - July 24, 2011
Arya Dipa, Bandung – Indonesian children voiced their health concerns by urging the government to increase cigarette prices and intensify anti-…
Associated Press - July 24, 2011
Matthew Lee, Associated Press, Nusa Dua – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging Indonesia to promote democracy in Myanmar and…
Agence France Presse - July 24, 2011
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday urged Indonesia to cut tariffs, saying trade between the two countries lagged behind others in…
Jakarta Globe - July 24, 2011
Lisa Siregar – Dewi Triana found herself sitting cross-legged in a small room listening to sermons denouncing Indonesia and exhorting her to help…
July 23, 2011
Jakarta Globe - July 23, 2011
Ismira Lutfia – Activists have welcomed a new policy that may allow the direct hiring of Indonesian migrant workers by prospective Malaysian…
Jakarta Globe - July 23, 2011
Nivell Rayda – Its controversial leader, Abu Bakar Bashir, has been locked up inside a heavily fortified detention facility in Jakarta, but hard-…
Jakarta Globe - July 23, 2011
Anita Rachman – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie was expected to read out a brief end-of-year report before the close of the plenary…
Jakarta Post - July 23, 2011
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Political tensions were expected to calm gradually in the once-restive Aceh after parties agreed to accept…
Jakarta Globe - July 23, 2011
Arientha Primanita & Febriamy Hutapea – Just as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono broke his silence on the Muhammad Nazaruddin case on Friday…
Brisbane Times - July 23, 2011
What do Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, and Richard Marles, the parliamentary secretary for Pacific island affairs in the Gillard…
July 22, 2011
Asia Sentinel - July 22, 2011
Once renowned for its pristine beaches, Untung Jawa Island, just an hour's boat ride from Jakarta, is now known as "trash island." With hundreds…
Jakarta Globe - July 22, 2011
Stephanie Riady – This past May the national education minister proudly announced a staggering 99.2 percent passing rate for students taking the…
Jakarta Globe - July 22, 2011
Ronna Nirmala – Around 5,000 people rallied in front of the House of Representatives on Friday to demand lawmakers ratify pass the much-discussed…
Jakarta Globe - July 22, 2011
Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Indonesia looks set to overtake Thailand as home to the largest automotive industry in Southeast Asia on the back of its…
Jakarta Globe - July 22, 2011
Dion Bisara – The House of Representatives approved on Friday a hefty 35 percent increase in fuel subsidies amid speculation that the government…
Jakarta Post - July 22, 2011
Jakarta – Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) from Indonesia…
July 21, 2011
Jakarta Globe - July 21, 2011
Ulma Haryanto – The head of the workers' union at a Converse factory in Sukabumi, West Java, dismissed on Wednesday a recent report by The…
Jakarta Post - July 21, 2011
Apriadi Gunawan, Karo, N. Sumatra – Fire has destroyed hundreds of hectares of protected forest over the last three days on the slopes of Mount…
Jakarta Post - July 21, 2011
Jakarta – East Kalimantan Prosecutors Office head Faried Harianto said on Thursday that petty corruption is acceptable and should not…
Jakarta Post - July 21, 2011
Kupang – Nine soldiers tried for beating to death Charles Mali, 17, a detainee at the Military Batallion 744 headquarters in Atambua,…
Jakarta Post - July 21, 2011
Jakarta – The Indonesian military continues to misunderstand the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), with the result that…
Agence France Presse - July 21, 2011
Who will speak Iniai in 2050? Or Faiwol? Moskona? Wahgi? Probably no one, as the languages of New Guinea – the world's greatest linguistic…
Jakarta Globe - July 21, 2011
Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A military tribunal in Papua indicted three low-ranking soldiers on Wednesday for the killing of a civilian in Puncak…
Jakarta Globe - July 21, 2011
Banjir Ambarita – An Indonesian soldier was killed in an ambush at Puncak Jaya district in Papua on Thursday.
The incident took…
July 20, 2011
Jakarta Post - July 20, 2011
Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has called on the Law and Human Rights Minister to…
Jakarta Post - July 20, 2011
Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A lawmaker said that the government should improve how it monitors foreigners' activities in Indonesia to…
Jakarta Globe - July 20, 2011
Dessy Sagita – As someone living with HIV, Chacha said he was concerned by reports suggesting his much-needed antiretroviral medication may soon…
Jakarta Post - July 20, 2011
Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has accused politicians, community leaders and local governments of being in thrall to the tobacco…
Jakarta Globe - July 20, 2011
Anita Rachman – The Judicial Commission could soon have the authority to demand the tapping of the phones of errant judges after the House of…
Jakarta Post - July 20, 2011
Jakarta – A survey conducted by the human rights watchdog Imparsial found that there is a widespread public perception that the police frequently…
Jakarta Globe - July 20, 2011
Ulma Haryanto – In a rare display of unity, top law enforcement officials on Tuesday agreed to give better protection to whistle-blowers,…