Indonesia on Alert for Christmas Terrors
Christian Post - USA
By AP. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Tens of thousands of police will guard churches across the world’s most populous Muslim country over the Christmas holidays … Â

Landslides hamper Indonesia quake aid efforts
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
JAKARTA, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Indonesian relief workers struggled on Tuesday to reach parts of a remote area in Sumatra island after earthquakes destroyed … Â

$50 million for Indonesia’s Islamic schools
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Manila: Indonesia’s madrasas (Islamic schools) have been given a financial boost after The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday it would lend the … Â

Australian Paedophile Gets Four-year Jail Sentence In Indonesia
Playfuls.com - Targu Mures,Romania
… Several foreign child traffickers and child sex offenders have been prosecuted recently in Indonesia. According to the child protection … Â

10 killed in concert crush in central Indonesia
Jerusalem Post - Israel
By AP. A stampede at a pop concert in central Indonesia killed 10 people and injured scores of others, most of them teenagers, police said Wednesday. … Â

Indonesia seeks more remittances from Gulf
Peninsula On-line - Qatar
DOHA • The disaster-struck Indonesia is looking forward to attracting more remittances from the Gulf to support its cash-strapped economy, a senior official …Â

Tsunami warning sirens pass test in Indonesia
People’s Daily Online - Beijing,China
The Monday’s 5.7 magnitude earthquake on Indonesia’s Sumatra island helped prove that the newly-installed early warning siren in the West Sumatra provincial … Â

Aftershocks rattle Indonesia’s Sumatra island
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Jakarta - Aftershocks rattled the Indonesian island of Sumatra Tuesday as rescue and relief workers struggled to reach a remote area after an earthquake … Â

Iran cultural exhibit underway in Indonesia
IRNA - Iran
During the inauguration ceremony of an exhibition of Iranian works of art in Indonesia, steps taken to implement the agreement inked between the two countries …Â

Wary Peace in Indonesia’s Aceh
Council on Foreign Relations - New York,NY,USA
… drawing global attention toward Aceh has been increasing adherence to Islamic Sharia law in the region, located on the northern end of Indonesia’s island of …

Oil Incomes Increase in Indonesia
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Jakarta, Dec 17 (Prensa Latina) The sales of oil and natural gas increased to 22, 536 billion dollars in Indonesia, in 2006. The …Â

Open burning: Najib wants action against rogue Malaysian firms
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
Reminding Malaysian plantation companies operating in Indonesia to follow their host country’s laws, he said if Malaysian companies were found to flout the … Â

Holiday relief for Aceh angel
Calgary Sun - Canada
Calgarian Jean Slick spent last Christmas on a mass grave in Indonesia, surrounded by people grieving for loved ones claimed by the Asian tsunami a year earlier … Â

Martin Jankowski: Indonesia through eyes of German poet
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
German poet Martin Jankowski astounded the art community and poetry lovers in Banten, West Java, when he read from his Detik-detik Indonesia (Indonesian moments …Â

Female star in male arena
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
… She’s a teacher, scholar, lecturer and cultural icon whose rare success in a man’s world has inspired women throughout Indonesia and elsewhere in the Islamic … Â

Lessons from Indonesia
Manila Bulletin - Philippines
… and Culture Scholarship Program along with 37 other young artists aged 21-33 from 18 countries in Asia and the Pacific including Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam …Â

Muslim evangelist sparks row over polygamy
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
ABDULLAH Gymnastiar is Indonesia’s modern face of moderate Islamic evangelism: a leather jacket often complements his white turban and he has a predilection … Â

Fear subsides for Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese community
Boston Globe - United States
JAKARTA , Indonesia — It wasn’t so long ago that Chinese writing Â

Anti-competitive complaint against Temasek-linked telco …
TODAYonline - Singapore
TEMASEK Holdings’ growing pains strike again — this time not in the streets of Thailand over Shin Corp, but in Indonesia over its control of the two largest …Â

Deep quake rattles Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island
Zee News - Noida,India
Jakarta, Dec 13: A deep 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit northeast of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island but there were no reports of damage or casualties, the … Â

Asian banks flourish cheque books in Indonesia
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Foreign investors are beating a path to Indonesia’s banking sector, lured by an improving economy in a nation of some 220 million consumers … Â

Indonesia may cancel huge gas pipe project
People’s Daily Online - Beijing,China
… Indonesia, the world’s largest gas exporter, has mostly sold liquefied natural gas to foreign buyers but recently adopted a policy to allow bigger share of … Â

Indonesia govt extends hand to Aceh leader
Radio Australia - Australia
[AFP]. Indonesia’s government has extended a conciliatory hand to the former rebel leader set to become governor of Aceh province. … Â

Toyota Indonesia introduces new model
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
JAKARTA: Toyota Motor, the world’s second largest auto maker, introduced a small SUV model in Indonesia on Wednesday, seeking to tap growing demand in the …Â

Indonesia’s sports official concern about poor showing in Doha
People’s Daily Online - Beijing,China
Indonesia’s State Minister for Youth and Sports Affairs Adhyaksa Dault expressed concern over Indonesia’s poor showing in the Doha Asian Games after meeting … Â

Indonesia jails Muslim militant over Australian embassy bombing
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
… Jemaah Islamiyah is accused of being behind a series of bombings and other attacks in Indonesia and the region in the past years, including the 2002 Bali … Â

Moderate quake jolts Indonesia’s Aceh
People’s Daily Online - Beijing,China
An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit Indonesia’s Aceh province Wednesday. There was no immediate report of damage. … Â

Indonesia’s Chinese emerge after years of discrimination
International Herald Tribune - France
… “This shows the progression of Indonesia,” said Djalal, who is not Chinese. “We now take multiculturalism as a given in life.”. After …