Indonesia News

Indonesian minister blames disasters on immorality

AP - Sunday, November 29

JAKARTA, Indonesia - 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. More »

  • Indonesia struck by 6.2 magnitude earthquake

    AP - Sunday, November 29

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook islands in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, felling a power pole into a market crowd and panicking residents who fled their rattling homes.

  • Indonesia's top detective replaced after graft scandal

    AFP - Thursday, November 26

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's chief detective has been replaced after being implicated in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators, police said Wednesday.

  • Indonesia demos demand Yudhoyono quit

    AFP - Wednesday, November 25

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesian protesters burned photos of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and demanded his resignation on Tuesday over what they see as his complicity in a series of major corruption scandals.

  • Hopes fade for Indonesia ferry survivors

    AFP - Wednesday, November 25

    TANJUNG BALAI, Indonesia (AFP) - - Rescuers scoured the Malacca Strait in Indonesia for a third day on Tuesday as hopes faded that any more survivors of a deadly ferry sinking would be found, officials said.

  • Indonesian minister defends bank bailout

    AFP - Wednesday, November 25

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's finance minister and central bank chief on Tuesday defended a 704-million-dollar lifeline thrown to a failed lender, which has become the centre of the country's latest graft scandal.

  • Indonesia president sidesteps action on corruption case

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday sidestepped advice from his own fact-finding team to punish senior law enforcers over a huge corruption scandal that has gripped the nation.

  • Woman found 25 hours after Indonesia ferry sank

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    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.

  • Gunmen fire on Americans' home in Indonesia

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) - - Gunmen fired at the home of two US academics in the Indonesian province of Aceh on Monday, the latest in a string of attacks directed against foreigners in the region, police said.

  • Gunfire at home of US teachers in Indonesia's Aceh

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

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

  • CORRECTED-Indonesian ferry with over 200 people on board sinks

    Reuters - Monday, November 23

    Corrects reference to Dumai to show it is a port, not island

  • Indonesian ferry sinks; 25 dead, some 240 rescued

    AP - Monday, November 23

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 25 people have died, officials said.

  • Indonesian ferry sinks; 15 dead, some 230 rescued

    AP - Monday, November 23

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers saved more than 230 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 15 people have died, officials said.

  • Indonesian passenger ferry sinks with 242 aboard

    AP - Monday, November 23

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - 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.

  • Report: Indonesian passenger ferry sinks with 228

    AP - Sunday, November 22

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

  • Indonesia seizes 75 tons of explosive material

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    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.

  • Clerics cringe as Indonesians flock to doomsday film

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Hollywood's latest doomsday offering "2012" has caused a storm in Indonesia, with conservative clerics condemning it Thursday as a "provocation against Islam".

  • Jakarta halts deforestation in Sumatra's Kampar Peninsula

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Environmentalists claimed a small victory on Thursday after Indonesia ordered one of the country's biggest pulp and paper companies to halt forest clearing in the Kampar Peninsula.

  • Indonesia sending 1,125 peacekeepers to Lebanon

    AP - Friday, November 20

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia is deploying more peacekeepers to Lebanon to join a U.N. mission monitoring a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah militants.

  • Indonesia's anti-terrorism unit warns of new cells

    Reuters - Friday, November 20

    By Olivia Rondonuwu

1 2