Former Time Leste president Xanana Gusmão hugs BJ Habibie, whose actions paved the way to independence The first president of Timor Leste has paid a touching visit to the bedside of the Indonesian president who granted the region a referendum on independence in 1999, before his death on Wednesday night. …
JAKARTA — Indonesia is draining the swamp. A steamy, jungle-clad island best known for orangutans, pygmy elephants and oil fields is to become the site of the country’s new capital city, in an ambitious plan to ease pressure on smog-choked Jakarta. President Joko Widodo announced Monday that officials had chosen an …
Jakarta is soon to become an ex-capital city. Indonesia is planning to move its administrative headquarters from its richest island of Java to the forest island of Borneo. President Joko Widodo is betting that a new capital for the Southeast Asian nation will better spread the wealth among its 267 …
KOMODO NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia — The Komodo dragon, a 10-foot lizard native only to a scattering of islands in Indonesia, flicked its forked tongue. Two boys were standing nearby, the perfect size for dragon snacks. A local guide shrugged at their unease and urged them closer to the reptile. Komodo …
Only a man can symbolically wed the mystical Queen of the South Sea, apparently The morning sun was fierce but the crowd pressed against the gates of the palace did not seem to mind. They were eagerly waiting for the ceremony to start. Three times a year, the sultan of Yogyakarta, …
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s president said in an interview that he wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying capital from sinking under the sea, lending renewed backing and a sense of urgency to a slow-moving and politically contested mega …
It’s been six weeks since Indonesian President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, appeared to comfortably secure a second term against challenger Prabowo Subianto, a former special forces general. But the aftermath of one of the world’s largest democratic elections has been anything but stable. Prabowo, who also lost to …
Indonesia’s Joko Widodo won another term as president of the world’s third-biggest democracy, official results showed Tuesday, after his rival Prabowo Subianto, a retired general, alleged widespread cheating. The elections commission was expected to announce the final tally of the April 17 poll on Wednesday in the Southeast Asian nation …
President visits Borneo to survey sites for new capital Government has a shortlist of three locations for new capital Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrived in Borneo island to survey possible locations for a new capital, fast-tracking a plan to move the administrative headquarters out of over-crowded and congested Jakarta. Widodo, …
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo has decided to move the capital of Southeast Asia’s largest economy away from the crowded main island of Java, the planning minister said on Monday. “The president chose to relocate the capital city to outside of Java, an important decision,” Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro …
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Ten days after Indonesia held the world’s biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses caused by long hours of work counting millions of ballot papers by hand, an official said on Sunday. FILE PHOTO – A worker arranges flower wreaths …
Early estimates suggest that the president will keep his job. But the margin of victory looks smaller than expected THE RESULTS was never really in doubt. On April 17th, just hours after polling stations closed, pollsters released preliminary estimates showing that Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo (better known as Jokowi) had …