Jakarta – Environmental experts say the country is not a carbon emitter, countering a report sponsored by the World Bank and Britain's development…
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November 11, 2009
Emmy Fitri – Nine years ago, long before Al Gore warned the world about the "Inconvenient Truth" of global warming, Edy Hamdan and fellow…
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Transparency International Indonesia on Wednesday slammed all the major political parties for refusing to…
Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Activists are warning against air pollution in Indonesian cities which they said had reached alarming levels.
…Jakarta – Twenty employees of a company distributing fashion accessories will file charges against their employer after he allegedly abused and…
The National Police had a lot to explain after a co-defendant in the murder case of businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, former South Jakarta Police…
Kinanti Pinta Karana – Claims of a police plot by Sr. Comr. Williardi Wizar, a key witness and co-defendant in the murder case of businessman…
Heru Andriyanto – The claim by a police officer that he had been forced to testify against former antigraft commission head Antasari Azhar could…
A lawmaker on the House of Representatives Commission III who demanded the Attorney General's Office immediately resolve his case on…
Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Muninggar Saraswati – Snowballing public support for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in its conflict…
Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Nivell Rayda – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will risk "tarnishing his credibility" if he allows the National…
Multa Fidrus – An ongoing project to reclaim land from Lake Rawa Kayu Antap in Rempoa subdistrict, East Ciputat district, South Tangerang, by a…
The equivalent of about 10,000 football fields of forest have been lost each year for the past five years in Aceh's Leuser ecosystem due to…
Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Driven by an increase in consumer spending, the country's economic growth accelerated faster in the third quarter…
November 10, 2009
Ade Mardiyati – Augustin Sibarani, born in 1925 in Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra, had a reputation for being the most brilliant cartoonist in…
April Aswadi & Febriamy Hutapea – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday swore in the new heads of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force…
Jakarta – The South Kalimantan chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has proposed an edict banning the use of loudspeakers if…
Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is facing mounting pressure, including from Indonesians abroad, to combat rampant mafia practices in…
Media experts on Monday said the international coverage of the conflict involving the nation's antigraft and law enforcement agencies showed that…
Farouk Arnaz – The National Police claims to be in possession of solid evidence of bribery and abuse of power against two antigraft deputies,…
Nivell Rayda & April Aswadi – The fact-finding team appointed to review the National Police's handling of two suspended members of the country…
Dian Ariffahmi, Yessar Rossendar & Teguh Prasetyo – Foreign manufacturers are joining the growing list of industries unhappy with Jakarta's…
Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Rounds of blackouts have hit numerous manufacturers operating in Greater Jakarta, with garment producers already…
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Indonesian Armed Forces said on Tuesday that it would not seek to influence President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's…
Ismira Lutfia – Some 406 migrant workers were repatriated from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, with most complaining that they had not been…
Semarang – Thousands of workers took to the streets of Central Java's capital on Tuesday to protest a Rp 50,000 difference in the proposed minimum…
November 9, 2009
While the numbers of Facebook fans getting behind a page supporting anticorruption deputies Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto is rising,…
Washington, D.C. – The Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, Rep. Eni Faleomavaega, along with the…
Jakarta – Former Indonesian president BJ Habibie expressed his ire at former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan on Monday with regard to…
Nurfika Osman – A seminar tasked with advising policy makers on domestic violence has stressed the need for victims to be given easier access to…
Erwida Maulia and Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The presidential fact-finding team has said police do not have enough evidence to charge the…
Erwida Maulia and Novan Iman Santosa, Jakarta – There is speculation at the medium-term reasons motivating a "sudden unexpected" move by President…
Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – If how early people can drag themselves out of a comfortable Sunday morning sleep-in is any measure of dedication,…
November 8, 2009
Farouk Arnaz – Though under attack from the public for allegedly fabricating a case against the Corruption Eradication Commission, the National…
Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Information is still missing in investigations into an alleged plot to frame two Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK…
Nurfika Osman – Thousands of people braved the hot sun at Jakarta's Hotel Indonesia circle to rally against corruption on Sunday morning.
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Febriami Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Analysts are calling on the government to give more weight to public opinion of the scandal…
Heru Andriyanto – Last week's resignations of two high-ranking officials should signal the start – not the end – of a cleanup of the country's…
Pandaya – Syam, the newspaper boy in our neighborhood, was approaching on his bike as I stepped out of my front gate the other day. Smiling as…
November 7, 2009
Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Labor unions in Tangerang, Banten, have rejected the remuneration council's decision to set the minimum cost…
Stephen Fitzpatrick, Tanjung Pinang – Kevin Rudd might have been given another week to solve his Oceanic Viking public relations disaster, but…
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – In their first counterattack since being released from police detention in the wake of widespread public pressure, two…
Sara Schonhardtm Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesians have taken to the streets in the past week to protest the arrests of two anti-corruption…
Patrick Guntensperger, Jakarta – Only a few short months since Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was re-elected with an overwhelming…
Jakarta Globe – The war between the Corruption Eradication Commission and almost every other government institution allegedly responsible for…
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has unexpectedly replaced the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Army…
Camelia Pasandaran – In the context of the events of the past two weeks, an unusual event occurred on Friday – hundreds of people rallied at the…
November 6, 2009
Jakarta – Indonesia extended by a week on Friday a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to…
Ulma Haryanto – Given that more than 900,000 Facebook users have now joined the online group supporting two embattled commissioners of Indonesia's…
Agnes S. Jayakarna, Surabaya – Workers in East Java have demanded transparency and fairness from the provincial administration in the decision on…




