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Minister declares jihad against pornographic sites

Indonesian communication and informatics minister Tifatul Sembiring said here on Friday his efforts to block ...

MUI sets up agency to verify Islamic content

The Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) has established an agency to verify Islamic content in the broadcast media and ...

New religious affairs minister visits anti-graft body

Newly inducted Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin visited the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) ...

US ambassador hopes negotiations to benefit Freeport and Indonesia

US Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Blake has expressed hope that further negotiations between PT Freeport Indonesia and ...

Jokowi not to accommodate racial-based protests

Presidential candidate Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has voiced his zero-tolerance approach to racial-based protests of any ...

Economic progress should not keep people away from religion: President

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said economic and trade progress should not keep the public away from religion. ...

China sentences nine `terrorists` to death

China has sentenced nine people to death on terrorism-related charges in its ethnically divided western region of ...

Lukman Hakim to replace Suryadharma Ali as religious affairs minister

The deputy general chairman of the United Development Party (PPP), Lukman Hakim Saefuddin, will be inaugurated as the ...

Presidential election not War of Badr: MUI

General Chairman of the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) Din Syamsuddin said it was too much to liken the upcoming ...

KPK saves rp248.89 trillion in state fund

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said corruption courts have handled hundreds of corruption cases so far ...

President to appoint new religious affairs minister soon

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will soon appoint a new religious affairs minister to replace Suryadharma Ali, who ...

Indonesian hajj pilgrims to use electronic bracelets

Indonesias government is discussing plans to equip hajj pilgrims with electronic bracelets to reduce the number of ...

Indonesian minister convinced hajj management better this year

Interim Religious Affairs Minister Agung Laksono who is also chief peoples welfare minister, said that the ...

Anggito resigns as hajj affairs director general

Director General for Hajj Affairs Anggito Abimanyu has tendered his resignation as he might be implicated in a ...

Suryadharma Ali returns mandate as religious affairs minister to president

Suryadharma Ali returned his mandate as religious affairs minister to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here on ...