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2008
Indonesia corruption watchdog to work with FBI
Indonesia's corruption watchdog signed an agreement Tuesday with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to collaborate in the fight against graft, a spokesman said. Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, chairman Antasari Azhar and FBI deputy director John Pistole signed the agreement in Jakarta on training and the exchange of information and investigators, the commission's spokesman ... (
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2007
BMW reports 86% surge in Indonesia sales
German car-maker BMW said its sales in Indonesia rose by 86 percent in 10 months to October this year from the same period last year supported by improving macro economy in the country. Local subsidiary PT BMW Indonesia reported sales of 802 units in the January-October period of 2007 against 431 units in the corresponding ... (
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2006
Thousands of troops guard Bush on quick trip to Indonesia
U.S. President George Bush arrived in Indonesia on Monday for a quick visit amid extremely tight security. More than 18,000 troops carrying rifles have been deployed in Bogor, on the outskirts of Jakarta, where Bush will spend his entire six-hour visit at a presidential retreat.
Bush plans to meet with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and ... (
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2006
Train plunges into river, killing 8 in Indonesia
A train carriage derailed and plunged into a river in Indonesia's Bengkulu province Monday morning, killing at least eight passengers and injuring 26 others. The ill-fated carriage was the last of the six carriages of the economy-class Salero train, which just departed and traveled only six km from a station in Lubuk Linggau regency, about ... (
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2006
Orangutans smuggled into Thailand to be repatriated next week
Forty-eight orangutans smuggled into Thailand and which have been stranded in the country following a military coup will be repatriated to Indonesia this week, an official said Sunday. Pornchai Pratumratanatan, chief of a wildlife research center that has been sheltering the animals for several months, said the Indonesian government will send a C-130 military transport ... (
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2006
Plane crash in Papua kills 12
ll 12 people on board a small twin-engine passenger plane that crashed in Indonesia's remote eastern province of Papua were killed, officials said on Sunday cited by Reuters. The Twin Otter plane with nine passengers and three crew went missing on Friday morning and its wreckage was spotted from the air in a hard-to-reach area ... (
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2006
Indonesia issues terror warning ahead of Bush visit
The Indonesian Intelligence Agency (BIN) on Saturday warned of terrorist strikes on the occasion of Bush visit on Nov. 20 in Indonesia, and called for high alert, BIN head Syamsir Siregar said here. The threat could come from the group led by the coordinator of the Southeast Asia al-Qaida linked terrorist network, the Jemaah ... (
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2005
Gunmen shoot and wound Christian couple in Sulawesi
Police in Indonesia say masked gunmen have shot and wounded a Christian couple in the latest violence to hit the Province of Central Sulawesi. The say university lecturer and his wife were shot as they made their way home from a church service on a motorcycle in the provincial capital Palu.
The police say they were ... (
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2005
Indonesia needs 15 years to be corruption-free
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia needed at least 15 years to create a public life which is really free from corruptive practices. The president made the remark in a meeting with 500 Indonesian nationals at the auditorium of the Indonesian embassy in Busan, South Korea, on Sunday.
The meeting was also attended by Foreign Minister ... (
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2004
Sulawesi: Travelling in Tana Toraja
Finally we found ourselves in the heart of Tana Toraja, seen as one of the few places in Indonesia where tourists go to see something that has to do with the everyday life, which is also ‘protected’ by the Indonesian government. It’s good that they see that such an important part of Sulawesi (and so ... (
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2003
Rais: Megawati should go
An influential politician who helped topple Indonesia's previous president explained Thursday why he believes current leader Megawati Soekarnoputri should also go. "If we want to see change in this country we have to change the present leadership into a better one, meaning more productive, more visionary, less corrupt or not corrupt at all," said presidential ... (
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2003
House approves creation of 24 new regencies
A plenary meeting of the House of Representatives endorsed on Thursday 13 bills on the creation of 24 new regencies in 13 provinces into law. The 24 regencies approved include Kolaka Utara, Kolaka Utara, Bombana and Wakatobi in the province of Southeast Sulawesi, Sumbawa Barat (West Nusa Tenggara) and Lingga (Riau). Also, are Tojo Una-una ... (
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2002
Police find cakes, not bomb, in Jakarta building
Police said on Tuesday a suspicious package found at Jakarta's high-rise Deutsche Bank building, which houses most of Indonesia's foreign media, contained cakes, not a bomb. Occupants were evacuated at around 1 p.m. (0600 GMT) after the package was found in the building, which is next to the British embassy."The result of the search was ... (
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2001
Radical or reformist?
Unlike the Suharto era, Indonesia now has quite radical Islamic groups operating in the open. Among them, the Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, FPI) is infamous for unleashing paramilitary gangs on 'iniquitous' nightspots. The Sunni Communication Forum (Forum Komunikasi Ahlusunnah Wal Jamaah, FKAWJ) fights for Muslims in Maluku. The Liberation Party (Hizbut Tahrir) is ... (
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2000
Sujudi hopes no serious HMFD outbreak in Indonesia
Minister of Health Achmad Sujudi asserted on Saturday that most Indonesian children have a strong resistance to infectious diseases thanks to various cultural and ecological factors. "Based on this fact I strongly hope that there will be no outbreak of infectious diseases such as HMFD (Hand Foot and Mouth Disease) which is caused by Enterovirus," ... (
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Other events on this day
2001
Nine people are killed and three others seriously injured in landslides that destroy more than 20 houses in Kedungrong village in Samigaluh subdistrict and Klepu village in Kalibawang subdistrict in Yogyakarta.
