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A businessman in sugar cane from Sumber Sari in the district of Nganjuk became the victim of a robbery on Friday afternoon. Sutrisno (56) picked up his identity card that he forgot from the Sugar Cane Farmers Corporation (KPTR) in the district of Patianrowo when his car was approached by two people using a motorcycle.
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Eighteen civil servants (PNS, pegawai negeri sipil) of the Labuhan Batu district in North Sumatra have been fired after it was found out that they manipulated their data to become civil servants in the first place. After the regional council received information about what the 18 had done, a meeting was convened as soon as possible.
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Staff at the international airport of Ngurah Rai on the resort island of Bali again have found a way to extort money for unknowing tourist that are leaving for home. This time it's fake tax duties that are filling up pockets of crooked employees at the airport. Where Indonesia does not see internet as a way to advertise, Australians know how this works and use email to tell others their story.
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The number of buildings in Jakarta that is demolished because they are not built according to regulations now stands at 1,100. The head of the Building Supervision Office (P2B) in Jakarta, Hari Sasongko Kushadi, told that last year only some 700 buildings have been demolished. Most of the 1,100 buildings lack a proper building permit (IMB) while others were built in green zones or over drainage systems.
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Some 200 preman ('street thugs') who normally keep themselves busy with disturbing residents in the areas of Penjaringan, Cilincing, Koja and Pademangan in North Jakarta were picked up during police raids on Thursday. 172 people were processed to be fined after their fingerprints and mug-shots were taken.
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In, a 15-year-old, has most likely become the victim of abuse and rape last Monday. Until now she is out of consciousness in the emergency room of the Raha hospital in Southeast Sulawesi. Parts of her body, like her hands and her left foot, show injuries by sharp objects.
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An Indonesia maid working in Malaysia has been tortured and abused by her two bosses. She was chained, regularly beaten with an iron stick and forced to sleep at the toilet. She was eventually rescued by the Malaysian police from the house where she worked in Taman Sentosa, Kelang, Selangor on Tuesday afternoon.
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For everything is a first time. Yesterday I was SMS-ed from the Netherlands with the request to check my email. No company asked me to do that, but my contact person in the Netherlands which can be contacted by the Rabobank in case it is needed. I checked my email right away and found out that the Fraud Prevention team of the Rabobank had blocked by credit card because they suspected that my card was used by others.
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Robbers got their chance during the Idul Fitri prayers yesterday. They stole electronics, jewelry and cash totaling some 200 million Rupiah (14.500 euro) in a robbery on a house in the city of Makassar, South Sulawesi. The house was left empty because the residents were attending the Idul Fitri mass prayers.
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An armored money transport has been the target of a failed robbery last night. The transport was moving money from a branch of Bank Danamon in Muntilan in the regency of Magelang. The three people inside the money transport were cold-bloodedly killed by the robbers, who did not even attempt to steal the money.
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Dozens of underage prostitutes have been arrested in a raid held by the Tegal police in Central Java last evening. Hundreds of bottles of liquor were also seized during the raid. Most of the youngsters were arrested around a number of nightspots in the city. Some of the pimps were also arrested, but the police said is was not that easy to catch them.
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Dozens of bolts and safety hooks used on train tracks have been stolen in the area around the Purwokerto train station located in Central Java. The Mobile Brigade of Banyumas checked the entire length of the track and soon discovered the theft. It is most likely that the bolts and hooks were stolen to be sold as scrap iron.
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Arif, who sent just one angry SMS to the First Lady, Ani Yudhoyono, is now facing a 12 year prison term for threatening the president and his family. He can also be fined up to 2 billion Rupiah (142.000 euro) when he is convicted of violating the Information Technology law that was accepted late last year.
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The regional police of Bengkayang, which belongs to the city of Pontianak on the island of Kalimantan, has seized 286 bags of illegally imported sugar from Sarawak, Malaysia. The sugar was imported via Jagoi Babang. The police did not have an eye on any suspects yet.
