Jakarta - An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced a legislator from the party of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to four-a-half years in prison for accepting bribes.

The anti-corruption court in Jakarta found Sarjan Taher, a lawmaker from the Democratic Party, guilty of accepting 5 billion rupiah (440,000 dollars) in bribe money from a provincial government.

The money was intended to influence lawmakers to approve a project to convert a mangrove forest into a seaport in South Sumatra province, the court said.

Jakarta - A couple of wild elephants went on a rampage in Indonesia's north-western province of Aceh, killing two people and injuring three others after destroying a hut, police and media reports said Wednesday.

The animals entered Kupula village in Sumatra's northern Aceh district of Pidie Tuesday morning, and trampled a hut where seven women chili farmers were eating breakfast.

Pidie district police chief Mufan Mujikawati said the women fled the hut but two of them were later trampled to death by the angry elephants.

Jakarta - Indonesia's top Islamic body issued a ruling banning Muslim from practicing yoga if they engage in Hindu religious rituals during the exercise, the chairman of the group said.

At the end of its three-day meeting in the West Sumatra city of Padang Panjang on Sunday, the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) issued the fatwa, or edict, saying that exercises containing Hindu elements such as chanting were "haram," (forbidden) in Islam, as it could weaken the faith of Muslims.

Jakarta - A bus carrying 36 people plunged into a ravine in the Indonesian province of West Java early Monday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens of others, police said.

The accident took place at about 3 am (2000 GMT Sunday) when a passenger bus, moving at high speed, fell into a 200-metre ravine in Malangbong village in Garur district, about 150 kilometres south-east of Jakarta, the state-run Antara news agency reported.

Jakarta, Jan. 26 : Muslims in Indonesia have been banned from doing yoga if they engage in Hindu religious rituals during the exercise, the chairman of the country''s top Islamic body has said.

A report in The Telegraph said that about 700 clerics from the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) agreed to ban the practice of yoga over fears that the use of Hindu prayers could "erode" Muslims'' faith.

"The yoga practice that contains religious rituals of Hinduism including the recitation of mantras is "haram" (forbidden in Islam)," Ma''ruf Amin, a spokesman for the group, said.

Jakarta - Indonesian Buddhists on Thursday urged authorities in Jakarta to close a newly opened Buddha Bar restaurant, saying the name was sacrilegious.

Buddhists in the North Sumatran city of Medan met on Thursday to discuss the presence of the Buddha Bar, the hip Paris-based franchise of restaurants, the state Antara news agency reported.

"We urge the Jakarta administration to take strong action against the use of the name Buddha to avoid angering Buddhists," Brilian Moktar, head of the Buddhist association in Medan, was quoted as saying by Antara.