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200 Indonesian Hajis died
About 200 mostly elderly Indonesian pilgrims passed away during their Haj pilgrimages, jolting the Indonesian officials once again to find out solution to an ever-increasing number of deaths reported every year especially among Indonesian pilgrims. T...
Indonesia Bans "Balibo" Movie
Indonesia has come a long way since 1975, when an aggressive military dictatorship in Jakarta invaded the tiny former Portuguese colony of East Timor with the tacit approval - many scholars believe - of Australia and the United States. Some 200,000 p...
The Free Papua Movement
Indonesian police have arrested 13 Papuans after they conducted a rally along with dozens others, celebrating the anniversary of what they claimed as the 48th Papuan Independence Day, a local police spokesman said on Tuesday. The police spokesman Agu...
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is in deep trouble
More than likely, fear pervades the palace these days. Fear that the president's political opponents are planning a serious attack. Fear that the media are intent on malicious rumor-mongering about unproven allegations that a US$700 million bailout o...
Indonesia Solution to Australia-bound asylum seekers
Some 56 Sri Lanka asylum seekers still refuse to leave the Australian customs ship [AFP] A group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers have agreed to leave an Australian custom's ship and go to a detention centre in Indonesia, partially easing a standoff whic...
The question is whether the local government interests are mere stalking horses for Bakrie
Control of one of the richest prizes in the mining world - the US-based Newmont Mining Corp's US$4 billion Batu Hijau copper and gold mine on the remote island of Sumbawa, 1,500 kilometers east of Jakarta in Indonesia - appears likely to fall into th...


I enjoyed your blog and find Indonesia fascinating.
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