Indonesia News

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  Indonesia's top detective replaced after graft scandal

  AFP - Thursday, November 26

  JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's chief detective has been replaced after being implicated in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators, police said Wednesday.

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  Indonesia demos demand Yudhoyono quit

  AFP - Wednesday, November 25

  JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesian protesters burned photos of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and demanded his resignation on Tuesday over what they see as his complicity in a series of major corruption scandals.

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  Hopes fade for Indonesia ferry survivors

  AFP - Wednesday, November 25

  TANJUNG BALAI, Indonesia (AFP) - - Rescuers scoured the Malacca Strait in Indonesia for a third day on Tuesday as hopes faded that any more survivors of a deadly ferry sinking would be found, officials said.

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  Indonesian minister defends bank bailout

  AFP - Wednesday, November 25

  JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's finance minister and central bank chief on Tuesday defended a 704-million-dollar lifeline thrown to a failed lender, which has become the centre of the country's latest graft scandal.

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  Indonesia president sidesteps action on corruption case

  AFP - Tuesday, November 24

  JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday sidestepped advice from his own fact-finding team to punish senior law enforcers over a huge corruption scandal that has gripped the nation.

• Woman found 25 hours after Indonesia ferry sank

  AP - Tuesday, November 24

  JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island.

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  Gunmen fire on Americans' home in Indonesia

  AFP - Tuesday, November 24

  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) - - Gunmen fired at the home of two US academics in the Indonesian province of Aceh on Monday, the latest in a string of attacks directed against foreigners in the region, police said.

• Gunfire at home of US teachers in Indonesia's Aceh

  AP - Tuesday, November 24

  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Gunfire hit the home of two American lecturers in Indonesia's western province of Aceh on Monday, but no one was injured.

• CORRECTED-Indonesian ferry with over 200 people on board sinks

  Reuters - Monday, November 23

  Corrects reference to Dumai to show it is a port, not island

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  Hundreds rescued, 29 die as Indonesia ferry sinks

  AFP - Monday, November 23

  JAKARTA (AFP) - - Rescuers on Sunday desperately hunted for survivors in the waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island after a ferry sank in stormy seas, killing at least 29 people, officials said.

• Indonesian ferry sinks; 25 dead, some 240 rescued

  AP - Monday, November 23

  JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 25 people have died, officials said.

• Indonesian ferry sinks; 15 dead, some 230 rescued

  AP - Monday, November 23

  JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers saved more than 230 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 15 people have died, officials said.

• Indonesian passenger ferry sinks with 242 aboard

  AP - Monday, November 23

  JAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian passenger ferry with almost 250 people aboard sank in rough waters off Sumatra island Sunday, killing at least one, police said, while a second ferry ran aground in nearby waters.

• Report: Indonesian passenger ferry sinks with 228

  AP - Sunday, November 22

  JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian television says a passenger ferry with more than 200 people onboard sank in rough waters near Sumatra island.

• Indonesia seizes 75 tons of explosive material

  AP - Saturday, November 21

  JAKARTA, Indonesia - Officials say they have confiscated 75 tons of an explosive material being shipped from Malaysia to Indonesia and are investigating possible links to terrorism.

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  Clerics cringe as Indonesians flock to doomsday film

  AFP - Friday, November 20

  JAKARTA (AFP) - - Hollywood's latest doomsday offering "2012" has caused a storm in Indonesia, with conservative clerics condemning it Thursday as a "provocation against Islam".

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  Jakarta halts deforestation in Sumatra's Kampar Peninsula

  AFP - Friday, November 20

  JAKARTA (AFP) - - Environmentalists claimed a small victory on Thursday after Indonesia ordered one of the country's biggest pulp and paper companies to halt forest clearing in the Kampar Peninsula.

• Indonesia sending 1,125 peacekeepers to Lebanon

  AP - Friday, November 20

  JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia is deploying more peacekeepers to Lebanon to join a U.N. mission monitoring a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah militants.