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Staff of the Highway Patrol (PJR) on the recently opened Suramadu bridge between Surabaya and Madura have caught a thief which had just stolen a piece of iron used to break the waves around one of the towers in the middle of the bridge. It is not the first time that iron has been stolen from the bridge, and stealing already started even before the bridge was officially opened.
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Authorities in Bengkulu reduced prison terms for over 660 convicts in three penitentiary and one detention facility in the province on Monday to mark the 64th Independence day of Indonesia. Head of the Rehabilitaion Unit of the Law and Human Rights Offices, Grand Sjahputra, told Thursday that 44 of the 668 convicts received term reductions were directly released as their term ended with the reduction.
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After sitting behind bars at Bali's Kerobokan prison for nearly eight months, a man on Interpol's Most Wanted List, 46 year-old Christian Burger, is now in France to face child sexual abuse charges. Burger, who has both French and Swiss citizenship, was placed on a plane to Paris on Wednesday, August 5, 2009, following the issuance of a letter agreeing to his extradition signed by Indonesia's President Yudhoyono. He has issued the needed letter last Monday, as was confirmed by Public Prosecutor I Ketut Sujaya, SH.
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The local police of West Jakarta has arrested 25 people after a brawl in the Stadium Club discotheque in Taman Sari, North Jakarta. All people were searched and a number of weapons like big knives, wooden sticks and bamboo were seized from those arrested. A spokesperson of the police told that they have checked up on 42 people in total. 18 of them were released almost immediately because a lack of evidence that they were involved in the brawl.
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A car transporting some 15 billion Rupiah (1.1 million euro) that belonged to PT Cisco, was robbed when it stopped for a reload of an ATM in the Tambora area in West Jakarta. The police is currently investigating the case and could not say anything else related to the robbery.
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Yesterday messages appeared about four Indonesian students - students for life most likely, they were there for over six years already and still not finished - being arrested, brought to prison and beaten up heavily on the suspicion that they were members of a terrorist cell. For your information, it all happened in Egypt, not in Indonesia.
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Ubud area police are continuing their crackdown on muggers and purse snatchers who have been targeting tourist visitors. On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, police capture two young men were apprehended in the process of snatching a purse near Ubud. One of the men, 20-year-old Lukman Hakim of Jembrana, Java, was shot by police in the thigh after he reportedly tried to evade capture.
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Bali Police officials' attempts to undertake a drugs and narcotics sweep of Kerobokan prison on Thursday, June 19, 2009, collapsed when angry inmates refused the order of armed police personnel to return to their cells. According to local press reports, some of the prisoners verbally abused and threw stones at the contingent of three truckloads of armed police drawn from the police's mobile brigade together with narcotics and intelligence officers from the Bali police headquarters.
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The Indonesian army is known for it's.. well, known for it's what actually? Every once in a while they are in the news because of a brawl with members of the police force (until a few years back they were still one, but now they have to split their income with them) and furthermore helicopters and planes regularly crash across Indonesia.
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The customs office in East Java province has succeeded in closing down a criminal group which sold fake duty stamps in Jakarta and East Java. Earlier, two printing facilities in Jakarta and Lippo Karawaci were raided. From there it just took two days to track down the address of one of the people involved. Several arrests were made that same day.
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In broad daylight, a gold shop in Bogor was robbed of six kilo's of gold. Armed robbers stole the gold with a value of some 1.5 billion Rupiah (110.000 euro) and also took some 20 million Rupiah in cash money and two handphones that belonged to the owner of the store, Un Ket Fa. The robbery took place around eight o'clock in the morning, just after the shop opened, and just took a few minutes.
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Antasari Azhar admits that he is familiar with a few other suspects in the murder case about the director of PT Putra Rajawali Banjaran (PRB) Nasrudin Zulkarnaen. But the head of the anti corruption commission KPK says he has done nothing wrong. A lawyer of Antasari, Juniver Girsang, was present at the second round of questions by the national police yesterday evening. He said that the investigation around Antasari has not yet come to the core and said it was just a formal investigation.
