Thursday, May 23 2013, 02:02 AM

National

Lawmakers biggest source of funding for parties: Survey

Antigraft watchdog Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) claims to have found in its survey that political parties finance their activities by…

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  • Roses are red, and expensive too

    SURABAYA, East Java: Say it with flowers and pay a hefty price.

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  • Congress costs PDI-P Rp 6b

    SEMARANG, Central Java: The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) will have to fork out about Rp 6 billion to finance its upcoming congress here which is due to…

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  • Gus Dur urged to resign over health

    JAKARTA (JP): Criticism against President Abdurrahman 'Gus Dur' Wahid has been relentless since he took office three months ago, but for the first time a political party unabashedly called on…

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  • KUD, NGOs accused of alleged Rp 450b fraud

    MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi (JP): The South Sulawesi Provincial Prosecutor's Office has vowed to investigate reports of alleged fraud by the village cooperatives (KUD) and local non-governmental organiza

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  • RI needs to rewrite its history: Anthropologist

    YOGYAKARTA (JP): Dutch-born anthropologist Niels Mulder said Indonesia needed to rewrite its history to reconstruct the trail of events which had deliberately been geared to serve the interests of the

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  • Benjamin gains support to head Supreme Court

    YOGYAKARTA (JP): Benjamin Mangkoedilaga, a reputed former judge, is the right man to head the Supreme Court, and his promotion to hold the post is lawful, a Yogyakarta-based law expert,…

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  • PPP gives ultimatum over murder probe

    JAKARTA (JP): The United Development Party (PPP) faction threatened to walkout of the deliberation of the state budget if the government did not complete a murder investigation on its legislator…

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  • Public needs to honor researchers: Official

    JAKARTA (JP): Officials here have warned that if the public fails to accordresearchers the proper respect and acknowledgment they truly deserve, the field will be sidelined and Indonesia itself will…

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  • More support pours in for KPU liquidation

    JAKARTA (JP): The Independent Election Monitoring Committee (KIPP) threw its weight on Thursday behind a plan to dissolve the General Elections Commission (KPU), citing its failure to maintain imparti

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  • GAM agrees to end fighting in Aceh: Gus Dur

    THE HAGUE (JP): President Abdurrahman 'Gus Dur' Wahid announced here on Wednesday that the separatist rebel group Free Aceh Movement (GAM) had agreed to end more than two decades of…

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