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2007

Saudi sends aviation watchdog to Indonesia
Officials of Saudi Arabia's aviation watchdog arrived in Indonesia Monday to begin inspections of local airlines concerning their safety record after the European Union recently denied entry of all Indonesian airlines. Personnel from the General Authority Civil Aviation (GACA) visited the Transportation Ministry's compound here and were received by director general of civil aviation Budhi ... ( read on )

2006

Indonesia no longer hit by economic crisis : Kalla says
Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said here on Sunday that Indonesia is no longer hit by economic crisis because per capita income has reached US$1,500. "The economic crisis has actually ended," Kalla said to respond a speech deliverd by chairman of the Nation Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar in the party`s national meeting. The vice president ... ( read on )

2006

Main Islamic group mulls ban on TV gossip programs
Indonesia's largest Islamic movement, the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), is considering issuing an edict that would ban Muslims from producing or watching popular television gossip shows, an NU official said Sunday. "It is still being debated and any final decision will have to be taken in a plenary later today," said Ali Machsan Musa, head of ... ( read on )

2005

Indonesia protests to Malaysia over patrol boat incident
Indonesia's foreign affairs ministry summoned the Malaysian charge d'affaires on Friday to demand an explanation over an incident in Indonesian waters last week, in which Malaysian naval officers are said to have used force to help free fishermen arrested by Indonesian police for illegal fishing. Yuri Oktavian Thamrin, a ministry spokesman, said that the Indonesian government ... ( read on )

2004

Yudhoyono would win Indonesia's run-off
Former security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono could become the next president of Indonesia, according to a poll by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI). 68 per cent of respondents would vote for Yudhoyono of the Democratic Party (PDI) in the country’s run-off election. Current president Megawati Sukarnoputri of the Struggling Indonesian Democratic Party (PDIP) garners the support ... ( read on )

Other events on this day

2001

Indonesian woman activist Dita Indah Sari, 29, wins the Philippine 2001 Ramon Magsaysay Award in the newly created Emergent Leadership category for being at the forefront of the struggle against labor abuses in Indonesia.

2001

Drug dealer Robert alias Ken Ken is sentenced by the Tangerang District Court in Banten to seven years and six months in jail and fined Rp 2 million for smuggling 40 kilograms of shabu-shabu(crystal methamphetamine) into the country from Hong Kong.

2001

Supreme Court Chief Justice Bagir Manan announces that Justice Benjamin Mangkoedilaga has been appointed chief of the justice team preparing the establishment of an ad hoc human rights tribunal to replace the late Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, who was murdered

2001

Matori Abdul Djalil insists he is the rightful chairman of the National Awakening Party for the 2000/2005 period as a result of last year's PKB congress in Surabaya, E.Java, despite the party's law-making body approving his replacement by Abdul Cholik A.

2000

Thousands of people express their feelings toward the govt by covering the historic Act of Free Choice monument standing at the Bay of Doreri in Manokwari, Irian Jaya, with a piece of black cloth to represent legal and moral defects in the history of it.

2000

Military and civilian leaders in the port of Jayapura, Irian Jaya, force the "KM Dobonsolo" ferry, carrying some 1,000 refugees fleeing bloody sectarian unrest in the Maluku islands, to remain anchored in Yos Sudarso Bay, one mile from the port.

1999

Four hundred members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) stage a protest in front of the "Suaka Metro" daily's offices in Central Jakarta, demanding the closure of the tabloid on the grounds that it had insulted the FPI leadership by calling them shamans.

1999

The House amends the 1970 Judiciary Law as part of the govt's campaign for legal reform, placing all judicial courts under the supervision of the Supreme Court .

1998

World Bank reveals that the Consultative Group on Indonesia has pledged US$7.9 billion in aid to Indonesia for the 1998/1999 fiscal year.

1998

The East Java Police announce that they have questioned 26 people in the course of their reinvestigation into the 1993 murder of labor activist Marsinah.

1998

Asep Ilyas and Abdul Muis, who were jailed for their roles in the Tasikmalaya riots in December 1996 and recently released by the government, demand the government restore their names and release their friends still in prison for the same case.

1998

Residents of Pepe village in Sidoarjo, East Java, hold a demonstration demanding the return of their land, which was taken over by PT CMNP, owned by President Soeharto's oldest daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana.

1997

South African President Nelson Mandela calls on RI to release jailed East Timorese rebel leader Xanana Gusmao after holding talks on E. Timor with Portuguese Pres. Jorge Sampaio. The recommendation was made in a letter to President Soeharto.

1997

State Minister/Secretary Moerdiono announces that he does not consider the sale of PT Indofood Sukses Makmur's shares to QAF Ltd in Singapore capital flight, but a manifestation of neo-nationalism.

1996

Several NGOs urge the govt to cancel its plan to build a nuclear power plant on the Muria peninsula in Jepara, C. Java, arguing that the results of the feasibility study completed in March by NewJec have not yet been announced to the public.

1995

Dozens of villagers burn down 21 tobacco warehouses owned by state plantation firm PTP XXVII in Jenggawah, Jember, East Java, protesting the National Land Agency's decree issued in November 1994 which gives the firm land concessions.

1990

The Royal Netherlands Archives delivers to the Indonesian government in Leiden the first copies of documents on colonial Indonesia covering 1942 to 1950.

1987

Mines and energy minister Subroto dedicates Indonesia's first compressed natural gas (CNG) stations in Jakarta, marking the country's entry into a new phase in the history of the use of natural gas to power cars.

1985

Fuad Hassan is installed by President Soeharto as the minister of education and culture, replacing Nugroho Notosusanto who died of stroke a month before.

1965

President Sukarno orders Nyoto, who is abroad, to return to Indonesia to help him compile a text for the Independence Day speech on Aug. 17, 1965.

1953

The newly installed 14th Cabinet is dominated by the Indonesian National Party and two Islamic parties, the Masyumi and the Nahdlatul Ulama.

1949

Sam Ratulangie, a national movement hero, dies in Jakarta at the age of 59.

1949

Vice President Mohammad Hatta leads the Indonesian delegation at the Second Inter-Indonesia Conference in Jakarta.

1947

The Indonesian National Army (TNI) and the Indonesian Students Troops (TRIP) intercept Dutch troops in the Malang areas of Lawang and Singosari, killing four Dutch soldiers, but the Dutch successfully occupy Singosari.

1947

Dutch troops, who control Pematang Siantar in North Sumatra, hold a meeting with Indonesian representatives and agree that Indonesian civil servants may continue to work as usual in the city.

1947

The Australian government instructs its representative on the UN Security Council, Col. Hodgson, to request that the case of Indonesia be included in the council's agenda.

1947

Britain initiates the banning of sales of war equipment to the Netherlands for use in Indonesia, followed by the U.S.

1947

Thailand promises to ban Dutch planes from landing in the country.

1944

A number of Muslim scholars in Indramayu, West Java, lead a rebellious movement against Japanese occupation in support of a resistance rally in Singaparna led by Islamic boarding school leader Zainal Mustafa on Feb. 18, 1944.