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Sri Lankan immigrants in despair, finally surrender

Some 88 Sri Lankan immigrants who had been living in despair aboard their boat, the MV Alicia, since July 10, 2011, ...

Starving Sri Lankan immigrants finally disembark from boat

After stubbornly refusing to disembark from the MV Alicia since July 10, 2011, 84 illegal Sri Lankan immigrants on ...

Telkomsel dispatches 5,000 Idul Fitri travelers for free

Some 5,000 Idul Fitri travelers are joining free `mudik` (home-bound trips) program of cellular phone operator PT ...

Pelni to operate extra ship for reverse Idul Fitri travelers

State-owned shipping company PT Pelni will operate one more of its ships, the KM Labobar, to transport people making ...

Thousands join free `mudik` travel programs

While the tickets of various modes of transpiration are now difficult to obtain for `mudik` (home-bound trips), tens ...

RI seizes 93 foreign ships: Bakorkamla spokesman

Indonesia, through its National Maritime Security Coordinating Board or Bakorkamla, has from January to August 2011 ...

Nazaruddin`s case not to affect Democrat Party badly

Democrat Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum said he was optimistic Nazaruddin`s case as well as other cases would not ...

Money in circulation in Batam reaches Rp1.1 trillion

Bank Indonesia (BI/the central bank) Batam office has predicted that a total of Rp1.1 trillion of money has been in ...

Some Sri Lankan immigrants aboard MV Alicia sick

A number of Sri Lankan immigrants who arrived aboard the MV Alicia in Tanjungpinang waters last July 10 have fallen ...

News Focus: Colombian police finally stop runaway Nazaruddin

After being on the run in three continents for about 75 days, Nazaruddin, the former Democrat Party treasurer ...

Police catch ATM thieves

Police have caught two people on suspicion of having removed and taken away an automatic teller machine (ATM) of a ...

Govt to promote batik as flagship product

Batik industry has been booming following the increased public enthusiasm of wearing the traditional clothes ...

PDS urges govt to investigate vandalizm of school, church

The general chairman of the Prosperous Peace Party (PDS), Denny Tewu, has asked the government and security ...

Indonesia-Malaysia JV To Create Greater Internet Gateway From Johore To Jakarta

-     The project expects to capitalise on the need for next-generation broadband capabilities such ...

Fokker plane flies safely despite haze cloud

A commercial Fokker-50 plane of the Sky Aviation, plying Dumai, Riau province to Batam, Riau Islands route, flew ...