Indonesia News

An alleged Islamic militant went on trial Wednesday on charges of harboring terrorists behind twin suicide hotel bombings in Jakarta that killed seven and injured more than 50 in Indonesia.

Central banks in Indonesia and the Philippines intervened on Friday to support their sliding currencies as the US dollar rose on jitters about sovereign debt problems in Europe, traders said.

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

SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency has given S$4.8m to five research projects under its first Environment Technology Research Programme.

JAKARTA: The two biggest coalition partners of the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, have delivered highly critical assessments of the bailout of a collapsed bank, signalling the President's political support is fracturing.

People who down two or more soft drinks a week may have double the risk of developing deadly pancreatic cancer, compared to non-soda drinkers, new research suggests.

Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore , a biomedical research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research , have discovered a genetic molecule, called Tbx3, which greatly improves the quality of stem cells that have been reprogrammed from differentiated cells .

Indonesia wona t a oesecond guessa the U.S. if it prosecutes Indonesian-born terrorism suspect Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, in a U.S. civilian court, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said.

JAKARTA: A statue of US President Barack Obama will be removed from a park in Indonesia's capital Jakarta because of public opposition, officials say.

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has picked up Indonesia as its regional production hub for liquid crystal display television set and has relocated its Vietnamese factory to Indonesia, a local media reported here Tuesday.

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On trial ... Abraham Louhenapessy, aka Captain Bram, is believed to have arranged the passage of 1500 boat people.

MALACCA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the 1Malaysia vision is not affected by the statement made by his former special officer Datuk Nasir Safar.

In this Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 photo, an Indonesian protester leads a water buffalo during an anti government protest in Jakarta, Indonesia.

A new Indonesian horror movie about a menstruating ghost has the country's clerics up in arms.

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.

By Zakaria Abdul Wahab SINGAPORE, Feb 5 -- Two Malaysians, including a woman, were sentenced to death Thursday for drug trafficking.

They say you need a thick hide for public office but Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has said he was hurt when his photo was affixed to a buffalo's bottom at a recent rally.

A man browses at pictures of Japanese porn star Maria Ozawa posted on a local Web site at a public Internet service in Jakarta The recent arrest of six people in Indonesia over a nightclub show is raising concerns among minority groups and secularists about a new anti-pornography law.