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The head of Indonesia's powerful anti-corruption watchdog, Antasari Azhar, has been named as a suspect in the Mafia-style execution of a senior executive, amid allegations of a love triangle gone wrong. But Azhar's lawyer has dismissed the notion his client masterminded the murder of Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, describing it as a conspiracy to destroy a graft-busting crime fighter.
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Bali's Custom and Excise Officers have conducted a raid on a warehouse in Bali confiscating thousands of bottles of imported wine and alcohol. The raid, conducted in April 16, 2009, uncovered nearly 550 cases of alcohol containing over 5,600 bottles. Also discovered by customs officials were a quantity of counterfeit custom stickers.
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A 23-year-old New Zealand man, Sean Headifen, died on Sunday, April 12, 2009, after being brutalized by six men at the Bounty Discotheque in Kuta. The man died from head injuries in the early morning hours of Sunday after allegedly being physically set upon by staff of the discotheque with whom he had a verbal altercation after reportedly throwing a bottle at a staff member. The brutalization that followed took place both inside the popular night spot and in outside premises.
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Ramian Juntak (53) was crying when she told about the suspicion she had that her youngest child was raped and murdered by her uncle. The mother of the child told that Hastuti Sinambela (16) was housed at the address of the uncle in Pekanbaru, where she was found dead hanged bu a rope at the end of December 2008. When the parents went to pick up the body, they noticed that the body of their daughter had undergone a struggle before she died.
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Once again an automated teller machine (ATM) has been robbed in Yogyakarta. This happened early in the morning this time. The ATM belonging to national bank BNI in front of Toko Maga along Jalan Bantul in the southern part of Yogyakarta city was broken into. Robbers took some 86 million Rupiah (5.600 euro). The head of the Yogyakarta police said that the robbery took place around three in the morning local time.
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Kaspersky Lab has turned up a troubling new trojan menacing Indonesia. Called Trojan-SMS.Python.Flocker, the trojan is particularly interesting because it doesn't operate over a PC - instead, it works its evil through text messaging.
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The police has discovered a network in which people get kidnapped before they are 'sold' when they are sent to neighboring countries as an Indonesian foreign worker. A young girl from Lampung, South Sumatra, was forced to work as nothing more than a sex slave in Malaysia. This case only became known when the victim, only known as S.S., was able to escape before reporting the situation to the Pontianak police in West Kalimantan.
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A naked body of a young woman was found in a suitcase along the Wiyoto Wiyono toll road in Jakarta. The body shows a number of injuries, so it is assumed that the woman as murdered. Especially the head of the victim is heavily injured. The body was later today identified as Debi, which was from Aceh and had lived in Jakarta for the last seven years.
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The High Court in Indonesia will later today announce the death sentence of two people which will be executed as soon as possible. Based on information that was gathered, the High Court has ordered the execution of ten people this year. Two others are still waiting for their official announcement to be executed. The two are Ujang, a serial killer from Palembang, Sumatra. and Ona Denis, a Malawi resident which is sentenced to death for a drug-related offense in Tangerang, Banten.
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Two masked robbers have robbed two houses in the village of Cimaja, in the district of Sukabumi early yesterday morning. Besides stealing two motorbikes, the robbers also took away money that was handed out via the 'Rice for the Poor' scheme (Raskin) and some money that was meant for paying taxes.
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Bali Post reports that the execution last week of the three Bali Bombers will serve to accelerate the date of the execution of those members of the "Bali Nine" sitting on death row in Bali’s Kerobokan prison. A Junior Chief State Prosecutor, Abdul Hakim Ritonga, told the press in Jakarta said that orders have been issued to create a formal list of all those on death row, a list that is expected to be in hand before the end of the current year.
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Three separate explosions have caused minor damage in the city of Ternate in Indonesia's Moluccas islands, northeast of Java, local television has reported. It is understood three small petrol bombs were used in the attacks early Monday morning. Metrotvnews.com said one of the bombs caused slight damage to the home office of the governor of North Maluku.
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NusaBali reports that a custom-built penitentiary for convicted narcotic offenders will soon be constructed on a 2 hectare site in Bangli starting in 2009.
