Jakarta, Indonesia News

About thirty years ago, while researching a book on Balinese architecture, I stumbled upon a late 19th century Dutch lithograph of a distinctly Balinese-looking temple on the banks of a broad river in the West Javanese regency of Banten.

Indonesia's Constitutional Court museum in Central Jakarta is now running 32 channels of Dante audio - with the option to expand - via a SymNet Edge open-architecture DSP.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 23 - Fourteen key countries in the Asia and Pacific regions have agreed to step up efforts to minimize the loss of life at sea while ensuring that people moving irregularly by boat receive the protection they need.

Wearing what he said to be a Chinese-made watch, Indonesian Armed Forces Chief Gen.

By Elmi Rizal Alias JAKARTA, April 22 -- Indonesia's Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry wants actors, actresses and public figures in the country to help promote domestic tourism.

The FBI is seeking the public'?'s assistance to identify alleged victims of a suspected international child predator, William James Vahey, 64, who worked in private schools in nine countries, beginning in 1972.

The Indonesian government is planning to build more railway and seaport infrastructure in cities across the archipelago in a bid to reduce the country's dependence on roads and private transportation.

Houston FBI agents are working on a recent case of child sexual assaults that is one of the worst they've ever seen, involving more than 90 victims.

Indonesia's telecommunication operators and banks need to strengthen cooperation in providing Internet banking services in anticipation of the growing number of Internet users in the country, according to an Internet association.

Australian customs officials and navy personnel escort asylum seekers onto Christmas Island on August 21, 2013.

Prominent clerics from 67 Muslim organisations have called on the five Islamic-based parties to band together in a coalition ahead of the July 9 presidential election.

An Islamic transgender boarding school has been reopened in the city of Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java, it's reported.

JAKARTA: Indonesian anti-corruption officials have named the outgoing audit agency chief a suspect in a $32-million graft case, the latest high-profile scandal to hit the country's public sector.

In this picture taken on April 11, 2014, popular presidential candidate of main the opposition party Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle and Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo walks with his supporters in Jakarta following the April 9, 2014 legislative election.

Coordinating People's Welfare Minister Agung Laksono said on Monday the government had decided to make changes in Indonesia's rice- for-the-poor program, locally known as raskin, as recommended by the Corruption Eradication Commission .

Electoral workers examine a ballot as they count votes at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Jakarta, Indonesia earlier this month.

More than 1,000 people attended an anti-Shia declaration on Sunday at the Al Fajr mosque in the West Java capital of Bandung, in what appeared to be the first organised attempt to persecute Shiites in Indonesia.

Once upon a time there were eight happy princedoms in Mengwi, the regency to the north-west of Denpasar.

JAKARTA, April 1014 - According to Deputy Transportation Minister Bambang Susantono, Indonesia will have a total of 299 airports in five years time, adding that 62 new airport projects are currently in the pipeline.

Indonesian demand for liquefied natural gas is expected to double to 56 cargoes in 2015 compared to this year, said a senior official with state electricity utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara .