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Jul 15 2008, AP

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.

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Jul 18 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Jul 17 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Jul 17 2008 by AP0 Comments

A court official says the final appeal by three militants convicted in the 2002 Bali bombings has been rejected, bringing their executions closer.

 
 
Jul 11 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Jul 11 2008 by AP0 Comments

Indonesia has executed a man for killing 42 women and girls in a series of ritual slayings.

 
 
Jul 6 2008 by AP0 Comments

The arrests last week of 10 suspected Islamic militants severely weakened Indonesia’s terrorist movement, the country’s foreign minister said Sunday.

 
 
Jul 1 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Jun 28 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Jun 27 2008 by AP1 Comments

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.

 
 
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Jul 8 2008 by Jitaditya2 Comments

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...

 
 
Feb 4 2008 by Arpita Mukherjee2 Comments

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...

 
 
Dec 13 2007 by Rekha0 Comments

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...

 
 
Dec 10 2007 by Urvashi0 Comments

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...

 
 
Dec 5 2007 by Arpita Mukherjee0 Comments

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...

 
 
Dec 3 2007 by Sameer Kumar0 Comments

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...

 
 
Nov 24 2007 by Yesha0 Comments

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...

 
 
Nov 7 2007 by Maynard0 Comments

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...

 
 
Oct 6 2007 by Apabrita0 Comments

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...

 
 
Sep 20 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

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...