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Indonesia's justice ministry has denied a prison transfer request by convicted Australian drug smuggler, Schapelle Corby. The ministry says Corby has only served four years of a 20 year sentence and her request may have been granted if she had served more of her sentence.
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Antara News Agency estimates that 24 foreign nationals are now housed as prisoners in Denpasar's main Kerobokan prison. The prison’s warden, Yon Suharyono, said, "of the number, 18 are convicted prisoners and six detainees." Detainees are traditionally held at the prison while awaiting trial.
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Two members from one family, mother Sumiarsih (59) and son Sugeng (43), were executed earlier this month after they had been on death row for an astonishing twenty years. They were sentenced to death in the 1980's over a murder on five members of their own family out of vengeance. After twenty years in prison, they names - and their story - reappeared in the news once again. The end of their story was clear for almost twenty years already, but it just did never materialize. Probably someone did not like cleaning his office, so these two death row candidates were only executed by firing squad earlier this month.
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Three convicted murderers have been executed in Indonesia after spending nearly 20 years on death row. An 59-year-old mother and her 43-year-old son who murdered five people for revenge and a self-described shaman who killed eight were executed by firing squad overnight, an official said Saturday. Sumiarsih and her son Sugeng, were shot at shortly after midnight near Surabaya city in eastern Java.
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An Australian man in his late 40s has been detained in Bali after a request from Australian authorities. Bali's Deputy Chief Police Detective, Erwin Chahara Rusmana, says that Paul Francis Callahan was arrested in Kuta around dawn last Saturday. He is wanted in Australia in connection with child sex offences allegedly committed in Canberra more than five years ago.
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Indonesia has executed a man who strangled 42 women and girls, and then drank their saliva, a spokesman for the Attorney General said earlier today. The serial killer, Ahmad Suradji, was sentenced to death by a court in 1997 after he was convicted of killing the women and girls on the island of Sumatra.
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are deciding whether to press charges against an Iraqi man arrested in Jakarta for alleged involvement in smuggling 900 asylum-seekers to Australia. The Indonesian Immigration Office director-general for Investigation and Law Enforcement, Syaiful Rachman, said that an Iraqi man named Hadi Ali Asgar El Ahmad was allegedly involved in the trafficking of the refugees and migrants - mostly from the Middle East and Asia - from Indonesia to Australia between 1999 and 2001.
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The former deputy head of Indonesia's top intelligence body has been arrested, for alleged involvement in the murder of a prominent human rights activist four years ago. Muchdi Purwo-prandjono was arrested as a key suspect in the murder of Munir, the co-founder of Imparsial and Kontras, two groups critical of the military and its methods of quashing dissent and separatism.
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The narcotics brigade of the regional police of Banyuwangi have seized thousands of bottles of illegal jamu - traditional medicine which are suspected to contain medication that is not allowed. Yesterday the police succeeded in seizing some 100 boxes with bottles and packages of illegal jamu with an estimated value of several million Rupiah.
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Two Indonesian women from the east Javanese town of Banyuwangi working abroad, in Indonesia popularly known as 'TKW', were forced into prostitution when they were caught up in human trafficking. Both of the women were employed in a pub in Malaysia. The young women (24 and 26 years old) were forced into prostitution somewhere in eastern Malaysia without receiving salaries.
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A court on Thursday rejected a civil case against the youngest son of former presidet Suharto for alleged corruption and awarded him 550,000 dollars in a countersuit he filed, judges said. The move provoked an outcry among activists in Indonesia who have been fighting to bring the relatives of Suharto, who died last month aged 86, to justice over alleged graft.
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The former executive director of Indonesia's national airline Garuda, Indra Setiawan, has been sentenced by a Jakarta court to one year in jail for assisting in the killing of the human rights activist Munir Said Thailib. The court found him guilty of falsifying documents to help the killer travel on Mr Munir's flight.
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Police in Indonesia have arrested a curator and three other workers of a museum for allegedly stealing five ancient Buddhist statues and replacing them with fake ones, said officials on Friday.
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Security forces killed and beat unarmed civilians, raped women during operations against separatists in the province of Papua according to Human Rights Watch. Police chief General Sutanto denied any abuses were taking place in the remote region where mistrust between indigenous people and security forces runs high after years of military crackdowns.
