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A bomb packed with nails exploded in a crowded Christian market selling pork ahead of New Year celebrations in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding 47, police said. The blast in Palu, capital of volatile Central Sulawesi province, came after warnings of militant violence during the Christmas and New Year season in Indonesia.
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Indonesian soldiers lugged guns and heavy bags up gangplanks Thursday as they completed the final phase of a troop reduction in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province — a key step in an accord with separatist rebels to end a 29-year war. The last of 24,000 troops pulled out on five Navy ships and a Hercules air carrier, just days after Free Aceh Movement rebels completed the handover of their weapons and disbanded their military wing.
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Reports from Indonesia say the government is planning to sell its struggling state airline, Garuda. Kompas newspaper has quoted the minister for state enterprises, Sugiharto, as saying that Garuda is planning an initial public offering in 2009. However, he added the process may be sped up so that investors can enter as early as next year.
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Indonesian Islam will remain moderate and tolerant by and large, but problems and challenges will continue to exist. The future of Indonesia depends on the ways in which the government and various Muslim groups actually act in public life. While violence, discrimination, and grievances are still felt among the minorities, especially non-Muslims, the Muslim majority continue maintaining the tolerant, moderate character of the country. A small number of hard-liners and terrorists will be disproportionately influential, but the tolerant, moderate majority and the government will not be silent.
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Investigators from Indonesia's anti-corruption commission have detained the government's former investment chief, Theo Toemion. Lawyer Sugeng Teguh Santoso says Mr Toemin is being held over a probe into funds used by the Investment Coordinating Board to promote Indonesia to foreign businessmen.
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Indonesia was preparing to pull the last of 24,000 troops from tsunami-ravaged Aceh province on Thursday, a key component of a peace accord to end three decades of fighting with separatist rebels. Some 3,350 soldiers carrying automatic rifles and heavy bags lined up before four Navy ships in the port town of Lhokseumawe and were slated to leave later Thursday, said Lt. Col. Eri Soetiko.
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Survivors of the Bali bombings have been shocked at the sight of cars driving over memorials to the dead. The site of Paddy's Bar in Kuta has been turned into a car park. There are also plans to transform the neighbouring Sari Club site, which also hosts shrines and tributes, into a car park. Both nightclubs were destroyed in the October 2002 bomb blasts that killed 202 people, 88 of them Australians.
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Indonesia's Aceh rebels formally disbanded their armed wing on Tuesday, effectively ending their 30-year separatist insurgency one year after the tsunami destroyed their battlefield. The move paves the way for the guerrillas to transform themselves into candidates in provincial elections in April, in which they expect to win strong support.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono confirmed that he is under an increased security threat but said he will continue his duties as usual. Security forces in Indonesia have been on high alert over the Christmas period, concerned about revenge attacks after their killing last month of a top Malaysian bombmaker in East Java.
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Masked, black-clad and brandishing machetes, the attackers sprang from behind a screen of tall grass and pounced on the four Christian girls as they walked to school. Within seconds, three of the teenagers were beheaded — fresh victims of violence that has turned this Indonesian island into yet another front in the terrorist wars.
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Indonesia tested its tsunami warning system for the first time Monday, sounding alarms in a town that sent thousands of residents running through the streets exactly one year after a devastating disaster hit for real. "We knew it was just a drill," said Candra Yohanes, 55, who was among those who fled to higher ground when the sirens rang out in Padang in West Sumatra province, which neighbors the region hardest-hit by last year's tsunami, Aceh.
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Indonesians observed Christmas peacefully across the country as tens of thousands of police and troops remained on high alert for possible terrorist attacks. The security forces had earlier warned of possible terrorist attacks during the Christmas and New Year holidays as militants might seek revenge for the killing last month of Malaysian bomb-expert Azahari bin Husin, a senior member of the regional terror network Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), during a police raid in East Java.
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Mourners returned to battered shorelines Monday to mark one year since the Indian Ocean tsunami crashed ashore in a dozen countries, laying waste to coastal communities and sweeping away at least 216,000 lives. Under a clear sky and before a gentle sea, survivors, friends and relatives of those who died and world leaders commemorated those lost in one of the worst natural disasters the modern world has experienced.
