Jakarta Informer

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono rebuked his country’s police force at a ceremony to commemorate its 64th anniversary yesterday, saying he has received millions of public complaints about the force that has been tainted with allegations of graft. His comments came in the wake of a firebomb attack on the office of a news magazine [...]

Bloody riots over the Muslim tomb in Jakarta killed 3 people yesterday before police was sent to stop the violence. Over 100 people got injured, many of them quite seriously. They clashed with security forces and protested against plans to flatten part of a cemetery which contains a memorial to a Muslim scholar. A misunderstanding [...]

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 [...]