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Authorities have transferred 20 inmates in death row and those serving life sentences from a prison in Tangerang (a suburb of west Jakarta) to the maximum security prison on Nusa Kembangan off the coast of Central Java. Blindfolded the prisoners were escorted to special buses with a red or green rubbon tied on their arms - red for people on death row and green for those life-imprisoned.
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Lawyers from the Indonesian government will be in a courtroom on the island of Guernsey, south of Great Britain, claiming that the family of former president Soeharto siphoned off billions of dollars in public money. The case is aimed at seizing 50 million US dollar from an account in on the island, belonging to Hutomo Mandala Putra (commonly known as Tommy) , the son of the former president.
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Yusril Ihza Mahendra, until last Tuesday State Secretary, has said he was ready to face investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) regarding the cases that are related to him. “I will face everything. I've never avoided legal problems,” he said
after he handed over his post as State Secretary to Hatta Rajasa two days ago. He oped that the KPK would carry out the investigation honestly, fairly and objectively. “It must be free from political interests,” he said.
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An Indonesian man is executed by a firing squad after he was convicted in 1999 for kiling a family of six on the island of Borneo. Jail officials said that 40-year-old Ayub Bulubili was shot dead at Saturday at a shooting range in Central Kalimantan.
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A student from Medan has been confirmed killed during last Monday's gun massacre at the Virginia Tech University in the United States. 33 students were killed in the attack, the deadliest in the history of the United States. Partahi Mamora Holoman Lumbanturuan's American dream came to a brutal end when the 32-year-old and 31 others were gunned down by a fellow student, 23-year-old Cho Seung-hui.
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The former head of Garuda Indonesia and another official of the same airline have been arrested in connection with the murder of a human rights activist who was poisoned during a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam. Munir Thalib, known for his cricital views on the Indonesian military was murdered in 2004.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered the temporary closure and restructuring of a school that trains civil servants after the murder of several of it's students. He froze new admissions for the year following a suspected murder of cadet Cliff Muntu at the school last Tuesday.
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ndonesian troops found detonators and 63 tons of explosive powder on a Chinese ship anchored off Batam island after it broke down in the Malacca Strait, a local police chief said.
"We are trying to find out if these explosives were legal and what they were intended for," said Brig. Gen. Sutarman, head of the Riau Islands police, adding that documents found on the ship indicated it was bound for Yemen.
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Indonesian television aired the photo of a fugitive convicted of embezzling millions of dollars of state funds, the first in what will be a weekly slot exposing people convicted of corruption, authorities said Wednesday. Two TV stations plan to screen the images of 14 people convicted of graft or white-collar crime in coming weeks to boost a campaign against corruption, which remains endemic at all levels of the government, said spokesman I Wayan Pasek Suartha of the Attorney General's office.
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An Indonesian police general received an 18-month jail term on Tuesday for taking a bribe in connection with a multi-million dollar graft case at state-run PT Bank Negara Indonesia Tbk (BNI), the country's third largest bank. Commissioner-General Suyitno Landung, Indonesia's former chief detective, received a bribe of a car from the main perpetrator of the 2003 fraud case at BNI involving $130 million worth of export credits, the South Jakarta court said.
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The acquittal of an Indonesian pilot convicted in the murder of one of the country's most respected human-rights advocates has unleashed a storm of protest from critics of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his government. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that there was insufficient evidence to support a lower court's verdict that the pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, had murdered Munir Said Thalib, a human-rights lawyer who investigated abuses by the Indonesian military.
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A man living in the basement of the Indonesian Consulate in Manhattan was found fatally stabbed there Sunday morning, and police were investigating whether foul play was involved. The man, who was not immediately identified, was described by police and consulate officials as a "stranded person" who planned to return to Indonesia in the next week. He was found in the basement of the building, at 5 E. 68th St., shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday, police said. A consulate employee called 911.
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Indonesia accused East Timor police Monday of using excessive force after three men were killed for illegally crossing the border. East Timor responded by saying the victims were suspected Indonesian militiamen, shot dead after trying to seize weapons from the border patrol.
