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KAJS fields 100,000 to stage rallies on May Day

The Committee for Social Insurance Action (KAJS) claimed it has fielded some 100 thousand of its members and ...

US envoy heads to Sri Lanka amid war flap

A US envoy heads to Sri Lanka next week to encourage a full accounting over its civil war after the government angrily ...

RI, S`pore still differ about DCA

Discussions on the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) between Indonesia and Singapore have come to a deadlock because ...

ICW asks DPR to stop deliberating revision of corruption law

The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has asked the House of Representatives (DPR) to stop deliberating revision of ...

RI, Turkey parliaments agree to encourage mily cooperation

The Indonesian and Turkish parliaments have agreed to encourage close cooperation between the two countries in the ...

Pakistan urges US to stop drone strikes

Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani urged the US Monday to end its drone strikes in Pakistan and said Washington should share ...

Students protest building of new DPR tower

Members of the student executive council of Diponegoro University in Semarang rejected the construction of the new DPR ...

CIR: New building to spoil kawmakers

The director of the Center for Indonesian Reform (CIR), Sapto Waluyo, said the planned new parliament building will ...

Arab revolts lesson to African states: Tanzania minister

The political upheaval in Libya and other Arab states should be a lesson to African countries that time has run out ...

Obama ally warns of U.S. congress anger on Libya

President Barack Obama`s Democratic allies in the US Congress may respond with "anxiety, perhaps anger" if strikes on ...

Seoul to evacuate Koreans if Japan crisis worsens

South Korea said Friday it would mobilise military aircraft and vessels to evacuate its nationals if Japan`s nuclear ...

Tibet exile MPs debate Dalai Lama retirement

The Tibetan parliament-in-exile on Tuesday began debating the Dalai Lama`s request to resign as political leader in ...

Gaddafi defiant as west mulls action

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi stood firm Wednesday, accusing the West of plotting to seize his country`s oil and the ...

News Focus: Mediation offered over media boycott polemics

Two press bodies, the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) and the Press Council, have offered mediation efforts ...

Legislators fail to pass tax mafia inquiry motion

The initiators of the tax mafia inquiry failed to win the House approval in its plenary on Tuesday after 264 lawmakers ...