Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Djoko Suyanto said that he was unaware of the involvement of the…
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March 15, 2011
Jakarta Post - March 15, 2011
Jakarta Post - March 15, 2011
Rendy A. Witular, Jakarta – After the nation's intelligence agencies have been operating without a firm legal or political legitimation for more…
Jakarta Post - March 15, 2011
Rendi A. Witular – A few months into the first term of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in late 2004, his predecessor, Megawati Soekarnoputri,…
March 14, 2011
Jakarta Globe - March 14, 2011
Heru Andriyanto – Controversial cleric Abu Bakar Bashir stormed out of his court hearing after his lawyer on Monday was expelled for contempt of…
Radio Australia - March 14, 2011
Indonesian Vice President Boediono has taken the opportunity of a visit to Australia to again deny allegations of corruption against his President…
Jakarta Globe - March 14, 2011
Camelia Pasandaran, Bogor – In his first public response to the WikiLeaks scandal that surfaced on Friday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on…
Jakarta Globe - March 14, 2011
Anita Rachman & Farouk Arnaz – The Presidential Palace will not issue any further comments on the WikiLeaks scandal, a spokesman for Susilo…
Jakarta Post - March 14, 2011
Rendi A. Witular – Aside from a string of failures to detect terrorism threats and sectarian conflicts, recent cases of intelligence breakdown may…
Jakarta Post - March 14, 2011
Hotli Simanjuntak, Pidie, Aceh – Uncontrolled illegal logging has been blamed for a flash flood in Tangse district, Pidie regency, Aceh, on…
Open Democracy - March 14, 2011
Jason MacLeod – Just as Indonesia's president Susilo Bambang Yudhuyono was being feted globally for being a democrat, the Indonesian government…
Jakarta Globe - March 14, 2011
Ulma Haryanto & Elisabeth Oktofani – Police and military officers in West Java have coerced Ahmadiyah members into renounce their faith…
Jakarta Globe - March 14, 2011
Nivell Rayda – The small Al Khasanah Mosque in East Jakarta was half-full when Farid Okbah took to the podium to deliver his sermon.
Fifteen…
Jakarta Globe - March 14, 2011
Vento Saudale – Authorities in Bogor barred members of the GKI Yasmin congregation from entering their own church on Sunday in their latest brazen…
Jakarta Post - March 14, 2011
Jakarta – The Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) said any opportunity it had to join the ruling coalition was closed, for now…
Jakarta Globe - March 14, 2011
A Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) lawmaker in the Gorontalo Legislative Council has been fired by the party following his arrest for…
March 13, 2011
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2011
The National Awakening Party (PKB) is targeting 100 seats in the 2014 legislative election and is counting on religious leaders (kiai…
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2011
Apologies for Wikileaks are not enough, a top Democratic Party leader says, after an Australian newspaper, citing a leaked cable,…
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2011
Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta/Surabaya – Another WikiLeaks document on Indonesia appeared in The Age on Saturday, revealing the reasons for the US…
Jakarta Globe - March 13, 2011
Armando Siahaan – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should consider himself a lucky man. Just as an article filled with serious accusations about…
March 12, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald - March 12, 2011
Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia demanded, and received, an expression of regret from the US ambassador in Jakarta yesterday as President Susilo…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 12, 2011
Philip Dorling – The US has blackballed one of the closest advisers to the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, for alleged involvement…
Jakarta Globe - March 12, 2011
Anita Rachman – If senior political figures, including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, plan to fight explosive allegations about them in US…
Jakarta Globe - March 12, 2011
Nurdin Hasan & Antara, Pidie, Aceh – At least 11 people were killed and more than 100 homes destroyed in a flash flood that struck Pidie…
Jakarta Globe - March 12, 2011
Ulma Haryanto – Legal aid foundations on Friday condemned the fatal shooting of Shakira, a transvestite, and demanded that the police launch a…
Jakarta Post - March 12, 2011
Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The prolonged transfer of Indonesian Military (TNI) businesses to the government is proof of the TNI's lack of…
March 11, 2011
Jakarta Globe - March 11, 2011
The Department of State does not comment on materials, including classified documents, which may have been leaked.
