Jakarta  - Indonesia's central bank predicted the financial crisis that is rippling out from the United States to the rest of the world would shackle Indonesia's economic growth and cause a credit shortage for local business players, media reports said Monday.

"The shortage of global liquidity will be felt as a result of this crisis," said .Boediono, governor of Bank Indonesia.

"We must be prepared to face this over the next six months to one year," The Jakarta Post quoted Boediono as saying.

Jakarta (dpa) - At least 427 people were killed and more than 1,400 others injured in traffic accidents across the country during this year's Eid al-Fitr holiday season, marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, media reports said Sunday.

National police spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira said the figures were tabulated from reports between September 25 and October 4, with a total of 970 accidents involving 1,258 vehicles.

Jakarta - A bomb was discovered in a shopping centre Tuesday in the eastern Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi, once the centre of religious conflicts which claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, media reports said.

Two boys found the bomb in a clothing store, wrapped in a plastic bag and hidden under the seat of a vendor. A local bomb squad secured the area and detonated the device.

The Jakarta Post quoted Palu district police chief AB Sitinjak as saying the package consisted of cable, detonator, cellphone casing and a light bulb.

Jakarta - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he would run for a second term in next year's presidential election, so that he could press on with economic and political reforms, media reports said Monday.

"God willing, I will run again for president in 2009," Yudhoyono was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news agency. He said he wanted to be re-elected so that he could finish the reforms he started.

Jakarta - Indonesia's Food and Drug Monitoring Agency has confirmed melamine had been detected in 12 food products from China, including cookies, candies and drinks, the health ministry and media reports said Saturday.

Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said the country's Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) had found that 12 out of 19 China-based dairy products on sale in the country tested positive for melamine.

Among the poisonous ingredient melamine were found in Oreo stick wafer and M&Ms, Snickers and Guozhen formula milk, she said.

Jakarta - A ferry carrying some 60 people caught fire Friday in rough seas off the eastern Indonesian island on Maluku province, killing seven people and injuring five others, media reports said.

The Usaha Baru motorized ferry was en route from Ambon port of Tagalaya to three other small islands on Maluku province when it caught fire on Friday morning, the state-run Antara news agency reported.

Port officials said that the fire engulfed the ferry after sailing about four hours, panicking all people as they jumped off into the rough sea for safety.

Officials quoted survivors as saying the fire broke out from the ferry's engine room.