Jakarta - Indonesian authorities in Papua province released one of four Dutch journalists detained for allegedly violating immigration laws, an immigration official said Wednesday.

Elske Schouten, the NRC Handelsblad newspaper's Jakarta correspondent, was released overnight but the three others were still not allowed to leave the province, said Raden Hendiartono, the head of the Jayapura immigration office.

Jakarta - Government prosecutors on Tuesday demanded prison term ranging from seven years to 15 years for five suspected Islamic militants on trial for allegedly plotting to bomb a cafe and kill a Christian priest.

Prosecutors told the South Jakarta court that the defendants were guilty of violating the country's tough anti-terrorism laws, enacted just weeks after the October 2002 bombings of two nightspots on the resort island of Bali that killed at least 202 people.

Jakarta - An Indonesian airplane with 112 people on board made an emergency landing at Batam airport, just south of Singapore, on Monday due to an engine problems, officials and passengers said.

A Boeing 737-200 jetliner belonging to Sriwijaya Airlines, one of the Indonesian private carrier, was bound for Jakarta from Tanjungpinang airport of Bintan island, airport and company official said.

An airline official said the plane with 122 passengers and crew onboard managed to land safely at Batam island, just south of Singapore, and no one was injured.

Jakarta - An exiled separatist leader seeking independence for Indonesia's easternmost Papua region called Friday for a peaceful solution to the conflict.

Nicholas Jouwe, 85, the Dutch-based co-founder of the Free Papua Movement (OPM), returned to Indonesia Wednesday for the first time after more than 40 years in exile.

He met with government officials in Jakarta in a move that could pave the way for a peace pact to end the insurgency.

Jakarta  - Activists of the environmental pressure group Greenpeace were beaten by security guards while protesting against environmental destruction outside the headquarters of one of Indonesia's largest palm oil companies Thursday, the group said.

Greenpeace accused the Sinar Mas Group, whose businesses include pulp, paper and palm oil, of destroying Indonesia's forests with impunity through its operations on Sumatra Island, the Indonesian part of Borneo and Papua.

Jakarta  - Police arrested a Muslim cleric in Indonesia's Central Java province for marrying a 12-year-old girl in violation of the country's child-protection law, an officer said Wednesday.

Pujiono Cahyo Widianto, 43, revealed in August that he had taken a 12-year-old girl as a second wife in a traditional Islamic wedding ceremony, sparking criticism from child-protection groups.

Police in Semarang, the capital of Central Java, said they had charged Pujiono with sexual exploitation of a child.