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JAKARTA ~ US investment in energy will be one of the main points discussed by the leaders of Indonesia and the United States when President George W. Bush visits later – Read More...

SYDNEY ~ Australia and Indonesia have agreed to a new security treaty, officials said this week, after negotiations marred by a diplomatic row over Canberra’s granting of asylum to Papuan – Read More...

NAIROBI ~ “Shocking” destruction of wetlands in Indonesia is fuelling global warming with the emission of huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the earth’s atmosphere, an environmental group said here.

SEMINYAK, Bali ~ In a bid to deal with sewage problems and an overly strained infrastructure, the government of Bali will crack down on villas licensed as single-family dwellings but – Read More...

MATARAM, Lombok ~ Indonesia and Australia signed a landmark security treaty this week aimed at smoothing often thorny relations between the two neighbors.

DENPASAR ~ Deposed Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Bali this week for a holiday.

BOGOR, West Java ~ In a scene unusual for Indonesia, about 50 people staged a street rally here in support of the upcoming visit of US President George W. Bush.

SEMINYAK ~ Bali is experiencing near-record hotel and flight bookings for the upcoming Christmas and New Year’s holidays, reflecting continued and renewed interest in what has repeatedly been voted the – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ The government is willing to send troops to serve under the UN flag in Iraq if the international community agrees to such a deployment, Defense Minister Yuwono Sudarsono – Read More...

JAKARTA ~ The central government is planning to gradually streamline its bureaucracy, reducing the number of civil servants to half of about four million currently working by 2014, a minister – Read More...