Major Indonesian news stories of the day

State Secretary Minister Sudi Silalahi downplayed on Wednesday a recent court ruling favoring graft convict Agusrin Maryono Najamuddin who has filed a lawsuit against President ...

Indonesian forensic teams comprising the Disaster Victims Identification (DVI) unit and the police’s Automatic Fingerprints Identification System (Inafis) will be assisted by Russian DNA experts

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono attended the national celebration of Buddha's Day of Enlightenment, or Waisak, at the Jakarta International Expo in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, on ...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhono opened the third National Coordination Meeting of Regional Inflation Control Teams (TPID) at a hotel in Jakarta on Wednesday, which is ...

The New 7 Wonders Foundation has named the Komodo National Park in East Nusa Tenggara as one of the seven wonders of nature.

Banda Aceh, Indonesia. An official says a second endangered Sumatran elephant has been poisoned in western Indonesia, apparently by villagers trying to protect their crops.

Three men convicted of killing a Sun TV reporter during a riot in the Maluku town of Tual in 2010 have escaped after prosecutors failed ...

The National Police announced on Wednesday that they had collected 34 fingerprints from the remains of the ill-fated Sukhoi SuperJet 100 victims, but they have ...

Banda Aceh. Aceh Party politician Syukri Abdullah and his female business colleague were shot dead on Tuesday night as they were driving through the district ...

Denpasar. A 69-year-old resident of Nongan village in Karangasem, Bali, died on Monday after a group of monkeys thought to have rabies attacked him, the ...

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Jakarta will be hosting Food Revolution Day on Saturday, replicating an initiative promoting healthy eating habits started by British chef and media personality Jamie Oliver.

The Tangerang municipal administration plans to operate bus rapid transit (BRT) system connecting the Kalideres and Poris Plawad terminals, an official confirmed Tuesday.

While the police have apparently bowed to the so-called public pressure to ban the upcoming Lady Gaga’s concert in Jakarta, an official from the Indonesia’s ...

An official says a second endangered Sumatran elephant has been poisoned in western Indonesia, apparently by villagers trying to protect their crops.

A badly injured man was found on Wednesday morning by local residents in Brebes, Central Java after apparently jumping from a speeding train while trying ...

Residents in North Maluku are modifying their motorcycles to increase the fuel tank capacities following the ban on bulk fuel purchases using jerry cans.

The National Energy Council (DEN) is of the view that the development of a nuclear power plant in Indonesia is almost impossible.

The Indonesian government has set aside 20 million hectares of its waters as a conservation area, a senior official said.

Indonesia will continue to play its role in global development and in dealing with the threat of climate change, according to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The Pekanbaru station of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has detected through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite ...

The government has declared that a report regarding the country`s loss of almost 5 million hectares of forest and peatlands since the implementation of a ...

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Seven Indonesian scientists won competition to obtain research grants provided by USAID worth US$800 thousand, which were aimed at preserving ...

Indonesia and the United States met on Monday to begin their cooperation on science and technology they signed two years ago, an official said on ...

A Leica camera prototype made in 1923 fetched 2.16 million euros ($2.79 million) at auction on Saturday, setting a new world record for a camera.

Six Indonesian students won silver and bronze medals in the International Sustainable World Energy, Engineering and Environment Project Olympiad (I-SWEEP) 2012 held in Houston, Texas, ...

Ahmad Basarah, a member of the House of Representatives` Commission III has expressed his agreement to the decision of the Indonesian ...

The Jakarta police will not release a permit for Lady Gaga`s concert on June 3 in Jakarta, because they have reservations ...

The Deputy governor of West Java province, Dede Yusuf, said a subdued and potentially less offensive version of a Lady Gaga ...

The ASEAN Secretariat is organising an "ASEAN Drawing Contest" from May to July 2012 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of ASEAN on 8 August 2012.

The Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Mari Elka Pangestu has requested all artistes in the country`s music industry to create ...

The wreckage of a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 was found on Thursday on the side of a ...

The wreckage of a demonstration airplane for a Russian-made jet that vanished on Wednesday over Indonesia was ...

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The duty is likely to affect less than a third of Indonesia's metal exports but is a precursor to a ban on raw material exports ...

The Indonesia Mengajar program recruits and trains young Indonesians to work where teachers are most needed: in ...

Prosecutors in Bali have detailed their case against an Australian man accused of attempting to smuggle hashish and methamphetamines into Bali.

Lady Gaga has been refused a permit to perform in the Indonesian capital next month over security concerns after Islamic groups voiced strong objections to ...

The Federal Government is facing a potential class action lawsuit over the halting of the live export cattle trade to Indonesia a year ago.

Indonesian rescuers say they have found no survivors after a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet crashed into into a mountain near Jakarta.

Police refuse to license Jakarta gig, saying they are unable to guarantee singer's safety following protestsLady Gaga's show in Jakarta ...

Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed into Mount Salak during demonstration flight, killing all 45 people on boardIndonesian special forces have found ...

Five journalists were killed in Indonesia when a plane crashed into Mount Salak, a volcano south of Jakarta, during a ...

Search teams reach the wreckage of plane which crashed into a volcano during a demonstration flight in IndonesiaClearer weather has ...

All 45 people on board Sukhoi Superjet feared dead after it crashed into Indonesian volcano during flight to impress buyersRescuers ...

Jakarta - For the third straight day there have been attacks in Ambon (Moluccas), where last night a group of unidentified persons set ...

MOSCOW, May 16 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) has confirmed to Itar-Tass that a voice recorder has been found at Russia’s Sukhoi Superjet ...

JAKARTA--Lady Gaga's Indonesian promoters Wednesday vowed to fight to save her show, despite police denying it a permit and Islamic hard-liners threatening "chaos" if she ...

Indonesia says it could take as long as a year to analyze equipment and flight data recovered from the crash site of a Russian jetliner ...

Indonesia will not lift a ban on certain US beef imports until the United States declares the products free from mad cow disease, the agriculture ...

Lady Gaga's June 3 concert in Jakarta, Indonesia - the subject of protests and complaints by that country's hard-line Islamist organizations - will not go ...

SINGAPORE: The High Court will proceed with the case by a Hougang resident on whether Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has "unfettered discretion" in calling ...

An official says a second endangered Sumatran elephant has been poisoned in western Indonesia, apparently by villagers trying to protect their crops.

Kim Yong-nam, North Korea's president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, is greeted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono upon his arrival at ...

SINGAPORE: The Hougang by-election on May 26 will be a straight fight between Mr Png Eng Huat of the Workers' Party and Mr Desmond ...