DENPASAR ~ Indonesia is aiming to overtake Malaysia as the world’s largest producer of palm oil by 2008, Vice President... Read More →

JAKARTA ~ Insulting the president is no longer a crime after the Constitutional Court said this week it had revoked... Read More →

TOKYO, Japan ~ President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged good governance this week after receiving an honorary doctorate as part of... Read More →

JAKARTA ~ A strong deep sea quake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, hit northeastern Indonesia on Wednesday and damaged... Read More →

BAGHDAD, Iraq ~ The Iraqi government announced this week that it had reached an agreement with the government in Jakarta... Read More →

BOGOR, West Java ~ US President George W. Bush praised Indonesia’s “pluralism and its diversity” during his visit here this... Read More →

SYDNEY ~ The world may have already averted a bird flu pandemic by widespread chicken culls and the isolation of... Read More →

JAKARTA ~ The government has agreed to buy weaponry worth US$1 billion from Russia over the next five years to... Read More →

JAKARTA ~ The central government is planning to gradually streamline its bureaucracy, reducing the number of civil servants to half... Read More →