Jakarta, Indonesia News

JAKARTA: Indonesia's journalists Thursday vowed to defy a ban on the screening of Australian movie "Balibo", saying the film depicting alleged war crimes by Indonesian forces in East Timor is educational.

PENANG: An opposition assemblyman today demanded an apology from Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and state executive councillor Phee Boon Poh for factual errors in replies addressed to him in the Penang state legislative assembly.

MR SUPARWONO said sometimes he felt 'proud' of his height but 'it also gives me problems because I can't live like normal people', citing the difficulty of fitting into public buses and finding clothes large enough for his frame.

Indonesia has banned the film Balibo, which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in East Timor, the head of the foreign correspondents club said.

Martin Broomfield of 360 Cities took this panorama of a garbage collector/recycler in Jakarta, Indonesia, sitting down surveying his kingdom of recyclables.

Indonesia's state prosecutor will drop a widely condemned case against two anti-graft officials, a deputy attorney general said yesterday, citing the need for greater harmony between the various law enforcement agencies.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Human rights group Amnesty International urged authorities Monday to investigate allegations of police killings and abuses in Indonesia's restive Papua province.

THE politically sensitive Australian movie about the Balibo Five will premiere in Indonesia tomorrow, without the approval of the country's censors.

If you are going to steal, make sure you steal big. Youa re more likely to get away with it, or get off lightly, compared to what a small time thief will get.

Several hundred hardline Muslim protestors have staged rallies in Indonesia to urge the government to prevent the spread of HIV by implementing Islamic law.

Jakarta - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 was recorded in the sea off the southeast of the Indonesian archipelago on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said.

Some 500 Malaysians, including students, gathered at the Malaysian Embassy here on Friday for the Aidiladha celebrations.

In this Saturday, May 31, 2008 file photo, an Indonesian police officer and tourists carry a sea turtle to release it into the ocean on Kuta beach, Bali, Indonesia.

JAKARTA: Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank on Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 29 people have died, officials said.

The government has decided to bring 461 workers home from Kuwait due to many problems they have to face in the foreign country.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island.

Anti-corruption activists chant slogans and gesture as they watch a live television broadcast of a speech by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta yesterday Indonesia's president yesterday called for corruption charges against two deputy chairmen of the country's anti-graft commission to be dropped, citing a public outcry over ...

Arabic news network Al Jazeera has broadcast a report claiming to expose the methods used by people smugglers operating between Indonesia and Australia.

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An Indonesian passenger ferry with almost 250 people aboard sank in rough waters off Sumatra island Sunday, killing at least one, police said, while a second ferry ran aground in nearby waters.