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2008
Extremists threaten to kill president Yudhoyono
Indonesian military authorities stepped up security of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono following threats to assassinate him and other senior officials if the three Bali bombers are executed, a military official said Tuesday. "We will prepare the security as well as possible, from planning to the implementation," Armed Forces Commander General Djoko Santoso was quoted as ... (
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2007
Officials: 'Mount Kelud did not erupt yet'
Indonesia's volcano center says that the Mount Kelud volcano in eastern Java has not erupted yet, as earlier reported on Saturday. "There was no eruption. If there had been an eruption, our equipment near the crater would have been damaged," told Surono, head of the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation.
Earlier on Saturday, officials ... (
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2007
Mount Kelud starts emitting clouds of steam
The Mount Kelud volcano in eastern Java has begun emitting clouds of steam earlier today. The clouds reached heights up to 500 meters, according Saut Simatupang, head of the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Agency. "The eruption isn't over. What we saw this morning was a small eruption.''
In recent hours the temperature of the bottom ... (
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2007
Scientists: 'Eruption of Mount Kelud still imminent'
One day after an eruption was falsely reported for the Mount Kelud volcano, the volcano is still showing signs of an imminent eruption, a scientist said on Sunday. "An eruption is now very, very much possible, although so far it has not yet happened," told Agus Budianto, a geologist who is monitoring the activities of ... (
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2007
Crater lake Mount Kelud heats up quickly
The temperature of the crater lake at Mount Kelud still continues to rise throughout Saturday and reached 52.9° C at a depth of fifteen meters, which is already 12.9° C higher than in the hours before the last eruption in 1990. At ten meters the lake now reached 47.8° C, the surface measures 46.7° C.
Antara ... (
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2006
Shocking climate impact of wetland destruction in Indonesia
Wetlands International and Delft Hydraulics present shocking information on climate change caused by wetland destruction in Indonesia. Huge areas of wet peatland forests are drained and logged. Drainage starts a rapid process of decomposition, made worse by annual peat fires that last for months. Together they contribute large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. ... (
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2006
Indonesia charges three over beheading of schoolgirls
Three Muslim men have been charged in connection with the beheading of three Christian school girls last year in an Indonesian province fraught with sectarian tension, and face possible death sentences if convicted, their lawyer said Friday. The three men — Hasanuddin, Lilik Purnomo and Irwanto Irano — are being charged under Indonesia's harsh anti-terrorism ... (
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2006
ExxonMobil to negotiate Natuna gas field in Indonesia
The U.S. giant oil and gas company ExxonMobil is ready to discuss for renewing its rights to operate on the major offshore gas field Natuna off Indonesia's Borneo island, the company said here Friday. After terminating contract with ExxonMobil last month, Indonesia has given a top priority to the company to reach a new deal ... (
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2006
Indonesia agonises over search for clean judges
Achmad Ali shifted uncomfortably, constantly adjusting his collar as he was interviewed by the Indonesian Judicial Commission about joining the nation's highest legal body, the Supreme Court. Like most Indonesians, the university law school dean is an avid user of SMS phone messaging. Commission members were complaining about being besieged by pleas to ignore reports ... (
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2005
Bomb defused in central Sulawesi town
A home-made bomb has been found and defused in Indonesia's central Sulawesi province, local media reported in Jakarta Friday. The bomb, hidden inside a package in front of a house in the religiously divided town of Poso, was defused by a police bomb squad later Thursday after police received reports of local residents, Poso police's ... (
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2005
Police identify men in schoolgirl beheadings
Police have identified suspects behind the recent beheadings of three schoolgirls in a sectarian violence-plagued area of central Indonesia, local media reports said Friday.
Authorities refused to release the suspects' names but said the investigation into the beheadings of the teenagers in Poso district, Central Sulawesi province, was moving forward.
"We already have descriptions of the ... (
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2004
TV media hands in assault footage
Representatives of the Association of Indonesian Television Journalists (IJTI) handed the police a recording on Tuesday that apparently showed three of the association's members being assaulted last week, and urged the police to immediately start an investigation.
"The recording, which is in compact disc format, should help the police identify the assailants and, therefore, they ... (
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2003
Rampant deforestation blamed for Langkat flash flood
Government officials have joined environmental activists in blaming inconsistent forest management and poor law enforcement as the main causes of rampant deforestation that resulted in the flash flood which killed at least 103 people on Sunday. Hundreds are missing following the flood in Langkat regency, North Sumatra. "Yes. It's due to unprofessional management. We're not ... (
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2003
Rescuers seach for hundreds of missing people in Langkat
Rescuers on Tuesday morning continued searching for hundreds of people who have gone missing since flash floods swept through Bukit Lawang, a popular resort town in Indonesia`s North Sumatra province, last Sunday.
The search and rescue team consisted of officers of Langkat district`s military command, police and administration, as well as the provincial police, said ... (
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2003
Mourning flags flutter in shattered Langkat resort town
Dozens of flags fluttered Tuesday outside homes in this shattered resort town -- symbols of mourning for the latest victims of Indonesia's environmental destruction. At least 75 people including five foreigners were killed and 100 more are missing and feared dead after a flash flood blamed partly on severe deforestation swept through the riverbank resort ... (
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2003
Government extends martial law in Aceh
The government has decided to extend martial law in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, admitting that the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) had remained strong six months into the military offensive in the troubled province. Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told a press conference here on Monday that President Megawati Soekarnoputri had ... (
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2002
At least five die as ferry capsizes
A ship with about 200 passengers on board sank near Ambon island in central Indonesia, killing at least five people, officials said Monday. Ambon police spokesman Lt. Tony Sugadra said that emergency vessels and local fishermen picked up 127 survivors after the ferry went down late Sunday. About 80 of them were being treated at ... (
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2000
Tommy to surrender on Monday, lawyer says
Defense lawyer of the youngest son of the former president Soeharto, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, said that his client would surrender to prosecutors on Monday to begin serving his 18 months jail term. Erman Umar said Tommy did not leave the country and would appear on Monday at the South Jakarta Prosecutors Office.
