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Jakarta - An Indonesian appeals court on Friday overturned a two-year prison term for a pilot of Indonesia's national airline Garuda who crash-landed a plane in 2007, killing 21 people. The Yogyakarta High Court ordered the charges against pilot Marw...
Indonesians have paid tribute to Barack Obama on the eve of his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. A statue of the U.S. President, who lived in Jakarta, has been unveiled in a park in the Indonesian capital. The almost life-size statue depicts a 10-year-old Obama, wearing school-boy shorts with his outstretched hand holding up a butterfly. The U.S. president was born in Hawaii and lived in ...
What's Your Reaction? JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A statue of President Barack Obama as a 10-year-old wearing shorts and a T-shirt has been erected in a Jakarta park to inspire children in the country where he lived as a boy, officials said Wednesday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — For Indonesian farmers, burning down rain forests is the cheapest and fastest way to clear land for palm oil and pulp and paper plantations.
A goatherder-turned-weightlifter set a meet record at the Southeast Asian Games Friday to help raise Indonesia's gold tally to 11, as Thailand regained the top position with 13. Thailand's six golds Friday came in shooting, taekwondo and cycling. It won the 10 meters air pistol women's individual and team events as well as women's 50 meters rifle prone.
(RTTNews) - On the day US President Barack Obama received the Nobel peace prize in Oslo, a statue of Obama as a young boy was unveiled in a park in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A former Indonesian army colonel has told a magazine that soldiers deliberately killed five Western journalists in East Timor in 1975 - contradicting the government's longstanding assertion that the deaths were accidental.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Carlyle Group, the world’s second- biggest private-equity company, is “actively exploring opportunities” for its first investment in Indonesia as buyout firms raise bets on the resource-rich nation.
As the president of the United States prepared to receive his Nobel Peace Prize Thursday, Indonesia remembered "Little Barry" Obama with the unveiling of a bronze statue of him as a 10-year-old boy.
JAKARTA -(Dow Jones)- The provincial government of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital city, will offer a 33% stake in six intra-city toll-road projects worth a combined IDR23 trillion to IDR30 trillion ($2.44 billion-$3.18 billion) to investors within the next three months, Manpower Minister Djoko Kirmanto told reporters Thursday.
Indonesia's Persipura Jayapura will lodge a complaint with the country's soccer authorities for alleged racist abuse from rival supporters.
Students threw rocks at police who returned fire with tear gas and water cannons during one of several rallies across Indonesia on Wednesday to demand government action to end widespread corruption among politicians, police and other public officials.
Thousands of protesters gathered in several cities in Indonesia on Wednesday to push the government to deal with rampant allegations of corruption.
Indonesia has detained 47 Afghan migrants including women and children on the tourist island of Lombok before they attempted to reach Australia, police said Friday.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono opened the second Bali Democracy Forum on Thursday with a call for more equitable growth after the global financial crisis.
FAIRBANKS — The little boy from Indonesia, who had never seen snow, discovered that the person who had warned him he would instantly become a block of ice in Alaska had it all wrong. Tison, 10, wa...
