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2007

Annual haze disrupts flights in Indonesia
Smoke from land-clearing forest fires disrupts flights serving the Indonesian part of Borneo as the country enters the dry season, according to a local official on Sunday. The haze covered the city of Pontianak in the western part of the island for the last two days, delaying flights on Sunday morning because of the reduced ... ( read on )

2006

Santos downgrades Indonesia oil resource
Oil and gas producer Santos Ltd has been forced to downgrade the size of its Jeruk offshore Indonesian oil discovery which may now be less than half the size originally thought. Data from the third appraisal well drilled to test the reservoir has seen the height of the hydrocarbon column at Jeruk slashed to about ... ( read on )

2005

Jakarta raises bird flu alert
Bird flu is suspected in the deaths of a man and his two daughters in Indonesia and the lack of evidence that they had contact with sickened poultry raises concerns of possible human-to-human transmission, the nation's health minister said Friday. The victims, a 38-year-old man and his two girls, aged 9 and 1, would be ... ( read on )

2004

At least 1,000 lose homes in Kebon Melati inferno
Siti Rohayah's eyes were brimming with tears while she watched firefighters struggling to put out the fire that destroyed her home on Wednesday morning in the Kebon Melati subdistrict, Central Jakarta. The 30-year-old mother, who is expecting her eighth baby in several days, lost everything in the fire. Helped by her mother Umayah, 55, she ... ( read on )

2004

Mysterious assassins kill Bondowoso PDI-P executive
Suwarjo, 60, an executive with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) Bondowoso branch, and his wife and son were found murdered in the family home on Wednesday. The police are looking into whether the murders were political motivated or were a case of revenge. The police have ruled out robbery as being behind the ... ( read on )

2004

Explosions rock Bandung gambling dens, damage cars
Two homemade bombs exploded simultaneously at two gambling centers in Bandung, West Java, on Wednesday, damaging several cars. No injuries were reported. Police were quick to say that the blasts that occurred at around 10:30 a.m. were not linked to any terrorist group. But the motive behind the incidents remains unclear. The first bomb exploded ... ( read on )

2004

Foreign investment in Indonesia down
Foreign direct investment in Indonesia fell by almost 35 percent in the first half of the year, underscoring the troubles facing the country's economy, the government said Wednesday. The country's official investment board did not provide any reason for the drop to US$3.05 billion from US$4.65 billion invested over the same period last year. But ... ( read on )

2004

Clashes kill 15 rebels in Aceh
At least 15 separatist rebels have been killed in the latest bloodshed in Indonesia's province of Aceh, where thousands have died in decades of simmering violence, the official news agency Antara reported on Wednesday. Antara, quoting army spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Asep Sapari, said violence erupted between members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and security forces ... ( read on )

2004

Amien Rais says shocked by defeat in presidential election
National Assembly Speaker Amien Rais said he was shocked by his defeat in Indonesia's presidential election. With almost 104 million votes, or around 82 percent of the total, tallied after the July 5 first round of Indonesia's first direct presidential polls, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had 34 percent. Second was incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri with 26 percent, followed ... ( read on )

2004

Nine crew missing off Indonesia after pirate attack
Nine crew members of a ship were missing after pirates threw them overboard in Indonesian waters, just a few days before military patrols begin in the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's strategic shipping lanes, an ocean crime watchdog said on Wednesday. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said the attack occurred on a tug ... ( read on )

2003

Indonesia piling up political prisoners again
TWO of the world’s largest human rights organizations say that the government of Indonesian President Megawati Sukar­noputri is filling the country’s jails once again with political prisoners, only five years after all prisoners of conscience were released with the ouster of former President Suharto. In separate reports released last week, London-based Amnesty International and New ... ( read on )

2002

MS Outlook users send virusses
Over the past couple of weeks, my email box has been flooded by a large amount of virus-emails, send from all kinds of people's email boxes. These virus-emails are sent by people who didn't protect their computer from exploits which have been known for quite some time. They are contaminated with the Yaha-virus, or a ... ( read on )

2002

No death penalty call for Tommy
Prosecutors in the trial of the Tommy Suharto are demanding he face a 15 year jail sentence for masterminding the murder of a Supreme Court judge -- a punishment critics described as 'a joke.' Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, the youngest son of ex-dictator Suharto, is accused of ordering the murder of Supreme Court judge ... ( read on )

2001

PDI-P urges MPR to hold snap special session
The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) ended its three-day national working meeting on Saturday with nine resolutions, including the decision to support an accelerated People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) special session should President Abdurrahman Wahid go ahead with his controversial policies. "We support MPR leaders in bringing forward the special session, which ... ( read on )

Other events on this day

2001

Four days after a blast at Slipi overpass, West Jakarta, a bomb explodes under the Mampang Prapatan overpass, South Jakarta, injuring two women and damaging two cars.

