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US President Barack Obama is likely to visit Australia in 2010, perhaps in combination with a trip to India or Indonesia.

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

The fire was raging in the bedroom of his flat in Block 53, Marine Terrace, when officers from the SCDF showed up and forced their way in.

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

Rescue workers remove debris as they attempt to free a dead body from houses consumed by an earthquake induced landslide on 4 October 2009 in the village of Jumanak, Indonesia.

SEVERAL hundred hardline Muslim protesters staged rallies in Indonesia on Sunday, urging the government to prevent the spread of HIV by implementing Islamic law.

JOHOR BAHARU, Nov 29 -- The People's Progressive Party will be serving a notice to Senator Datuk T. Murugiah Monday to ask him to vacate his deputy minister post within 14 days, said its president Datuk M. Kayveas.

Two college students were killed when the motorcycles they were riding, collided with a car at Jalan Ujung Pasir, Bandar Hilir early on Sunday.

Indonesia wants to expand its relations with Brunei Darussalam in the areas of food security, agriculture and environment protection.

A government minister drew sharp criticism from earthquake victims Saturday and alienated some of his Twitter followers by blaming natural disasters in Indonesia on immorality.

JAKARTA: Flash floods in eastern part of Aceh province of Indonesia had triggered 49,401 people to flee their homes since Sunday, while a landslide in Central Java at weekend had damaged over 50 houses, Health Ministry said here Monday.

The U.S. Geological Survey says a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 has struck south of the Indonesian island of Sumbawa.

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.

A woman wrote on a community board on Christmas Island, Australia. Times Topics: Australia The new immigration detention center.

Via the Jakarta Post , a report by Emmy Fitri--who used to cover bird flu very well for that paper: Swine Flu Virus Hits Batam, Dozens Infected - or So the Story Went .

Friday, November 27, 2009 at 12:46 a.m. JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia has rejected a push by the resort island of Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected reptiles against religious advocates, an official said Friday.

Tamil asylum seekers who were onboard the Oceanic Viking pictured in an Indonesia detention centre.

Police on Indonesia's Sumatra island removed Thursday four Greenpeace activists who tied themselves to cranes at a paper mill for 27 hours to protest what they call forest destruction, the environmental group said.

There have been more attacks on foreigners in Indonesia's Aceh province. On Monday, the European Union representative in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, British national John Perry, and his wife were fired upon outside their house.

The first genetic historical map of the Han Chinese, the largest ethnic population in the world, as they migrated from south to north over evolutionary time.

Indonesian police on Wednesday arrested 14 Greenpeace activists for blocking the export facilities of a major pulp mill company in eastern Sumatra.

From stability to chaos in Indonesia By Patrick Guntensperger JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivered earlier this week an eagerly awaited announcement on the scandal involving the Attorney General's Office and National Police's alleged efforts to undermine the quasi-independent and widely respected Corruption Eradication ...

Gunfire hit the home of two American lecturers in Indonesia's western province of Aceh on Monday, but no one was injured.

MUMBAI: In a highly volatile trade, the Bombay Stock Exchange sensitive index, Sensex recovered from the initial sharp losses.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 By our correspondent LAHORE: Ambassador of Indonesia in Pakistan Ishak Latuconsina called on Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer at the Governor's House here on Monday.

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 ...

In the latest in a string of attacks directed against foreigners in Indonesia, gunmen have fired at the home of two US academics in the Indonesian province of Aceh, which is on the nothern tip of Sumatra.

A FERRY that sank in Indonesian waters on the weekend killing 29 people was overloaded and its life boats were leaking, a survivor has claimed.

Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to reach scores of people trapped under debris and survivors pleaded for aid after a powerful quake hit the Indonesian city of Padang, possibly killing thousands.

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.

Gunmen have opened fire on the home of John Penny, a Briton who serves as the EU's envoy in the staunchly Islamic Indonesian province of Aceh.

QUESTION: Secretary Clinton, welcome back to Meet the Press. SECRETARY CLINTON: It's great to talk with you from Singapore, David.

Indonesia should be alerted of fish crisis as the symptom towards it grows, reflected by sharp decrease on fisheries resources due to over exploitation, rampant fish theft and increasing production target without support of resources improvement, Kompas daily quoted experts as saying in Yakata on Saturday.

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Indonesian television says a passenger ferry with more than 200 people onboard sank in rough waters near Sumatra island.

JAKARTA, Indonesia: Officials say they have confiscated 75 tons of an explosive material being shipped from Malaysia to Indonesia and are investigating possible links to terrorism.

