COURT TESTIMONY CONFIRMS CORRUPTION RIFE IN INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT

Jakarta, July 30 (ANTARA) – Testimony at a Corruption Court session on Monday that 52 legislators had received Rp100 billion in bribes from Bank Indonesia (BI) for the revision of a BI bill was big news by any standard. Yet, to many people the disclosure was not surprising at all because it only [...]

SERIAL KILLER KILLS AT LEAST TEN PEOPLE IN INDONESIA

Jakarta , July 28 (ANTARA) – Indonesian Police on Monday lifted five more bodies from holes in the backyard of a serial killer`s house after recovering four others from the same area in Maijo hamlet, Jatiwates village, Jombang district, East Java, last week.

RI RESUMES TREE-PLANTING DRIVE TO ABSORB MORE CARBON

Jakarta, July 25 (ANTARA) – Indonesia will continue its tree planting drive in order to recover its damaged forests, re-green its denuded land areas and help reduce global warming by providing homes for billions of tons of carbon sink.

INDONESIA IS TOO SLOW IN EXECUTING BALI BOMBERS

Jakarta, July 21 (ANTARA) – The planned execution of Amrozi, Imam Samudera and Mukhlas –Indonesia’s notorious terrorists who bombed Bali and killed 202 people in October 2002– were until Monday still uncertain. “We have not received any notification yet about the execution of Amrozi and friends,” Bambang Winahyo, head of penitentiary affairs of the [...]

INDONESIA, EAST TIMOR EXPRESS REMORSE OVER DILI ATROCITIES

Jakarta, July 15 (ANTARA) – The governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste in Bali on Tuesday expressed deep regret over the gross human rights violations committed during and after the referendum that led to the secession of East Timor from Indonesia in September in 1999.

ANTI-GRAFT COMMISSION TURNS ATTENTION TO OIL SECTOR

Jakarta, July 11 (ANTARA) – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) which has already netted or brought to justice numerous “untouchables” such as law-makers, public prosecutors and ranking government officials for graft or corruption, is now turning its attention to people in the country’s least transparent business, the oil and gas [...]

PUBLIC NEED TO CONTROL HOUSE FUEL INQUIRY

Jakarta, July 10 (ANTARA) – The public, including students and the media must watch the House of Representatives (DPR)’s Fuel Oil Price Hike Inquiry Committee so that it will carry out its mission effectively.
Observers feared that the House Committee, whose leadership was inducted on Wednesday about three weeks after the House [...]

RI MUST STILL WORK HARD TO ATTRACT SEVEN MILLION TOURISTS

      Jakarta, July 8 (ANTARA) – Indonesia which in January addressed an invitation to people around the world  by proclaiming 2008 as  ”Visit-Indonesia Year”  still has to work hard to achieve its target of attracting seven million foreign tourists this year.
         On several occasions, Culture and Tourism Minister Jedro Wacik expressed his optimism that the target of [...]

FOUR MORE CONVICTS ON DEATH ROW TO BE EXECUTED IN INDONESIA

Jakarta, July 4 (ANTARA) – After carrying out the execution by firing squad of two Nigerian drug offenders last week, Indonesian public prosecutors are planning to implement the death sentences of  five more convicts this month.
         The plan to execute the five convicts who have been on death row for years is part of the [...]

INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT READY TO FACE HOUSE’S INQUIRY

Jakarta, July 2 (ANTARA) – While the House of Representatives (DPR) is forming a special inquiry committee on the increased domestic fuel oil prices, the government says it is ready to face the parliamentary investigation.
“The government is ready to face the inquiry,” Minister/Sate Secretary Hatta Radjasa told the press on [...]