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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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The Jakarta Police announced on Wednesday there was sufficient evidence to charge three police officers with receiving a stolen vehicle. West Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Safaruddin said Chief Brig. Samsi from the Semanan Police station in Tangerang and Chief Brig. Budi Utomo and Adj. First Insp. Endang from the Lebak Police precinct, also in Tangerang, had been detained since Tuesday.
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A marine soldier who was sentenced to death for killing a businessman in 2003 has managed to escape for the second time from the military prison in Cibinong, West Java.
Following the prison break, Commander of the Navy's Military Police Commodore Sunarko A.G. issued on Monday an order to capture Suud Rusli, the marine soldier, "dead or alive."
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A resident of Tanah Tinggi in Central Jakarta died and another was badly injured in a violent clash with tenants of the neighboring low-cost apartments late on Thursday. The police revealed on Friday that the deceased, Leo Sumi, who lived in the area, had along with others, destroyed a row of kiosks built by the apartments' tenants on idle land next to their homes.< BR>
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A teenage girl apparently committed suicide by hanging herself from the top of a door frame in her house in Bandung regency, West Java, on Friday. The death of 14-year-old Fitri Aprianti, a second-year student at Cipeundeuy state junior high school, shocked people in the Babakan Bojong area, who were preparing to break the fast at the time.
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The National Police's commitment to thoroughly investigating the suspicious death of rights campaigner Munir is likely to soon be put to the test, with the police team now in the Netherlands apparently at a loss to know where to start with its probe. The team's primary objective of collecting the original autopsy report appears unlikely to be fulfilled as the Dutch government says it will hand over the document only if the investigating team can produce a formal request from the Indonesian government.
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An Indonesian mayor was named as a suspect in the embezzlement of Rp18 billion ($1.98 million) in state funds on Friday in the latest case of alleged corruption involving top officials. Chalik Effendi, mayor of Bengkulu town in Bengkulu province, Sumatra island, is suspected of issuing an illegal tender for 52 state-funded development projects, said district chief prosecutor Rusdi Taher.
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A main suspect in a multi-million-dollar state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia (MNI) fraud case, Adrian Waworuntu, was arrested in Medan, the capital of Nort Sumatera province, senior police officer said as quoted by the Indonesian daily Media Indonesia on Saturday.
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Twenty-one city councilors were arrested in central Indonesia for allegedly pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in state funds by marking-up personal expenses, an official said Saturday. The graft case in Kendari, a city in Southeast Sulawesi province, cost the state up to Rp 1 billion (euro 87,947), said Kemas Yahya Rahman, spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
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Drug abuse among Indonesian youth has become a cause of major concern, with studies revealing that many started to use drugs in their early teens. Amid the debate on the application of the death penalty to drug dealers and traffickers, The Jakarta Post asked some residents why they support capital punishment. Abdul Rivai, 54, is a civil servant in the Ministry of Social Affairs. He lives in Cipayung, East Jakarta, with his wife and two children:
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Indonesia's naval chief has ordered his commanders to shoot dead armed terrorists or pirates operating in key waterways including the busy Strait of Malacca, which carries a third of world trade. Navy Chief of Staff, Bernard Kent Sondakh, would also meet soon with his counterparts from Malaysia and Singapore to seek ways to increase joint patrols in the Strait, officials said on Friday.
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A judge in East Timor on Monday issued an arrest warrant for Indonesian presidential candidate Wiranto for crimes against humanity in the territory in 1999. "On 10 May, 2004, an international judge at the Special Panel for Serious Crimes in East Timor issued an arrest warrant for retired General Wiranto," prosecutors from the Serious Crimes Unit (SCU) said in a statement. Wiranto was military chief when army-backed militiamen waged a bloody campaign against independence supporters in the then-Indonesian territory.