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Terrorists in Indonesia are planning to assassinate government officials including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Presidential Spokesman Andi Mallarangeng said.
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There is no danger that Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, will be turned into an Islamic state. One reason for this is that most Indonesians practice a moderate strain of Islam and are tolerant of different religions. Another reason is that the nation's founding fathers, who included charismatic Muslim leaders and ulema, never wanted Indonesia to be an Islamic state.
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North Jakarta Mayor Effendi Anas will summon the owner of the Baiturrahman Mosque in Koja, North Jakarta, following the collapse of its 50-meter minaret on Wednesday. Detikcom reported on Friday that the mayor would ask the management of the Nurul Hidayah Al Bahar Foundation on Dec. 27 to evaluate the continuation of the construction of the mosque, particularly since it has no building license.
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The situation of Jakarta`s security was reported to be safe during which thousands of Christians were celebrating their Christmas eve at respective church on Saturday evening. "Up till now, the security of Jakarta is safe and under control. Security apparatuses remain standing on guard to safeguard the churches and some areas prone to security disturbance," Chief of the Jakarta Police Headquarter`s Information Service Senior Commissioner Ketut Untung Yoga Ana said here on Saturday evening.
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Timor Lorosae President Xanana Gusmao will attend a Christmas mass at Jakarta`s Cathedral here Saturday evening. "President Xanana has already sent a letter to the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry indicating his intention to attend Christmas mass at the Cathedral at 10 p.m. local time," said Janhars Yukti the chairman of the Cathedral`s Christmas Celebration Committee here Friday.
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In what is seen as further proof that corruption is entrenched in Indonesian society, up to 30 percent of Indonesian adults may have bribed officials in 2005 for speedy government service in obtaining either an ID card, a driver's license or a business permit. This fact was revealed in the 2005 Global Corruption Barometer, a report issued by Transparency International. The report was submitted on Friday to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who has made the fight against graft one of his top priorities.
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Indonesia will pull out the last of its special forces from Aceh on Dec. 29 after rebels surrendered their last weapons this week, marking an end to a conflict that has claimed 15,000 lives in the tsunami-devastated province. The fourth and last phase of relocation started on Dec. 20 with 1,621 "non-organic'' military troops withdrawing from Lhokseumawe port, northeast of the provincial capital Banda Aceh, said the Aceh Monitoring Mission, which monitors the implementation of the peace agreement between the government and the Free Aceh Movement rebel group.
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Indonesia said it is deploying a fourth of its police force, or 47,800 officers, to guard every church in the country after warnings terrorists are planning attacks during the Christmas and New Year period. "The country has been put on top alert,'' National Police Spokesman Anton Bahrul Alam said at a press briefing in the nation capital Jakarta today. "We are increasing security in every church to anticipate any terrorism act.''
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Malaysia's state-run oil firm Petronas has expressed commitment to build 400 gas pumps in Indonesia, a government official said here Thursday. The gas pumps will be built in stages until 2011, said Erie Soedarmo, director of production and marketing with the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.
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The managing director of the Indonesian aircraft firm involved in a sale to Thailand has directly contradicted Thai government claims it will take 300,000 tonnes of Thai rice for the sale - and insists the deal will involve cash.
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An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 caused panic among residents of Indonesia's eastern island of Sulawesi Wednesday. Officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, Australian newspaper The Age reported. An official at Japan's Meteorological Agency said chances of a tsunami were low.
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The minaret of a mosque under construction collapsed today in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, killing four workers and injuring five others. Officers and local residents were searching in the rubble of the mosque in north Jakarta amid reports more people may be trapped, said Sgt. Suwarso.
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The government will launch house-to-house surveillance of poultry in Jakarta in a bid to halt the spread of deadly bird flu, a minister said on Tuesday. Local communities, student volunteers and military forces will be deployed to inspect poultry across the sprawling capital of nearly 9 million people, where four of the country's confirmed nine deaths have occurred.
