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indonesia Archive
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Malaysia to hang three Indonesian drug traffickers
On July 18, the Malaysian High Court sentenced three Indonesian men to death for drug trafficking. Amri Alamsyah, aged 42; Iskandar Ibrahim, aged 33; and Muham¬madiah Hassan, aged 31; all from Aceh, were arrested in April 2005, and found guilty of trafficking 1,858.6 grams of cannabis in front of a motorcycle shop on Jalan Kampung [...] -
Thirteen countries meet in Bali to discuss tiger conservation
Delegates from 13 countries are meeting in Bali, Indonesia from 12-14 July at the Pre-Tiger Summit Partners’ Dialogue to discuss plans to prevent tiger extinction. The meeting, sponsored by the World Bank’s Global Tiger Initiatives program, is attended by senior officials from countries which still have wild tiger population, namely India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, China, [...] -
Indonesia puts on hold plan for nuclear power plant
The President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on June 18 that his government currently has no plan for a nuclear power plant, and that the discussion on the topic is temporarily halted. Future governments may finally reconsider such a plan, “but for now, the current government has no definitive plan for that,” Yudhoyono explained. [...] -
Indonesia Finance Minister Sri Mulyani quits
Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has resigned from her post to join the World Bank as a Managing Director in June. This move is a huge setback to Indonesia’s anti-corruption efforts, and sent share prices into a sharp drop following the announcement. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said of her resignation: "We are going to lose one [...] -
Indonesia, Australia launch A$30 mln forest CO2 project
Indonesia and Australia launched a A$30 million project on Tuesday to fight deforestation in Sumatra as part of efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost a planned forest-carbon trading scheme. The project, to target Sumatra’s Jambi province that has suffered rapid deforestation, is the second joint venture between the neighbouring countries keen to learn how [...] -
Indonesia: police to deploy thousands for Dec. 9 anti-graft protest
In the latest development in the ongoing anticorruption saga in Indonesia, thousands of police officers will be deployed to maintain order at an expected anti-graft protest tomorrow in Jakarta. The protests will coincide with World Anti-Corruption Day. Popular pressure in Indonesia continues to mount over corruption allegations against the Yudhoyono government. The president has been slow [...] -
Indonesia to drop charges against anti-graft officials
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s attorney general will drop allegedly bogus charges against two senior anti-graft investigators at the centre of a bitter feud with police, an official said Monday. The culmination of a scandal that has gripped the nation for months is expected Tuesday when a Jakarta court is scheduled to approve an order to terminate the [...]
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