Indonesia’s parliament voted on Saturday to give the government authority to raise subsidised fuel prices under certain conditions.
After two years of waiting, Indonesians are finally getting the chance to welcome back their adopted son.
The Indonesian president’s corruption-fighting credentials were on the line on Wednesday after his son was embroiled in vote-buying allegations.
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.
There are obstacles hampering trade between South Africa and Indonesia that need to be addressed, President Thabo Mbeki said on Monday. He was speaking after hosting his Indonesian counterpart, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, at the Union Buildings for bilateral talks.
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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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/ 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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/ 26 December 2007
Survivors prayed at mass graves and mosques on Wednesday to mark the third anniversary of the Asian tsunami, while warning sirens sent hundreds fleeing beaches during a drill to test an alert network established since the disaster. The waves on December 26 2004 killed about 230 000 people in 12 Indian Ocean nations.
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/ 1 December 2007
Activists on Saturday sought to keep the battle against HIV in the public eye on World Aids Day in the face of growing complacency amid progress in treating and slowing the spread of the disease. The December 1 event is traditionally a time of grim stocktaking as Aids campaigners sound the alarm over the disease’s rampage through Africa.
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/ 19 October 2007
At least 31 people were killed and 125 rescued after a ferry sank off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island in the latest of a series of transport accidents to hit the archipelago nation, officials said on Friday. Residents near the town of Bau Bau on south-east Sulawesi heard survivors screaming and pleading for help after the Acita 03 capsized.
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/ 14 September 2007
Powerful earthquakes struck Indonesia for a third day on Friday, terrorising thousands of people who were refusing to return to coastal homes in fear of tsunami and falling debris. Seismologists warned that the worst may be yet to come. Experts have been predicting a repeat of the monster temblor that triggered the 2004 Asian tsunami.
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/ 14 September 2007
Frightened residents on Indonesia’s Sumatra island huddled in tents outside their damaged homes on Friday, traumatised by the latest of nearly 40 aftershocks since a huge earthquake struck two days ago. Indonesia’s meteorology agency issued the latest in a series of tsunami warnings late on Thursday after another strong quake struck Sumatra.
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/ 13 September 2007
Indonesia’s Sumatra island was pounded by aftershocks on Thursday after a massive earthquake killed at least eight people and buried many others under collapsed buildings. Tsunami warnings were repeatedly issued and lifted for Indian Ocean countries after the magnitude 8,4 earthquake, the biggest this year.