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The world's No. 1 and No. 2 oil storage firms Royal Vopak and Oiltanking plan to invest as much as $400 million in Indonesia, a government official said Tuesday. German Oiltanking GmbH plans to start building next month a $200 million oil storage facility in Cilegon, northwest of Jakarta, said Erie Sudarmo, the processing and commerce director at the Oil and Gas Directorate General.
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A Jakarta court on Tuesday sentenced an off-duty Indonesian pilot to 14 years in jail for planning the murder of a top human rights activist during a flight on the national carrier Garuda last year. Human rights groups have said the trial over the killing of Munir Thalib was a litmus test of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's promise to build a more open and accountable Indonesia after decades of authoritarian rule and rights abuses.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the local Southeast Maluku government's order to shut down Radio Gelora Tavlul, a popular station in eastern Indonesia known for its criticism of the local government. Authorities accompanied by police entered the radio station in the remote city of Tual, capital of the Southeast Maluku regency, about 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers) east of Jakarta, on Thursday and ordered it to stop broadcasting because its business license had expired.
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State Minister for Communication and Information Sofyan Djalil said the government would issue a ministerial decree requiring all prepaid cellular phone card holders to register their identities. He said the government would block the phone numbers of those who fail to comply before the end of April next year.
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Former rebels in Aceh completed a weapons handover on Monday under a peace pact that ended one of Asia's longest running civil wars, foreign monitors said.
"Today we could confirm that the (Free) Aceh Movement has offered the last of their weapons, thereby completing their commitment under the Helsinki MOU (Memorandum of Understanding)," Pieter Feith, chief of the European Union-led Aceh Monitoring Mission, told a news conference.
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Local tests show that an 8-year-old boy has died of bird flu, Health Ministry officials said Monday as they awaited confirmation from the World Health Organization. It was not immediately clear if the boy, who died last week in a dense residential area of the capital Jakarta, had contact with sick birds, said Hariadi Wibisono who heads a department charged with eradicating animal-borne diseases.
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Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest oil producer, drilled 62 oil and gas wells this year, below the government target, because of higher costs of oil rigs, a government official said. Indonesia had wanted companies such as PT Pertamina, BP Plc and ConocoPhillips and Total SA to drill as many as 81 wells this year to increase the country's oil and gas reserves, Kardaya told reporters today in Bandung, West Java.
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An Australian man says he is stunned by claims he banned locals from a remote Indonesian island where he runs a surf camp, sparking an intervention by the country's armed forces. David Wyllie, of Terrigal on the NSW Central Coast, says he was not even in Indonesia when the military said 17 soldiers landed on uninhabited Mengkudu island, where the camp is located.
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Billions of dollars have been pledged and thousands of new homes built but the city of Banda Aceh is still a scene of devastation after the Boxing Day tsunami of last year.
Tens of thousands are surviving in shanty towns of scrap wood and metal churned up by the terrifying force of the sea. There are 67,500 still living in tents. More than 200,000 survivors are thought to be staying with friends or relatives. Along the coast, towns and villages are nothing more than swampland and rubble. Survivors are jammed together in windowless plywood barracks hurriedly built by the army.
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The government announced a list of the country's dirtiest cities for the first time on Friday in a bid to encourage municipal administrations to clean up their acts, and their heavily polluted urban areas. Previous governments had only made the names of the cleanest cities public.
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Indonesia local test showed the tenth person death from bird flu, a director at the Health Ministry Hariadi Wibisono said here Friday. The director told Xinhua in telephone that the blood sample of the 39 year-old man was sent to the World Health Organization affiliated laboratory in Hong Kong for further test. "The local test result was positive," he said. The man died earlier this week at a hospital in Jakarta.
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Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina (PTM.YY) has sharply raised crude imports for February from January due to lower domestic crude supply, said a company official Friday. The company bought a total of 6.18 million barrels of crude via a tender, he said, adding that the volume is sharply higher from its purchase for January of 3.45 million bbls.
