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JAKARTA: It is an allegation that has spread like wildfire through Jakarta's elites and is now being openly canvassed in the press.

Ida Farida, 33, never imagined she would lose the job that she had held for 10 years.

When the apocalypse comes, China will save the world. Or at least that's how Chinese audiences are interpreting "2012," Hollywood's latest blockbuster disaster movie.

Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth - a rare type of fish known as 'a living fossil' - in deep water off Indonesia.

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.

Indonesia would begin constructing the world's would-be longest bridge in Sunda Strait connecting two main islands of Sumatra and Java in 2014, as an effort to boost infrastructure development in the southeast Asian largest economy.

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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.

THE end to the stand-off aboard the Oceanic Viking is the realisation of the agreement between Australia and Indonesia, the Federal Government says.

THE Federal Government is insisting the Sri Lankan asylum-seekers from the Oceanic Viking were given no guarantees of resettlement in Australia.

By Daily Mail Reporter Scientists have captured the world's first images of a baby coelacanth - an extremely rare type of fish known as a "living fossil". Japanese marine researchers have found and successfully filmed the young fish at a depth of 528ft in Manado Bay off Sulawesi Island, Indonesia.

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

A MODERATE 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's West Java province on Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued, officials said.

INDONESIA'S president should censure senior police and prosecutors accused of leading a conspiracy against the anti-corruption agency, an independent fact-finding team recommended on Tuesday.

Even though undergoing treatment at a Singapore hospital for serious respiratory illness, Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala agreed for a 'meeting' with Unified CPN Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday to confer, as according to reports, on outstanding political issues.

The need to prepare students for "a lifetime of careers", imparting of broad-based global education, emphasis on learning foreign languages, and respect and tolerance for other faiths and cultures were highlighted at the first World Innovation Summit for Education , which opened yesterday.

The impasse on board Australian customs vessel the Oceanic Viking has been resolved, with all 56 Tamil asylum seekers agreeing to leave the boat tomorow morning.

Via BeritaJakarta.com: Bird flu anticipation, poultry destroyed . This may sound confusing, but Jakarta has banned backyard poultry for several years, with somewhat spotty enforcement.

He couldn't bring home the Olympics, but he's nailed the funny shirt photo. That's one way to view President Barack Obama's announcement that the United States will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hawaii in 2011.

Asia-Pacific leaders said the economic recovery isna t on a a oesolid footinga yet, pledging to maintain stimulus measures until there is a oedurablea growth.