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Indonesian presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono rallies the troops one last time ahead of the elections on July 8. Photo: Reuters In his final pitch to voters before next week's election, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono emphasised his corruption-fighting credentials and ability shield the country from the global recession.

Eligible Indonesian citizens can cast their. votes for the Indonesian presidential election in Brunei Darussalam at the premises of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia on July 8 from 8am to 5pm at Simpang 528, Kg Sungai Handling Baru, Jalan Muara.

NORIMITSU ONISHI: Will jilbab tilt outcome of presidential race? NORIMITSU ONISHI - NYT Golkar has rejected accusations that it is trying to exploit Islam for political gains.

A new Gallup Poll of Indonesia appears to reaffirm the widely held belief that Wednesday's election is incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's to lose.

The three parties competing in Indonesia's presidential election next week have plastered this city with campaign billboards and posters depicting, predictably, their presidential and vice presidential choices looking self-confident. But one party, Golkar, has also put up posters of the candidates' wives next to their husbands, posing demurely and ...

Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi march in Tehran on June 15.

Previously secret U.S. State Department documents implicate the President of Indonesia in a probable cover-up of an ambush in West Papua.

Indonesia has successfully launched a home-grown rocket into space as part of plans to send a satellite into orbit by 2014, officials say.

JAKARTA: Five Singaporeans and an Indonesian allegedly linked to key militants of the Jemaah Islamiyah regional jihadi network have been arrested in Indonesia, police said yesterday.

Indonesia's police force is celebrating its 63rd anniversary but there's little cheer from a public that is routinely subjected to torture, brutality and extortion.

The saccharine world of Indonesian pop is being rocked by a new wave of underground bands that aren't afraid to take aim at the country's political elite ahead of July 8 presidential elections.

Indonesia is well on track for the presidential election scheduled on July 8, the General Election Commission Chairman Abdul Hafiz Anshary said.

A A A' Indonesia committed to the conservation of its dwindling tropical forests in a multimillion dollar debt-swap deal signed Tuesday with the American government, the U.S. Embassy said.

MALAYSIA relaxed a host of restrictions on Tuesday on foreign investment, including a controversial rule requiring businesses to be partly owned by ethnic Malays.

Foreign Trade Minister Zafer A aA Ylayan has said the primary reason for the low volume of trade between Indonesia and Turkey is a lack of sufficient recognition of one another and claimed that the trade volume would be $10 billion instead of its current level of $1.7 billion if the two nations knew each other better.

A Twin Otter plane, operated by Aviastar, went missing during its flight from Dekai to Wamena in Papua, Indonesia, an Aviastar official confirmed on Monday.

THE Indonesian government banned the country's nationals from coming to work as maids in Malaysia with effect from Friday, just a day after its manpower minister announced the decision in Jakarta.

New laws requiring disabled pedestrians to wear traffic signs have met with frustration and derision in Indonesia, where in the eyes of the law cars have taken priority over people.

BANDA ACEH : Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province exports 90 tonnes of fresh fish per month to Malaysia, reported Indonesia's Antara news agency.

Tuesday, 23 June 2009, 12:16 pm Press Release: West Papua Advocacy Team West Papua Advocacy Team Statement on Sweep Operation in Puncak Jaya Contact: Ed McWilliams, +1-575-648-2078 Octo Mote, +1-203-520-3055 June 22 - Disturbing information has reached WPAT from a variety of sources of a very serious situation now transpiring in Puncak Jaya, West ...