Jakarta Informer

Security around the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta as well as the residence of Ambassador Datuk Syed Munshe Afdzaruddin has been beefed up in anticipation of demonstrations to protest against the detention of three Indonesian maritime officials by Malaysian authorities. The three men have since been released and returned to Indonesia. “We are on the alert [...]

Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was charged with planning terrorist attacks, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of death. He was arrested on Monday for allegedly helping to set up and fund a terror cell that was plotting high-profile assassinations and attacks targeting foreigners at luxury hotels in the capital. Investigators have collected [...]

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.” [...]

In 2007, the government initiated a very good program of converting the use of kerosene into LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas). And along with Pt. Pertamina, LPG kits were distributed free of cost to the masses. This step towards progress was applauded by one and all. Using LPG for cooking purposes instead of kerosene or wood [...]

As every year the city of Jakarta is celebrates it anniversary. And this year is no different, the city is celebrating its 283rd anniversary. But as compared to previous years this year the magic is missing. Earlier the promotions for the event would be fantastic, extensive and very imaginative. Throughout the city one could not [...]

The death toll from last week’s strong earthquakes that struck Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua has risen to 17. This was a statement from the National Disaster Management Agency today. The series of quakes on Wednesday, the strongest of which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, also left 15 people injured, about 3,500 houses damaged [...]

A Balinese teenager captured stark naked in the act of sexually penetrating a domestic cow claims he believed the animal was a young and beautiful girl. The young man has been identified as Ngurah Alit, 18, an unemployed youth from the seaside village of Yeh Embang in Jembrana. Village head Ida Bagus Legawa stated that [...]

The body of former first lady Hasri Ainun Habibie, the wife of former president B.J. Habibie arrived in Jakarta on early Tuesday morning where she will be buried on the same day. News portal kompas.com reported that the body arrived at Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport in East Jakarta at 4:58 a.m. State Secretary Sudi Silalahi, [...]

At the every strategic places in Jakarta we’ll still find beggars. The Jakrta Goverment had tried many way how to drive a way for them, but they always back. What make them back again ? They just wanna be survive. Get alms from people is their life. When will they stop it? We must know that [...]

Prosecutors demanded the death sentence for Indonesia’a sacked former chief graft-buster Antasari Azhar, a senior policeman and the publisher of a newspaper. This demand is related to the assassination of a prominent businessman last year. Antasari Azhar, until recently the chief of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, was showing no emotions while prosecutors summed up their [...]

After a long struggle in court, Prita Mulyasari, the defendant in the criminal case on the defamation of Omni International Hospital in Serpong has been declared not guilty by the judge panel of the district court of Tangerang. The email she has sent out to her friends, containing her complaints about how she was poorly [...]

The outside world out of Indonesia would probably think, “So what if free speech in Indonesia is dead? Has it not been dead for ages already?” I would say, not really. I remember the years when I was still in the university in the times of the tyranny of Soeharto. I had friends who were [...]