Jakarta Raya, Indonesia News

JAKARTA: Hundreds of asylum seekers have escaped Indonesian immigration detention centres and boarded boats to Australia this year amid widespread bribe-taking by guards and the brutal treatment of those who have been recaptured.

Students pelted rocks at police who returned fire with tear gas during one of several rallies across Indonesia on Wednesday to demand government action to end widespread corruption among politicians, police and other public officials.

A statue depicting young figure of the United States President Barrack Obama would be inaugurated in Obama's former neighborhood in Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta, the group called "Friends of Obama" said on Tuesday.

PT Lion Air, Indonesia's largest domestic airline in terms of passenger volume, planned to expand its international routes to China, Japan and South Korea next year, the Jakarta Globe reported on Tuesday.

A forensic team investigates a karaoke bar where a fire took place in Medan in North Sumatra province December 5, 2009.

We want the government to really prosecute X as they promised to X all the government officials involved in corruption.

A protester outside the Glebe Coroner's Court in Sydney May 8, 2007 where the inquest into the death of Brian Peters, one of five Australian-based journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor in 1975, was held.

Reporting from Jakarta, Indonesia - The government here has banned a controversial Australian-made film that depicts the Indonesian military's reported 1975 execution of six foreign journalists in East Timor.

An ecumenical group launched more than 10,000 twinkling paper lanterns into the night sky from a beach in Indonesia, setting a world record, officials said Monday.

THOUSANDS of hardine Muslim protesters staged rallies in Indonesia on Sunday urging the government to apply Islamic law as the only way to tackle widespread corruption.

Indonesian police arrested a man accused of smuggling 10 rare kangaroos by boat from New Guinea island, an official said Saturday.

Indonesia would produce 2 million doses vaccine in November next year to stop further spread of A/H1N1 flu that has killed 10 people in the Southeast Asian country, Health Ministry said in Jakarta Friday.

It can't have taken three months to write the speech that President Barack Obama gave at West Point on Tuesday, but clearly much thought went into his decision to send 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan.

A short circuit and poor ventilation have been blamed for the deaths of 20 people in a blaze at a crowded karaoke club in Indonesia, police said.

JAKARTA: Twenty people were killed on Friday after a commercial building in Indonesia's Medan, North Sumatra province, was engulfed in a blaze lasting an hour, police said.

A least 20 people died and two were injured when fire engulfed a third-floor karaoke bar in one of Indonesia's largest cities on Friday, police said, adding that the death toll could rise.

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.

JAKARTA : Indonesia has banned an Australian-made film on the alleged murder of six Australian-based journalists by Indonesian troops during the 1975 invasion of East Timor, an official said Wednesday.