More than a million people across the globe have signed an online petition demanding the Indonesian government to cancel the plan to open the protected virgin rainforest in Aceh to commercial exploitation. Arief Aziz, the communications…
2:45 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Police are searching for a woman who allegedly buried her 90-year-old mother alive in Kuningan, West Java. “Until now the perpetrator is still at large,” Kuningan Police Adj. Comr. Wahyu Bintono told Indonesian news portal Tempo.co…
1:45 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Ahmad Fathanah, a central figure in the beef corruption scandal, has admitted to sending money he made as a broker for import quotas to the Prosperous Justice Party, putting the beleaguered party further in the mire…
11:50 am May 18, 2013Read More
The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry on Friday presented awards to five people deemed to have greatly influenced the country’s musical industry. The Musical Dedication Award (Karya Bhakti Musik), the first of its kind in Indonesia,…
11:43 am May 18, 2013Read More
[Updated: May 18, 2013 at 12:35 p.m.] Criticism against recognizing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as a champion of religious freedom was part of democracy, a presidential spokesman said on Friday. Responding to claims that the president…
6:00 am May 18, 2013Read More
The national money-laundering watchdog says it can prove that a low-ranking Papua police officer was behind Rp 1.5 trillion ($155 million) in suspect bank transactions that allegedly passed through his account. “The Rp 1.5 trillion amount…
3:00 am May 18, 2013Read More
The Attorney General’s Office has detained the general manager of Chevron Indonesia’s Sumatra operations as a suspect in the oil giant’s bioremediation project graft case. Bachtiar Abdul Fatah is being held at Jakarta’s Cipinang Penitentiary…
1:00 am May 18, 2013Read More
The Jakarta administration on Friday agreed to work with the National Commission on Human Rights to protect the welfare of squatters living around flood-prone Pluit dam in North Jakarta who are set to be relocated under…
12:01 am May 18, 2013Read More
An Indonesian court has ruled indigenous people have the right to manage forests where they live, a move which supporters said prevents the government from handing over community-run land to businesses. Disputes between indigenous groups and…
9:03 pm May 17, 2013Read More
The national anti-graft commission on Friday searched the house of Bandung, West Java, Mayor Dada Rosada and confiscated four boxes of his belongings and a SIM card. Dada’s adjutant Irman Sutris said that officers from the…
8:51 pm May 17, 2013Read More
Eleven Jakarta hospitals announced on Friday that they backed out of the Jakarta Health Card program, saying that growing numbers of patients have exceeded their capacity. The city’s Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama confirmed the news,…
7:36 pm May 17, 2013Read More
New Delhi. India faces at least “a one-in-three” chance of losing its prized sovereign grade rating, global ratings agency Standard and Poor’s has warned, in another blow to the scandal-tainted Congress government. The announcement late on…
3:15 pm May 18, 2013Read More
The central bank this month removed sanctions imposed on Citibank Indonesia two years ago when debt collectors working for the lender were linked to the death of a client. The ban had prevented the bank from…
11:17 pm May 17, 2013Read More
The saying “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t” neatly describes the general sentiment of the country’s oil and gas industry towards amendment of the sector’s legal framework. Lukman Mahfoedz, chairman of the…
9:57 pm May 17, 2013Read More
Harum Energy, a coal mining company controlled by businessman Kiki Barki, says its average coal sales price this year will be down on last year’s, despite signs of strengthening demand from China. “Even though we are…
9:30 pm May 17, 2013Read More
Ten of Indonesia’s state-owned enterprises are planning to raise a combined $3.6 billion in bond sales this year, according to Wahyu Hidayat, deputy minister for structuring and strategic planning at the state-owned enterprises ministry. Most of…
9:26 pm May 17, 2013Read More
Lautan Luas, an Indonesian chemical distributor, has announced plans to raise Rp 700 billion ($72 million) from selling bonds next month as it strives to repay bank loans. The Jakarta-based company plans to offer the notes…
9:21 pm May 17, 2013Read More
Real estate and property developer Laguna Cipta Griya will in June attempt to raise Rp 1.47 trillion ($151 million) from selling shares, with the majority of funds raised earmarked for business expansions including an East Jakarta…
9:20 pm May 17, 2013Read More
