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/ 13 January 2009
Driving rain on Tuesday hit the hunt for more survivors from an Indonesian ferry that sank off Sulawesi Island on the weekend.
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/ 12 January 2009
Indonesian rescue teams were searching on Monday for scores of people missing after a ferry carrying 267 passengers and crew sank in stormy seas.
Sasol plans to invest $10-billion by 2015 to develop coal liquefaction plants in Indonesia, it was reported on Friday.
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/ 25 December 2008
When the waters of the Asian tsunami smashed into this fishing village in Indonesia’s Aceh province four years ago, not one house was left standing.
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/ 17 December 2008
Ali Alatas, hailed for brokering the historic 1991 peace settlement to end the war with Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, has died of a heart attack.
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/ 17 December 2008
Ali Alatas, one of Indonesia’s most widely respected foreign ministers, has died. He was 76.
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/ 9 November 2008
Thousands of people including some hardliners gathered for the funerals of three Indonesians executed on Sunday for the 2002 Bali bombing.
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/ 4 November 2008
The US embassy in Indonesia received bomb threats on Tuesday as tensions rose ahead of the execution of three convicted over the Bali bombings.
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/ 2 November 2008
Relatives of two of the militants facing imminent execution for the Bali bombings said on Sunday they will visit the brothers on Monday.
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/ 1 November 2008
The family of two militants awaiting execution for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people says paradise awaits them after the firing squads.
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/ 24 October 2008
Indonesia’s ability to keep a lid on militant Islam is likely to be put to the test soon with the long-awaited execution of the Bali bombers.
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/ 17 October 2008
Indonesian lawmakers have decided that bikinis are acceptable attire for beaches in the mainly Muslim country.
The disposal of massive numbers of unwanted cellphones will be a key focus of a five-day meeting on waste management that started on Monday.
Three British divers who were among a group swept away during a dive off Indonesia have been found safe after they managed to swim to a remote beach on a neighbouring island.
Financial difficulties are pushing more Indonesian families to give up their children to childcare institutions, a new report says.
A 2,2m high tidal wave inundated parts of Jakarta overnight as the city government and citizens tried to hold the water back with emergency embankments, a government official said on Wednesday. The height of the water was far greater than earlier predictions.
Indonesia said on Tuesday it may quit the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) as its declining crude oil output prevents the country from meeting its Opec quota and has reduced its influence in the cartel. Indonesia is Asia-Pacific’s only member of Opec, but its crude oil output has fallen in recent years.
Indonesian police dispersed about 100 anti-China protesters and detained a foreign activist on Tuesday as the Olympic torch was to make another restricted relay in Jakarta, the latest stop on its fraught journey around the world. The protesters dispersed after a 30-minute stand-off with police.
The discovery of a rare species of Indonesian frog that breathes without lungs could shed light on how evolution works, a scientist said on Friday. A dissection of the frog, found on Borneo island last August, showed it breathed entirely through its skin, biologist David Bickford said.
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/ 20 February 2008
A magnitude-7,5 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Aceh province on Wednesday, killing at least three people, injuring several and sending thousands fleeing their homes and offices in panic, officials and local media said. The quake struck the province that bore the brunt of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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/ 4 February 2008
From the Indonesian city where Barack Obama spent part of his childhood to Hong Kong’s bars and a Dublin pub, United States Democrats abroad grabbed their first chance to vote in Super Tuesday primaries. The venues are about as far removed from formal political institutions as possible, from pubs and cafés to bookshops.
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/ 3 February 2008
Heavy rains and high tides have caused chaos in Indonesia’s capital for three days, highlighting its ailing infrastructure as roads to the airport became impassable and thousands had to abandon their homes or cars. The flooding also led to flight delays elsewhere in South-East Asia.
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/ 1 February 2008
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 12 people across Indonesia and the capital’s main airport was briefly shut on Friday as more than 40 flights were delayed due to low visibility. Scores of cars were stranded and people had to wade through murky knee-high water in many parts of Jakarta.
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/ 30 January 2008
A strong 6,6-magnitude earthquake rocked the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Wednesday, prompting the issuing of a tsunami alert, the meteorology and geophysics office said. The earthquake, which struck at 7.32am GMT was centered 300km north-east of the East Timorese capital Dili, about 23km under the floor of the Banda Sea.
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/ 27 January 2008
Former president Suharto, hailed as the father of development by some Indonesians during his 32 years in power and accused of corruption and rights abuses by others, died on Sunday after a long illness. He was 86. He died in hospital after lapsing into a coma and suffering multiple organ failure.
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/ 27 January 2008
Former Indonesian president Suharto, who has been in hospital in a critical condition for more than three weeks, has lapsed into a coma for the first time, one of his doctors said on Sunday. Suharto (86) was rushed to hospital on January 4 suffering from various heart, lung and kidney problems.
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/ 18 January 2008
An eight-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu, the Health Ministry said on Friday, bringing the toll to 97 in the nation worst hit by the H5N1 virus. The boy was the seventh person from the Jakarta satellite city of Tangerang to die of the disease since October. He died at 4am local time in a Jakarta hospital, the ministry’s bird-flu centre said.
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/ 13 January 2008
Indonesia’s former president Suharto, who ruled the country for more than three decades, is in a ”very critical condition” after almost all his organ functions failed, his doctor told a news conference on Sunday. Mardjo Soebiandono, chief of the medical team treating the 86-year-old at a Jakarta hospital, said there was only a 50-50 chance that he could survive.
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/ 28 December 2007
Rescue workers stepped up a hunt on Friday for victims of landslides and floods that claimed scores of lives on Indonesia’s Java Island and left thousands homeless, an official said. The landslides smashed through homes, burying families alive, in the early hours of Wednesday.
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/ 28 December 2007
The students and teachers of National High School Six call it ”Bloody Friday”. About once a month, dozens — and sometimes hundreds — of students spill out of this school in the Indonesian capital’s south, wielding chains, belts, bamboo sticks and stones.
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/ 27 December 2007
Indonesian rescuers on Thursday hunted for victims of landslides and floods on Java Island that have left more than 130 people feared dead and tens of thousands displaced, officials said. Landslides hit two districts in Central Java in the early hours of Wednesday morning, engulfing entire homes and blocking roads.
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/ 27 December 2007
Indonesian rescuers struggled on Thursday to pull out bodies and reach survivors following Central Java landslides, as floods blocked roads and damaged bridges in the area where over 80 people are feared dead, officials said. Thousands of people have been left homeless after their homes were submerged by heavy floods or buried by landslides caused by days of torrential rains.