Jakarta - A light airplane crashed Thursday morning in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, and all four of its crew members were feared killed, news reports and officials said.
The Avia Star aircraft was en route from the capital Jayapura to Wamena district, carrying cargo and four crew members. It crashed at about 7 am (2200 GMT Wednesday) on Pike Mountain, said Papua police chief Bagus Eko Danto.
Bagus told Elshinta private radio that so far two bodies had been founded and a search was underway for the other two. He said the plane broke into pieces.
Jakarta/Jayapura - Indonesians begin voting Thursday in parliamentary elections amid concerns of logistical problems and alleged widespread fraudulent voter lists.
Voting began at 7 am (2200 GMT Wednesday) in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province in the sprawling archipelago nation of more than 17,000 islands spanning three different time zones.
Banda Aceh - In Indonesia's Aceh province, stories about young unmarried couples arrested by religious patrol officers make frequent headlines in local newspapers with tabloids exposing details of the offenders' sexual trysts.
Staunchly Muslim Aceh has imposed some aspects of sharia, or Islamic law, since 2002 under an autonomy scheme granted by the central government as part of attempts to pacify a clamour there for independence.
Jakarta - An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced three Islamic militants to 12 years each for plotting terrorist attacks and killing a Christian teacher.
The three men - Sugianto, Adityawarman and Heri Purwanto - were among 10 people arrested in the South Sumatran provincial capital Palembang last year for alleged involvement in a plot to bomb a cafe and to kill Christian priests as part of a jihad campaign waged by the Jemaah Islamiyah regional militant group.
Jakarta - An Indonesian man who confessed to murdering 11 people was sentenced to death on Monday.
The court in West Java's Depok district, just south of Jakarta, found Verry Idham Hermansyah, better known as Ryan, guilty of murdering Hery Santoso, who was stabbed and bludgeoned to death before being dismembered.
The man was believed to be Ryan's last murder victim.
Santoso's body parts were discovered by the Jakarta city police in a bag at a roadside the southern Jakarta on July 11, 2008.
Tokyo - Japan and Indonesia signed an agreement on bilateral currency swap to increase the amount from 6 billion dollars to 12 billion dollars under an initiative to stabilize the financial state of the South-east Asian region, Japanese Finance Ministry said Monday.
Under the agreement, Indonesia would be able to swap rupiah worth up to 12 billion dollars when short-term liquidity support is needed.
Jakarta - A light airplane crashed Thursday morning in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, and all four of its crew members were feared killed, news reports and officials said.
Jakarta/Jayapura - Indonesians begin voting Thursday in parliamentary elections amid concerns of logistical problems and alleged widespread fraudulent voter lists.
Jakarta - An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced three Islamic militants to 12 years each for plotting terrorist attacks and killing a Christian teacher.
Jakarta - An Indonesian man who confessed to murdering 11 people was sentenced to death on Monday.
Tokyo - Japan and Indonesia signed an agreement on bilateral currency swap to increase the amount from 6 billion dollars to 12 billion dollars under an initiative to stabilize the financial state of the South-east Asian region, Japanese Finance Ministry said Monday.
