Fri, 11/20/2009 - 11:15 AM
Human rights activists Khuram Parvez from Kashmir (left) and Ruth Llinos from Bolivia take part in a weekly peaceful demonstration outside the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Thursday.
Sat, 11/21/2009 - 12:12 PM
The government has formed an inter-ministerial team to evaluate the performance of state electricity monopoly PT PLN, widely criticized for an ongoing power shortage, in a move that could lead to a...
Sat, 11/21/2009 - 12:12 PM
While many big-time criminals evades justice across the country for corruption, an elderly woman in Banyumas, Central Java, faces the law for stealing three cacao fruits worth only Rp 1,500 (15 US...
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 12:48 PM
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a presidential decree on the appointment of 10 special staff, six of whom are new faces.
Sat, 11/21/2009 - 12:12 PM
Musfihin Dahlan, a friend of mine who was a member of the 2004-2009 House of Representatives (DPR), representing the Golkar Party, was absolutely right. When he conducted his re-election campaigns in...
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 11:28 AM
Few expected any policy shift when Marty Natalegawa was appointed
foreign minister a month ago. As a prodigy of the Foreign Ministry, he
was reared, as were most Indonesians, on the historic...
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