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Transjakarta gets new boss
Pargaulan Butar-Butar, the head of the transportation office and of the school bus unit in North Jakarta, has been appointed the new head of Transjakarta, replacing M. Akbar who is to lead the land … Full News here ...
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US State Department Says Indonesia Failing to Protect Religious Minorities
Indonesian youths gather outside the church that was attacked by Muslim hardliners in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners stormed a courthouse and set two churches on fire Tuesday in central Indonesia to protest what they considered a lenient sentence for a Christian convicted of blaspheming ...
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Politician pleads ignorance on Lapindo funds
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Pramono Anung Wibowo of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has claimed that most lawmakers were caught off guard with the inclusion of a Rp 155 billion (US$ 15.6 million) earmark in the revised state budget to pay for the mitigation effort in the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java."Honestly, I only found out about ...
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Emerson says Indonesia talks long planned
Trade Minister Craig Emerson had defended the timing of talks between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Indonesian president Susilo Bambang ...
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Jakarta blames Tarheel for slow processing
The Indonesian Consulate cannot meet the deadline for all its workers to get travel documents to go home, with less than 10 percent likely to make it out of the country by July 3, said a senior official yesterday.Addressing a press conference yesterday at the Indonesian Consulate in Jeddah, Tatang Razak, director of protection for Indonesian citizens at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the ...
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Brazil officials reverse subway bus fare hike
A demonstrator holds up a Brazilian flag in front of a group of protestors gathered in the main plaza of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy ...
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Gillard announces trip to Indonesia to discuss asylum seekers with SBY
Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced she will travel to Indonesia next month for talks on how to stem the flow of asylum seekers travelling to Australia by boat. The visit follows a challenge by the Coalition in Question Time to go to Indonesia to discuss the issue, although the PM's office says the trip has been planned for some time. However, her plan to travel overseas ...
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Julia Gillard to travel to Indonesia
Julia Gillard will travel to Indonesia next month to discuss ways of combating people-smuggling and terrorism.The prime minister will meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 5 July to discuss a number of political, security and commercial issues.The talks, which are part of the annual ...
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RPT-Australias Intrepid faces tough fight over Indonesia mine
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:00pm EDT By Sonali Paul and Fergus Jensen MELBOURNE/JAKARTA, June 19 (Reuters) - Australia's Intrepid Mines Ltd is learning that business in Indonesia is personal as it wages a difficult fight to win back rights to a $5 billion copper and gold prospect in East Java. Intrepid was booted off the site last year by its Indonesian partner who transferred the Tujuh Bukit mining ...
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Singapores air turns hazardous as Indonesian fires rage
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's air quality deteriorated to "hazardous" levels late on Wednesday as smoke from slash-and-burn land clearing in Indonesia enveloped the city-state, inflaming tensions between the Southeast Asian ...
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Indonesia to raise subsidized fuel prices
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono 's governing coalition pushed through this week. Because of its heavy subsidies, Indonesia the end of 2012 had the lowest fuel prices of any net oil-consuming nation in the world, the World Bank said. While the United States was ranked second-lowest, U.S. gasoline is nearly twice as expensive. The budget approved Monday calls for prices to increase 44 percent per ...
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Singapore in smog alarm as Indonesia forest fires rage
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Smog levels in Singapore hit a record high on Wednesday as raging forest fires from neighbouring Indonesia triggered a major health alarm and sent residents of the densely populated city-state scrambling for face masks.Singapore's air pollutant index soared past the government-designated "hazardous" level of 300 before midnight as officials in both countries ...
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Fuel consumption up ahead of price rise
State-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina's corporate communication vice president Ali Mundakir in Jakarta on Wednesday described significant increases in premium and diesel fuel consumption ahead of price rises expected later this week.On Tuesday, consumption of premium reached 90,000 kiloliters, up by 12.5 percent from the normal 80,000 kiloliters.Meanwhile, the diesel fuel consumption ...
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Singapore chokes in smoke from Indonesian blazes
Singaporeans rolled back military training, kept cough-stricken children indoors and considered wearing protective masks to work after a smoky haze triggered by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia caused air pollution to briefly hit its worst level in nearly 16 years. Singapore's main measurement of air quality has hovered in the "unhealthy" classification as smoke from roaring blazes on ...
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Indonesia Military tribunals being used to shield human rights violators
The trial of 12 Kopassus (Special Forces Command) soldiers accused of the extrajudicial execution of four detainees is likely to be little more than a sham warned Amnesty International as the military hearing opens on Thursday."These courts should never be used to try those accused of human rights violations. They are biased, and they create an intimidating environment for witnesses to ...
