BANDUNG A pilot was seriously injured when he crashed a plane while performing a low-altitude stunt at an air show in Bandung, West Java, on Friday. Thousands of people, including children from local kindergartens, watched on in horror as the Super Decathlon plane smashed into the ground and burst into flames at Husein Sastranegara Air [...]

Indonesia is a deeply religious country, of a range of diverse faiths. Most of the country’s 230 million believe that they were given life by God and that they must live their lives according to his will. They are his servants on Earth. Indonesia’s, like many around the world, is a culture that bases its [...]

NEW YORK Australia’s new foreign minister and deposed prime minister, Kevin Rudd, has raised the issue with his Indonesian counterpart of three of the Bali Nine group of drug traffickers who are on death row. The high-level revelation came from the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly currently under way in New York. During [...]

UNITED NATIONS US President Barack Obama is to make an official visit to Indonesia in November, he announced at the United Nations in New York on Thursday, after previous visits this year to the country where he spent time as a child were canceled due to domestic issues. Obama made the announcement during a speech [...]

DENPASAR The Denpasar District Court sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Thursday as an accessory to the murder of a Japanese woman who had been living in Bali. Abdurrahman, 21, helped Mawardi, 31, tie up Hiromi Shimada, before the latter repeatedly stabbed the 41-year-old last year, judge Putu Suwika said. Shimada’s body [...]

DENPASAR Denpasar city authorities have sealed off the Harrad Hotel building site in Sanur — it is next to the Blue Eyes karaoke venue where three strippers and a venue manager were arrested earlier this month over a naked dancing performance — and several other premises for not having required permits. They said the Harrad [...]

DENPASAR Governor I Made Mangku Pastika has repeated that no geothermal power plant can be built at Bedugul — where Lake Beratan hosts a lucrative parasailing tourist attraction among other environmentally disturbing non-traditional uses of the area — because religious beliefs make it impossible. “We remain committed to maintain the earlier refusal,” he told reporters. [...]

JAKARTA Suspected Islamic militants killed three police officers in Sumatra early on Wednesday in apparent retaliation for the arrest and killing of members of their group, police said. Twelve men surrounded a police station at Hamparan Perak, in Deli Serdang district of Sumatra island, and opened fire around 12:45am, police spokesman Iskandar Hasan said. “Three [...]

Final Bids: At the Denpasar District Court on Tuesday, Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran of the Bali Nine drug-smuggling group of Australians were attempting to have their death sentences commuted. Full story below. (Photos: The Bali Times/Juliyusman Sine)

DENPASAR Two Australians on death row in Bali for their leading part in a drug-smuggling operation appeared before the Denpasar District Court on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to escape the firing squad. Andrew Chan, 26, and Myuran Sukumaran, 29 — part of the media-dubbed Bali Nine group — have filed judicial reviews of their [...]

CANBERRA Lex Bartlem, Australian consul-general in Bali from February 2009 until last month, has been named Australia’s ambassador to Lebanon. The announcement was made as one for former foreign minister Stephen Smith’s last official acts before relinquishing the portfolio to former prime minister Kevin Rudd, named to the job in the new Gillard government. Bartlem [...]

DENPASAR Police have found a motorbike belonging to murdered student Dewa Agung Ayu Diah Cahyani, 18, found naked and stabbed on her bed at her Panjer boarding house 10 days ago — and the bike has fingerprints they believe are those of her killer. The motorbike was found at Mengwi, in Badung, west of Denpasar, [...]