2001
The Supreme Court rejects appeals submitted by Fabianus Tibo, 55, Marianus Riwu, 43, and Dominggus da Silva, 37, who have been sentenced to death for committing a series of murders between May and June of 2000 in the restive regency of Poso, C. Sulawesi.
2001
Minister of Religious Affairs Said Agil Husein Al Munawar announces that Muslims who submit proof of zakat (alms) payments with their tax returns will be entitled to a 2.5 percent discount on their annual tax returns as of 2002.
1999
Six of the 12 young mountain hikers who went missing on Mount Merapi, near Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, nine days earlier are found on the edge of a ravine at Hantu hill.
1999
President Abdurrahman Wahid defends the Jakarta administration's decision to ban becak (pedicabs) from operating in the capital city on humanitarian grounds because the becak drivers work like horses.
1999
39 protected starlings (leucopar rothschildi), locally called Jalak Bali, are stolen by armed robbers from a bird breeding cage in the West Bali National Park in Grogak subdistrict, Buleleng, about 140 kilometers northwest of Denpasar.
1998
Religious leaders, after meeting at the residence of Abdurrahman Wahid, chairman of the country's largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), in Ciganjur, South Jakarta, call for national reconciliation among all groups.
1998
Three people, who were suspected of involvement in the murder of a number of religious teachers by so-called ninjas and were lynched by mobs in Demak and Semarang, Central Java, turn out to all be suffering from mental disorders.
1998
Timber tycoon Mohammad "Bob" Hasan, who controls PT Era Media Informasi, publisher of the Gatra weekly news magazine, reshuffles the weekly's executives by firing its directors and chief editor for unclear reasons.
1997
President Soeharto arrives in Cape Town for a three day visit to South Africa and meets with South African President Nelson Mandela to discuss the East Timor issue.
1997
Lt. Gen. (ret) Norman Sasono, former Jakarta military commander (1977-1982), dies in Jakarta at 69.
1996
President Soeharto inaugurates several irrigation projects in Banyumas, a fishing port in Cilacap, Central Java, and a reservoir in Yogyakarta.
1996
Political scientist Afan Gaffar of Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University says in Surabaya, East Java that the reemergence of sectarian politics poses no threat to national unity as long as the Armed Forces (ABRI) still play a dominant political role.
1996
The Aceh branch of the Indonesian Teachers Association (PGRI) appeals to the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) to reelect President Soeharto for another five-year term in 1998.
1996
President Bill Clinton says in Canberra that the United States will press for a solution to the East Timor issue in Indonesia.
1994
Seventeen heads of states attend the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) summit in Bogor, West Java.
1993
About 120 ulemas (Muslim clerics) from Greater Jakarta (Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, Bekasi) stage a protest and prayer meeting at the House of Representatives, demanding the House ban the state-sponsored SDSB lottery.
1992
East Timor Fretilin rebel leader, Xanana Gusmao, is arrested in Dili, after being a fugitive for 16 years.
1992
President Soeharto arrives in Dakar for a four-day visit to attend a summit meeting of the Group of 15 developing countries.
1992
Students, grouped in the National Presidium for the Safeguarding of the Intentions and Application of the 1945 Constitution, appeal to the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) to reject President Soeharto's renomination for a sixth term of office.
1991
A flash flood sweeps a truck loaded with dozens of people and goods as it is crossing the Kananggar river in Sumba Timur regency over a 25-meter high waterfall. 22 people are killed.
1985
An Indonesian Air Force Hercules C-130 transport crashes into the Sibayak mountains in North Sumatra, killing all 10 crew members.
1985
Former Jakarta governor Ali Sadikin, 58, testifies in Muslim preacher AM Fatwa's subversion trial at the Central Jakarta District Court.
1983
West Samoan Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana arrives in Jakarta for a three-day official visit on his way to a Commonwealth meeting in New Delhi, India. He is welcomed by President Soeharto at Halim Perdanakusuma Airport.
1982
Vice President Adam Malik visits refugees from Mount Galunggung in Tasikmalaya, West Java.
1977
Student leader Sjahrir, 31, is released from jail pending his appeal to the Supreme Court. He was arrested for his role in antigovernment riots in Jakarta on Jan. 15, 1974, and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment.
1947
Indonesia and the Netherlands reach an agreement not to spread provocative issues.
1947
Religious officials at the Aceh Residency call on Muslim residents to close their stores on Fridays and join Friday prayers.
1946
Indonesia's military spokesman Anwar Tjokroaminoto reads a message on radio from Indonesian National Army (TNI) chief Gen. Sudirman exhorting the TNI's leaders to keep up their fight until the independence of Indonesia has been achieved.
1945
The Indonesian Socialist Party is formed in Jakarta and is led by Amir Sjarifuddin.
1894
The Sultan of Mataram in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, A.A. Ngurah Gde Karangasem, together with his two sons, surrender to Dutch troops at his place of refuge, Sasari, after coming under a tight siege.
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