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Indonesia To Make Rain To End Sumatra Fires
Indonesia is to use weather changing technology to try to produce rain to put out raging fires on Sumatra island that have cloaked neighbouring Singapore in thick haze. The city-state, home to 5.3 million inhabitants, has been pressing Jakarta to take action over the fires which have pushed air pollutant levels on the island to a 16-year high. The government planned to use a technology ...
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Ibris Group plans $1.8 bln Indonesian nickel smelter
JAKARTA, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:46pm EDT JAKARTA, June 19 (Reuters) - Ibris Group, a Singapore-based miner, announced plans to build a $1.8 billion nickel pig iron plant in Sulawesi, the latest in a series of smelter projects after Indonesia began tightening controls on ore exports. Indonesia, the world's top nickel ore exporter, has been pushing for greater returns from its ...
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RI knows what to do with haze says Marty
Amid criticism from neighboring countries Malaysia and Singapore, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa spoke firmly about the cross-border haze on Wednesday, saying that ASEAN members should have collaborated to address the situation rather than apportioning blame. "The sentiment must be one of collaboration, partnership, not blaming here and there. Let's focus on putting the fire ...
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Mayora books extra profits from last year
Publicly listed food manufacturer PT Mayora Indah Tbk announced that it managed to increase its net profits by up to 53.97 percent last year. "We have benefited from the stable price of raw materials and fair bank interest rates," PT Mayora Indah Tbk president director Andre Suhendra told reporters after a shareholders meeting (RUPS) at Imperial Aryaduta hotel in Karawaci, ...
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Komnas HAM declares Cebongan prison killings a human rights violation
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says that the murder of police detainees by a group of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) soldiers was a human rights violation and is urging for the military tribunal to explore the case to find more possible actors.Komnas HAM, the sole institution authorized to make such judgment, announced on Wednesday that the incident in Sleman ...
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AirAsia to fly to 2 more Indonesian cities from Singapore
Low-cost carrier AirAsia will fly from Singapore directly to the Indonesian cities of Medan and Surabaya, it announced on Wednesday.There will be two flights daily to and from Medan, and one daily to and from Surabaya.The expansion is a result of the demand growing for both leisure and business travelers, the Straits Times quoted an AirAsia spokesman as saying.The company also said that it is ...
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KPK urged to protect key witnesses in Nazaruddin case
A group of non-government organizations (NGOs) has asked the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to protect key witnesses in the corruption and money-laundering cases implicating former Democrat Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin."We are asking the KPK to coordinate with the Law and Human Rights Ministry, the National Police, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) and the Witness and ...
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Pilots go on strike in Indonesia some flights delayed cancelled
Hundreds of pilots of leading carrier Garuda Indonesia staged a strike on Thursday that cause flight delays and cancellations in several airports in the country.The strike started since midnight Thursday after the president of Garuda Pilot Association Stephanus Gerardus told his colleagues to stop flight."This morning (Thursday) at 03:15 a.m. Jakarta time we instructed (the pilots) not to ...
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Thick haze sparks respiratory infections in Riau
Thick haze blanketing Bengkalis regency and Dumai City in Riau over the last few days has increased the number of respiratory infections.In Bengkalis, the number of people suffering from respiratory infections reached 531 as of June 17, jumping from only 387 a month earlier."The sharp increase in the number of respiratory infection cases has been caused by the thick haze blanketing the ...
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Rural poor to get second priority for cash assistance
The poor living outside the major metropolis might have to wait a little longer to receive the government's direct cash assistance (BLSM).Coordinating Minister For People's Welfare Agung Laksono said in Jakarta on Wednesday that the disbursement of the BLSM in rural areas would have to wait due to access problems."The disbursement will begin in 12 major cities, then the rest will ...
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Jakarta water issues a reflection of bad planning.
Jakarta residents have little access to fresh water from the city’s water system, a reflection of bad planning on the part of city management rather than a lack of funds.
An article posted on the Jakarta-Indonesia-Urban blog reflects a serious situation facing the capital city of the country, “Already there is more waste water generated and dispersed today than at any other time in the history of our planet: more than one out of six people lack access to safe drinking water, namely 1.1 billion people, and more than two out of six lack adequate sanitation, namely 2.6 billion people.” This is a statement on the world situation, but it hits uncomfortable close to home for many Jakartans, in fact, almost a majority of them. Read more
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