Assaulted The Maid, Couple jailed 3 weeks

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Yeo Helmi Sunarti Pictures from Straits Times IN APRIL last year, an Indonesian maid handed a letter to her neighbour before hurrying back to her employers' unit. In the note - her second to the neighbour - MsSri Sinta Sunarti detailed four months of abuse at the hands of her employers. The maid, 24, ...

Golkar scolds MP over fuel policy inquiry

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Golkar Party has reprimanded its outspoken lawmaker Yuddhy Khrisnandi for voting for an inquiry by the House of Representatives into the government's fuel price hike policy. The decision to officially reprimand Yuddhy was made during a national leadership meeting in Jakarta on Saturday, Golkar chairman and Vice President Jusuf Kalla ...

Saudis pour billions into `City of Knowledge` on holy site

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Medina, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia is pouring billions of dollars into Medina, burial place of the Prophet Mohammed and the cradle of Islam, to turn the religion's second holiest site into a high-tech bastion. The so-called Knowledge Economic City (KEC) is the fourth in a series of projects launched by ...

Two Nigerians executed in Indonesia for drugs

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - Two Nigerians convicted of drug smuggling have been executed by firing squad in Indonesia, officials said on Friday. Samuel Iwachekawu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwaoysa were executed before midnight on Thursday on Nusakambangan prison island, which is off the coast of central Java. Nigeria's government, which asked Indonesia ...

Call for closure of Namru-2 in Indonesia increasing

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Solo, Central Java - Amidst strong calls from the House of Representatives for an early decision on the fate of the US Naval Medical Research Unit 2 (Namru-2), a minister preferred the termination of the Namru-2 contract with Indonesia. Speaking in a talk show on Awakening Indonesia at the Muhammadiyah University ...