The heavy-metal-loving governor of Indonesian capital Jakarta has surrendered to anti-corruption authorities a guitar that was a gift from US band Metallica, an official said yesterday.
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6 May 2013
Ajeng Dewanti wakes up every weekday before sunrise, squeezes into an overcrowded car, and spends the next two hours making the 17-kilometre journey through the Jakarta gridlock to her work.
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23 Feb 2013
Indonesia's anti-graft body on Friday named the chairman of the ruling party as a suspect in connection with a multi-million-dollar corruption case, the latest scandal to hit the president's party...
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28 Jan 2013
The floods in Jakarta were typical of what Asia's mega-cities have experienced or face. Like the region's other big urban centres, the city of 10 million people is in a low-lying, coastal, area....
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18 Jan 2013
Floods in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta have left at least 11 people dead, authorities said on Friday as murky brown waters submerged parts of the city’s business district, causing chaos for a...
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22 Nov 2012
Thousands of Indonesian workers have taken to the streets to protest against low wages and having to pay for social security services.
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Indonesia can be many things to many people. Visitors flock to its lauded beaches and mountain tourism sites, while multinational companies head to the capital, Jakarta, to be part of the booming...
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Past the smog of Jakarta and its garbage-strewn coastal waters lie some surprisingly pristine islands that offer an escape from the heaving Indonesian capital.
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Concern is growing in Indonesia over the rising number of child kidnappings, with the majority of those taken being girls under the age of 12.
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