JOHOR BAHARU, Nov 21 -- Health tourism is expected to boom in Johor in the near future with the construction of a new government hospital and the proposed wellness centre in Nusajaya.

SINGAPORE : Perak wants to market itself aggressively abroad by promoting attractions dubbed the "10 Icons of Perak" to boost annual tourist arrivals by 500,000 to 3.5 million next year, senior state executive councillor Datuk Hamidah Osman said here.

The Ambassador of Republic of Indonesia, Ishaq Latuconsina, has said that Preferential Trade Agreement between Pakistan and Indonesia will be finalized by the end of this year to harness the trade potentials between the two Islamic countries.

JAKARTA: It is an allegation that has spread like wildfire through Jakarta's elites and is now being openly canvassed in the press.

Ida Farida, 33, never imagined she would lose the job that she had held for 10 years.

When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world. Or at least that's how Chinese audiences are interpreting "2012," Hollywood's latest blockbuster disaster movie.

Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth - a rare type of fish known as 'a living fossil' - in deep water off Indonesia.

Hollywood's latest doomsday offering "2012" has caused a storm in Indonesia, with conservative clerics condemning it Thursday as a "provocation against Islam". Screenings have been sold out across the capital Jakarta following the film's success in North America, where it beat Disney's "A Christmas Carol" to top the box office honours last weekend.

Indonesia would begin constructing the world's would-be longest bridge in Sunda Strait connecting two main islands of Sumatra and Java in 2014, as an effort to boost infrastructure development in the southeast Asian largest economy.

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Indonesia's counter-terror chief called on Thursday for greater power to hold suspects, warning that Islamist extremists remained active despite the death of terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top.

THE end to the stand-off aboard the Oceanic Viking is the realisation of the agreement between Australia and Indonesia, the Federal Government says.

THE Federal Government is insisting the Sri Lankan asylum-seekers from the Oceanic Viking were given no guarantees of resettlement in Australia.

By Daily Mail Reporter Scientists have captured the world's first images of a baby coelacanth - an extremely rare type of fish known as a "living fossil". Japanese marine researchers have found and successfully filmed the young fish at a depth of 528ft in Manado Bay off Sulawesi Island, Indonesia.

JAKARTA Six major members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will remove tariffs on cross-border transactions of goods on Jan.

A MODERATE 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's West Java province on Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued, officials said.

INDONESIA'S president should censure senior police and prosecutors accused of leading a conspiracy against the anti-corruption agency, an independent fact-finding team recommended on Tuesday.

Even though undergoing treatment at a Singapore hospital for serious respiratory illness, Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala agreed for a 'meeting' with Unified CPN Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday to confer, as according to reports, on outstanding political issues.

The need to prepare students for "a lifetime of careers", imparting of broad-based global education, emphasis on learning foreign languages, and respect and tolerance for other faiths and cultures were highlighted at the first World Innovation Summit for Education , which opened yesterday.

The impasse on board Australian customs vessel the Oceanic Viking has been resolved, with all 56 Tamil asylum seekers agreeing to leave the boat tomorow morning.

Via BeritaJakarta.com: Bird flu anticipation, poultry destroyed . This may sound confusing, but Jakarta has banned backyard poultry for several years, with somewhat spotty enforcement.

He couldn't bring home the Olympics, but he's nailed the funny shirt photo. That's one way to view President Barack Obama's announcement that the United States will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hawaii in 2011.

Asia-Pacific leaders said the economic recovery isna t on a a oesolid footinga yet, pledging to maintain stimulus measures until there is a oedurablea growth.

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A GROUP of 22 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who left an Australian customs ship to come ashore in Indonesia will be allowed to stay for up to three months, an official said Sunday.

JOHOR BARU: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency detained five foreign tankers for allegedly entering Malaysian waters without permission and conducting illegal cleaning of the vessels near Pengerang.

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APEC Leaders pose for a family photograph after their dinner at the APEC meeting in Singapore November 14, 2009.

The International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show has announced winners of the coveted Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design.

Indonesia has assured Australia it will allow the Oceanic Viking to remain in Indonesian waters beyond Friday's deadline, meaning the asylum seeker impasse is set to drag on.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met with his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Singapore Friday to exchange views on furthering friendly relations and cooperation between China and Indonesia.

President Barack Obama pressed on with his mission to repair America's global standing, telling Asians he was determined to engage them as equal partners in the economy, diplomacy and security.

