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Jakarta on 10-day flood emergency alert

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on Thursday declared a 10-day emergency alert, until January 27, following major ...

General elections expected to be more orderly in 2014

The next general elections in 2014 are expected to be more orderly and smoother with only ten political parties ...

Thousands of workers conduct rally in Jakarta on Wednesday

About 5,000 to 10,000 labor workers are planning to conduct a rally in Jakarta on Wednesday (Jan 16) to protest ...

Hundreds of thousands rally againts gay marriages in Paris

Hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday marched through the streets of the French capital Paris to protest President ...

Truck queues at Merak port almost overcome

The long queue at Merak port of trucks willing to be ferried to Bakauheni port of Sumatra has since Saturday night ...

KRI Makassar ships 2,000 tons of rice to Mindanao

Indonesian warship KRI Makassar-590 has left for Mindanao, the Philippines with 2,000 tons of rice for the victims of ...

Downtown Dubai New Year's Eve Gala puts global spotlight on the city

-      The iconic New Year's Eve Gala in Downtown Dubai, the most prestigious square kilometre on ...

Haiti ex-leader Aristide questioned over corruption

Haitian ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide answered prosecutors' questions Wednesday in a landmark investigation for ...

Myanmar denies using chemical weapons on rebels

Myanmar on Thursday denied accusations it had used chemical weapons against ethnic minority rebels in the northern ...

Floods, landslides kill three in Lebak, Banten Province

Floods and landslides triggered by incessant heavy rains over the past few days have killed three residents of Lebak ...

Trucks lining the road to Merak in two kilometer queue

Bad weather in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra resulted in two kilometer queue of thousands of trucks and ...

Jakarta-Merak toll road inundated at height of up to one meter

Flood has inundated the Jakarta-Merak toll road at a height of up to one meter following the overflowing of Ciujung ...

Beyonce to sing national anthem at Obama inauguration

Pop diva Beyonce will sing the national anthem before hundreds of thousands of onlookers at US President Barack ...

Floods hit nine sub-districts in Banten province

Floods hit nine sub-districts in Lebak district, Banten province, on Wednesday as a number of rivers overflowed ...

Thousands of Pertamina workers threaten to go on strike

Thousands of outsourced workers of state oil and gas firm Pertamina`s refinery unit in Cilacap, Central Java, have ...