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Indonesia's journalists Thursday vowed to defy a ban on the screening of Australian movie "Balibo", saying the film depicting alleged war crimes by Indonesian forces in East Timor is educational.
Jakarta - Smoke coming from a plane engine sparked panic at the airport of Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Thursday, leaving four people injured, an official and media reports said. The plane, operated by Batavia Airlines, was about to take off ...
(RTTNews) - The Indonesian central bank decided to maintain the interest rate at a record low for the fourth straight month on Thursday. As expected, the Bank Indonesia left its key rate at 6.5%. The central bank stopped cutting rate in August after reducing it for nine straight months.
(RTTNews) - The Indonesian stock market has finished higher now in four straight sessions, adding more than 110 points or 4.1 percent along the way.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesian mutual-fund assets may grow in 2009 at twice the pace of previous years after the stock market doubled from March and the central bank cut interest rates to a record low, an industry association said.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a fourth month, judging that the need to support growth outweighs the risk of inflation.
An Indonesian labourer who hoped to be named the world's tallest man is actually five centimetres (almost two inches) shorter than record-holder Sultan Kosen of Turkey, an official said Wednesday.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s central bank may keep interest rates unchanged for a fourth straight month, judging that the need to support growth outweighs the risk of inflation.
The Indonesian parliament invoked special powers Tuesday and will form its own task force to investigate alleged widespread government corruption.
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.
Rights activists rallied Tuesday outside the Indonesian embassy here demanding the immediate release of two Papuan activists on the fifth anniversary of their arrest for raising a separatist flag.
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...
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia, the world’s biggest exporter of coal used by power plants, may draw up rules next year requiring companies to set aside part of their output for domestic needs, an official at the energy ministry said.
Officials in Indonesia have banned critically acclaimed new movie Balibo over the film's politically sensitive subject matter.
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.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Sasol Ltd. , the world’s biggest producer of fuel from coal, said it signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia over the possible development of an 80,000 barrel-per-day coal-to-fuel plant in the Asian country.