However, as the Secretary…
Jakarta Post - March 11, 2011
Wimar Witoelar, Jakarta – The brouhaha surrounding the trouble in the ruling coalition between the Democratic Party, the Golkar Party and the…
Jakarta Post - March 11, 2011
Jakarta – State Secretary Sudi Silalahi said that the reports of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's alleged abuse of power published…
Jakarta Post - March 11, 2011
Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In September 2008, Indonesia's judicial system was ranked the worst in Asia by a Hong Kong-based consulting firm that…
Jakarta Globe - March 11, 2011
Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Heads up – the morality police have their eye on you. Or at least they will if you happen to be in Surabaya's Bungkul Park…
Jakarta Globe - March 11, 2011
Elisabeth Oktofani, Zaky Pawas & Ulma Haryanto, Bogor – Members of the beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect came under attack again on Friday when a mob…
Jakarta Post - March 11, 2011
Yuli Tri Suwarni – West Java officials are bearing down on the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect to open their mosques to the public on Thursday, while in…
Jakarta Globe - March 11, 2011
Heru Andriyanto – A militant known as a close aide to firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was sentenced to four and a half years in jail on Friday…
Jakarta Globe - March 11, 2011
Rahmat & Ismira Lutfia, Makassar – Journalists in Makassar and Jakarta demanded justice on Thursday for two colleagues killed in Maluku in…
Bintang Papua - March 11, 2011
The leaders of a number of churches in Papua have called on the central government to hold a dialogue with indigenous Papuans, stressing that it…
Jakarta Globe - March 11, 2011
Former Vice President Jusuf Kalla admitted on Friday that there was some truth to an allegation, released by Wikileaks and published today in…
Melbourne Age - March 11, 2011
Philip Dorling – When Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won a surprise victory in Indonesia's 2004 presidential elections, the Unites States hailed it as "…
Jakarta Globe - March 11, 2011
Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was said to have been shocked and unhappy, and the first lady, Ani Yudhoyono, in tears,…
Jakarta Globe - March 11, 2011
Camelia Pasandaran – The Presidential Palace has strongly denounced as unsubstantiated gossip the allegations published on today's The Age that…
March 10, 2011
Agence France Presse - March 10, 2011
Indonesia said on Wednesday it was scaling back plans to float several state-owned companies on the stock market, and would carry out…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2011
Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Today, 85-year-old Mbah Pujiati will do what she has done every Thursday since Jan. 19, 2006: Dress in black and stand…
Jakarta Globe - March 10, 2011
Heru Andriyanto – If all goes according to plan, prosecutors suspected of corruption will not simply face disciplinary sanctions but could end up…
Jakarta Globe - March 10, 2011
Joe Cochrane – I see nothing wrong with people changing their minds about an important issue. Nobody's perfect and a bit of self-reflection and…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2011
Slamet Susanto and Arya Dipa, Yogyakarta/Bandung – Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X stance against banning Ahmadiyah has received…
Business Spectator - March 10, 2011
A treaty between Australia and East Timor covering the Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas development is at risk, according to a…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2011
Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta – Indonesia's footwear exports may top US$3.2 billion (Rp 28 trillion) in 2011, up 52 percent from $2.13 billion in…
Jakarta Globe - March 10, 2011
Camelian Pasandaran & Anita Rachman – Prospects for a cabinet reshuffle fizzled out on Wednesday with the State Palace denying there would be…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2011
Ina Parlina – The acquittal of three suspects in the death of a journalist in Maluku is "shocking" and ignored eyewitness testimony, according to…
March 9, 2011
Jakarta Globe - March 9, 2011
Johannes Nugroho – In spite of the state's stated efforts to combat corruption, Indonesia's record on clean governance is invariably dismal. At…
Reuters - March 9, 2011
Australia sees no need to intervene in the dispute between oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd and East Timor over how to…