Indonesia's most wanted Islamist militant was killed in a police shoot-out in Central Java, police said on Thursday, lifting a major security threat ahead of a planned visit by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Benjamin Wagner, a top federal prosecutor for more than 15 years, was sworn in Monday as the 10th U.S. attorney in the Sacramento-based Eastern District of California.

Vision-Ease Lens announced Thursday that its manufacturing facility in Jakarta, Indonesia, sustained damage from a major fire.

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd will join other Asia Pacific leaders tomorrow for the 17th annual APEC leaders summit.

CASUALTIES: A police chief said the 6.7-magnitude quake that struck Sumbawa island had badly injured six people, with three in a coma and one who later died REUTERS AND AP, JAKARTA Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009, Page 5 Residents in the town of Bima survey the damage following a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Sumbawa ...

Scoop >> World >> Friday, 13 November 2009, 10:26 am Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is concerned that no one has been held accountable for the shooting of indigenous Papuan Mr.

Two people were killed and hundreds of others were injured when a strong temblor struck near central Indonesia's Sumbawa Island well before dawn on Monday.

Malaysia and Indonesia are set to enhance their bilateral ties when Indonesian President Susilo Bambang and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak meet next week.

At least one person was killed and several dozen more were injured on Monday, after a heavy earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck near the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia .

Families in East Timor appealed on Thursday to their own government and Indonesian authorities to help recover the bodies of dozens of loved ones still missing 18 years after being gunned down in a cemetery during Jakarta's two-decade rule.

Garuda Indonesia is to return to Europe after an absence of five years with a daily flight to Amsterdam starting June 1, the national airline said Wednesday.

Getty photographer looks at life as a transgendered Muslim. A November 11, 2009 12:29 PM A A A A Maryani poses at a special prayer school for transgendered Muslims or 'waria' on November 9, 2009 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Some experts attending the APEC 20th Anniversary High-Level Symposium in Singapore on Tuesday spoke highly of China's role in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, saying China has been playing a "constructive role". In an interview with Xinhua, Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the LeeKuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of ...

SEPANG: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday began his two-day first official visit to Malaysia since he took his oath of office for the second term in October.

Three Singapore biomedical institutions have launched a major, long-term study of pregnant mothers and their fetuses as well as infant children to determine just how profoundly environmental factors early in life influence the onset of diseases such as obesity and diabetes in later years.

Workers assemble motorcycles at a production plant of TVS, an Indian motorcycle manufacturer, in Indonesia Indonesiaa s economic growth may have accelerated for the first time in more than a year as lower interest rates and a strife-free election stoked spending.

November 9, 2009 Visionmp.com news service At least two people were killed and tens others hospitalized after a strong undersea earthquake shook the island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia say reports citing officials.

Edward Thiessen was getting ready to eat yogurt and eggs during a Friday breakfast meeting in the JW Marriott lounge in Jakarta when the room shuddered and he was sent sprawling to the floor after an "orange flash" was followed by a loud crack before everything went black.

At least 14 people have been killed in mudslides caused by heavy rainfall on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

By Peter Gelling JAKARTA, Indonesia a ' The Indonesian president's campaign against corruption sputtered somewhat spectacularly this week when wiretap recordings, played live on Indonesian news channels, revealed an apparent conspiracy, hatched by top law enforcement officials, to discredit the much-revered Corruption Eradication Commission.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake early Monday struck eastern Indonesia, killing at least two people and toppling several homes, local residents said.

AN Indonesian workers' association in Malaysia has offered to help clear the air on the negative perception of the Indonesian media towards the situation of Indonesian workers here.

Officials say at least two people are dead after a strong undersea quake struck an island in central Indonesia.

BEHIND BARS: Schapelle Corby is serving a 20-year sentence in Bali's Kerobokan Prison for smuggling 4.1kg of cannabis into Indonesia inside a bodyboard bag in October 2004.

A landslide has killed at least eight people in Indonesia, officials said Monday.

Jakarta, Nov 9 : At least 38 people have been wounded and scores of houses, school buildings and a health clinic have collapsed after a quake of 6.7-magnitude on the Richter scale rocked the eastern parts of Indonesia Monday morning, officials said.

A STRONG quake with a magnitude of 6.7 and a relatively shallow depth hit the Indonesian island of Sumbawa today, officials said, with initial reports saying some buildings were damaged.

Similarities in culture, language and geographical proximity are reasons for Malaysia to remain an ideal place for Indonesians to seek employment here.

Sydney, Nov 8 : Releasing Tamils from camps and reintegrating them into Sri Lankan society would help staunch the flow of asylum seekers crossing the Indian Ocean, Australia Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday.