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Police have ordered churches in the Indonesian city of Solo to dig holes to throw away suspicious objects that might be bombs, a newspaper said on Friday, amid fears of Christmas-related attacks. Police across the world's most populous Muslim country have been stepping up security measures ahead of the year-end holidays to avoid a repeat of 2000 Christmas Eve bombings of churches in several Indonesian cities which killed 19 people.
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Indonesia and Russia are considering using an island off Indonesia's Papua province as a launching base for a Russian communications satellite, an Indonesian official said. 'Indonesia and Russia are discussing the use of Biak as a satellite launching base,' Indonesian presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal told Agence France-Presse by telephone from Kuala Lumpur.
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Jakarta Police are requiring all hotels across the capital to report the identities of their guests to police as soon as they check in. "We already require newcomers in all neighborhoods to report within 24 hours of their arrival. Now, we want hotels to report their guests' identities to us," city police chief Insp. Gen. Firman Gani said on Wednesday.
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General Elections Commission (KPU) chairman Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in jail for corruption in a high profile case that could eventually implicate other prominent figures, including some close to the administration. The verdict against Nazaruddin, a former leading political scientist at the prestigious University of Indonesia, came after he successfully led the poll body through the country's first ever direct presidential election last year, which saw President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's rise to power on antigraft promises.
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Over 400 people were hospitalised in the Indonesian province of West Java after gas began leaking from a pipe owned by a textile producer, a local media report said on Wednesday. Hundreds of sick residents, some unconscious, were brought to the local hospital on Tuesday in ambulances, private cars and public buses with complaints of headaches and nausea after inhaling gas escaping from the pipe belonging to PT Indorama Synthetic.
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A year after the tsunami, scientists fear that another monster earthquake might one day strike Sumatra, triggering a fresh inundation by the sea. How frightened should we be?
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Indonesia will hold two more nationwide polio vaccination drives in 2006 to try to free its population from the disease, its health minister said on Tuesday, following advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Health workers across the world's fourth most populous nation last month vaccinated millions of children for the third time to ward off the crippling disease.
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Her name, Sasih, in Sundanese means 'month'. Over the past 14 years, Sasih has given birth to five children -- two boys and three girls -- with the youngest being barely two years old. Along with husband Kadmira, a bajaj driver, the family of seven occupies a two-meter by two-meter rented room in a slum corner of Pejompongan, Central Jakarta.
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Indonesia has sent a small detachment of troops to a remote island to secure it against an invasion of Australian surfers and to monitor their activities. Seventeen Indonesian soldiers have been sent to Mengkudu Island, one of almost 700 small, largely uninhabited islands which lie between Bali and West Timor. Indonesia's Antara newsagency quotes Colonel APJ Noch Bola, the military commander in the province of East Nusa Tengarra, as saying the Australians came to the island to surf, but one of them had married the daughter of the tribal chief.
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Indonesia confirmed its ninth fatality from avian influenza as the risk of more people becoming infected increases during the next few months. Swabs from a 35-year-old man who died in Jakarta last month tested positive for the H5N1 avian flu strain in a World Health Organization reference laboratory, Hariadi Wibisono, director of vector-borne disease control at the Ministry of Health, said in a phone interview today. The report takes to 14 the number of confirmed human cases in Indonesia.
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Indonesia has given qualified support to a plan for Australian navy patrol aircraft to help guard the strategic Malacca Straits against terrorist attacks and piracy. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Dato Sri Mohammad Najib discussed the plan with Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, asking if Canberra would consider sending long-range RAAF P-3C Orion patrol aircraft to help oversee the 1000kilometre waterway.
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Chairman of Commission of VII of the House of Representatives Agusman Effendi said the government should issue an instruction to forbid any kind of illegal sand quarrying on Nipah Island as it would threaten the existence of the most distant island marking the border with Singapore.
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Susi, 43, was still sound asleep when she was suddenly awoken by her neighbors shouting that her house, located in Kota Bambu Utara subdistrict, West Jakarta, was on fire. She took few minutes to realize what was happening before she and her husband rushed out, saving all three of their children but leaving their belongings behind to be consumed by the flames.
