Jakarta - Indonesia will lodge a formal protest against Yale University for its environmental performance index (EPI) report, which ranked Indonesia one of the world's least environmentally friendly countries, a local news report said Monday.

The Jakarta Post reported that Amanda Katili, the State Ministry for the Environment's special expert on climate change, was scheduled to fly to the United States Monday to present the newest forestry data in an attempt to refute the EPI report.

State Minister of the Environment Rachmat Witoelar was quoted as saying the report was unfair. "It is absurd because all the data is invalid," he said.

Jakarta - Indonesia kicked off Saturday a lengthy nine-month election campaign for next year's parliamentary elections with a call to all political parties eligible to run in the upcoming polls to

Jakarta - Indonesia and Brazil agreed on Saturday to further boost cooperation in ethanol production.

Jakarta-  A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's West Java province Friday afternoon, but there were no immediate reports of injury or structural damage, meteorologists said.

Sydney- Indonesia is set to own up about arming pro-Jakarta militias that brought death and destruction to East Timor both before and after the 1999 United Nations-supervised referendum that gave t

Jakarta - Three Indonesian Muslim militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings reaffirmed their readiness Thursday to die provided the execution is done in accordance to the Islamic laws, thei