Banker shot in Palu
Source: The Jakarta Post
Palu :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 21:38:38 -0700 | political-news
The victim was identified as Edison Tampubolon, head of BRI's Palu branch, Central Sulawesi. Edison is now hospitalized at Budi Agung General hospital with wounds to his left cheek and hand. According to Edison's driver, Agus Zakaria, who was the...
Marty, Indonesia supports the UN North Korea problem.
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Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-25 04:54:10 -0700 | political-news
Marty, Indonesia supports the UN North Korea problem. According to the Foreign Minister, Marty Natalegawa, Indonesia supports the resolution of the Security Council and the UN Human Rights Council, the sanctions against North Korea. North Korea issues so many dimensions,...
Miss World pageant in Indonesia to be bikini-free
Source: The Star
Bogor :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 16:41:18 -0700 | political-news
Nanyang Siang Pau reported that the 2013 Miss World pageant, which will be held in Bogor, Indonesia, in September, is likely to be bikini-free following protest and government support to remove that category. Certain Islamic fundamentalist groups are saying that...
Farhat Abbas, an unhappy suspect
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 09:02:29 -0700 | political-news
Farhat said that the suspect status could damage his reputation and career. Being summoned as suspect gives a bad impression of the bearer, as if he or she is a criminal, he said. Kompas.com reported on Friday. Besides, he went...
Taiwan, Indonesia to work closer to fight human trafficking
Source: Taiwan News
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 08:56:24 -0700 | political-news
Taipei, May 24 (CNA) Taiwan and Indonesia have agreed to strengthen cooperation in fighting human trafficking at a recent meeting in the Southeast Asian country. Under a joint statement signed at the first meeting of top immigration officials from the...
Ahmadis deplore Suryadharma's stance
Source: The Jakarta Post
Bandung :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 07:03:09 -0700 | political-news
On May 21, 2013, Suryadharma witnessed the 20 Ahmadis reciting two syahadat (confession) at a mosque in Takismalaya. "The religious affairs minister has explicitly created a negative opinion of JAI to the public. He fans the flames of intolerance," Ekky...
Official says 537 senior high students failed national exams in Jambi
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 03:54:06 -0700 | political-news
Head of the medium education and special education division of Jambi Education Agency Abdul Mukti said the biggest number of failing students were in the social science major with 399 students, followed by the science major with 102 students and...
Religious minorities unite for freedom
Source: The Jakarta Post
Bekasi :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 02:41:27 -0700 | political-news
Pondok Gede sub-precinct head Comr. Dedy Tabrani speaks to an Ahmadi behind the locked gate of the Al Misbah Mosque in Bekasi on April 5. (Antara/Widodo S. Jusuf) Next to a sealed Ahmadi mosque in Bekasi is a plot of...
Martin van Bruinessen: Dedicating life to perpetual research into Islam
Source: The Jakarta Post
Bandung :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 02:41:25 -0700 | political-news
After completing his PhD in anthropology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, van Bruinessen was jobless and intensively searching for a vacancy that matched his interests. When he learned that the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies...
African Union eyes its ‘2063 vision'
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-23 22:28:42 -0700 | political-news
Marking the celebrations, the AU plans to consider Agenda 2063, a blueprint that African leaders say will bring an African renaissance to the continent, socio-economically as well as politically. We will focus on the creation of the AU force, the...
Brimob officer nabbed for drugs in Semarang
Source: The Jakarta Post
Semarang :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 07:49:40 -0700 | political-news
Mamoto, said Hamid was arrested on Tuesday as he was about to take delivery of a package of crystal methamphetamine, locally known as sabu-sabu. Hamid, a member of Brimob's Kompi A Srondol, Semarang, tested positive for the drug. We are...
Pastika takes lead, PDI-P plans to reject election results
Source: The Jakarta Post
Denpasar :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-23 21:16:47 -0700 | political-news
Bali on Thursday revealed that Pastika-Sudikerta obtained 1,063,734 votes. Meanwhile, incumbent Deputy Governor AAG Ngurah Puspayoga and his running mate, Dewa Nyoman Sukrawan, now speaker of the Buleleng Legislative Council, gained 1,062,738 votes, or 49.98 percent.
In spite of fiasco, 99% pass exams
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-24 07:49:41 -0700 | political-news
The ministry announced on Thursday that 99.48 percent of senior high school and Islamic high school students, and 99.95 percent of vocational high school students succeeded in their exams. Education and Agriculture Minister Mohammad Nuh said the percentage of the...
RI seeks to regain status as ‘spice country'
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-23 21:16:37 -0700 | political-news
Agriculture Minister Suswono said in Jakarta on Thursday that given the world's growing demand for spice products, Indonesia would be able to more than triple its spice exports to US$7.72 billion in 2015, about 9 percent of the global spice...
Up to 200 students take part in Nuclear Youth Summit
Source: The Jakarta Post
Yogyakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-23 21:16:34 -0700 | political-news
The three-day NYS 2013 to end on Saturday will be highlighted with general lectures given by nuclear scientists, including Dr. H. Holger Rogner and Mika Tanhuanpaa from Finland, followed by a nuclear discussion and a competition on paper compiling and...
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