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NBC26 Green Bay - Tue Dec 8, 1:36 am ET
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.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 6:45 am ET
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.
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CNN - Wed Dec 9, 4:58 am ET
Thousands of protesters gathered in several cities in Indonesia on Wednesday to push the government to deal with rampant allegations of corruption.
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Nasdaq - Tue Dec 8, 3:47 am ET
JAKARTA -(Dow Jones)- The Asian Development Bank said Tuesday it has approved a $200 million program loan to support Indonesia's efforts to strengthen economic growth and reduce poverty.
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 4:46 am ET
Jakarta - Thousands of people rallied across Indonesia Wednesday to mark international anti-corruption day, demanding the government take swift measures to end rampant graft in the country. Hundreds of anti-riot police were stationed at strategic loc...
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Sat Dec 5, 10:12 pm ET
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian police arrested a man accused of smuggling 10 rare kangaroos by boat from New Guinea island, an official said Saturday.
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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 9:11 pm ET
(RTTNews) - The Indonesian stock market turned right back to the upside again on Tuesday - albeit barely - one day after ending the five-day winning streak in which it had collected more than 120 points or 4.6 percent en route to an eight-week closing high.
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MinnPost - Mon Dec 7, 11:42 am ET
JAKARTA, Indonesia — In several cities across West Papua, Indonesia's last frontier of separatist instability, hundreds of demonstrators raised the Morning Star independence flag Tuesday in protest of what they say is more than 40 years of colonial occupation by Indonesia.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 10:46 pm ET
Jakarta - Indonesia's largest privately owned carrier is planning new flights to East Asian countries next year as part of its expansion on international routes, a media report said Tuesday. Lion Air's director-general Edward Sirait said the company ...
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 2:45 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Qatar National Bank, the Persian Gulf country’s biggest bank, said it’s holding “no serious negotiations” to buy a majority stake in an Indonesian bank, according to a company statement to the Qatari bourse today.
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Marketwire - 2 hours 6 minutes ago
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 9, 2009) - East Asia Minerals Corporation (TSX VENTURE:EAS) reports that further to its comments on the new Indonesian Mineral and Coal Mining Law and implications for the company ( see January 26, 2009 news release ), it has received formal documentation and licence confirming the completed conversion of the Aceh Province Miwah tenements to Ijin ...
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 6:31 am ET
The Hague - Relatives of victims of a massacre in Indonesia are suing the Netherlands for damages more than 60 years after the killings took place. In addition to damages for the murder of hundreds villagers by Dutch troops, the plaintiffs are also d...
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The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Dec 7, 4:58 pm ET
Defying government censors, activists in Indonesia screened a film last week about the controversial 1975 killings of foreign journalists known as the Balibo Five. Organizers of an annual film festival are contesting the ban.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 2:39 am ET
Indonesia will deploy thousands of police to an anti-graft protest on Wednesday after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned that unnamed forces could hijack the rally to topple him, a spokesman said.
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Scientific American - Mon Dec 7, 10:48 pm ET
The net worth of Indonesia's 40 richest men has doubled to $42 billion in the past year, driven in no small part by the growing demand for palm oil, according to Forbes magazine's annual examination of the country's top richest people. [More]