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Zubaidah Nazeer The Straits Times Publication Date : 15-05-2013   In a Jakarta club, where the local authorities admit that the drug problem is spiralling out of control, music is throbbing. Some cl…

Ina Parlina The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 15-05-2013   When Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summoned lingerie model Vitalia Sesha last week, many expected she would be …

Dicky Christanto The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 12-05-2013   Deputy Trade Minister Bayu Krisnamurthi has sent its first exports of crude palm oil (CPO) by land at the Indonesia-Malaysia Nanga B…

Business Desk The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 09-05-2013   The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is encouraging the Indonesian government to make optimum use of bilateral and multilateral …

Margareth S. Alla Jakarta Post Publication date: 16-03-2013   Indonesia boasted a higher life expectancy and higher incomes last year and climbed to a higher position — although only slightly — on t…

Sita W Dewi The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 01-03-2013   More than 20 people were injured after overheated balloons exploded at an event in West Jakarta that was attended by Jakarta Governor Jok…

Bagus BT Saragih The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 27-02-2013   Indonesian Human Rights defenders have expressed their suspicions that the government’s recent initiative to hold discussions on the…

Amahl S. Azwar The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 19-02-2013   Malaysia surpassed Indonesia as the key player in the upstream hydrocarbon industry in Southeast Asia last year, as Indonesia struggle…

Agha S. Leonardo Jakarta Post Date of publication: 19/02/2013   Malaysia surpassed Indonesia as the main player in the upstream hydrocarbon industry in Southeast Asia last year, as Indonesia struggl…

Business Desk Jakarta Post Date of publication: 13/02/2013   Bank Indonesia (BI) on Tuesday kept the benchmark rate unchanged at the record low of 5.75 percent on the back of optimism about manageab…

Indonesia's National flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) is setting its sights on increasing services across Sulawesi in an attempt to improve the region's accessibility through aviati…

A new report published by the United Nations shows that Indonesia a setback in its campaign against HIV/AIDS has suffered. In the report, published in conjunction with the 2012 World AIDS Day, the J…

Foreign oil and gas companies must be able to operate comfortably in Indonesia and make reasonable profits, or they will go elsewhere, Indonesia's Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Waci…

A study conducted by the environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace International has found that the products of many high-street fashion brands produced in Indonesia are tainted with hazardous …

Myanmar President Thein Sein has asked Indonesia to help his government in resolving ongoing ethnic tensions in the country's western Rakhine state, where more than 110,000 people, the vast majo…

A study conducted by the environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace International has found that the products of many high-street fashion brands produced in Indonesia are tainted with hazardous …

Myanmar President Thein Sein has asked Indonesia to help his government in resolving ongoing ethnic tensions in the country's western Rakhine state, where more than 110,000 people, the vast majo…

The local palm oil industry has demanded that the Indonesian government lodge a formal protest with France following the French Senate's approval on a measure that will quadruple import tax on p…

Foreign oil and gas companies must be able to operate comfortably in Indonesia and make reasonable profits, or they will go elsewhere, Indonesia's Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Waci…

Indonesia has been showing signs of steady improvement ahead of the launch of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, according to an assessment, although there was still some work that needed t…