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News of Indonesia
Indonesia: Victims of the Aceh conflict still waiting for truth, justice and reparation
Victims and family members are still waiting for the Indonesian authorities to provide them with truth, justice and full reparation almost eight years after the end to the devastating Aceh conflict, Amnesty International said in a new report released today. The report, “Time to Face the Past", (...)

21 - 04 - 2013
UPDATE: 22 hurt in Lion Air plane Bali sea crash
A Lion Air plane carrying more than 100 passengers and crew overshot a runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday and crashed into the sea, injuring nearly two dozen people, officials said. I Made Krisna Maharta, an official with Bali's search and rescue agency, said all of the (...)

13 - 04 - 2013
Indonesia Bali Terror Warning
An Indonesian police officer stands guard at Kuta beach in Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. The U.S. Embassy warned Thursday of a possible New Year's Eve terrorist attack on Indonesia's Bali island, based on information from the popular resort's governor, but security officials said they (...)

23 - 01 - 2013
Quake of 6.3 magnitude strikes off eastern Indonesia
An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage. The quake struck 100 miles (140 km) southeast of the city of Ambon, at a depth of 21.6 miles (35 km), the USGS (...)

08 - 10 - 2012
Ramadan Chronicles: Bali-Indonesia
By Rifky Ishak Tayeb Indonesia Rifky lives in Bali, a Hindu-majority island in Indonesia. Although the Island is largely Hindu, Islam has its place firmly placed in the society. Whilst there are natural differences and dynamics in both groups, they create an alloy of sorts allowing them to live (...)

11 - 08 - 2012
Lady Gaga's Thailand stop to be country's largest concert ever
BANGKOK: According to government sources in Thailand, Lady Gaga‘s Bangkok stop on her Born This Way Ball tour will be the largest concert Thailand has ever witnessed. The announced comes only a day after Indonesian clerics threatened to demonstrate the American pop star's arrival in (...)

12 - 05 - 2012
Egypt confirms Mubarak's PM back in presidency race
Indonesia suspends US beef imports over madCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's election committee confirmed on Thursday that Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister would run in a presidential election, reversing its decision to eject him over a law drawn up by Islamists. "After listening to Shafiq's appeal, the (...)

26 - 04 - 2012
Indonesian police kill five suspected militants in Bali
DENPASAR, INDONESIA (dpa) – Indonesian police on Sunday killed five suspected militants on the resort island of Bali, a police spokesman said. Three of the suspects were killed in a resort bungalow in the Sanur area while the other two were killed in a rented room in Denpasar, said police (...)

18 - 03 - 2012
Bird Flu kills a Boy on Bali Island
Indonesian health officials say a 12-year-old boy has died of bird flu on the resort island of Bali, bringing the country's death toll from the virus to 154 since 2005. Rita Kusriastuti, an official at the health ministry, said Saturday that the boy died on Feb. 21 after suffering high fever and (...)

25 - 02 - 2012
Bali prison chief replaced over riot
Denpasar, Indonesia (dpa) – Indonesia on Friday replaced the chief warden at a prison on the resort island of Bali after two nights of rioting by prisoners. The Justice Ministry removed the governor of Kerobokan prison Bowo Nariwono from his post along with its security chief, ministry spokesman (...)

24 - 02 - 2012
Foreign inmates, women to be moved after Bali prison riot
Denpasar, Indonesia (dpa) – Authorities on Indonesia's resort island of Bali were Thursday preparing to transfer foreign inmates, women and children from the main prison there after two nights of rioting. The prison houses 60 foreigners, 120 women and 13 children, said Wing Handok, a local (...)

23 - 02 - 2012
Indonesia's Aceh province bans Valentine's Day
Banda Aceh, Indonesia (dpa) – Authorities in Indonesia's staunchly Muslim province of Aceh warned youths Wednesday against celebrating Valentine's Day, saying it could lead them into promiscuity. “We advise the public not to celebrate Valentine's Day,” said Illiza Sa'aduddin Djamal, deputy mayor (...)

