May 30, 2005
Security has been stepped up on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi following deadly bomb attacks at a market. Police hunting the bombers set up roadblocks in the town of Tentena, where the blasts occurred within minutes of each other on Saturday... (read more)
European Union observers joined Aceh peace talks in Finland on Monday to hear plans for security and monitoring of a possible pact between the Indonesian government and rebels... (read more)
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in Indonesia on Monday to visit the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh -- worst hit by the December 26 tsunami -- a day after holding meetings in the Maldives to get water and sanitation restored there... (read more)
May 28, 2005
ADDRESS BY H.E. DR. SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO , PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
AT A DINNER TENDERED BY USINDO ,WASHINGTON DC, 25 MAY 2005... (read more)
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered police to find those responsible for Saturday's twin bomb blasts that killed 22 people in a mainly Christian town on the island of Sulawesi... (read more)
European Union experts will join Aceh talks to offer a peace monitoring mission if Indonesia and separatist rebels overcome key security problems and end their 30-year conflict... (read more)
Some 57 years ago, in 1948, Vice-President Mohammad Hatta made a speech titled Mendayung di antara dua karang or rowing between two reefs. The reefs that Vice President Hatta referred to in his historic speech were, the growing antagonism between... (read more)
May 26, 2005
President Bush on Wednesday promised Indonesia continued help toward democracy and tsunami recovery and held out hope that the two countries' militaries would resume full ties for the war on terror... (read more)
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono embarks today on, arguably, his most important state visit since taking office. For the next 10 days, he will visit two global powers -- the United States and Japan -- along with fellow Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) member Vietnam... (read more)
May 25, 2005
The Indonesian official who oversees earthquake and tsunami reconstruction has charged that government funding for recovery after the December disaster has been delayed in parliament while hundreds of thousands of survivors are desperate for help... (read more)
The government will tender 26 new oil and gas concessions early next month, Detikcom online news service quoted Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro as saying... (read more)
May 23, 2005
The head of Indonesia's election commission has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a multimillion-dollar kickback scandal... (read more)
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's government is only eights months old since its inception last October. The President himself realizes that as a national leader he needs to demonstrate to the public his ability to manage the country's national and international problems... (read more)
HE sat in contemplation, in the mosque located on the grounds of the General Elections Commission (KPU). Most of the congregation for that afternoon’s Friday prayer had already left the mosque. Meanwhile, he was still reciting some prayers... (read more)
May 20, 2005
Indonesia hopes to have an early warning system able to issue tsunami alerts within five minutes on quake-prone Sumatra by the end of next year, and an integrated network covering.... (read more)
May 19, 2005
Indonesia on Wednesday lifted emergency laws on Aceh province that were imposed last year to deal with a decades-old rebellion, saying the decision showed Jakarta's commitment to making peace... (read more)
Indonesia's economy grew more than expected in the first quarter as rising consumer spending prompted companies like Telekomunikasi Selular to increase capacity, the government said Monday... (read more)
According to Head of Forestry Information Center Transtoto Handadhari, there is a strong indication that China has imported illegal wood from Indonesian forests... (read more)
Illegal KPU funds were widely distributed, including among well-known people in the legislature and the Supreme Audit Agency.THE reporters in the lobby of the office of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) last Wednesday stood up, even those who had fallen asleep... (read more)
May 18, 2005
Indonesia's economy grew more than expected in the first quarter as rising consumer spending prompted companies such as PT Telekomunikasi Selular to boost capacity... (read more)
The government officially installed Muhammad Luthfi as the new head of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) on Monday.The most pressing him will include finalizing the investment bill, slashing the time needed to start up businesses and ensuring better coordination with the relevant ministries... (read more)
Indonesia's government and parliament have agreed to lift tsunami-devastated Aceh province's one-year-old state of civil emergency this week, a report said... (read more)
May 13, 2005
Indonesia plans to return the restive province of Aceh to civilian rule once a state of emergency expires next week.
But Security Minister Widodo Adisucipto said military operations would continue against separatist rebels from the Free Aceh Movement (Gam)... (read more)
May 10, 2005
The Indonesian official co-ordinating the recovery of tsunami-hit Aceh has said reconstruction there has hardly begun, five months after the disaster... (read more)
A senior EU delegation has held a rare meeting with the foreign minister of the Burmese military government.
The EU presented Nyan Win with a list of political detainees it wants to see released, including the country's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi... (read more)
May 02, 2005
Donors today launched a major new fund to pool their aid resources in support of the Government’s rehabilitation and reconstruction program for Aceh and North Sumatra... (read more)
The leaders and representatives of approximately 100 countries yesterday walked some 50 metres from the Savoy Homann Hotel to the white and gold Gedung Merdeka in Bandung, Indonesia, to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1955 Asia-Africa summit... (read more)
