Indonesia News

Sri Lanka boat people leader a known trafficker: Colombo

AFP - Saturday, November 7

COLOMBO (AFP) - - The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government said Friday, a charge he has strongly denied. More »

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Red Cross suspends work in Indonesia's Aceh
AFP - Friday, November 6
BANDA ACEH (Indonesia) (AFP) - - The Red Cross suspended its activities in the Indonesian province of Aceh for a day on Friday after one of its German workers was shot and wounded by gunmen on a motorbike.
Indonesia extends Australia refugee boat's stay
AFP - Friday, November 6
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia extended by a week on Friday a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave its territory.
Top detective, prosecutor quit in Indonesia wiretap scandal
AFP - Friday, November 6
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's top detective and deputy chief prosecutor quit Thursday after wiretap phone recordings implicated them in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators.
German Red Cross worker shot in Indonesia's Aceh
AP - Friday, November 6
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Officials say a German working for the Red Cross has been shot by men on a motorcycle in Indonesia's Aceh province.
Indonesia's top detective resigns over graft scandal
AFP - Thursday, November 5
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's chief detective resigned Thursday after being implicated in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators.
Indonesian officials resign in corruption scandal
AP - Thursday, November 5
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Two of Indonesia's leading law enforcement officials suddenly stepped down Thursday to soothe a tide of public rage over an escalating corruption scandal that has damaged the nation's struggle against crippling graft.
Top Indonesia law enforcers to resign over scandal
Reuters - Thursday, November 5
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Two senior Indonesian law enforcement officials will resign, police and government officials said on Thursday, following a public outcry over a suspected plot to undermine the country's anti-corruption agency.
Indonesia anti-graft conspiracy exposed
AFP - Wednesday, November 4
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesian police have released two anti-graft investigators after wiretap recordings allegedly exposing a high-level conspiracy against the country's corruption watchdog were played in court.
Truck, pilgrim bus collide, killing 8 in Indonesia
AP - Monday, November 2
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A news report says eight people are dead and four are injured after bus filled with pilgrims heading to a sacred grave site collided head-on with a truck on Indonesia's Java island.
Australia ups capacity to handle boatpeople
AFP - Sunday, November 1
SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australia said Sunday it would increase the number of beds at its main immigration centre to cope with an influx of boatpeople, amid concerns about growing numbers of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka.
Suspect in East Timor massacre back in Indonesia
AP - Saturday, October 31
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia brought home a suspected militia leader accused in a massacre of dozens of women, children and priests in a church in East Timor a decade ago, the Foreign Ministry said.
Dead fish drifting in Indonesia after oil leak
AP - Saturday, October 31
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Thousands of dead fish and clumps of oil have been found drifting near Indonesia's coastline more than two months after an underwater well began leaking in the Timor Sea, officials and fishermen said.
Anti-graft commissioners arrested in Indonesia
AP - Friday, October 30
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Two members of Indonesia's anti-corruption commission have been arrested, dealing another blow to the once-powerful body.
Australia insists Indonesia must deal with migrants
AFP - Thursday, October 29
TANJUNG PINANG, Indonesia (AFP) - - Australia insisted Tuesday that Indonesia should process a boatload of Sri Lankan asylum seekers despite their refusal to leave an Australian vessel anchored in Indonesian waters.
Indonesian police foil human traffickers
AP - Thursday, October 29
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police have foiled an attempt to smuggle 92 Afghan and Iranian migrants to Australia, local media reported Wednesday.
Indonesian people-smugglers jailed in Australia
AFP - Wednesday, October 28
SYDNEY (AFP) - - Two Indonesian fishermen were jailed for five years Wednesday for smuggling a boat full of Afghan refugees which exploded, killing five, after it was stopped by Australian border officials.
Tight pants a no-no for women in Indonesia's Aceh
AP - Wednesday, October 28
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Muslim women would be banned from wearing tight pants in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province under proposed regulations to take effect Jan. 1, an official said Wednesday.
Indonesia won't let asylum seekers off ship
AP - Wednesday, October 28
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian officials have refused to allow 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to get off the Australian ship that rescued them from the high seas more than a week ago, complicating efforts between the countries to deal with a surge in boat people.
Indonesia is not a refugee 'dumping ground': governor
AFP - Wednesday, October 28
TANJUNG PINANG, Indonesia (AFP) - - An Indonesian provincial governor refused Tuesday to allow an Australian customs vessel to unload 78 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers, saying Indonesia is not a "dumping ground" for refugees.