Prabowo to meet Putin in Russia for oil talks
President Prabowo Subianto (pic) departed for Russia yesterday for talks with counterpart Vladimir Putin on oil, Prabowo's office said.
Tourist boat capsizes, at least 10 dead
An overcrowded tourist boat has capsized in the Yamuna river, leaving at least 10 people dead, officials said.
Alleged Scottish crime boss arrested in Bali deported to Europe
Authorities have deported a high-profile Interpol fugitive from Scotland, 10 days after his arrest at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali.
Probe on Lebanon peacekeeper deaths urged
THE government has submitted a joint statement on peacekeeper security along with dozens of allied nations to the United Nations after three of its blue helmets were killed in Lebanon.
Foreign object near Lombok Strait probed
The navy said it was investigating a torpedo-like object discovered by a fisherman near the Lombok Strait, a key maritime route connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Beyond murky adoption deals
Prosecutors charged 19 people accused of sending infants to cities across the country and overseas, including to Singapore, in what the authorities described as one of Indonesia's largest trafficking cases in recent years.
Slain UN peacekeepers laid to rest
Three peacekeepers killed in two separate explosions in southern Lebanon last week were finally laid to rest in their hometowns.
Peacekeeper deaths ‘unacceptable’
The government yesterday slammed as "unacceptable" an explosion that injured three of its peacekeepers in Lebanon within days of three other blue helmets from the South-East Asian nation being killed.
‘Death penalty Bill a grave violation of human rights’
The country has criticised Israel's approval of a death penalty Bill applicable to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as a "grave violation of international human rights and humanitarian law".
Quake sparks tsunami alert
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck in Indonesia's Northern Molucca Sea, killing one person, damaging buildings and triggering tsunami waves, authorities and witnesses said, though monitoring agencies said the likelihood of further casualties was low.