08 - 02 - 2012
Indonesian girl, lost in 2004 tsunami, found 7 years later
Banda Aceh, Indonesia (dpa) – An Indonesian girl who was thought to have died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated Aceh province has been found alive and reunited with her parents, her grandfather said. Meri Yulanda, also known as Wati, went missing at the age of 7 with a sibling (...)

23 - 12 - 2011
Businessmen top AIDS cases in Indonesia
Businessmen have passed sex workers for the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia, a new study released earlier this month to mark International AIDS Day said. Still, the Islamic country remains fairly low on its overall numbers. “From our records of almost a year, entrepreneurs and (...)

15 - 12 - 2011
Indonesians line up in thousands to buy new Blackberry
Thousands of Indonesians jammed into a glitzy shopping mall Friday to get hold of the first BlackBerry Bold 9790s being sold worldwide. Fearing a riot, hundreds of police were deployed outside, tying up traffic in the heart of the capital for hours. With a 50 per cent discount on the $540 (...)

25 - 11 - 2011
Bali: The island of the Gods
Bali is a small island located within Indonesia. The island has for years been the number one touristic destination for Australian tourists and surfers. The image permeated constantly by tourist agencies has always been one of paradise. In less than two decades, the growth of the tourism industry (...)

18 - 11 - 2011
Lessons from Indonesia's Maluku conflict
TOBELO, Indonesia: From 1999 to 2002 the conflict between Christians and Muslims in the Indonesian islands of Maluku, including in my region — the island of Halmahera in North Maluku — resulted in the deaths of thousands of people and the displacement of thousands others. The conflict was (...)

14 - 11 - 2011
Lessons from Indonesia's Maluku conflict
TOBELO, Indonesia: From 1999 to 2002 the conflict between Christians and Muslims in the Indonesian islands of Maluku, including in my region – the island of Halmahera in North Maluku – resulted in the deaths of thousands of people and the displacement of thousands others. The conflict was (...)

02 - 11 - 2011
Religiously motivated violence is not religious
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: This Sunday, a suicide bomber attacked a church in Solo, Indonesia, killing at least one congregant and injuring many others. Indonesia, a secular nation, has had a long history of religious tolerance when it comes to minorities. But since the 2002 attacks in Bali, which were (...)

03 - 10 - 2011
Indonesia's finances, water supplies and apes set to benefit
Conserving key forests in Indonesia could generate billions of dollars in revenue, up to three times more than felling them for palm oil plantations, under a United Nations carbon reduction plan that would also secure water supplies and protect critically endangered orangutan apes, according to a (...)

29 - 09 - 2011
Religiously motivated violence is not religious
Yogyakarta, Indonesia: This Sunday, a suicide bomber attacked a church in Solo, Indonesia, killing at least one congregant and injuring many others. Indonesia, a secular nation, has had a long history of religious tolerance when it comes to minorities. But since the 2002 attacks in Bali, which were (...)

29 - 09 - 2011
Suicide bomber attacks church in Indonesia
A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia's Java island on Sunday, killing himself and injuring 17 people, police said. "Only the suspected suicide bomber killed in the attack," said police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar in the city of Solo, Central Java, where the attack took (...)

25 - 09 - 2011
Indonesian police arrest head of Islamic 'school'
Police in Indonesia arrested the headmaster of an Islamic boarding school Friday after a man there died earlier this week, reportedly while trying to teach students how to make homemade bombs. Police in Indonesia arrested the headmaster of an Islamic boarding school Friday after a man there died (...)

15 - 07 - 2011
Former Czech PM sued over anti-Islam statements
Known for making virulent statements in the past, former Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman is being sued over comments he made toward Islam at a June conference on Europe. “The enemy is the anti-civilization spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people live in it and it is (...)

08 - 07 - 2011
Indonesian authorities must investigate Ahmadiyya killings
Amnesty International has urged the Indonesian government to investigate the killings of three members of a religious minority group by a mob on the island of Java this weekend. The killings occurred when reportedly over 1,000 people wielding rocks, machetes, swords and spears stormed the house (...)

08 - 02 - 2011
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