Indonesia News

TWO Indonesian jobseekers have been tricked into getting their faces tattooed by a bogus official offering government jobs.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Shares on the Indonesian Stock Exchange continued falling Monday after a trading suspension was lifted.

A WITNESS in the murder trial of a top Indonesian spy says he was ordered by an intelligence agent to murder celebrated human rights activist Munir Said Thalib.

Survivors and relatives of the victims of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings said prayers and lit candles on Sunday during a small, private ceremony to remember the sixth anniversary of the deadly attacks.

SENIOR Qatari officials and a number of ambassadors attended the 63rd Indonesian independence anniversary celebrations held at the Diplomatic Club yesterday.

Greenpeace says land clearing in Indonesia is not just bad for the environment, but can also devastate local communities.

Investors looked to extend the frenetic selling on Wall Street on Friday, adding to yet another global sell-off on concerns that even low interest rates won't help end the worsening credit crisis.

JAKARTA, Indonesia _ When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it 'the nuttiest thing' he'd ever heard.

Yet deep inside an 86-page supplement to United States export regulations is a single sentence that bars U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu and dozens of other viruses to five countries designated 'state sponsors of terrorism.'

Thousands of former rebels have flocked to Banda Aceh to welcome home one of Indonesia's best-known guerrilla leaders after three decades in exile.

Indonesia's stock exchange trading has been halt through the week after the bourse authorities decided to keep canceling trading on Friday and expecting the trading to resume Monday, president director of the ...

Like a circle of falling dominoes, the latest grim financial tidings are edging back to where they began: Wall Street .

By John Acher

OSLO (Reuters) - Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for a long career of peace work from Namibia to Kosovo.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose Ahtisaari to receive the $1.4 million prize from a field of 197 candidates "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts."

"These efforts have contributed to a more peaceful world and to 'fraternity between nations' in Alfred Nobel's spirit," the award committee said in its citation.

A witness confirmed Tuesday the use of Bank Indonesia funds to make state prosecutors drop investigations into alleged graft involving two former top officials at the central bank in 2003.

Russia, Indonesia, Ukraine and Romania shut their stock exchanges after shares plummeted in the worst week for emerging-markets in at least two decades, according to Bloomberg.

Indonesia will not suffer another economic crisis as the one in 1997 and 1998, said the country's prominent economist Faisal Basri quoted by a local newspaper on Thursday.

Four years ago, many Americans didn't know who he was. Now he is running to become the 44th President of the United States .

Stock markets around the world were mixed Tuesday with signs the panic-selling of recent days may be peaking.

IT'S one of the fastest-growing megacities in Asia. But some doomsters predict large parts of Indonesia's coastal capital could be under water by 2025.

JAKARTA: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Monday there was no danger of a repeat of the Asian financial crisis as the sharemarket took its biggest hit in a decade and the currency nosedived.

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza arrived this morning in Jayapura, Papua, the last frontier of intact ancient forest in Indonesia, to highlight the catastrophic impact that deforestation - for palm oil, logging ...