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Indonesia’s president acknowledged his country carried out gross human rights abuses during East Timor’s 1999 break for independence, but stopped short of offering a full apology Tuesday for murders, torture and other crimes.
The father of an Australian killed in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings asked Indonesia not to execute three militants convicted in the blasts, saying Friday “no good, only harm” would come from their deaths.
An Indonesian cargo worker died of bird flu, relatives confirmed Thursday, raising the unofficial toll in the world’s hardest hit nation to 111 in three years.
A court official says the final appeal by three militants convicted in the 2002 Bali bombings has been rejected, bringing their executions closer.
Indonesia executed a man convicted of killing 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings he believed would give him magical powers, his lawyer said Friday.
The arrests last week of 10 suspected Islamic militants severely weakened Indonesia’s terrorist movement, the country’s foreign minister said Sunday.
The throng of Asian-American donors drew closer, drinks in hand, to hear Barack Obama’s sister describe the wide arc of his life: beyond politics and Chicago, into his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii.
Fifteen bodies were pulled from the wreckage of an Indonesian military plane that crashed into a jungle-clad mountain, a military official said Saturday. The fate of three others on board remained unknown.
Delegates at a U.N. conference decided against banning toxic waste exports, instead encouraging countries Friday to take their own action to address the steady stream of dangerous chemicals and old electronics that litter the landfills of poor nations.
The great apes, namely the gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and the orangutans are our closest genetic relatives. But that didn’t stop us from slaughtering them as usual! Now, reports suggest that orangutans are likely to be the first ones to bid...
The lush green dense tropical rain forests spread across Africa, Asia and South America may soon be lost from the face of the green planet if ways are not implemented to stop indiscriminate felling. According to the latest data available from the Food...
Indonesia is a Muslim dominated country but that didn’t stop the country from having one of the tallest statues of Jesus. The 32-meter-high statue was built by Ciputra, a real estate developer in one of its residential estate in the North Sulawesi...
Usually what we cannot see, we do not recognize as a potential solution. It has been the same with under-sea vegetation, the slimy seaweed and algae is now being recognized as a strong weapon against global warming.
A group of scientists at a...
The Indonesian resort town of Bali will play host to 12 days conference addressing ways to remedy global climate change. More than 10,000 delegates from 190 countries representing diverge professions from ministers to Noble laureates to drought...
While most of us constantly talk about the effects of global warming and deteriorating environmental conditions across the planet, few probably are facing or would face consequences more grave than those residing on the long island chain of...
Back to the past… age old design of radio gets a new look by Indonesian designer Singgih S. Kartono. He has made the wooden radio which has the nostalgic look and feel of the times when radio was just started out.
Created from the scrap lumber...
Mount Kelud, near Indonesia’s second largest city Surabaya, is showing signs that it may erupt anytime according to the experts.
As how Mt. Kelud behaves, scientists are anticipating that the volcano might produce a bigger explosion compared to what...
It seems like Indonesians are becoming greener day by day. Recently, in a drive to preserve the natural forest habitats, Indonesia is going to plant about 79 million trees in a single day! This is to make up for the 4.2 million acres destroyed...
With US-Russian changing expressions and grins replacing smiles, it seems pretty odd that both will enjoy the tangible profits of mutual understating. And when Russia said it won’t amass arms, it seems ridiculous, but it’s not.
More arms denote...
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Capt. Marwoto Komar, pilot of an Indonesian jetliner that crashed killing 21 people, sits on the defendant’s chair during his trial in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Komar went on trial Thursday accused of negligence, a...