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No relief has arrived as yet for starving Papuans, after bad weather prevented on Saturday the delivery of food aid and medicines to a famine-stricken area of Papua. Only small amounts of food and medicines trickled into the famine-affected area of Yahukimo regency, while most of the aid was still piling up in Wamena, including assistance that had been brought by a military transport plane dispatched earlier from Jakarta.
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Giggling women swarm outside a little gray tent in Block D of a sprawling refugee camp. The attraction is one tiny miracle — 2-month-old Asmaul Tzuchina, swaying peacefully in a cloth hammock. The baby simply known as Tzuchi, which means “pure” in Acehnese, represents new life and hope for the women who lost children to the earthquake-spawned tsunami nearly a year ago.
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Australian forces will resume training exercises with Indonesia's Kopassus elite commando force next year, Defense Minister Robert Hill said Sunday. The maneuvers will be the first since Canberra suspended joint training with the commando force known as Kopassus following widespread allegations the troops were involved in human rights abuses in East Timor ahead of the former Indonesian province's 1999 independence vote.
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At least 55 people have died and over 100 others are now in critical condition due to a shortage of food in Papua province of Indonesia since last month, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said here Friday. The lack of food was caused by failure of harvest in their cultivated land and they have no stock of food, according to the president.
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Volunteers from Indonesia's largest Islamic organisation will guard churches across the world's most populous Muslim nation on Christmas amid fears of terrorist attacks.
Jakarta police have said they will boost security in the capital ahead of Christmas to avoid a repeat of 2000 Christmas Eve bombings on churches in several Indonesian cities, including the country's capital.
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Thousands of Muslims from across Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, departed Thursday for Saudi Arabia on the annual hajj pilgrimage. Minister of Religious Affairs Muhammad Maftuh Basyuni waved off 445 pilgrims, all dressed in white robes and with their passports hung on string around their necks, from a special Hajj Terminal at Jakarta's Sukarno-Hatta Airport.
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Indonesia is boosting security ahead of the Christmas and New Year's holiday season with intelligence pointing to possible terror attacks, local media reported this morning.
Syamsir Siregar, head of State Intelligence Agency (BIN), said that his agency had learned of possible plans by terrorists to launch attacks at the end of this month, the Jakarta Post reported.
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Indonesia's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the sixth time in four months to restrain inflation after government fuel-price increases. Bank Indonesia today raised the rate used as a reference for bill sales by half a percentage point to 12.75 percent. That's less than the 13.25 percent median forecast of 10 economists in a Bloomberg survey. The bank said inflation in Southeast Asia's largest economy may ease to 18 percent in December from a year earlier from a six-year high of 18.4 percent in November.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a Cabinet reshuffle on Monday aimed at boosting his government's economic performance against a background of high inflation and unemployment. The changes to the one-year-old Cabinet saw Boediono, a former finance minister in the administration of President Megawati Soekarnoputri, take over the coordinating minister for the economy post, replacing Aburizal Bakrie, who was given a new assignment as the coordinating minister for people's welfare.
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Researchers from the WWF conservation group may have made an extremely rare discovery of a new species of mammal in the dense forests of central Borneo, the organisation says. The carnivorous mammal, slightly larger than a domestic cat with dark red fur and a long bushy tail, was photographed twice by an automated camera at night in 2003 on the Indonesian side of the island, the WWF said on Tuesday.
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Indonesia is still ranked as the most corrupt country in Asia, local sources quoted a recent survey of the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd (PERC) as saying. According to the survey, carried out with 96 Asian businessmen, Indonesia was given with 9.44 points in the ranking, scaled from 0 - 10 with the more points a country gets, the more corrupt it is.
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An eight-month-old baby is the latest patient to test positive for bird flu in Indonesia. Doctors believe the baby may have caught the disease from an infected pigeon. A spokesman at the Sulianti Soroso hospital says preliminary tests, yet to be confirmed by the World Health Organisation in Hong Kong, show that the child is suffering from the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza.
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Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla is calling for the fingerprinting of 3.5 million Islamic boarding school students. The move has sparked outrage across the archipelago, the Australian reported Monday. There are about 15,000 Islamic boarding schools across Indonesia. They have been on the defensive since the second Bali bombings in October, with the Indonesian Government taking steps to crack down on the schools.
