Jakarta/Washington - An underwater earthquake early Sunday off the coast of eastern Indonesia registered a magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter scale, the US Geological Survey reported.
Jakarta - Indonesian prosecutors will appeal the acquittal of a former intelligence agency official accused of masterminding the murder of a leading human rights activist, a spokesman for the Attorney-General's Office said Friday.
Activists have criticized the acquittal of Muchdi Purwoprandjono in the murder of Munir Said Thalib as proof that powerful figures remain above the law, despite a pledge by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to get to the bottom of the case.
Jakarta - More than 10,000 Indonesians rallied outside the US embassy in Jakarta on Friday to protest against Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip and condemn the United States for supporting the Jewish state.
It was the biggest protest in support of the Palestinians in Indonesia since Israel launched the airstrikes on Saturday in what it says is a defensive move to halt rocket attacks on Israeli territory by Palestinian militants.
At least 420 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured in the attacks.
Jakarta - Hundreds of Indonesian Muslims demonstrated outside the US embassy in Jakarta Wednesday, denouncing the Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip that killed hundreds of people.
More than 1,000 protestors, including activists from the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), waved Palestinian flags and shouted slogans to protest Israeli aggression.
It was the latest in a series of protest rallies in Indonesia since Israel attacked Gaza over the weekend.
Jakarta - An Indonesian district court on Wednesday unexpectedly acquitted a former senior intelligence official of charges of murdering a prominent human rights activist.
The South Jakarta district court declared Muchdi Purwoprandjono "not guilty" of involvement in the assassination of Munir Said Thalib, who died of arsenic poisoning aboard a Garuda Indonesia flight to Amsterdam in 2004.
Jakarta - At least 10 people were killed, 17 survived and an unspecific others were believed to be missing after a small boat capsized off Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday morning, officials said.
The accident took place at about 10:00 am (0300 GMT) when a small wooden boat packed with around 30 people overturned in the Java Sea off the northern coast of central Java district of Pemalang, about 300 kilometres east of Jakarta, police and health officials said.
Jakarta - Indonesian prosecutors will appeal the acquittal of a former intelligence agency official accused of masterminding the murder of a leading human rights activist, a spokesman for the Attorney-General's Office said Friday.
Jakarta - More than 10,000 Indonesians rallied outside the US embassy in Jakarta on Friday to protest against Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip and condemn the United States for supporting the Jewish state.
Jakarta - An Indonesian district court on Wednesday unexpectedly acquitted a former senior intelligence official of charges of murdering a prominent human rights activist.
Jakarta - At least 10 people were killed, 17 survived and an unspecific others were believed to be missing after a small boat capsized off Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday morning, officials said.
