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Jayapura, Indonesia - Indonesian police detained several protesters flying outlawed independence flags on Tuesday during peaceful rallies against Jakarta's rule in the country's eastern-most province of Papua, witnesses and police officials said. At ...
JAKARTA, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Indonesia's forest industry is rife with corruption, a human rights group says, costing the country $2 billion a year with devastating effect on its rural poor.
Jakarta - Indonesian prosecutors Tuesday dropped criminal charges against two deputy chairmen of the country's anti-graft commission in a case many saw as a conspiracy to weaken an anti-corruption drive. Police accused Bibit Samad Riyanto and Chandra...
JAKARTA -(Dow Jones)- Indonesia's parliament approved Tuesday an investigation into the government's IDR6.7 trillion ($706 million) bailout of PT Bank Century--a move which further strengthens the view that the issue could be being used for political purposes.
Indonesian police arrested 13 Papuans on Tuesday as activists demanded sovereignty at rallies to mark the 48th anniversary of Papuan "independence", a police spokesman said.
(AP:JAKARTA, Indonesia) Corruption and mismanagement inside Indonesia's lucrative forest industry now costs the developing country $2 billion a year _ the equivalent of its entire health budget, a human rights report said Tuesday.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s inflation unexpectedly slowed in November, giving the central bank more time before it will need to start raising interest rates.
JAKARTA -(Dow Jones)- Indonesia's government is offering 24 new oil and gas blocks in an attempt to raise dwindling production of the fuels, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources said Tuesday.
JAKARTA (Dow Jones)--Indonesia's trade surplus widened to $2.41 billion in October from $1.27 billion in September as exports rose for the first time this year, the Central Statistics Agency said Tuesday.
Rampant corruption in Indonesia's forestry sector costs the government two billion dollars a year and undermines plans to use forest conservation to offset carbon emissions, a report said Tuesday.
(RTTNews) - The Indonesian stock market on Monday snapped the four-day losing streak that had cost it nearly 120 points or 4.6 percent in the process.
Several hundred hardline Muslim protestors staged rallies in Indonesia Sunday to urge the government to prevent the spread of HIV by implementing Islamic law.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign...
Amnesty International called Monday for an investigation into a "pattern of unchecked human rights violations" by Indonesian police in restive Papua province.
TELUK MERANTI, Indonesia -- From the air, the Kampar Peninsula in Indonesia stretches for mile after mile in dense scrub and trees. One of the world's largest peat swamp forests, it is also one of its biggest vaults of carbon dioxide, a source of potentially lucrative currency as world governments struggle to hammer out a global climate treaty. The vault, though, is leaking.
(RTTNews) - Indonesia's exports rose 10.1% year-on-year to $11.88 billion in October, the Statistics Indonesia said Tuesday. Economists had forecast a 7% fall. In September, exports dropped a revised 19.8%.
