Jakarta, Indonesia News

SIA Engineering is forming a Singapore-based joint venture with Boeing to provide fleet-management services to airlines in the Asia-Pacific and beyond - a move hailed as a game changer for the airline industry INDONESIA-related stocks on news of Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo's win in the archipelago's third direct presidential election on Wednesday.

SubPartners has signed a deal with NextDC to use the company's P1 datacentre in Perth for the landing station for its APX-West and APX-Central submarine cables.

Pressure continues to mount on the federal government to treat as refugees the thousands of children traveling alone from Central America and crossing the border into the U.S. Pressure continues to mount on the federal government to treat as refugees the thousands of children traveling alone from Central America and crossing the border into the ... (more)

Officials in central New York said four people are dead and four homes have been destroyed in building collapses amid severe thunderstorms that rolled through the region.

An electoral worker sits near a ballot box during the presidential election at a polling station next to railway tracks at a slum in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday.

JAKARTA, Indonesia-Early unofficial counts in Indonesia's presidential election Wednesday showed Jakarta Gov. Joko Widodo with a narrow lead over his rival, former army general Prabowo Subianto.

CHRIS UHLMANN: Today Indonesia will choose just the second directly elected president in the country's history.

A Northern Territory diplomat based in Jakarta, says Australia's live cattle trade has a strong future with Indonesia regardless of whoever wins today's presidential election.

Contrasting campaigns ... from left, Indonesian presidential candidates Prabowo Subianto, a former special forces commander, and Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo.

Security forces were reminded that even though April's legislative elections were peaceful, they should not take things for granted, and not let their guard down.

Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo looks set to secure victory in his hometown of Solo in Central Java.

Jakarta: Office supplies companies should stop stocking PaperOne copy paper, whose fibres come in part from high conservation tropical forests now being logged in Indonesia, Greenpeace says.

Carrying ballot boxes on their backs, Indonesian tribesmen climbed barefoot up a mountain in a remote part of Borneo island to ensure a small village would not miss the chance to take part in Wednesday's presidential poll.

'We expect the government to commit to medium-term fiscal consolidation with a deficit target of 3% of GDP by FY17.'

For more than a decade Indonesia has enjoyed a lively democracy. But as millions prepare to vote in the third direct presidential election, memories of former dictator Suharto linger on, as the BBC's Karishma Vaswani reports.

Thousands of eligible Indonesian migrant voters were unable to cast their votes in Hong Kong on Sunday after the local organiser closed the polling station while many aspiring voters were still lining up to vote.

A credible new poll has injected hope into Joko Widodo's presidential campaign, showing that he's rebounded from a slump to a moderately convincing 3.6 percentage point lead over his opponent, Prabowo Subianto.

National Gallery of Indonesia in Jakarta is currently holding an exhibition of digital artworks inspired by ancient Hindu text Ramayana.

The front-runner in Wednesday's Indonesian presidential election has flown to Mecca on a whirlwind pilgrimage in a last-ditch bid to win voters among the world's largest Muslim population and put to rest damaging suggestions that he is really a Christian.

On July 9, the people of Indonesia will directly elect their president for only the second time ever.