Jakarta - Five Australians jailed for immigration offenses after landing a small plane in Indonesia's eastern-most province of Papua have been acquitted on appeal, their lawyer said Tuesday.

In January, a court in Merauke district sentenced the Australians to two and three years in prison respectively after convicting them of landing a plane illegally and entering Indonesia without visas in September.

"The appeals court accepted our argument that our clients obtained permission to land," defence attorney Efrem Fangoihoy said.

Fangoihoy said his clients could leave Indonesia as early as Wednesday.

They were released from prison and put under city arrest last week pending a decision on their appeals.

Jakarta - About 100 Indonesian Buddhist students rallied outside the Buddha Bar on Thursday, demanding it be closed for what they see as the sacrilegious use of the name.

The protestors burned incense and symbolically sealed the bar in central Jakarta with a yellow line.

The students gave the Jakarta administration a week to close the bar, a hip Paris-based franchise of restaurants, and threatened to stage larger protests if their demand was not met.

Jakarta - Thirty-four video cameras have been installed at an Indonesian national park to track every move of Java rhinos, the world's most endangered large mammal, the global conservation group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Thursday.

The cameras installed at the Ujung Kulon National Park on the western tip of Java island are intended to find out more about the animal and help to prevent the species from going extinct, the WWF said.

There are fewer than 60 Javan rhinos in the world and Ujung Kulon is home to 50 of them, the group said.

State run Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) said that it has signed up a strategic deal with Indonesia based Sumber Mitra Jaya.

The top mining and construction equipment manufacturing company signed the deal to bid for forthcoming contract mining business.

The consortium approach consists of agreement for investments in contract mining in which BEML will make 30% investment, while the remaining 70% will be made by the Indonesian company.

Jakarta - A herd of wild elephants went on a rampage in Riau province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra Wednesday, trampling an elderly man to death and destroying property, state-run media reported.

A herd of estimated 40 pachyderms entered Balai Makam village in Bengkalis district at dawn, forcing the residents to flee in panic.

The official Antara news agency quoted a local community leader as saying that one wild elephant trampled an

Jakarta  - An international Islamic economic conference ended Wednesday with calls for the reduction of trade barriers, development of alternative energy sources and stricter regulations in the global financial industry.

The three-day World Islamic Economic Forum in Jakarta, attended by 1,500 delegates from 38 countries, discussed ways to deal with the global financial crisis and food security, as well as exploring possibilities for non-carbon fuels.