2001

Seven people die and 26 others are injured when a coal train hits a bus in Prabumulih, Muara Enim, some 120 kilometers south of Palembang, South Sumatra.

2000

Volcanic ash spewed by Mount Merapi in the past few days has reached parts of Gombong in Kebumen regency, Central Java, about 150 kilometers west of the volcano.

2000

Five students of the design and arts school of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) are declared missing after their rubber boat was hit by strong waves in waters off Rancabuaya Beach, Garut regency, West Java.

2000

Jailed "ecstasy Queen" Zarina gives birth by caesarean section to a healthy baby girl weighing 2.8 kilograms at Tangerang Women's Hospital, W. Java. The single woman was arrested with some 30,000 ecstasy pills 4 years ago and again in last October.

2000

Rini Suryanti, an Indonesian maid, dies after falling three floors from a Singapore apartment belonging to her employer's sister, becoming the seventh domestic helper working abroad to topple from an apartment while cleaning windows this year.

2000

Minister of Foreign Affairs Alwi Shihab visits Bandar Sri Begawan to attend Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's birthday celebration.

1999

A group of Irianese protests in front of the National Police HQ in Jakarta, demanding an end to violence by security personnel in their province and to replace Irian Jaya Police chief Brig. Gen. Hotma Siagian, who they claim is guilty of abuse of power.

1998

In a meeting with activists from the Movement Against Violence Toward Women, President BJ Habibie condemns the rape of dozens of women during and after the May riots in Jakarta and other cities and promises greater protection for women.

1998

Ex-convict-turned-Muslim preacher Anton Medan alias M. Ramdhan Effendy denies all police accusations against him concerning the mid-May riots.

1997

State Minister of Research and Technology BJ Habibie is awarded an honorary medal by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Bonn for his efforts in forging excellent ties between Indonesia and Germany.

1997

President Soeharto and South African President Nelson Mandela agree to strengthen economic and political ties, including a general exchange on the East Timor issue.

1997

Minister/State Secretary Moerdiono reveals that President Soeharto has written to House Speaker Wahono to review the broadcasting bill, seven months after the House passed it.

1997

State Minister for Special Assignments Harmoko installs three echelon officials in his office. The first task of the office is to give pembekalan (instruction on Pancasila state ideology) to prospective House members.

1994

Indonesia criticizes the U.S. Senate's plan to tie the sales of light weapons to Indonesia to unrelated matters like human rights issues in East Timor.

1994

Miss World 1994 Sushmita Sern arrives in Jakarta for a week day visit to participate in a series of social activities both in Jakarta and Surabaya.

1989

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale hits Alor island in East Nusa Tenggara, killing one resident and injuring dozens of others. A quake in 1987 measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale killed 45 people and injured 145 others.

1987

The Bogor District Court in West Java sentences healer Siradjuddin alias Pak De to 12 years in jail for murdering businesswoman Endang Sukitri. The healer is also being tried for the murder of fashion model Dietje.

1984

World champion Icuk Sugianto regains the title of the Malaysian Open Badminton championship in Ipoh, Malaysia, after defeating Martin Frost Hansen of Denmark.

1976

The House of Representatives ratifies a bill on the integration of East Timor into Indonesia.

1965

A medical team of the People's Republic of China arrive to examine President Sukarno's health over a two-week period in Jakarta and Bogor.

1948

A three-day conference of heads of state and prime ministers from states and regions controlled by the Dutch concludes in Bandung, West Java, with a resolution called the Bandung Resolution, to establish the United States of Indonesia on Jan. 1, 1949.

1946

Deputy Governor-General of Dutch East Indies van Mook initiates a conference in Malino, S. Sulawesi, attended by representatives of Dutch-occupied regions, to discuss the creation of a federal state and a state consisting of eastern Indonesia.

1946

The government revokes the status of the king of Surakarta in Central Java, taking away all of his special rights and his power as the head of the region, leaving him a traditional leader in the five-hectare area of the kingdom.

1936

Unsatisfied with Governor-General BC de Jonge's political policy, Sutardjo Kartohadikusumo, chairman of the Dutch East Indies Association of Indigenous Civil Servants, proposes a petition at Volksraad (parliament) demanding Indonesia's independence.

1929

Dr. Tehupeiory and Dr. Apituley establish a pro-Dutch political forum named the Political Federation of the Moluccas (MPV).