"He (Tommy) is ... (
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2000
Prosecutors fail to jail Tommy
The threat to jail former president Soeharto's youngest son Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra by force should he fail to surrender himself proved to be empty on Friday as Tommy was declared "lost" by prosecutors, after he successfully evaded receiving the presidential decree rejecting his plea for pardon. Attorney General Marzuki Darusman, however, said that he ... (
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2001
Landslides and flooding after torrential rains ravage 13 villages in the Purworejo regency's 13 districts, Central Java, killing 51 people.
2000
Police shoot dead three members of the proindependence civilian guards, called Satgas Papua, while they are escaping police detention in Merauke, some 750 kilometers south of Jayapura, the capital of Irian Jaya province.
2000
Abdullah Puteh, former chairman of the once state-sponsored youth organization National Youth Committee (KNPI), and Azwar Abubakar are elected as the new governor and deputy governor of Aceh respectively.
1999
Some 80 students from three universities in Bogor, West Java, raid a gambling den and confiscate Rp 700,000 in cash plus various tokens and coupons, and detain four gambling operators.
1999
The foreign travel ban on Sofyan Wanandi is officially lifted after the Attorney General's Office received guarantees from his lawyers and the businessman himself.
1999
President Abdurrahman Wahid dismisses opposition to his plan to open economic ties with Israel, saying it is in Indonesia's interest to do so and it is strange that Indonesia has relations with communist countries, like the Soviet Union and China.
1999
The Indonesian Military (TNI) unveils a major reshuffle following the official handover of the force's command from Gen. Wiranto to Adm. Widodo A.S. on the heels of the formation of a new Cabinet which includes three active generals.
1999
Tens of thousands of people rally peacefully in Sigli, Aceh, demanding a referendum on self-determination for the province, while in Jakarta President Abdurrahman Wahid says that he will not be rushed into calling for a referendum in the restive province.
1998
The Asian Development Bank provides Rp 29 billion during the 1998/1999 fiscal year for the maintenance of irrigation networks in 60 sites, covering 32,337 ha of land and involving 32,292 farmers in three regencies.
1998
Information minister Lt. Gen. Muhammad Yunus Yosfiah denies involvement in the killing of five foreign journalists in Balibo, East Timor, 1975, while serving there with the military.
1997
Twenty-five people are killed and many are seriously injured when a fully loaded inter-island bus collides with a speeding train in Kota Bumi, North Lampung regency, Lampung.
1996
Maulana Isman of Kosgoro, an organization affiliated with Golkar, is elected chairman of the Indonesian National Youth Committee.
1993
The Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) renews its call for the abolition of the state-sponsored lottery, saying the government's policy hurts the poor, who the main buyers of the lottery tickets.
1992
Hundreds of students and youths demonstrate at the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta, opposing plans of a plutonium shipment from Cherbourg, North France, to Yokohama, Japan.
1992
Indonesian badminton players Ricky Subagja and Rexy Mainaky beat China's Zheng Yumin and Huang Zhanzong 15-13, 15-10 to win the men's doubles title at the Hong Kong Open.
1992
Noted lawyer Adnan Buyung Nasution defends his dissertation, a socio-legal study of the Indonesian constitution from 1956 to 1959, at Utrecht University, Holland.
1991
Two students of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta go on a hunger strike in protest against the rector's decision to ban the formation of a student's donation body at the university.
1990
Indonesian diplomat Eppino Mohammad Saleh, 53, is killed in his apartment in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas.
1989
Princess Diana pays a visit to the Sitanala leprosium in Tangerang, West Java, where she shares smiles, shakes hands and chats with patients.
1989
Indonesian diplomat Eppino Mohammad Saleh, 53, is killed in his apartment in the Venezuela capital city of Caracas.
1989
Abdul Wahid, 63, a reporter of Berita Buana daily, is tried at the Central Jakarta District Court on charges of creating unrest by spreading rumors that processed food products contained pork fat.
1988
President Soeharto denies the involvement of the Armed Forces in Sukarno's downfall in 1966 and says the downfall was constitutional.
1986
Indonesia and Malaysia sign a cooperation agreement on sea communications in Kuala Lumpur.
1985
The Denpasar District Court in Bali sentences Britain's Let Atkins, 34, to eight years for possessing 176 grams of hashish.
1985
Minister of Education and Culture Fuad Hassan opens a five-day meeting of the Indonesian-Malaysian Language Council in Jakarta and endorses Brunei Darussalam as its third member.
1984
Abdullah Puteh, 36, is elected chairman of the Indonesian National Youth Committee for the 1984/1987 period, replacing Aulia Rachman.
1983
The West German Chancellor and his wife Hannelore Kohl arrive in Jakarta for a one-day visit to strengthen relations between West Germany and Indonesia.
1981
Aulia Rachman, 36, is elected chairman of the Indonesian National Youth Committee and Theo Sambuaga, 32, its secretary-general.
1978
Poet W.S. Rendra is banned by the University of Indonesia's rector Mahar Mardjono from giving a lecture at an art festival held by the university students.
1947
The Dutch begin efforts to destroy the new Republic of Indonesia by forming the Gorontalo Council.
1946
The Dutch government acknowledges the existence of the Republic of Indonesia under the leadership of Sukarno as president.
1945
All of the Acehnese warlords who fought against the Dutch state their determination to join the defense of Indonesia's independence.
1945
Indonesia protests against the sending of one unit of Indian troops in Magelang, Central Java.
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