Indonesia News

Study: Pop culture helps Indonesia fight terrorism

AP - Wednesday, February 10

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Using social media and pop culture has helped Indonesia's government counter terrorism and encourage moderate views on Islam, a leading terrorism expert said Tuesday. More »

  • Bad liquor kills 8 on Indonesia's Java island

    AP - Wednesday, February 10

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police say eight people have died after drinking liquor laced with methanol on the country's main island of Java.

  • Activists want fair trial in Japan whaling case

    AP - Monday, February 8

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - A small group of Greenpeace activists have held a protest outside the Japanese Embassy in the Indonesian capital to call for a fair trail for two fellow activists.

  • Aceh reconstruction offers hope for Haiti

    Aceh reconstruction offers hope for Haiti

    AFP - Sunday, February 7

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Despite the desolation wrought by last month's earthquake, Haiti can salvage hope for the future by looking at how the Indonesian province of Aceh rebuilt after the equally devastating 2004 tsunami.

  • Indonesia's controversial Obama statue to be moved

    AP - Saturday, February 6

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - A statue of a young President Barack Obama that drew a public backlash after it was given a prominent position in a Jakarta park will be moved to the elementary school he attended while living in the Indonesian capital, officials said Friday.

  • Indonesia to remove Obama statue from public park

    Indonesia to remove Obama statue from public park

    AFP - Saturday, February 6

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - A statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy will be removed from a park in the Indonesian capital due to public opposition, officials said Friday, just weeks before Obama visits his old hometown.

  • Indonesian Muslim leaders slam horror movie

    Indonesian Muslim leaders slam horror movie

    AFP - Friday, February 5

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - A new Indonesian horror movie about a menstruating ghost ran foul of the country's highest Islamic body on Thursday.

  • Indonesia to probe villas built in national park

    AP - Wednesday, February 3

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian officials say they are investigating how 180 luxury villas came to be built in a protected natural forest.

  • Obama to show family his Indonesian past on visit

    AP - Wednesday, February 3

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - President Barack Obama will take his family on a journey back to his boyhood in Indonesia, where he played games on the sweltering tropical streets of the capital and learned a foreign language.

  • Cigarette-maker repents over exploding product

    Cigarette-maker repents over exploding product

    AFP - Tuesday, February 2

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - An Indonesian tobacco company has agreed to pay the medical expenses of a man who lost six teeth when a cigarette mysteriously exploded in his mouth.

  • Indonesian court clears boy of bee prank

    Indonesian court clears boy of bee prank

    AFP - Tuesday, February 2

    SURABAYA, Indonesia (AFP) - - An Indonesian schoolboy was cleared of serious abuse charges on Monday for stinging a female classmate with a bee, a "crime" that took the country's legal system a year to resolve.

  • 33 feared drowned in Indonesia boat sinking

    33 feared drowned in Indonesia boat sinking

    AFP - Monday, February 1

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Thirty-three people including 25 Chinese nationals are feared to have drowned after their speed boat sank in heavy seas off eastern Indonesia last week, police said Monday.

  • A fifth of Indonesian politicians avoid taxes

    AP - Saturday, January 30

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's top tax official says nearly a fifth of lawmakers and senators are not registered with his office to pay taxes and are breaking the law.

  • Indonesian gambling convicts escape before caning

    AP - Saturday, January 30

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Three Indonesian men convicted of playing dominoes for money have escaped from jail moments before a public caning in devoutly Muslim Aceh province.

  • Report: Indonesian military runs illegal logging

    AP - Saturday, January 30

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's military is deeply involved in illegal logging that threatens some of the world's largest remaining forest, university researchers said Friday.

  • Indonesian police arrest suspected terrorist

    AP - Saturday, January 30

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Counter-terrorist forces have arrested a suspected Islamist militant in central Indonesia.

  • Indonesian-made rocket hits farm in test launch

    AP - Saturday, January 30

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - A test rocket fired by Indonesia's state-run weapons manufacturer crashed into a farm and seriously wounded the owners.

  • Indonesian protesters demand anti-graft measures

    AP - Friday, January 29

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Thousands of Indonesians rallied in major cities across the vast archipelago Thursday to pressure the government to step up its fight against crippling corruption after a series of high-profile scandals.

  • Indonesia plans 'green' growth fund

    Indonesia plans 'green' growth fund

    AFP - Thursday, January 28

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia is hoping to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign governments to fund "green infrastructure" projects, a finance ministry official said Wednesday.

  • Corruption watchdog slams Indonesian president

    Corruption watchdog slams Indonesian president

    AFP - Wednesday, January 27

    JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has failed to honour election promises to crack down on widespread graft after the first 100 days of his new government, a watchdog said Tuesday.

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