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Gender equality still little understood in RI : Minister

While International Women`s Day is always observed in Indonesia, gender equality is still a little understood and ...

Domestic violence still rampant in Indonesia: Minister

Domestic violence is still rampant in Indonesia, according to women`s Role Empowerment Minister Linda Amalia Gumelar ...

President urged to end religiously-motivated violence

The National Commission on Women (Komnas Perempuan) has urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to take appropriate ...

RI decides to evacuate citizens from Egypt

The Indonesian government has finally decided to evacuate its citizens and deploy commercial and military airplanes ...

FM postpones trip to Japan due to Egyptian crisis

Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa postponed his trip to Japan due to Egyptian crisis. A press release ...

Team for evacuating citizens leaving for Egypt

The team that will be assigned to evacuate Indonesian citizens in Egypt is leaving for that country on Monday night, ...

India sends plane to rescue citizens from Egypt

India on Sunday sent a passenger plane to Cairo to evacuate Indian citizens from Egypt due to the ongoing unrest, the ...

Floods hampering evacuation of 93 illegal immigrants

Floods are hampering efforts to evacuate 93 illegal immigrants from Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan stranded on Naikliu ...

Triple attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq kill 12

Three car bombs ripped through crowds near Iraq`s shrine city of Karbala on Monday, killing 12 people and wounding ...

Three US drone strikes kill 13 in Pakistan

A series of unmanned US drone strikes in a lawless district of Pakistan on Sunday killed at least 13 militants, ...

50 dead in Iraq as suicide blasts rock holy city

A spate of explosions across Iraq on Thursday killed at least 50 people, most of them in twin suicide car bombings in ...

64 Pilgrims dead in Indian stampede: state minister

The toll from a deadly stampede at a pilgrimage site in southern Indian on Friday rose to 64, with 75 injured, the ...

RI`s chance to Address rights issues in ASEAN

In its position as ASEAN chairman for 2011, Indonesia will have valuable chance to give special attention to and take ...

RI hopes to see more human rights` development in Myanmar

Indonesia during its chairmanship of ASEAN in 2011 hopes to contribute to the development of human rights in Myanmar, ...

Philippine boy survives three days at sea

A 15-year-old Philippine schoolboy who was sent alone to sea by his grandmother to fish survived three days adrift ...