Indonesia police on edge over anti-graft protest
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia will deploy thousands of police to an anti-graft protest on Wednesday after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned that unnamed forces could hijack the rally to topple him, a spokesman said. More »
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Australians welcome 'confession' on Timor killings
AFP - Tuesday, December 8SYDNEY (AFP) - - Relatives of five journalists killed in the East Timor border town of Balibo in 1975 on Tuesday welcomed a former soldier's "milestone" statement that they were shot by invading Indonesian troops.
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Indonesia president fears plot amid protests
AFP - Tuesday, December 8JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's top brass met Monday to discuss a supposed threat to the country after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned that unnamed forces were planning to use an anti-graft rally to topple him.
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Police charge 3 after Indonesian bar fire kills 20
AP - Monday, December 7JAKARTA, Indonesia - Police charged three men with accidentally causing the deaths of 20 patrons in a fire at a third-floor karaoke bar in one of Indonesia's largest cities, alleging they sparked the blaze during renovations, an official said Monday.
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10,000 lanterns fly into record book in Indonesia
AP - Monday, December 7JAKARTA, Indonesia - An ecumenical group launched more than 10,000 twinkling paper lanterns into the night sky from a beach in Indonesia, setting a world record, officials said Monday.
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Thousands urge sharia law to stem Indonesia graft
AFP - Monday, December 7JAKARTA (AFP) - - Thousands of hardine Muslim protesters staged rallies in Indonesia on Sunday urging the government to apply Islamic law as the only way to tackle widespread corruption.
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2,000 demonstrators protest Indonesian corruption
AP - Sunday, December 6JAKARTA, Indonesia - About 2,000 Muslim protesters urged Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Sunday to better fight government corruption that is tainting the leader's second term in office.
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Three men arrested over deadly Indonesia fire
AFP - Sunday, December 6MEDAN, Indonesia (AFP) - - Indonesian police said on Sunday they have detained three men suspected of causing a karaoke club fire that killed 20 people in Indonesia's North Sumatra province.
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Indonesian police arrest alleged kangaroo smuggler
AP - Sunday, December 6JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police arrested a man accused of smuggling 10 rare kangaroos by boat from New Guinea island, an official said Saturday.
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20 killed in Indonesian amusement center fire
AP - Saturday, December 5JAKARTA, Indonesia - A fire at an amusement center in a commercial building in Indonesia's third largest city killed at least 20 people and injured two others Friday, police said, adding that the death toll could rise.
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3 injured in false fire alarm at Indonesia airport
AP - Saturday, December 5JAKARTA, Indonesia - Three panicked passengers were injured leaping from an airliner at one of Indonesia's busiest airports when smoke rising from a jet engine was mistaken for a fire, officials said Friday.
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Indonesian journalists plan to screen banned film
AP - Friday, December 4JAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian journalists' group said Thursday that it will screen a movie portraying military atrocities during the 1975 invasion of East Timor despite a ban by censors.
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Indonesian journalists to defy 'Balibo' ban
AFP - Thursday, December 3JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's journalists Thursday vowed to defy a ban on the screening of Australian movie "Balibo", saying the film depicting alleged war crimes by Indonesian forces in East Timor is educational.
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Police accused of abuse in Indonesia's Papua
AP - Tuesday, December 1JAKARTA, Indonesia - Human rights group Amnesty International urged authorities Monday to investigate allegations of police killings and abuses in Indonesia's restive Papua province.
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Amnesty highlights abuses in Indonesia's Papua
AFP - Tuesday, December 1JAKARTA (AFP) - - Amnesty International called Monday for an investigation into a "pattern of unchecked human rights violations" by Indonesian police in restive Papua province.
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Indonesian minister blames disasters on immorality
AP - Sunday, November 29JAKARTA, Indonesia - A government minister drew sharp criticism from earthquake victims Saturday and alienated some of his Twitter followers by blaming natural disasters in Indonesia on immorality.
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Indonesia struck by 6.2 magnitude earthquake
AP - Sunday, November 29JAKARTA, Indonesia - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook islands in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, felling a power pole into a market crowd and panicking residents who fled their rattling homes.
