Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Employees of state-owned railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) threatened Wednesday to stage a national…
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January 25, 2007
Terrorism experts warn Jemaah Islamiah (JI) could be re-energised by two recent deadly police raids in the violence-stricken Indonesian town of…
Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – Some 26 women lined up in pairs in the front yard of a house in Taman Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, on Sunday. Each of…
Verrianto Madjowa, Gorontalo – At least 50 environmental activists and members of the people experienced violence with regard to…
Janet Fyfe-Yeomans – Indonesian troops were recorded by a previously unknown top secret Australian listening station discussing the execution of…
January 24, 2007
Jakarta – The House of Representatives and the Defense Ministry reached an agreement Tuesday to alter a bill to enable military personnel to be…
Jakarta – Forty-five-year-old Melawai market trader Suradi finds it difficult to imagine what the future holds for his business with the…
Jakarta – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) representative to Indonesia, Gianfranco Rotiglioni, asked the Indonesian government Tuesday…
Jakarta – The Trade Ministry has issued a regulations banning the export of sand, soil and topsoil in order to protect the environment from…
Anissa S. Febrina, Jakarta – Imagine Jakarta in 2015. Some 16.8 billion Jakartans step out of mass transit vehicles or private cars and make their…
Ruslan Sangadji, Poso – Police continued their hunt for suspected militants in Poso on Tuesday, a day after 13 people and one policeman were…
Adi Warsidi, Banda Aceh – The Acehnese government will continue to struggle for the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (KKR) even…
Yogyakarta – Dozens of disabled people reported Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University (UGM) on Tuesday to the National Commission on…
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – High-ranking figures in Jemaah Islamiah have opened a new front in their terrorism campaign on the Indonesian island of…
Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – The Development Finance Comptroller (BPKP) has found indications of irregularities worth about Rp 18 trillion (about US…
Max Lane, Jakarta – Around 200 pick-up trucks and cars comprised the long snake of a protest caravan making its way along Jakarta's main…
Peter Boyle, Yogyakarta – Intimidation by armed right-wing thugs and police harassment failed to disperse the January 18-20 founding congress of…
January 23, 2007
Palu – Indonesia has deployed an additional 200 paramilitary police reinforcements to the restive town of Poso after a shootout during a hunt for…
Jakarta – Indonesia's economy would be poised for higher economic growth this year were it not for inability of the government of President Susilo…
P. Parameswaran, Washington – The United States is looking into signing an investment treaty with Indonesia this year to set the pace for a larger…
Hopes were high last September that peace would last in Poso after police executed three Christian men convicted of carrying out a series of…
Theresia Sufa, Bogor – A man was shot with a rubber bullet and at least three people were injured Monday in a battle between military officers and…
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – East Nusa Tenggara legislative councillors have quietly pocketed a total of Rp 6.5 billion (about US$723,000) in…
January 22, 2007
Jakarta – While the next general elections are just two years away, political parties are still yet to agree on the minimum electoral threshold.…
Jakarta – The first conference of Islamic parliamentarians ended Sunday calling for a peaceful solution to conflicts in the Middle East and a…
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Employers will be able to breathe easier, the government can hope for more investors in the future and workers need…
January 21, 2007
Yogyakarta – The founding congress of the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) that took place on 18-20 January in Kaliurang, Yogyakarta…
Dili – Two youths were hacked to death in Dili Sunday as violence involving disciples from rival martial art schools erupted, witnesses said.
…January 20, 2007
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Whoever poisoned Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's most respected human rights lawyer, on a Garuda flight to Europe…
Australian activists who were invited to a left unity conference near Yogyakarta January 18-21 have remained holed up elsewhere because of threats…
January 19, 2007
Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Microsoft Indonesia has spoken out on a controversial recent deal with the government, arguing that the deal was initiated…
Banten – Students at the State Islamic Institute of Sultan Maulana Hasanudin (IAIN SMH) staged a rally Thursday at its Serang campus to demand…
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – In a joint conference on the major problems plaguing the nation, leaders of the nation's two largest Muslim…
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Employees of state-owned insurance firm PT Jamsostek renewed calls Thursday for the dismissal of the company's…
Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – The polemic in the media over the sale of shares by two foreign-owned water companies in Jakarta ended after Governor…
Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court rejected Thursday a request to strike down five laws restricting active police and…
Bagus Kurniawan, Sleman – The National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) Congress has been unable to start because the national police have…
Bagus Kurniawan, Sleman – The National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) plans to sue the national police for obstructing the issuance of a…
Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta Anti-Communist Front (FAKI) has made good their threat to 'attack en masse' the National Liberation…
The HIV/AIDS harm reduction program at Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java, has been operating now for more than two years. Unfortunately…
A rally was held in Jakarta earlier this week to denounce the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Former student activist…
Jayapura – Four refugees who were among thousands fleeing their village have reportedly died of illness.
The residents fled to…
January 18, 2007
Mustaqim Adamrah and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Newly formed Hanura Party has warned major political parties against blocking minority parties…
Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi – Hundreds of students from various universities in Southeast Sulawesi protested at the provincial council…
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer must seek answers from Indonesia about reports that one person has been shot dead and thousands of others have…
John Aglionby, Jakarta – ExxonMobil must respond to a lawsuit alleging Indonesian soldiers under its control at a natural gas plant in Aceh…
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – An increasing amount of blood donated at the Jayapura Red Cross' transfusion unit in Papua is being found to be…
Jakarta – A hotel in Cebu, the Philippines, where the President recently stayed, denied Wednesday reports that Indonesians in the presidential…
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Transportation labor unions are asking the government to ensure international safety standards in the transportation…
Jakarta – A former pilot of Indonesian carrier Adam Air, which lost a jet carrying 102 people this month, accused the firm of forcing pilots to…




