Jakarta Informer

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, [...]

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 [...]