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Indonesia's finance minister announced plans to spend more than 72 trillion rupiah ($6.55 billion) on infrastructure and other projects to boost growth and create jobs, and said further funds were available if needed. The planned spending, equivalent to about 1.4...

He said the additional supply of meat from Brazil would be realized immediately depending on how ready importers were to start importing. "We will first inform the importers about the regulation but preparations should continue," he said. The minister said...

A 10-year-old girl was killed and 35 other people wounded in a major earthquake near the north coast of West Papua, Indonesia, government officials said. The toll was one fewer than the two dead cited during the weekend. The magnitude...

Local officials say at least five people were killed in the quakes, the first of which hit at 4:43 a.m. local time and measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, according to the Indonesian National Meteorological Geophysical and Climatology Agency. A...

The team, who left early Monday, consists of five doctors -- specialists in orthopedics, surgery, anesthetics, internal injury and a general practitioner -- and two paramedics. The team, led by orthopedist Idrus Paturusi (who is also the rector of Makassar's...

Indonesia's West Papua province today after two powerful earthquakes flattened buildings and killed at least one person. Residents camped out in yards and streets outside their homes, and there were some 14,000 refugees across the province, many of whom had...

The poll, conducted by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI), a private pollster, found that 43 percent of respondents would choose Yudhoyono, often known by his initials SBY, as president, against 19 percent for former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who is considered...

Indonesian Attorney General's Office (AGO) Spokesman Jasman Pandjaitan confirmed that the execution of three Bali bombers on death row -- Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra had been carried out early morning on Sunday.    &nbs p;"At 0:15 local time, Amrozi, Mukhlas...

Indonesia executed three Islamic militants by firing squad for the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead, many of them foreign tourists, authorities said Sunday as they braced for possible revenge attacks by hard-liners. The bodies of Imam Samudra,...