Jakarta - An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced three Islamic militants to 12 years each for plotting terrorist attacks and killing a Christian teacher.
The three men - Sugianto, Adityawarman and Heri Purwanto - were among 10 people arrested in the South Sumatran provincial capital Palembang last year for alleged involvement in a plot to bomb a cafe and to kill Christian priests as part of a jihad campaign waged by the Jemaah Islamiyah regional militant group.
Jakarta - An Indonesian man who confessed to murdering 11 people was sentenced to death on Monday.
The court in West Java's Depok district, just south of Jakarta, found Verry Idham Hermansyah, better known as Ryan, guilty of murdering Hery Santoso, who was stabbed and bludgeoned to death before being dismembered.
The man was believed to be Ryan's last murder victim.
Santoso's body parts were discovered by the Jakarta city police in a bag at a roadside the southern Jakarta on July 11, 2008.
Jakarta - An Indonesian court on Monday sentenced to two years in prison the pilot of a Garuda Indonesia jetliner that crash-landed at Central Java's Yogyakarta airport two years ago, killing 21 people.
The majority of a panel of five judges at Central Java's Sleman District Court found Marwoto Komar guilty of negligence that caused deaths, the state-run Antara news agency reported.
Jakarta - An airplane belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, claiming some lives, news reports and officials said.
The Fokker airplane crashed at about 12:30 pm (0530 GMT) at Bandung's Hussein Sastranegara airport, reported detik. com online news portal.
An official at Bandung's Hassan Sadikin hospital said that an ambulance carrying eight body bags had been sent to the airport, but she was not sure how many people have been killed in the accident.
Jakarta - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono looks poised for re-election this year in the absence of a credible challenger, but his popularity could wane as Indonesians begin to feel the effects of the global financial crisis, analysts said.
Opinion polls show Yudhoyono is a hands-on favourite in the July 8 presidential election, be the second time for a president to be directly elected by the people, with about 50 per cent of the vote.
Jakarta- Indonesia's dozens of political parties ended Sunday their nationwide campaigns for the April 9 parliamentary elections, to be followed by presidential elections in July.
More than 171 million voters are eligible to elect some 18,000 national, provincial and district legislators across the country as well as the regional representatives council.
Jakarta - An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced three Islamic militants to 12 years each for plotting terrorist attacks and killing a Christian teacher.
Jakarta - An Indonesian man who confessed to murdering 11 people was sentenced to death on Monday.
Jakarta - An Indonesian court on Monday sentenced to two years in prison the pilot of a Garuda Indonesia jetliner that crash-landed at Central Java's Yogyakarta airport two years ago, killing 21 people.
Jakarta - An airplane belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, claiming some lives, news reports and officials said.
Jakarta - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono looks poised for re-election this year in the absence of a credible challenger, but his popularity could wane as Indonesians begin to feel the effects of the global financial crisis, analysts said.
Jakarta- Indonesia's dozens of political parties ended Sunday their nationwide campaigns for the April 9 parliamentary elections, to be followed by presidential elections in July.