The Jakarta Composite Index, Indonesia’s benchmark stock index, hit a new record on Friday after the government announced a cash distribution plan. The index gained 67.01 points, or 1.3 percent, to close at 5,145.68, rebounding from…
9:17 pm May 17, 2013Read More
The Indonesian government may step up bond sales this year in the hopes of finding cash desperately needed to plug a widening hole in the national budget. Head of fiscal policy at the finance ministry, Bambang…
9:15 pm May 17, 2013Read More
The government is proposing to cut down the tax revenue target in the 2013 state budget by Rp 40 trillion ($4.1 billion) to reflect the economic slowdown, Deputy Finance Minister Mahendra Siregar said on Friday. The…
8:30 pm May 17, 2013Read More
The Indonesian government has established a team to speed up construction of village infrastructure, Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa said on Friday. He said that many village infrastructure projects had failed to be implemented…
7:19 pm May 17, 2013Read More
Jaipur, India. Deaf students of the Aanandilal Poddar School in the Indian city Jaipur were recently treated with a visit from Japanese pop star Eriko Imai. The excited group of students prepared a special welcome message…
6:00 am May 19, 2013Read More
Beijing. Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China’s domestic satellite navigation system which was launched as a rival to the US global positioning system, a report said on Saturday. The Beidou,…
5:30 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Ramadi. Hundreds of gunmen gathered near the headquarters of a provincial security command in Iraq on Saturday, while others ambushed a patrol and kidnapped 10 security force personnel, police said. Security forces attempted to arrest Mohammed…
5:00 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Rio de Janeiro. As Brazil prepares to host several sporting mega-events, human rights abuses and authoritarian interventions by the authorities are going on behind the scenes, favoring major urbanization projects and stadium remodeling, a study says.…
4:30 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Aden. Gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni military intelligence officer who had been targeted for assassination by al Qaeda-linked militants, a local security official said. Colonel Abdullah al-Rabaki was walking home in the city of Mukalla…
3:44 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Seoul. North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said, but the purpose of the launches was unknown. Launches by the North of short-term missiles are not uncommon,…
3:10 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Washington. A nuclear-armed Iran would not pose a fundamental threat to the United States and its regional allies like Israel and the Gulf Arab monarchies, according to a new report released on Friday by the Rand…
2:56 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city’s high levels of roadside pollution. The 45 bright red cars were launched by Chinese electric…
12:43 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Tokyo. Yahoo Japan Corp. has said it suspects up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorized attempt to access the administrative system of its Yahoo! Japan portal. “We don’t know if…
11:26 am May 18, 2013Read More
Fairfield. A commuter train traveling eastbound from New York City derailed near the Connecticut suburb of Fairfield during the evening rush hour on Friday and collided with a westbound commuter train, injuring up to 60 people,…
10:15 am May 18, 2013Read More
Paris. French President Francois Hollande will sign a gay marriage and adoption bill into law Saturday, after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition. Hollande, trying to turn the page on…
9:35 am May 18, 2013Read More
There is real sense of deja vu when listening to the latest recorded offering from Michael Buble. It’s all so, so familiar that you would be forgiven for thinking that this is an album of collected…
3:00 am May 19, 2013Read More
“Men are from Mars and women are from Venus,” said relationship counselor John Gray. But not according to the fashion industry. Unisex fashion, or gender bender, is a big trend today. The “His” and “Hers” products…
9:00 pm May 18, 2013Read More
It is not unusual to see children busy playing games on iPads or cell phones nowadays. In fact, researchers have shown that children today are spending more time than ever in front of screens. “It’s really…
7:00 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Icelandic post rock band Sigur Ros lived up to its reputation as a must-see live act during a performance at Istora Senayan in Jakarta on May 10, bringing its haunting sounds to life with dramatic lighting…
5:07 pm May 18, 2013Read More
