By Ralph Jennings, Contributor
Bribes paid to the judiciary are accelerating in parts of the world, the NGO Transparency International found this year. It named Ghana, Mozambique and Indonesia, where the rate had gone up by more than 20%. You expect that from Africa and Indonesia. …read more
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At least eight people are dead and five are missing after flooding and landslides hit eastern Indonesia, an official said on Tuesday. …read more
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The warden of a notorious Indonesian prison strongly denied on Tuesday claims by a British former inmate that she had been abused and that the jail was rife with drug use. …read more
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Indonesia and India on Tuesday were named as the world’s biggest catchers of sharks in an EU-backed probe into implementing a new pact to protect seven threatened species of sharks and rays. …read more
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The head of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization called Monday for the disbanding of a hard-line Islamic group after a pregnant woman was killed in a car accident during illegal raids to curb prostitution during the holy month of Ramadan. …read more
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The death toll from the sinking last week of a boat carrying asylum seekers has reached 20, while four people have been arrested for people smuggling in connection with the incident off Indonesia, police said Monday. …read more
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By hnn
It’s been raining at Gunung Padang, and the grass on the mountain’s precipitous eastern slope is slick with water and mud.
But geologist Danny Hilman, is undeterred. While others slip and fall around him, he trudges expertly down this hill tucked away among the volcanoes 120 kilometres south of Jakarta to show off two big holes he’s dug.
Since Dutch colonists discovered it in 1914, Gunung Padang has been known (though not widely) as the largest of a number of ancient megalithic sites in Indonesia….
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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two more asylum seekers who were aboard a boat that sank off Indonesia, bringing the death toll to 11, police said Thursday.
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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two more asylum seekers who were aboard a boat that sank off Indonesia, bringing the death toll to 11. …read more
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Rescuers were searching Wednesday for dozens of asylum seekers still missing after their boat sank in Indonesian waters on the way to Australia. …read more
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A boat carrying would-be asylum seekers to Australia sunk in Indonesia waters, and an official said more than 150 survivors have been rescued. At least three people died, but it’s unclear how many more may be missing.
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An asylum-seeker boat heading for Australia has sunk off Java in Indonesia with unconfirmed reports Wednesday that dozens of people are dead or missing. …read more
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China and Indonesia headed the list of 177 countries named as sources of Internet attacks, a security survey said Tuesday. …read more
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By Kitco News, Contributor (Kitco News) – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX) said Tuesday that the company is in the process of ramping up output at its giant Grasberg mine in Indonesia following a May accident, although it will take a while to hit full production again. …read more
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By Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes Staff
Facing declining gold and copper prices and a fatal incident at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia that resulted in 28 dead workers, Freeport McMoran managed to deliver a solid second quarter earnings print before the bell on Tuesday. Profit dropped more than 32%, but the self-proclaimed world’s largest publicly traded copper producer managed a healthy beat in earnings per share, helping the stock take off in early trading. …read more
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In 2006 the island of Java, Indonesia was struck by a devastating earthquake followed by the onset of a mud eruption to the east, flooding villages over several square kilometers and that continues to erupt today. Until now, researchers believed the earthquake was too far from the mud volcano to trigger the eruption. Geophysicists at the University of Bonn, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland use computer-based simulations to show that such triggering is possible over long distances. The results have been published in “Nature Geoscience”. …read more
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A controversial Nazi-themed cafe in Indonesia would be reopened with a broader World War II theme — without the swastika symbols but retaining images of Adolf Hitler, the owner’s lawyer said Tuesday. …read more
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In Indonesia, land-clearing blazes dot the countryside. Fires for clearing land have been outlowed for all but the smallest landowners, but the “slash-and-burn” practice still persists despite cloaking Southeast Asia in toxic pollution for weeks. Better and more available satellite technology is helping identify culprits behind land-clearing blazes in Indonesia. …read more
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BANDUNG, Indonesia, July 22 (UPI) — The owner of a Nazi-themed cafe in Jakarta said negative attention is leading him to close the business, which he said was not meant to endorse Nazi ideology. …read more
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By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent
ACEH, INDONESIA (Worthy News)– Within one year and without any legal pretext, 17 churches and chapels in the province of Aceh, Indonesia, have been closed under Islamic law.
During his election campaign, the Islamization of Aceh was promised by its new governor, Zaini Abdullah. Abdullah said he would not hesitate to apply Islamic law in the province, and shortly after his election, that promise has become reality for religious minorities struggling in the most populous Muslim nation in the world .
However, the central government is seeking to restore equity to Aceh.
“Indonesia exercises a spirit of pluralism and must continue to do so,” said Interior Minister Gamawan Fauzi. “Tolerance must be guaranteed and the majority can not crush the minority violating their civil rights”.
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