Jakarta, Indonesia News

The government has decided to bring 461 workers home from Kuwait due to many problems they have to face in the foreign country.

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.

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 ...

Arabic news network Al Jazeera has broadcast a report claiming to expose the methods used by people smugglers operating between Indonesia and Australia.

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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.

JAKARTA: Customs officials have confiscated 75 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - which can be used as fertiliser or explosive material - being shipped in from Malaysia.

Indonesian investment coordinating board chairman Gita Wirjawan and deputy trade minister Mahendra Siregar will brief 150 Indonesian and Australian businesspeople at a two-day conference in Yogyakarta on new business opportunities within bilateral economic ties.

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.

JAKARTA: Executive Director of the Indonesian Environmental Forum Ubaidillah has predicted that Jakarta will sink in 2030, if the city's government does not take anticipatory steps, Antara news aegncy reported yesterday.

Dhaka, Manila & Jakarta Worst Climate-Affected Asian Mega-Cities - Hits Closer to Home Than You Might Think Jakarta, Indonesia photo: flydime via flickr.

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

SINGAPORE a ' Hours after declaring that China's growing economic muscle doesn't pose a threat, President Obama traveled Saturday night to this usually pro-American city-state to wrestle with another tricky issue: Is the United States itself the troublemaker? In Asia on an eight-day tour to reassert U.S. influence in the world's most economically ...

But while our commitment to this region begins in Japan, it doesn't end here. The United States of America may have started as a series of ports and cities along the Atlantic Ocean, but for generations we have also been a nation of the Pacific.

PETALING JAYA: A Barisan Nasional MP and former minister has called on Malaysian and Indonesian authorities to make public the 'third party' allegedly involved in the propaganda to strain ties between the two countries.

PUTRAJAYA: Indonesia and Malaysia agreed to overcome differences that have soured relations recently.

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.

He said the team, which submitted its findings to the president, stopped short of recommending that prosecutors drop the case, since it could not dictate this to law enforcers.

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.

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.