Jakarta - Indonesia will soon receive six Russian-made Mi-35 fighting helicopters to improve the country's existing armaments, the country's state-run media report said Wednesday.
Jakarta - The Indonesian parliament on Tuesday passed a Sharia or Islamic banking bill into law, paving the way for the government to ensure legal certainty in running the sharia banking industry i
Jakarta - The death toll from malnutrition in the eastern Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara rose to 23 this week while thousands of other lives were in danger, local officials and media rep
Jakarta - Indonesia and Australia signed on Friday a new forest carbon partnership aimed to fight climate change in the region, and the two agreed to improve bilateral ties as well as security coo
Jakarta - Restrictions imposed against a minority Muslim sect have provoked discontent in Indonesia with human rights groups on Wednesday denouncing the decree and hardliner groups demanding Ahmadiyah be outlawed.
"The decree ran counter to the constitution, which guarantee the basic rights of citizen," said Taufik Basari from the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation. "Given these considerations, we demand the government reverse the decree."
Usman Hamid - the coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, a human rights group - said the order could be interpreted many ways and it "could lead to further conflicts in the future."
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