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2009
'Illegal' tickets gets officials family killed in ferry sinking
Batam administration secretary Agus Suhiman said Monday that an official at the administration, Bram Sujatmiko, was believed to be among the victims of the ill-fated Dumai Ekspress 10 which sank off Karimun island in Riau Islands on Sunday.
Agus told Tempointeraktif.com that Bram, head of the Batam administration's park agency, bought VVIP tickets for himself, his ... (
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2009
26 dead, 250 rescued after ferry sinks in Riau
Eventually 26 people were killed while 250 others were rescued from waters near the Riau Archipelago after a ferry that linked the area with mainland Sumatra sunk on Sunday afternoon. The Dumai Express 10 was sailing from Batam to Pekanbaru when it hit bad weather and sunk off the island of Karimun near Singapore in ... (
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2008
Girl in Islamic boarding school pregnant twice by rape leader
A leader of a Islamic boarding school (
Pondok Pesantren) is accused of raping two of his students and is currently in a police cell in the district of Malang. The leader, only known as N.H., was arrested by the regional police of Malang in a rented house in Pare, in the district of Kediri. N.H. ... (
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2008
Strong earthquake strikes off western Sumatra
A strong earthquake struck off the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra late Saturday. There were no immediate reports of injury and structural damage, seismologists said.
The quake, measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale, jolted Sumatra's Bengkulu province at 11:01 pm local time (1601 GMT). Its epicentre lay about 142 kilometres south-west and about ... (
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2007
Museum staff held over ancient statues theft
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.
The fourth century statues were stolen from the Radya Pustaka Museum in the ciy of Solo in Central Java over a year ago, told police ... (
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2006
Militant sentenced for harboring top terrorist leader
An Indonesian militant has received a life sentence for harboring a top terrorist, and another man was sentenced to six years in jail for his links with terrorists. An Indonesian court sentenced Subur Sugiarto to life in prison Wednesday for harboring one of Southeast Asia's most wanted fugitives, Noordin Top.
Noordin, a Malaysian thought to be ... (
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2006
Indonesia calls for more talks between Islam, West
Only through dialogue can stereotypes such as Westerners regarding Islam as "a breeding ground for terrorists" and Muslims seeing the West as "deficient in morals" be removed, an Indonesian minister said on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda told a conference on Islam and Europe that such inaccurate, sweeping generalisations existed in both communities because media ... (
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2006
Gas pipeline explosion kills five in Sidoarjo
An Indonesia gas pipeline exploded, killing at least five people and injuring nine others on Wednesday near Indonesia's second largest city of Surabaya on Java island, an official said. Antara, the official state news agency, said the pipeline was part of state-owned Pertamina East Java Gas Pipeline that feeds gas to various companies.
"We have identified ... (
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2006
Indonesia willing to send troops to Iraq under UN
ndonesia is willing to send troops to serve under the UN flag in Iraq if the international community agrees to such a deployment, Defence Minister Yuwono Sudarsono said on Wednesday. Sudarsono told journalists that sending troops was part of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's proposed solution to the conflict in Iraq, which he had conveyed ... (
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2006
The hidden tragedy of West Papua
"Of course the police are just as good at torturing as the army. Some of the cruder forms [include] putting a table leg onto the foot of somebody and then somebody heavily dancing on the table, which can be extremely painful. So, I mean torture is routine."
Carmel Budiardjo was in Victoria recently to speak about ... (
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2005
Pertamina to shut Cilacap refinery late December
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.
The refinery at Cilacap, Central Java, has an output capacity of 230,000 barrels a day. ... (
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2005
Leslie story could 'humiliate' Indonesia
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 ... (
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2005
US restores military ties with Indonesia
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 ... (
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2005
Indonesia inflation seen above 12%
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 ... (
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2003
Exodus to reach peak on Sunday
The annual Idul Fitri exodus was once in evidence in the capital on Saturday as thousands of people left Jakarta by various means of transportation. Meanwhile, the death toll during this year's exodus has already reached 17. The massive getaway is expected to reach its peak on Sunday and Monday. For some lucky travelers, free ... (
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2002
12 die in Indonesia floods
THE death toll from flooding in Indonesia's Aceh province has risen to 12, and the victims include a three-year-old girl, officials said. At least five other people were reported missing in the floods, which were triggered by six days of near constant downpours over the southern coastal parts of Aceh.Some of the 12 victims were ... (
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2000
Trisakti marks 35th anniversary
Trisakti University marked its 35th anniversary here with anoration by Prof. K.G.P.H. Haryomataram in front of the university's senate on Wednesday. The oration, titled "Upholding Human Rights in a Comprehensive and Consistent Way in a Bid to Strengthen the Nation's Unity", stressed the importance of exercising political and civil rights that were neglected during past ... (
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2000
Cendana family lied about Tommy, say police
Family members of former president Soeharto lied to investigators when they said they had no knowledge of Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra's whereabouts, senior police officers said on Wednesday. Head of the National Police Criminal Investigation Insp. Gen. Engkesman R. Hillep said "there are indications of lies" made during the questioning of Tommy's family members over ... (
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Other events on this day
2000
The Jakarta National Education Office releases data showing that at least 1,875 students from 318 junior and senior high schools in the capital are new drug users, mostly coming from the lower economic class.
