Three days after flash floods and landslides killed at least 80 people in East Java province, about 250 people are feared dead after floodwaters and a mudslide devastated a village in neighboring...
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Indonesia: Anti-graft activist jailed for aid theft
Laksamana.Net - A court in Aceh province has sentenced anti-corruption campaigner Farid Faqih to one year in jail for stealing tsunami relief aid from the military. Judges at Jantho District Court,...
Sri Lanka: The government hopes to reduce the number of poor people by 50% in five years
Laksamana.Net - The government hopes to reduce the number of poor people by 50% in five years, from 36 million at present to 18 million in 2010, says a senior minister. "The number of the poor in the...
Indonesia: 5 police killed in Maluku ambush
Laksamana.Net - Unidentified gunmen have staged a pre-dawn attack on a Mobile Brigade (Brimob) police post on Seram island, Maluku province, resulting in the deaths of five police officers, one...
Indonesia: Aceh killings continue ahead of status change
Laksamana.Net - The government plans to lift Aceh's civil emergency status but there will be no withdrawal of state troops from the province, where seven alleged rebels were reported killed in the...
Indonesia: TNI mulls lifting Aceh's security status
Laksamana.Net - The Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) says it will form a special team to study whether to lift Aceh province's civil emergency status, which was imposed last year to deal with a...
US, Indonesia sign $245 million Aceh road deal
Laksamana.Net - Indonesia and the US have signed an agreement to reconstruct a highway on the western coast of tsunami-devastated Aceh province at a cost of $245 million. The agreement was signed in...
Minister denies Indonesia facing rice shortage
Laksamana.Net - Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono has brushed aside concerns that recent floods could lead to a rice shortage in Indonesia later this year. "There is no indication that we will...
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Indonesia opposes UN Human Rights Council
Laksamana.Net - Indonesia is opposing United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's proposal to abolish the UN Human Rights Commission and replace it with a smaller Human Rights Council that would...
Indonesia: 'Superstructure' to manage Aceh reconstruction
Laksamana.Net - The Indonesian government is preparing to hand the task of managing and monitoring the reconstruction of tsunami-devastated Aceh province and Nias island to a new board, with primary...
Indonesia: Seven 'rebels' shot dead in Aceh
Laksamana.Net - The Indonesian military says its had shot dead seven separatists in Aceh province, despite claims of progress in recent peace talks between the government and the rebels. Aceh...
Indonesia: Combating corruption in Aceh
Laksamana.Net - The government has tasked the Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) to monitor the rebuilding of tsunami-devastated Aceh province to ensure that huge inflows of foreign aid are not...
Indonesia: Aid Groups welcome Aceh extension
Laksamana.Net - Foreign aid groups have welcomed the government's decision to allow them to spend two more months in tsunami-devastated Aceh province before foreigners not involved in construction...
Indonesia, GAM to continue peace talks
Indonesia and leaders of Aceh's separatist movement will resume talks next week to discuss limited autonomy for the resource-rich but impoverished province. The two sides met last month outside the...
Indonesia: 150,000 children orphaned by tsunami: VP
Up to 150,000 children in Aceh and North Sumatra provinces are believed to have lost their parents in the devastating December earthquake and tsunamis, says Vice President Jusuf Kalla. "Only God...
Indonesia: The Aceh Stalemate
Laksamana.Net - Indonesia says it will continue military operations against separatist rebels in tsunami-devastated Aceh province until the two sides can agree to the terms of a peace deal. Talks...
Aceh Autonomy Back on the Table
Laksamana.Net - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday (27/1/05) offered wide-ranging autonomy and other concessions to separatist rebels in Aceh province, while peace talks between the...
Indonesia: 'Keep Foreign Troops in Aceh'
Protesters from Aceh have urged the government to revise its March 26 timeframe for the withdrawal of foreign troops conducting relief operations in the tsunami-devastated province. About 50 people...
Indonesia seeks $3.3 billion from CGI
The government will seek at least $3.3 billion in new loans from the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI), a grouping of donor governments, international financial institutions and United Nations...
Indonesia Puts Tsunami Losses at $4.5 Billion
The cataclysmic earthquake and tsunamis in northern Sumatra caused estimated losses of Rp42.7 trillion ($4.5 billion) representing 2.2% of national gross domestic product (GDP) and 97% of Aceh's GDP,...