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Golkar chairman Akbar Tandjung is facing a fresh court case after a self-confessed middleman filed a lawsuit against the speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR) at the South Jakarta District Court on Thursday. Kito Irkhani, a former aide to Attorney General M.A. Rachman, claimed that Akbar, one of Golkar's presidential aspirants, had promised to pay him Rp 1 billion (US$114,000) in order to closely monitor his corruption case, "convince" judges that Akbar was innocent and facilitate meetings between the judges and Akbar.
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Prosecutors in East Timor have intensified their push for the arrest of former Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) commander Wiranto, citing "voluminous" evidence that he failed to prevent crimes against humanity in the territory in 1999. The deputy general prosecutor for serious crimes last Thursday (19/3/04) filed a 92-page court brief to the UN-sponsored Serious Crimes Unit in support of its application for the issuance of an arrest warrant against Wiranto.
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Those and other mafia-style hits have raised fears that assassins for hire are spreading in Indonesia, adding to the sense of lawlessness that has hurt efforts to promote foreign investment and strengthen the rule of law in the world's fourth most populous country.
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Robbers shot dead three people in a heist at the Medan branch of Bank Lippo on Tuesday, making off with the bank's cash box containing Rp 133 million (US$13,000).
Two of the bank's security guards, Eddi Ridwansyah and Syamsuddin, died at the scene. Joni Purba, who worked as a driver for the bank, died at a hospital belonging to the Police Mobile Brigade.
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Seven members of Indonesia's feared special forces were convicted yesterday of causing the death of Papua's pro-independence political leader in November 2001, but only sentenced to a maximum of three and a half years in prison.
Most Papuans and analysts, while welcoming the convictions, said the light sentences and the way the case was handled show that Indonesia's armed forces still enjoy a large degree of impunity.
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Indonesia's human rights tribunal yesterday convicted Brigadier-General Noer Muis, a former military chief in then-East Timor, of crimes against humanity committed just before its independence referendum in 1999. Gen Noer, who served as a colonel in charge of 10,000 troops at that time, is the highest-ranked Indonesian military officer to be found guilty by the courts on Timor-related charges to date.
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The UN has indicted the former Indonesian armed forces chief along with six other generals and East Timor's ex-governor for crimes against humanity during the territory's bloody independence vote in 1999. "The accused have all been charged with crimes against humanity for murder, deportation and persecution," the United Nations said in a statement issued in the East Timorese capital of Dili.
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Seven Indonesian special forces soldiers went on trial before a military court on Friday on charges of killing of an independence leader in Papua, Theys Eluay, in 2001. If found guilty, the seven could face up to 15 years in jail. The defendants include Lt. Col. Hartomo, the highest ranking solider on trial in the case. The other defendants were Chief Pvt. Ahmad Zulfahmi, Capt. Rionardo, Chief Sgt. Asrizal, 1st Lt. Agus Supriyanto, Maj. Doni Hutabarat and 1st Sgt. Laorensius.
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Seven people were killed and dozens injured when Indonesian soldiers repeatedly attacked two police stations in north Sumatra after detectives refused to release a soldier's friend detained on drug charges. Four police officers, one soldier and two passersby died in the weekend carnage in the town of Binjai, 900 miles north-west of the capital, Jakarta.
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Gunmen shot dead three people and wounded two others less than a kilometre from Indonesia's presidential palace, a district police chief said. The shooting followed a parking dispute outside the PT Global company offices on Juanda Street, some 500 metres from the presidential palace, Central Jakarta police chief, Chief Commissioner Edmon Ilyas, told AFP.
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At least four Indonesian police were killed and 15 wounded when scores of soldiers using rifles and grenades attacked a police post on Sumatra overnight during a raid one police spokesman described as "horrific". "The situation is out of control. Four were killed including three mobile brigade personnel and one police officer. They were shot mostly in the chest," Amrin Karim, police spokesman for the North Sumatra provincial capital Medan, told Reuters.
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Illegal Vietnamese fishermen caught poaching at sea off Indonesia's Belitung island killed an Indonesian marine policeman who tried to arrest them, police said in a report Thursday. The fishermen used sharp weapons to attack First Brigadier P. Yanto and his colleague Tuesday after the officers boarded their boat to sail it to shore, a police chief was quoted by the Republika daily as saying.
