Indonesia
Mass layoffs predicted as Indonesian economy slows
By a correspondent, January 22, 2009
Millions of Indonesian workers face being laid-off this year because of the impact of the global economic breakdown.
At least 200 drown in latest Indonesian ferry disaster
By Dragan Stankovic, January 16, 2009
An estimated 230 passengers remain unaccounted for after the Teratai Prima, a 10-ten-year-old, 700-tonne ferry capsized in a monsoonal storm on January 11.
Indonesian courts acquit general of killing human rights activist
By John Roberts, January 15, 2009
The recent acquittal of a top general for the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib highlights how the Indonesian military continues to carry out gross abuses of democratic rights with imp...
Widespread unease, opposition as Indonesian government executes Bali bombers
By Patrick O'Connor, November 12, 2008
News of Indonesia’s execution early last Sunday of three men convicted of the 2002 Bali bombings has been met around the world with widespread expressions of unease, concern, and open opposition, in...
Three men convicted over 2002 Bali bombings set to be executed
By Patrick O’Connor, November 5, 2008
The imposition of the death penalty by the Indonesian government and judicial system is an act of state-sponsored murder that serves to promote backwardness and confusion and to obscure the real polit...
Indonesia: Senior intelligence official charged with murder
By Oscar Grenfell, September 13, 2008
The former deputy chief of Indonesia’s State Intelligence Agency (BIN), Major-General Muchdi Purwoprandjono, was charged last month with the premeditated murder of prominent human rights activis...
Indonesian court implicates intelligence agency in murder of human rights activist
By John Roberts, December 30, 2005
Pollycarpus Budihari Priyato, a pilot for the Indonesian state airline Garuda, was found guilty on December 20 of the murder of the internationally respected Indonesian human rights activist Munir Sai...
High inflation follows Indonesian president’s fuel price hike
By John Roberts, November 18, 2005
A surge in prices and interest rates has followed the Indonesian government’s October 1 reduction in the fuel price subsidy. The sharp rise in the costs of essential goods and services constitut...
Fuel price hikes raise political tensions in Indonesia
By John Roberts, October 6, 2005
Widespread but relatively small demonstrations followed the announcement last Friday by the government of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of sharp rises in the price of petrol, diesel an...
Indonesian air crash points to declining safety standards
By Dragan Stankovic, September 16, 2005
On September 5, a Mandala Airlines’ Boeing 737-200 crashed just after take-off into a crowded residential neighbourhood of the north Sumatran port city of Medan, Indonesia’s third largest ...
High oil prices undermine Indonesian government
By John Roberts, September 12, 2005
Just a year after former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won the Indonesian presidential election, skyrocketting global oil prices are compounding the country’s economic difficulties and placin...
Indonesia signs shaky peace deal with Acehnese separatists
By John Roberts, August 20, 2005
On August 15, the exiled leaders of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) signed a pact with the Indonesian government in the Finnish capital Helsinki to end their 29-year struggle for independence....