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A 45-year-old Brisbane man working in Indonesia has pleaded guilty to possession of the drug shabu shabu, a form of crystal methampetamine. John Michael Kelly from Warwick in Queensland has appeared in court in Sangata in East Kalimantan province.
Prosecutors have demanded that Kelly serve 18 months in prison.
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As the number of dengue patients continues to rise in hospitals across the city, a general practitioner is advising people here to eliminate the possibility of getting bitten by a mosquito. Aside from asking the people to cover their water containers and clean them regularly, the practitioner is also urging the public to change their lifestyle.
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Two museums that will display artifacts from the 19th century will open in two weeks time in Sawahlunto city, West Sumatra. The museum opening is in conjunction with the city's 117 anniversary, said Sawahlunto Mayor Amran Nur. The museum opening is aimed at attracting tourists to the city, famous as a coal mining center, said Amran. The museums in question are the Train Museum and Storeroom Museum, which are located in downtown Sawahlunto, some 117 kilometers from Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province. The museums will be inaugurated by Vice President Jusuf Kalla, said Amran.
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State oil-and-gas firm PT Pertamina and ExxonMobil Oil Indonesia Inc will sign this month a joint operation agreement (JOA) for the development of the Cepu block, Pertamina president Widya Purnama said. 'The deal for a joint operation agreement with ExxonMobil for Cepu will be definitely completed this month,' Purnama said.
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Indonesia has tightened security to prevent potential terrorist attacks ahead of the Christmas and New Year festivals, local media reported.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that he had decided to reshuffle the cabinet after an evaluation of its one-year performance showed that it would need some arrangement to strengthen the cabinet's performance including in the economic field, local media said.
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The death of an Indonesian woman earlier this week has been confirmed by World Health Organization tests as the country's eighth bird flu fatality. An Indonesian health ministry official said tests conducted at a laboratory in Hong Kong show the 25-year-old woman died of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza virus.
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At least seven people were killed and 15 others severely injured when a speeding truck lost control and smashed into a bus coming from the opposite direction at kilometer 31.5 of the Jakarta-Merak toll road in Cikupa, Tangerang, on Saturday morning. Bodies of the dead were sent to the Tangerang General Hospital morgue, while the injured passengers were rushed to the Al-Qadr Hospital in Karawaci, Tangerang.
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I managed to hop over to Bali for a few days last week in order to both soothe my metro madness and also to see how the old island was faring after the recent bombings. Lion Air did the honors for about Rp 900,000 return, which is pretty good value, I guess, although anyone hovering around the six-foot-tall mark will have a few comfort issues to deal with when trying to squeeze into their cattle-class seats. After 90 minutes with my knees around my chin we touched down at Ngurah Rai airport in the rain and a taxi whisked me down to Legian.
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Indonesia`s Defense Ministry will in the near future revise its budget for purchase and maintenance of military weapons and equipment of the Indonesian Armed Forces following the lifting of the US arms embargo on Indonesia last week. "The Defense Ministry and the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) will soon evaluate the condition of military weapons and equipment, and we will also consider a revision of the budget for their supply and maintenance," Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono told ANTARA during a break in a hearing with the House`s Commission I here Thursday.
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Southeast Asia's top budget carrier AirAsia said Friday it will launch flights to two new destinations in Indonesia this month as part of its regional expansion. Daily services from Kuala Lumpur to Balikpapan in Kalimantan province on Borneo island will begin Dec. 20, to be followed by flights to Solo from Dec. 27, the Malaysian-based carrier said in a statement.
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Foreign tourist arrivals to Bali fell 48.4 pct in October compared to the preceding month in the wake of suicide bombings there, official figures showed. The number of foreign visitors to Bali in October stood at 86,800, down from September's 168,200, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics. 'The drop is directly related to the Bali bombings II on Oct 1, 2005,' the bureau said in a release posted on its website.