President Barack Obama and other Asia-Pacific leaders, meeting at a summit this week, will push for a new global strategy to reduce the crippling imbalances in the world economy blamed for the severe financial crisis.

INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Saturday replaced the heads of the three services of the Indonesian armed forces, TNI, in a surprise move.

Two men walk past a banner displayed by the Anti-Corruption Agency along a street in Jakarta Dec.

Deputy Attorney General Abdul Hakim Ritonga and Chief Detective Susno Duadjia were mentioned by name [ Jakarta Globe report] in a tape recorded conversation about a plan to fabricate charges [Al Jazeera report] against KPK leaders.

By Tham Choy Lin KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 -- When President Hu Jintao flies in from the late autumn cold of Beijing to kickoff a two-day visit here Tuesday, he will be embraced by more than the tropical warmth.

KUALA LUMPUR: Mercy Malaysia will hold its annual fundraising dinner on Nov 13 with all proceeds to be channelled to earthquake victims in Padang, Indonesia, and Typhoon Ketsana victims in the Philippines.

MALACCA, Fri: Two Kendong gang members believed to be planning a robbery were shot dead by police at Lebuh Sungai Udang-Ayer Keroh-Selandar near Kampung Bertam Ulu early today.

A power struggle between Indonesia's police force and an independent anticorruption agency is roiling President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, just two weeks after he began his second five-year term.

The row has raised questions over Indonesia's commitment to fighting chronic corruption and provoked a public outcry at the hardball tactics of the police, which is going toe-to-toe with the anticorruption agency.

Protesters in Jakarta rallied for the second day Tuesday over the arrest last week of two senior officials of the elite agency, known as the KPK, which has successfully prosecuted government officials and politicians for graft. The two men are accused by police of abusing their power during an investigation into a collapsed bank, and both deny the accusations. They were released Tuesday but still face charges.

A German Red Cross worker has been shot by an unknown assailant as he was leaving a hotel in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

Genting Bhd is on track to open the "Resorts World at Sentosa" in Singapore by early January 2010, said its chairman and chief executive Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay.

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia - Deep in the jungle on this small island lost in the Indian Ocean, Australia's new $370 million refugee detention center reaches its full power after its lights come on at dusk.

JAKARTA: Indonesia's top detective quit Thursday after wiretap phone recordings implicated him in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators, in a scandal that has appalled the nation.

A Malaysian prince won a defamation suit against his teenage wife who accused him of sexual and physical abuse after she fled back home to Indonesia.

An aircraft belonged to Indonesia's Papua province regional police on Monday was declared lost contact at 1200 local time during a flight from Sentani Airport of provincial capital Jayapura to Mulia Airport in Puncak Jaya regency, a local media reported on Monday.

Although U.S. President Barack Obama has never set foot there, China cast a long shadow in the Pacific region where he grew up.

The Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has seen his anti-graft campaign come under scrutiny Photo: Reuters Senior police and prosecutors stand accused of trying to frame two investigators from a watchdog, the Corruption Eradication Commission , with accepting bribes, in a case that has transfixed the nation for weeks.

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JAKARTA: The Indonesia subsidiary of French supermarket chain Carrefour on Wednesday challenged an antitrust ruling ordering it to sell its 75 per cent stake in local retailer Alfa Retailindo.

INDONESIA has warned "there is a limit" to its patience over the Oceanic Viking asylum-seeker impasse.

Australia has rejected claims that oil from a massive spill in the Timor Sea has reached Indonesia's coastal waters.

SHAH ALAM: A night market trader claimed trial at the High Court to the murder of an Indonesian maid who had died after allegedly being abused.

US President Barack Obama plans to invite all 10 Asean leaders to the United States next year in a move to further strengthen Asean-US relations at the highest level.

I am writing to you concerning Yoab Syatfle, a political activist in West Papua because of concern for his safety.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed acclaimed lawyer Adnan Buyung Nasution to lead the fact-finding team to investigate the facts behind the arrest of two anti-corruption commission deputies by the police on Friday last week, local TV reported here on Monday.

A former Sydney watch salesman accused of ripping off Aussie Home Loans boss John Symond is still languishing in an Indonesian jail cell almost 15 months after Australian police requested his extradition.

Indonesian councilors from the province of Aceh will revise a law under which adulterers could face stoning to death, a local legislator said.

The body of the Indonesian maid who died on Monday following alleged physical abuse by her employer in Klang was flown to Surabaya Saturday.

Family First senator Steve Fielding has questioned whether 78 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers, who have "hijacked" an Australian customs boat, are real refugees.