On their sixth full-length album, Brooklyn brooders The National shed the addictive complexities that made their last three records such lasting “growers” — although this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Though by no means a straightforward…
4:00 pm May 18, 2013Read More
For many Indonesian women, marrying an expatriate is alluring. Foreign men are usually considered to be good looking, well educated and in high-paying jobs. But mixed marriages aren’t easy. Indonesian women who wed expatriate men are…
2:00 pm May 18, 2013Read More
The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry on Friday presented awards to five people deemed to have greatly influenced the country’s musical industry. The Musical Dedication Award (Karya Bhakti Musik), the first of its kind in Indonesia,…
11:43 am May 18, 2013Read More
One of the last things you expect three clean-cut musicians from Yogyakarta to play would be Hawaiian-infused indie pop, but Answer Sheet shows that even in the land of constant polluted humidity, there is still room…
5:00 am May 18, 2013Read More
Beijing. The dire manners and “uncivilized behavior” of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country’s image, said a top official who lamented their poor “quality and breeding”, according to state-run media. Wang Yang, one of…
4:51 pm May 17, 2013Read More
Netanya. In openly displaying his homosexuality while serving as an Orthodox rabbi, Ron Yosef has broken a major taboo in the closed religious world that he inhabits. Although May 17 is to be marked International Day…
3:59 pm May 17, 2013Read More
The doors of Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch closed for the last time on Thursday as NBC’s “The Office” wrapped up after a nine-season run with a nostalgic finale featuring a long-awaited wedding and the return of…
3:20 pm May 17, 2013Read More
English is a language that is always on the move. It absorbs words from other languages and quickly consumes new popular words and expressions. With a never-ending appetite, its vocabulary has grown to more than 750,000…
12:01 am May 19, 2013Read More
Rio de Janeiro. As Brazil prepares to host several sporting mega-events, human rights abuses and authoritarian interventions by the authorities are going on behind the scenes, favoring major urbanization projects and stadium remodeling, a study says.…
4:30 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Denmark’s 1996 Olympic men’s singles gold medalist Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen beat Indonesian Justian Suhandinata to claim the presidency of the world governing body of badminton (BWF) in an election on Saturday. The 47-year-old, the only European…
2:09 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Kuala Lumpur. China looks set to confirm its dominance of world badminton when the Sudirman Cup gets under way on Sunday as its rivals try to find a way to prevent a ninth Chinese team championship…
2:04 pm May 18, 2013Read More
Madrid. Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho described his side’s season as the worst of his trophy-laden, colorful career after Atletico Madrid edged a 2-1 extra-time Spanish Cup triumph. Real have already surrendered their La Liga title…
9:45 am May 18, 2013Read More
Berlin. Bayern Munich wraps up its record-breaking Bundesliga season on Saturday at Borussia Moenchengladbach with 20 records in its sight and with coach Jupp Heynckes to end his German league career at the club where he…
9:04 am May 17, 2013Read More
London. David Beckham is to retire from professional football at the end of the season, his representative announced on Thursday. The 38-year-old midfielder has played for Manchester United, Real Madrid, Los Angeles Galaxy and AC Milan,…
9:50 pm May 16, 2013Read More
Despite pulling its sponsorship of the country’s badminton, cigarette company Djarum continues to search for promising athletes from all over Indonesia. Through its Djarum Foundation Sports Division, Djarum will host an open audition for potential athletes…
7:56 pm May 16, 2013Read More
Indonesian downhill specialist Popo Ario Sejati took the Asian Mountain Bike Continental Championships on Sunday, staving off stiff competition from his teammates to claim top spot on the dais. Popo posted a record time of two…
7:39 pm May 16, 2013Read More
London. QPR’s France striker Loic Remy has been bailed after he was arrested on suspicion of rape, police said Thursday. Remy was held by Scotland Yard’s sex crime squad along with two other men after a…
3:32 pm May 16, 2013Read More
Amsterdam. A 93rd-minute header from Branislav Ivanovic gave Chelsea a stunning 2-1 victory over Benfica in the Europa League final on Wednesday as the London club claimed the trophy for the first time in heart-stopping fashion.…
10:12 am May 16, 2013Read More
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