Jakarta Raya, Indonesia News

Indonesian police arrested a man accused of smuggling 10 rare kangaroos by boat from New Guinea island, an official said Saturday.

Indonesia would produce 2 million doses vaccine in November next year to stop further spread of A/H1N1 flu that has killed 10 people in the Southeast Asian country, Health Ministry said in Jakarta Friday.

It can't have taken three months to write the speech that President Barack Obama gave at West Point on Tuesday, but clearly much thought went into his decision to send 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan.

A short circuit and poor ventilation have been blamed for the deaths of 20 people in a blaze at a crowded karaoke club in Indonesia, police said.

JAKARTA: Twenty people were killed on Friday after a commercial building in Indonesia's Medan, North Sumatra province, was engulfed in a blaze lasting an hour, police said.

A least 20 people died and two were injured when fire engulfed a third-floor karaoke bar in one of Indonesia's largest cities on Friday, police said, adding that the death toll could rise.

JAKARTA: Indonesia's journalists Thursday vowed to defy a ban on the screening of Australian movie "Balibo", saying the film depicting alleged war crimes by Indonesian forces in East Timor is educational.

PENANG: An opposition assemblyman today demanded an apology from Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and state executive councillor Phee Boon Poh for factual errors in replies addressed to him in the Penang state legislative assembly.

MR SUPARWONO said sometimes he felt 'proud' of his height but 'it also gives me problems because I can't live like normal people', citing the difficulty of fitting into public buses and finding clothes large enough for his frame.

JAKARTA : Indonesia has banned an Australian-made film on the alleged murder of six Australian-based journalists by Indonesian troops during the 1975 invasion of East Timor, an official said Wednesday.

Indonesia's state prosecutor will drop a widely condemned case against two anti-graft officials, a deputy attorney general said yesterday, citing the need for greater harmony between the various law enforcement agencies.

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

The United Nations World Tourism Organization has chosen Indonesia's Bali for the destination of tourism, according to local media on Monday.

Several hundred hardline Muslim protestors have staged rallies in Indonesia to urge the government to prevent the spread of HIV by implementing Islamic law.

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.

In this Saturday, May 31, 2008 file photo, an Indonesian police officer and tourists carry a sea turtle to release it into the ocean on Kuta beach, Bali, Indonesia.

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 .

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.

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 ...

Jakarta, Nov 22 : At least nine people were killed when a ferry carrying at least 242 people sank in bad weather off the Indonesian island of Sumatra Sunday, officials said.