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A senior police official in Indonesia has confirmed reports that 30 people demonstrating on Wednesday against the re-election of the governor of Jakarta were poisoned with cyanide. Many others were injured when the police fired rubber bullets and used water canon to disperse one of the largest demonstrations seen in the capital since the downfall of the former President, Abdurrahman Wahid, more than a year ago.
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An Indonesian court has found the younger son of former President Suharto guilty of murder and weapons possession. Tommy Suharto was convicted of masterminding the assassination of a judge who ordered him jailed for corruption. The five-judge panel sitting in Jakarta also convicted him for illegal possession of weapons. Tommy Suharto was jailed for 15 years in the trial, which has been seen as a key test of a legal system denounced as corrupt.
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Indonesian prosecutors trying suspects over violence that devastated East Timor in 1999 made their first demand for sentencing yesterday, seeking 10 years in jail for the territory's former governor. The demand was well below the maximum sentence for the charges of crimes against humanity faced by Abilio Soares. Soares sat stony-faced in the centre of Jakarta's human rights court as prosecutors read out their sentencing demand for acts committed in the lead up to and after East Timor voted in a UN-sponsored referendum to break from Indonesian rule.
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Two gunmen killed a lawmaker at his home in Indonesia's war-torn Aceh, making him the second legislator slain in the past three days, a military spokesman said Friday. Nasri Zamzam, a councilman with the Muslim-based United Development Party, was fatally shot Thursday night by gunmen in Aneuk Galong village, about 10 miles east of the provincial capital of Banda Aceh. Nasri was the fifth official killed since September. It remains unclear why legislators are being targeted, though some were aligned with the government in this troubled region 1,200 miles northwest of Jakarta.
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A bomb has exploded outside a Jakarta discotheque, wounding five people. Indonesian police were able to defuse two other explosive devices before they detonated. The bombing, in the early hours of Sunday morning, occurred outside a Jakarta discotheque in the city's Chinatown entertainment district. The crude device was planted in a nearby food stall. Two additional bombs were discovered - one in front of another Chinatown nightclub; the other in a parking lot in the city center. Bomb squad officials defused both explosives.
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Indonesia charged seven more suspects Monday in the violence that swept East Timor after its 1999 vote for independence, including a notorious pro-Jakarta militia leader. Indonesia has been under intense international pressure to bring to justice those responsible for the rampage in its former territory which left up to 1,000 dead. With Monday's announcement, a total of 25 people have been charged with crimes against humanity by allowing or failing to prevent the killings. They could face the death penalty if convicted.
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A high-ranking military officer said on Friday that three officers of the Army's Special Force (Kopassus) had been accused of violating Article 338 of the Criminal Code for killing Papuan leader Dortheys Hiyo Eluay last year. Deputy chief of the National Military Police Brig. Gen. Hendardji also underlined that the three were guilty of insubordination, considering that "there had never been any order from their superiors to kill Theys." He further said that Aristoteles Masoka -- Theys' driver and the only known key witness, was presumed dead.
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A West Sumatra court has ordered the first executions in the province's history, sentencing to death two young men convicted of murder. Prosecutors had asked the Lubuk Basung District Court to order the executions of defendants Irwan Sadawa Hia and Taroni Hia, both from Nias regency in North Sumatra province.
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Armed robbers killed a policeman and a security officer, and injured two other people before escaping with Rp 1.8 billion (US$211,765) owned by Bank Lippo here on Friday. Bogor Police deputy chief, Adj. Sr. Comr. Makmun Saleh said on Friday that the robbery's execution indicated it had been committed by cold-blooded criminals. "If they weren't cold-blooded criminals, they wouldn't have shot and killed them," he said.
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An investigation into the July 26, 2001 murder of Justice Syafiuddin Kartasasmita has revealed that fugitive Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra had once offered the judge billions of rupiah in return for ruling in favor of the convict in a 1996corruption case. Second widow of Syafiuddin, Iwa Setiawati Kartasasmita, admitted on Saturday that Tommy, the youngest son of former president Soeharto, had offered the money through his lawyers.
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