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An Indonesian prosecutor has recommended that a court sentence a pilot to life in prison for his alleged murder of leading human rights activist, Munir. The call for has been greeted by applause from Munir's widow and dozens of his supporters inside the courtroom. Garuda Indonesia airline pilot, Pollycarpus Budi Hari Priyanto, is accused of planning and implementing the poisoning of Munir during a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam last year.
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Indonesia's response to an emerging AIDS epidemic is "inadequate," the head of the U.N. agency fighting the virus said on Wednesday, calling on the President to take a more active role. HIV has infected an estimated 150,000 to 250,000 people in the country and is spreading quickly among injecting drug users, as well as sex workers and their clients, said UNAIDS chief Peter Piot.
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The British government tacitly backed Indonesia's 1975 occupation of East Timor and sought to cover up the subsequent murder of two British journalists by the invaders, according to newly declassified documents and media reports. "Certainly ... it is in Britain's interest that Indonesia should absorb (East Timor) as soon and as unobtrusively as possible; and that if it comes to the crunch and there is a row in the United Nations we should keep our heads down and avoid siding against the Indonesian Government," said a dispatch from British Ambassador John A. Ford in Jakarta on the eve of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor on Dec. 5, 1975.
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Papua Governor JP Solossa on Wednesday told residents not to celebrate the self-declared independence anniversary of Papua on Dec. 1. "All residents should go about their day as usual. Do not be provoked by groups that are planning to commemorate Papua's 'independence'," Solossa said. He was speaking after the West Papua Liberation Front announced plans to mark the 43rd anniversary of Papua's self-declared independence with a prayer service.
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The mere mention of the term "PLWHA" (person living with HIV/AIDS) will make people's imagination immediately form the image of a frail person characterized by a severe inferiority complex and a strong urge to keep himself aloof from society. This is a common image about a PLWHA because the people in this country, generally, still find it difficult to accept them.
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A minister called on regents and governors on Tuesday to name at least 9,634 islands across the nation immediately, in order to comply with the United Nations' call. The UN earlier requested that Indonesia name the islands by 2007 in order to, among other things, prevent border disputes with other countries.
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Indonesia launched its third nationwide polio immunisation campaign on Wednesday in a bid to stop the crippling disease spreading and will hold at least one more round early next year, the Health Ministry said. Hundreds of thousands of vaccinators will target 24 million children at 250,000 medical posts across the world's largest archipelago on Wednesday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) today raised the possibility that Indonesia's latest confirmed case of H5N1 avian influenza was part of a family cluster of three cases. In noting Indonesia's confirmation of the case in a 16-year-old boy from West Java province, the WHO said he had two brothers who both died recently of an illness that included fever and breathing difficulty. The 16-year-old fell ill with a fever and cough on Nov 6, was hospitalized 10 days later, and is in stable condition, the WHO said.
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Property analysts and developers share the same pessimistic projection that demand for all kinds of property will decline as the central bank continues to raise interest rates to cope with strong inflationary pressures and with a four-year low in consumer confidence.
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Government authorities said Monday that avian influenza might have spread to more provinces in Indonesia as the country's president appointed a state-run pharmaceutical company to produce the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to fight the illness. Authorities have so far confirmed that the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus has infected fowl through 23 of Indonesia's 33 provinces, but senior officials said new infections were suspected elsewhere, and that the outbreaks increase the risk of the virus mutating into a strain that's more contagious to humans and could lead to a pandemic that health experts fear could kill millions.
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When 76-year-old Professor Winarno Surachmad shuffled before 30,000 of his former teaching colleagues to pour out his poem about the woes of the education system, he drew the wrath of Indonesia's Vice-President, Jusuf Kalla. Mr Kalla scowled at lines, among them: "When rhinos and komodo are protected, teachers are just neglected."
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The Jakarta administration has earmarked some Rp 135 billion (11.4 million Euro) in its 2006 budget draft for the ambitious mass rapid transit (MRT) network, the first concrete step taken to materialize the undertaking. "I have been informed by Minister (of Transportation) Hatta Radjasa that the construction of the MRT line will begin next year. The project will be financed by a loan from the Japanese government," Governor Sutiyoso said early this week when asked about the budget allocation.
