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2008

Man arrested for smuggling 900 people to Australia
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are deciding whether to press charges against an Iraqi man arrested in Jakarta for alleged involvement in smuggling 900 asylum-seekers to Australia. The Indonesian Immigration Office director-general for Investigation and Law Enforcement, Syaiful Rachman, said that an Iraqi man named Hadi Ali Asgar El Ahmad was allegedly involved in the ... ( read on )

2007

Bird flu; situation in Indonesia, update 4
A boy has died of bird flu, bringing the total death toll in Indonesia to 81. Indonesia is currently the only country regularly logging human fatalities from the virus, according to a health official earlier today. The 6-year old died last Sunday in a hospital in Jakarta, told Rumizar Rusin from the bird flu information ... ( read on )

2006

Indonesia debates the difference between porn and pawn
Kartika Gunawan is not a typical men's magazine playmate. But even though not a nipple was visible in her starring role in the first issue of Indonesian Playboy — in a concession to hardline Islamists calling for the publication to be banned — she faces more than two years in jail for indecency. Jakarta's police chief ... ( read on )

2006

Pancasila values must be implemented
Belief in one supreme God, humanism, national unity, consultative democracy and social justice. These five principles came into the minds of Indonesia's founding fathers when they discussed the country's ideology. The five principles later became what we now know as Pancasila or the five pillars. Not too long ago, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asked the people ... ( read on )

2004

Market drops over fear Susilo may lose
The Jakarta stock market fell on Thursday, with some analysts saying an key factor was fears "market favorite" Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono might fail to win the president's job. The Jakarta Composite Index ended lower by 1.54 percent or 11.92 points, to 759.742, on volume of 1.72 billion shares traded worth Rp 908.78 billion (US$101 million). Stock ... ( read on )

2003

Indonesia to relaunch power projects
The Indonesian government is to relaunch Wednesday the development of 26 power projects that were halted in late 1997 by an economic and monetary crisis, senior government officials said Monday, the Kyodo News Service reported. A dispute with Karaha Bodas Co. of the United States still needs to be settled, but renegotiations with most independent ... ( read on )

2003

23 killed in latest violence in Aceh
Gunbattles between soldiers and rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province left 18 insurgents dead, and the bodies of five civilians were discovered in the region, officials said Tuesday. Meanwhile, in the north Acehnese city of Lhokseumawe, lawyers for three soldiers charged with raping four women urged a court to free their clients, claiming the prosecution lacked ... ( read on )

2002

42 dead in nightclub inferno
The death toll from a fire that gutted a popular nightclub rose to 42 on Monday, though police said it was likely more bodies would be found inside the building. Some people leapt to their deaths from the top of the four-floor karaoke bar in the provincial capital of Palembang as flames engulfed the roof ... ( read on )

2001

Another Cabinet shake-up on Tuesday: Minister
The nation is set to witness yet another Cabinet reshuffle involving not only the vacant post of attorney general, but also other ministries, a senior Cabinet minister revealed. The next reshuffle, prompted primarily by the sudden death of Attorney General Baharuddin Lopa, is expected to take place on Tuesday. Minister of Foreign ... ( read on )

Other events on this day

2001

Some 150 middle-ranking police officers, most of whom range from adjutant senior commissioner to senior commissioner, declare that National Police chief Gen. Surojo Bimantoro should stop disobeying orders and comply with the instruction of President Abdu

2001

Sumarsih, mother of the late Norma Irawan, one of the victims of the Semanggi cloverleaf shooting in 1998, throws eggs at members of the House special committee when they recommend, after 8 months of investigation into the Trisakti and Semanggi shootings.

2001

Former State Logistics Agency (Bulog) chief Rahardi Ramelan is named a suspect by the Attorney General's Office in a case involving the misuse of Rp 54 billion (some US$4.7 million) of the agency's nonbudgetary funds.

2001

State-owned telecommunications company PT Telkom ends its joint operation contract with PT AriaWest International in a bid to end its protracted dispute with the subsidiary of American telecommunications giant AT&T.

2000

The Government Watch (Gowa), a non-governmental organization that first disclosed the controversial Rp 35 b. scam at the State Logistics Agency , reveals the alleged role of Pres. A. Wahid in the scandal, charging that the President to obtain the money.

2000

Randal J. Olson, director of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, the U.S., declares President Abdurrahman Wahid's eyes in excellent condition, but indicates his vision is not likely to fully recover.

1999

Emotional Attorney General Lt. Gen. Andi M. Ghalib calls Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) executive Teten Masduki an animal for accusing him of corruption.

1998

In an interview with Reuters Television, President BJ Habibie confirms that he does not plan to run for reelection in the 2000 elections.

1998

Indonesian Journalists Association and Newspaper Publishers Union oppose a newly issued decree, claiming it is open to interpretation and in many ways similar to the previous restrictive decree because it allows the govt to suspend paper's licenses.

1994

State Minister of Research and Technology BJ Habibie symbolically transfers five of the 39 newly purchased secondhand warships from Germany to the Teluk Ratai naval base in Lampung, southern Sumatra.

1992

Golkar functional group wins the 6th general election but loses 17 seats of its seats in the House to end up with 282, while the United Development Party's and the Indonesian Democratic Party's seats increase to 62 from 61 seats and to 56 from 40 each.

1989

The minister of religious affairs confirms that registering an Islamic marriage over the telephone was unlawful because it was difficult to check facts through a telephone conversation.

1988

Ten people are killed in a landslide which buries nine houses in Garut regency, West Java.

1988

Attorney General Sukarton Marmosudjono announces the banning of the publication and all activities relating to the circulation of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Rumah Kaca (The Glass House), saying the book is communist propaganda.

1988

Minister of Trade M. Arifin Siregar receives the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from the German government through its ambassador in Jakarta, Theodor Wallau, for his efforts in developing bilateral relations.

1988

Minister of Education and Culture opens the Affandi museum in Yogyakarta. Affandi, 82, is a noted Indonesian painter.

1987

The Brussel-based Dag Hammarskjold institute officially opens a representative office in Jakarta and honors 12 Indonesians, including late Indonesian vice president Adam Malik, businessman Masagung, wife of home inister Soepardjo Rustam, with awards.

1986

An Australian Broadcasting Corporation poll reveals that Australians perceive Indonesia as the third greatest threat to their country after the Soviet Union and the United States. A similar poll in 1983 showed the oviet Union is the most feared country.

1982

The Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia gives a US$1.85 billion loan to Indonesia for the 1982/1983 fiscal year.

1947

The Central Organization of All-Indonesian Workers (SOBSI), a labor wing of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), is accepted as a member of the World Federation of Trade Unions in its meeting in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

1947

The Oil Mining Company of the Republic of Indonesia (Permiri) is formed in Bukittinggi, Central Sumatra, to centralize oil affairs in the region.