The Nation

JAKARTA ~ Prosecutors plan to file a civil suit against the youngest son of former president Suharto to recover more – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ A US$1.5-billion civil suit filed against former president Suharto is a political move to appease government critics and – Read More...

KUALA LUMPUR ~ Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has shrugged off neighboring Indonesia’s plan to overtake Malaysia as the world’s – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ Indonesia’s HM Sampoerna, a 98-percent owned subsidiary of cigarette producer Philip Morris International, announced this week that it – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono has accused Singapore of trying to scuttle a bilateral defense pact so it will – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ Police routinely torture, rape and kill with impunity in easternmost Papua, where they risk fanning separatism, an international – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ A former minister should be jailed for six years for allegedly obtaining more than US$1 million through corruption – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ US mining giant Newmont said on Wednesday it had lodged a counter-motion against an appeal by Indonesian prosecutors, – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ Victims of a devastating “mud volcano” in Indonesia complained this week that a fresh compensation scheme thrashed out – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ Experts scrambled on Wednesday to deal with a massive water spray gushing from the ground near a “mud – Read More...