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Police are currently looking for an East Java resident believed to be a financial backer of terrorist operations led by Noordin M. Top and the now dead Azahari bin Husin, as part of efforts to halt terror activities in the country and capture Noordin. State news agency Antara quoted an intelligence source as saying that police were trying to locate the whereabouts of 34-year-old Edy Prayitno and were conducting close surveillance on many houses including that of Edy's former wife in Madiun, East Java.
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A 16-year-old Indonesian boy has tested positive for the H5N1 avian flu virus, making him the 12th confirmed case among humans in the country, a health official says.
"We have received a laboratory test from Hong Kong and the results were positive," said Hariadi Wibisono, a seniorofficial at the Health Ministry, adding the patient was being treated at a hospital in Bandung in West Java province.
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British military equipment is being used by the Indonesian authorities against civilians in remote parts of the country. Despite promises by Foreign Office ministers that UK arms exported to the country are not used for internal repression, a photograph seen by The Observer shows a British-made Tactica water cannon vehicle deployed in the troubled eastern province of West Papua.
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Roche Holding Ltd. said Indonesia could make a generic version of Tamiflu without its license because the medicine, which may be useful in treating avian influenza, isn't protected by a patent in the Southeast Asian nation. "We've informed the government they can produce it for local use," said Martina Rupp, a spokeswoman for the Swiss drug maker. "Quality guidelines will have to be assured by the Indonesian government."
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A leading American expert on Indonesia's terrorist groups has been expelled from the country for a second time, officials said Friday. No explanation was provided. Sidney Jones, project director for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, was refused entry to Indonesia Thursday when she returned from a trip to Taiwan. She was sent to Singapore.
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Indonesia's state oil and gas firm PT Pertamina will raise the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by 41 percent early next year to 6,000 rupiah per kilogram from the current 4,250 rupiah. Pertamina's LPG marketing assistant manager Rosidi Hasyim was quoted Friday by The Jakarta Post daily as saying the firm had suffered a financial loss of 900 billion rupiah (90 million US dollars) per year because the domestic LPG price was lower than the international price. LPG is not subsidized by the government and will have to conform to market prices.
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Hundreds of chickens have died of bird flu in Aceh province, Indonesia says.
Bird flu has been found in more than 20 other provinces in the country, but its emergence in Aceh is especially worrying, analysts say. This is because thousands of Acehnese still live in crowded refugee camps as a result of last year's tsunami.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s appreciation of Indonesia’s adoption of a visa-on-arrival policy for Indian nationals during the visit of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here on Wednesday set the tone for a whole range of MoUs to be signed between the two countries. Both countries agreed to work together to improve connectivity and people-to-people contacts between their countries through enhanced tourism, civil aviation and shipping links.
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State-owned Pertamina (PTM.YY) next month will shut Indonesia's biggest refinery for maintenance, an official at the oil and gas company said Wednesday. "We will shut down the refinery in late December for maintenance," Pertamina spokesman Mohammad Harun told Dow Jones Newswires.
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Michelle Leslie could do serious harm to Australian interests in Indonesia if she sells her story, former Federal Court Justice Marcus Einfeld says. Leslie, who returned to Australia yesterday, was believed to be in negotiations to sell her story after spending three months in a Bali prison for drug possession. Justice Einfeld said the media should not seek her story, particularly if it involves more than a recount of her court trial for the possession of two ecstasy tablets.
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The United States has lifted an arms embargo against Indonesia, ending a six-year ban on military aid to the world's most populous Muslim nation imposed due to human rights concerns. The Bush administration has long argued that isolating Indonesia, which has been hit by several bombings by al-Qaida linked terrorists in recent years, was not in Washington's strategic interests.
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Indonesia's inflation rate is expected to exceed 12 percent year-on-year in 2005, before returning to single digits by the end of September 2006, the senior deputy governor of Bank Indonesia said on Wednesday. Miranda Goeltom also told reporters the rupiah currency was expected to trade around 10,000 to the U.S. dollar for the rest of the year.
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