Jakarta Informer

Indonesia’s strategic importance is of growing interest to the jousting superpowers of the US and China – and it wants friends

One of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes erupted Friday, sending lava and a searing gas cloud tumbling down its slopes. At least four people were feared dead, officials said, and several others were seriously hurt. “It happened so fast,” said Surono, the director of the volcanology and mitigation agency. “There was no time for an evacuation.” [...]

A South Korean supplier of city gas identified as Samtan Co. plans to buy a 34 percent in equity share of E-Pertagas, a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) producer in Indonesia, a company official said. E-Pertagas is a joint venture between South Korean LPG provider E1 Corp and Pertagas, a subsidiary of Pertamina, Indonesia’s state-owned oil [...]

Allah always listens, promise clerics, after cosmography corrects human error that told worshippers to face Somalia

The Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, will be in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 8. Dr Yaacob and fellow ASEAN environment ministers will be meeting Mexico’s Foreign Secretary, Patricia Espinosa – the incoming President of the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate [...]

A raid in a drug factory in the Pluit Timur housing complex in North Jakarta ended with the seizure of 46.000 Ecstasy pills from the Jakarta Police. Jakarta’s Anti-Narcotic detectives also arrested four men during the crackdown last night. On top of the Ecstasy Pills they also found 29.000 Bromazepan sedative pills, which sell under [...]

Residents of Kampung Gujibaru in Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta, protested their eviction Thursday. The Squatters were stating they had a right to the land, despite not having any title deeds or other documents.  The 1.8 hectare area is home for 540 houses with roughly 2,000 people. And they say that they have lived on this [...]

US President Barack Obama on Thursday postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia until June as he attempts to push his historic health care reform bill through Congress. “We greatly regret the delay of the trip,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters, but he added the “passage of health insurance reform is of paramount [...]

Police used teargas against hundreds of protesters which threw stones at them on Tuesday outside the Parliament of Indonesia in Jakarta. It was a demonstration over a controversial bank bail-out which turned violent. The protesters, armed with sticks, burned flags of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party and threw stones and bottled water at the [...]

Prostitutes in Indonesia will soon have to pay a 10% income tax, if it is for the member of the Regional House of Representatives in Indonesia’s Batam island. Riky Solihin, member of the National Awakening Party – PKB – requested that an income tax of 10% should be paid from all prostitutes at rehabilitation centers [...]

Authorities removed a statue of Barack Obama from a park in the Jakarta due to a public backlash.It was moved today to a elementary school nearby where the U.S. president went to as he was a child. The statue, inspired by a childhood photograph of the 10-year-old Obama and made of bronze, was the target [...]

Toshiba, the Japanese electronics firm has decided for Indonesia as its regional production hub for its liquid crystal display (LCD) television sets. A Vietnamese factory has been relocated to Indonesia already, a local media reported earlier. “Indonesia will be the only production base for Toshiba LCD TV in Asia and Oceania,” said President Director PT [...]

Baekuni, also called Babe and now 48 years old was arrested last week in East Jakarta after the body of a nine year old boy was discovered in Cakung. Babe was a gang leader of street kids and was found suspicious of child molestation and murder. He admitted that he killed at least 7 kids [...]

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