2000
The National Police name former Indonesian Armed Forces chief of sociopolitical affairs Lt. Gen. (ret) Syarwan Hamid, former Jakarta Military chief Lt. Gen. (ret) Sutiyoso, now governor of Jakarta, as suspects in the violent takeover of the PDI's HQ.
1999
Chairwoman of the Indonesia Central Eye Bank Siti Maimunah Alamsyah Ratu Perwiranegara says in Bogor, West Java, that Indonesia has received a total of 4,407 corneas from various countries with the top contributor being Sri Lanka with 3,087 corneas.
1999
Dozens of angry fishermen attack and burn a foreign vessel for allegedly fishing illegally in Teunom waters, about 200 kilometers southeast of the Acehnese capital Banda Aceh, taking prisoner the 17 people on board before setting the vessel ablaze.
1999
The Independent Inquiry into Violence in Aceh at the announcement of its findings in Jakarta calls on the government to question all the military top brass involved in crafting the military's policy in Aceh since 1989.
1999
Four forest rangers are held hostage and a patrol car vandalized when 200 residents of Karangbendum village in Cilacap regency, Central Java, loot timber from a nearby forest. The looters made off with 1,000 logs loaded on trucks.
1998
The Armed Forces (ABRI) announces its support for President B.J. Habibie's administration and rejects demands from various opposition groups, for an immediate end to Habibie's administration and the establishment of a presidium to replace the government.
1998
Hutomo Mandala Putra, alias Tommy, the youngest son of former president Soeharto, spends three hours at the Attorney General's Office answering questions about an alleged Rp 52.5 billion land scam in North Jakarta.
1995
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta is named one of the 12 winners of 1995's prestigious Aga Khan Awards for Architecture, for its innovative landscaping design.
1995
The late songwriter and singer Sudjarwoto Sumarsono, better known as Gombloh, receives the annual Montblack Memorium award from the President of Montblanc Asia-Pacific James P. Nolan for his contribution to the arts in Jakarta.
1995
The trials of 11 men charged with the rape and robbery of a mother and her teenage daughters in Bekasi, West Java, last July begins under heavy security.
1993
President Soeharto begins a four-day state visit to Iran to improve economic ties, following a one-night stopover in Vienna, Austria, on the way to the U.S., to attend the first leadership meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Seattle.
1987
187 South East Asian ulemas (Muslim scholars) from Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore take part in a two-day ulemas conference in Jakarta to step up cooperation between Muslims in the region.
1987
Two gold miners are killed and another one is injured when a mine shaft collapses in Puruk Cahu in the Central Kalimantan district of Barito.
1986
Indonesian chess player Ardiansyah captures the Grand Master title at the Chess Olympiade in Dubai.
1985
President Soeharto inaugurates the Rp 23 billion Tanjung Emas harbor in Semarang, Central Java.
1947
Forty-six out of 100 Indonesian detainees die of asphyxiation in locked and tightly packed railroad cars after a 13-hour journey from Bondowoso to Surabaya in East Java.
1946
The Masyumi Islamic party rejects the Linggajati Agreement.
1946
Miss Daventry alias Ktut Tantri, an American woman who joined in the Indonesian people's resistance against the Allied Forces in Surabaya, East Java, says that she disagrees with the Indonesian-Dutch agreement that resulted from the Linggajati conference.
1946
The People's Sovereignty Party at its congress in Makassar, South Sulawesi, proposes the integration of Sulawesi into the Republic of Indonesia.
1945
Sri Lanka issues a sympathetic statement on Indonesian independence.
1945
Surabaya's Radio of People's Resistance reports that hundreds of spies of Dutch, Chinese, and Arabian origin as well as indigenous Indonesians have been arrested for spying on Indonesian troop movement.
1945
Freedom fighters shoot down one of four British planes in Ambarawa, Central Java, while a British Dakota aircraft crashes in Bekasi, West Java, after which the four crew members and 18 Indian soldiers are killed by local fighters.
1945
The Indonesian Cabinet announces that Indonesia will no longer negotiate with the Dutch, but that it is ready to cooperate with the Allies.
1894
The Mataram Sultan A. A. Ngurah Gde Karangasem and his family are exiled to Batavia. The royal family chooses to live in the Tanah Abang area.
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