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Indonesia Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Indonesia.

Results 1 - 20 of 8,045 in Indonesia

  1. Next US president should engage Asean more than Bush didRead the original story

    2 hrs ago | NationMultimedia.com - Opinion

    ... his foreign-policy speeches because he supports the US free-trade agreements with the two countries. Obama knows Indonesia because he spent his childhood there. His memoir, "The Audacity of Hope", has been translated for the Indonesian market with a ...

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  2. Young Aussies wary of 'US meddling'Read the original story

    6 hrs ago | The Age

    ... as a problem. The survey by Melbourne University's AsiaLink gives a snapshot of opinion across Australia and Indonesia about relations between the two countries. Indonesians rank Australia among the top four regional troublemakers, with America ...

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    Related Topix: Jakarta, Indonesia, World News, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

  3. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 'bailout near'Read the original story

    Friday | Times Online

    ... sing financial market. There is another 500 billions bad mortgage in financial system Sugiarto Setiabudi, Jakarta, Indonesia

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  4. Malaysian marine police seize smuggled cigarettes from IndonesiaRead the original story

    8 hrs ago | Earth Times

    Malaysian marine police seized 110,000 packets of cigarettes believed to be illegally smuggled from Indonesia following a 15-minute high-speed sea chase, official agencies reported Sunday.

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  5. Price increases push US soy beyond reach of poorRead the original story

    9 hrs ago | Kansas.com

    An Indonesian worker makes tofu at a home factory in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 15, 2008.

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  6. RM1m worth of cigarettes seizedRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | The Star Online

    ... "We believe the cigarettes were for the local market and were being smuggled in from Tanjung Pinang in Indonesia. We also seized the ship, worth about RM273,450," he told pressmen here on Sunday. He said the suspects were being detained at the Kota ...

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  7. The woman behind ObamaRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | Mid-Day Mumbai

    ... vendors) continue to offer 'Martabak' (pancakes) and 'Nasi Gorung' (fried rice). And in this cultural capital of Indonesia, artists still thrive. Soetoro, who died in 1995 at age 52 from ovarian cancer, was the mother of Barack Obama, the Democratic ...

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  8. Missing Polish diver feared dead in eastern Indonesian seaRead the original story

    12 hrs ago | Earth Times

    Search teams failed to find any sign of a Polish tourist who went missing eight days ago while scuba diving off the easternmost Indonesian province of Papua, local media reports said Sunday.

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  9. Sarawak Minister Amazed By First Dayak Market In JohorRead the original story

    12 hrs ago | Malaysian National News Agency

    By Frank Julian Martin JOHOR BAHARU, Sept 7 -- Sarawak Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation Datuk Seri William Mawan Ikom has heard much about the "pasar tamu" set up by the Dayak community at Taman ...

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  10. Anwar says on track to unseat government 18 minutes agoRead the original story

    12 hrs ago | Tehran Times

    Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Saturday he is on track to meet a mid-September deadline to recruit enough members of parliament to topple the government.

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  11. Special jails for graftRead the original story

    13 hrs ago | The Straits Times

    ... country's prisons have a capacity for 80,000 inmates, well below the more than 137,000 people behind bars across Indonesia, the newspaper said, citing Justice and Human Rights Minister Andi Mattalata. An increasing number of graft convicts in ...

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  12. Indonesia mum over bird fluRead the original story

    13 hrs ago | The Straits Times

    WITH nearly half the world's human bird flu deaths, concern is building over Indonesia's refusal to share virus samples and its health minister's increasingly strident denunciations of global 'conspiracies'. ...

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  13. Deportation of tsunami refugees in stagesRead the original story

    13 hrs ago | New Straits Times

    JAKARTA: The deportation of 24,000 Acehnese tsunami refugees in Malaysia to Aceh will be conducted in stages, Indonesian news agency, Antara, quoted an Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.

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  14. President's team wins MCA pollsRead the original story

    15 hrs ago | New Straits Times

    Jubilant supporters hoist Dr Mah Hang Soon aloft after his victory over Datuk Ling Hee Leong for the Perak MCA Youth chief post.

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  15. Under-reporting B2B H5N1Read the original story

    16 hrs ago | Crofsblogs.typepad.com

    I'm back from the Queen Charlottes, where we had a wonderful time. I kept rough track of events in Flublogia, but missed this excellent item from Dutchy in the Flu Clinic: Indonesia only reported 30% cases of ...

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  16. NewsRead the original story

    17 hrs ago | The Jakarta Post

    Jakartans, young and old alike, thronged to Lapangan Banteng in Central Jakarta on Saturday afternoon, where around 120 food stalls greeted them as part of a two-week Ramadan festival.

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  17. FeaturesRead the original story

    17 hrs ago | The Jakarta Post

    A solo exhibition by Heri Dono, titled "Nobody's Land" may be over, its artworks packed and gone, but what still remains is the artist's unpretentious persona that has made a huge contribution to Indonesia's ...

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  18. By the WayRead the original story

    17 hrs ago | The Jakarta Post

    ... trauma -- but, what about love? Muhammad Montague and Sri Capulet are faithful remakes of the timeless theme. In Indonesia, these involve teenage trysts set in the local high school, a furnace of raw emotions where trigonometry means plotting a ...

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  19. Anwar says on track to unseat governmentRead the original story

    18 hrs ago | The Peninsula

    The opposition is confident it will secure the defection of at least 30 members from the ruling Barisan Nasional government-the number needed to unseat the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, Anwar ...

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  20. On track: Anwar

    20 hrs ago | The Straits Times

    Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, here on a two-day visit, said yesterday that he is on track to meet his deadline to recruit enough MPs this month to topple the government.

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