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Two men walk past a banner displayed by the Anti-Corruption Agency along a street in Jakarta Dec.

Deputy Attorney General Abdul Hakim Ritonga and Chief Detective Susno Duadjia were mentioned by name [ Jakarta Globe report] in a tape recorded conversation about a plan to fabricate charges [Al Jazeera report] against KPK leaders.

By Tham Choy Lin KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 -- When President Hu Jintao flies in from the late autumn cold of Beijing to kickoff a two-day visit here Tuesday, he will be embraced by more than the tropical warmth.

KUALA LUMPUR: Mercy Malaysia will hold its annual fundraising dinner on Nov 13 with all proceeds to be channelled to earthquake victims in Padang, Indonesia, and Typhoon Ketsana victims in the Philippines.

MALACCA, Fri: Two Kendong gang members believed to be planning a robbery were shot dead by police at Lebuh Sungai Udang-Ayer Keroh-Selandar near Kampung Bertam Ulu early today.

A power struggle between Indonesia's police force and an independent anticorruption agency is roiling President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, just two weeks after he began his second five-year term.

The row has raised questions over Indonesia's commitment to fighting chronic corruption and provoked a public outcry at the hardball tactics of the police, which is going toe-to-toe with the anticorruption agency.

Protesters in Jakarta rallied for the second day Tuesday over the arrest last week of two senior officials of the elite agency, known as the KPK, which has successfully prosecuted government officials and politicians for graft. The two men are accused by police of abusing their power during an investigation into a collapsed bank, and both deny the accusations. They were released Tuesday but still face charges.

A German Red Cross worker has been shot by an unknown assailant as he was leaving a hotel in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

Genting Bhd is on track to open the "Resorts World at Sentosa" in Singapore by early January 2010, said its chairman and chief executive Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay.

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia - Deep in the jungle on this small island lost in the Indian Ocean, Australia's new $370 million refugee detention center reaches its full power after its lights come on at dusk.

JAKARTA: Indonesia's top detective quit Thursday after wiretap phone recordings implicated him in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators, in a scandal that has appalled the nation.

A Malaysian prince won a defamation suit against his teenage wife who accused him of sexual and physical abuse after she fled back home to Indonesia.

An aircraft belonged to Indonesia's Papua province regional police on Monday was declared lost contact at 1200 local time during a flight from Sentani Airport of provincial capital Jayapura to Mulia Airport in Puncak Jaya regency, a local media reported on Monday.

Although U.S. President Barack Obama has never set foot there, China cast a long shadow in the Pacific region where he grew up.

The Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has seen his anti-graft campaign come under scrutiny Photo: Reuters Senior police and prosecutors stand accused of trying to frame two investigators from a watchdog, the Corruption Eradication Commission , with accepting bribes, in a case that has transfixed the nation for weeks.

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JAKARTA: The Indonesia subsidiary of French supermarket chain Carrefour on Wednesday challenged an antitrust ruling ordering it to sell its 75 per cent stake in local retailer Alfa Retailindo.

INDONESIA has warned "there is a limit" to its patience over the Oceanic Viking asylum-seeker impasse.

Australia has rejected claims that oil from a massive spill in the Timor Sea has reached Indonesia's coastal waters.

SHAH ALAM: A night market trader claimed trial at the High Court to the murder of an Indonesian maid who had died after allegedly being abused.

US President Barack Obama plans to invite all 10 Asean leaders to the United States next year in a move to further strengthen Asean-US relations at the highest level.