Public ownership of infrastructure in the eastern part of Indonesia has moved a step forward with agreement by US-owned gold and copper mining company Freeport Indonesia to hand over ma

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Francezka Nangoy, Dili, East Timor – Telekomunikasi Indonesia aims to gain a 60 percent market share of cellular phone users in East Timor by 2015, while preparing to enter Australia's

Timor-Leste (East Timor) is preparing to liberalise its telecommunications market in the first quarter of 2013, which is expected to drive prices down and expand the country's telecommu

The number of fatal traffic accidents during this year's Idul Fitri exodus nearly doubled, according to the latest statistics.

Jakarta – Any expectations of immediate measures to build new national roads have been put on the back burner, at least until 2014, despite crumbling infrastructure that has created hig

Jakarta – Police say 686 people were killed in 3,927 traffic accidents during this year's Idul Fitri holiday exodus between Aug. 11 and Aug. 21.

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The government's highly touted program to convert official vehicles to natural gas from gasoline and diesel fuel is likely to miss all its targets this year

Damiana Ningsih Simanjuntak – The Minister of Industry on Tuesday said that the government has no plan to curb the production of local vehicles, despite admitting that traffic jams are

Dozens of fledgling airlines that have sprung up to serve Indonesia's island-hopping new middle class could jeopardize the archipelago's recently improved safety reputation, aviation ex

Rizky Amelia – A senior Indonesian pilot said that unwanted dangdut songs and even phone sex often clog radio communications as pilots enter Indonesian airspace, distracting them from t

Mary Anugrah Rasita – The deaths of at least 44 people in a series of accidents involving buses this year has prompted commuters, operators and analysts to call for a complete rethink o

Jakarta – Jakarta residents who use public transportation account for only 11 percent of the total population due to poor management and safety, said Tulus Abadi from the Indonesian Con

Farouk Arnaz & Tri Listiyarini – With already 1,547 people killed in 9,884 road accidents this year, authorities and transport industry experts are pointing to weak implementation o

Kate Lamb – Travellers in Indonesia struggling with the usual rough landings and delayed flights now have a new cause for concern: was the pilot smoking crystal meth before take-off?

Ambon – Officials say a passenger ferry with more than 150 people on board sank off the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – His job might not be as exciting as a pilot, but Riski Ramadhan, 24, an air traffic control (ATC) officer in Hang Nadim International Airport in Batam, Riau

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – "Vested interests" are behind sluggish official efforts to upgrade the nation's antiquated and overburdened air traffic control (ATC) system, despite the pot

Jakarta – Bowing to pressure from the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Body (BRTI), 10 cellular service providers, all members of the Indonesian Cellular Phone Provider Associat

Indonesian activists are encouraging mobile phone users to turn their cellphones off on Saturday to protest against unwanted mobile phone service costs.

Ulma Haryanto – A campaign in Central Jakarta to reclaim sidewalks for pedestrian use was foiled by a lack of support from the city, a nongovernmental organization claims.

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology launched close to 2,000 Mobile Internet Service Centers on Monday to cater to rural areas in six province

Tiny East Timor has its first airline. Timor Air was launched yesterday and will operate daily flights between Dili, and Darwin in northern Australia.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Soft drinks vendor Sutarto was shocked when he saw a sedan drive into a fountain and tip over with a loud splash last month.

Dwi Lusiana, Malang, East Java – The 40-meter minaret outside Sabilillah Mosque looks like any other in this Muslim heartland.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Camelia Pasandaran – Saturday's crash of a Merpati Nusantara Airlines flight in Papua in which all 25 aboard were killed has raised questions about the mu

Ulma Haryanto & Eras Poke – As the drama continues over a recent display of supposed arrogance by a lawmaker involved in an argument over an airplane seat, flight experts have point

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Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The National Commission of Transportation Safety (KNKT) revealed Tuesday that the number of maritime casualty reports had increased to 128 cases in 2010 from 124

Neil Chatterjee, Jakarta – Indonesia is selling cars faster than it is building roads, increasing gridlock in cities and doing its efforts to attract foreign investment no favors.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The government has announced plans to overhaul the air transportation sector in an effort to address the country's patchy record for flight safety and avia

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – The National Police are questioning 11 people in connection with two deadly train crashes in Central Java that left 35 people dead over the weekend.

Jakarta – An angry President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered his officials to roast the management of state-owned Telekomunikasi Selular Indonesia after he experienced technical diffic

Jakarta – Indonesia has gained the notorious distinction of being among seven countries that are home to two-thirds of the world's one billion undernourished people, an upcoming report

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – National airline Garuda Indonesia has been criticized for delaying two flights over the last few days to accommodate a senior politician and one of President Su

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Indonesia – Despite Garuda Indonesia's first-half nosedive, which saw profit plummet 80 percent, the flagship carrier still expects to meet its 2010 earnings targ

Kupang, Indonesia – At least 11 people were killed and more than 30 are missing after a passenger boat went down in waters off eastern Indonesia on Monday, the country's search and resc

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – Following public protests over daily jams caused by his motorcade, the President is considering travelling to work by helicopter or moving into Merdeka Pala

Arientha Primanita – The millions of people who ride the city's troubled busway system are not a happy bunch, the Indonesian Consumer Protection Foundation has found in a recent survey.

Ulma Haryanto – A law allowing road tolls to rise every two years is unfair, transportation activists said on Sunday as the government raised the tolls on two major roads.

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – The rivalry between a leading taxi operator and a local taxi association on Bali turned ugly on Monday, with hundreds of drivers attacking and vandalizing

Putri Prameshwari – One out of every four ships operating in Indonesian waters does not have a safety certificate, the chief of the Indonesian Classification Bureau said on Monday.

Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry should be held responsible for the Dumai ferry tragedy that claimed at least 14 lives last Sunday, because according to IMO regulations, fiberglass

At least 29 people have died when an Indonesian passenger ferry sank in rough waters off Sumatra.

Jakarta – Jakartans are viewing the city administration's future progressive tax scheme for private vehicles with apprehension, saying that it will create an unnecessary burden and be i

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Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – The fast-deteriorating Transjakarta busway system has forced Jakarta resident Ratih Puspitasari back to using taxis to commute.

Sara Webb and Olivia Rondonuwu, Jakarta – Take a ferry in the vast Indonesian archipelago and there's a good chance your name won't show up on the manifest.

John Aglionby, Jakarta – Indonesia admitted yesterday that it had undertaken fewer than half the reforms planned in the past four years for its maritime sector, after a ferry sank with

Around 250 people missing after a ferry capsized in heavy seas off Indonesia's Sulawesi island are probably dead, officials said Monday as bad weather hampered the grim search for survi