Sunday, May 19 2013, 09:16 AM

Jakarta

Governor and human rights body meet on Pluit, at long last

Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo went to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) on Friday after declining to honor…

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  • Police hunt for two men in Rp 6b insurance fraud

    JAKARTA (JP): City police detectives are searching for two men, who allegedly used fictitious documents and an obituary notice, to claim Rp 6 billion (US$800,000) insurance from the Hongkong Manulife

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  • Two sought for stealing taxi

    JAKARTA (JP): South Jakarta Police detectives are searching for two men in connection with Monday night's theft of a taxi on Jl. Poncol Raya in Cirendeu, Ciputat.

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  • One arrested over murder

    JAKARTA (JP): Bogor Police arrested on Saturday one of two men allegedly connected with a vicious murder of a peddler whose body was found late lastmonth in the fields of…

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  • Hospital staffers to be questioned

    JAKARTA (JP): The South Jakarta Police will question four staff members at the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital morgue regarding a severed hand which was stolen and sent to a woman…

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  • Dynamite blast shocks villagers

    TANGERANG (JP): A stick of dynamite, the size of a battery, exploded on Monday evening in the backyard of a resident's home in Dongkal village, Cipondoh Indah subdistrict, without causing…

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  • Yoris arrested in connection to July 27 case

    JAKARTA (JP): The National Police arrested on Tuesday Yoris Raweyai for hisalleged role in the violence which followed the forcible takeover of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) office on July…

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  • Wisma Soewarna greets investors upon arrival

    JAKARTA (JP): In an effort to attract foreign investors, Minister of Communications Agum Gumelar inaugurated on Tuesday Wisma Soewarna, a first-class integrated commercial estate at Soekarno-Hatta Int

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  • Bogota governor visits urban housing project

    JAKARTA (JP): Visiting Governor of Santa Fe de Bogota, capital city of Colombia, Enrique Penalosa Londono, visited a low-cost housing project and a river bank village in the capital on…

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  • 'Time' did not libel Soeharto: Witnesses

    JAKARTA (JP): Two witnesses testified before the Central Jakarta District Court on Tuesday that a May 24, 1999 cover story of New York-based Time magazine did not defame the good…

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  • Wanted robber shot dead

    JAKARTA (JP): West Jakarta Police detectives fatally shot a longtime suspected bank robber on Jl. Ring Road Rawa Buaya, Duri Kosambi, early Monday morning.

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