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Indonesian police said Monday they have arrested 62 people, most of them minors, involved in attacking a bar in south Jakarta for serving alcohol...

Indonesian police said Monday they had arrested 62 people, most of them minors, involved in attacking a bar in south Jakarta for serving alcohol...

An Indonesian man arrested after writing “God doesn’t exist” on his Facebook page was jailed for 30 months Thursday for sharing blasphemous material about...

Pakistan Stocks closed lower on concerns for fall in global stocks and commodities on weak US jobs data undermining global economic expectations. Viewed by...

A huge earthquake and strong aftershocks struck off Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, triggering an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami alert that sent terrified people fleeing...

An eight-year-old Indonesian boy who smokes more than a pack of cigarettes a day will undergo a month of therapy to kick his four-year...

Indonesian Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Imam Sufaat visited Air Headquarters on Tuesday. According to a PAF statement, he was on a...

About 50 women in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, donned miniskirts to protest remarks by the Jakarta city governor who blamed a...

Indonesian Ambassador Ishak Latuconsina and his spouse Butar Latuconsina hosted a colourful reception at a local hotel to celebrate the 66th Independence Day of...

Around 10,000 Papuans protested Tuesday for independence from Indonesia, defying a heavy police presence a day after a deadly ambush that police blamed on...

World number one Lee Chong Wei on Sunday thrashed Danish veteran Peter Gade to win the Indonesian Open for a third time. The 28-year-old...

An Indonesian woman was beheaded by the sword on Saturday after being convicted of murdering a Saudi woman, the interior ministry said. The woman...

Malaysia has re-arrested an Indonesian who slipped back into the country after being deported for harbouring one of Southeast Asia's most wanted terror suspects,...

LAHORE - The embassy of the Indonesian Republic and the Lahore Arts Council organized Indonesian Cultural Night at the Alhamra Arts Council. Lahore Arts Council Executive Director Muhammad Ali Baloch and Indonesian Republic Ambassador Ishak Latuconsina said Pakistan and Indonesia could understand each other by holding cultural events.
Cultural performances dominated the show included a fashion show, traditional music and dances and other performances. The Indonesia Cultural Week

JAKARTA - At least 17 people were wounded in a suspected suicide bomb attack during Friday prayers at an mosque in a police compound in Indonesia's West Java province, police said.
"We suspect it was a suicide bombing," Indonesian police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam said.
"The blast occurred in Cirebon police headquarters compound during the beginning of Friday prayer," he told reporters.
Police said one man, the suspected bomber, was killed in the explosion which

JAKARTA - An Indonesian lawmaker faces an ethics investigation after he was photographed apparently watching porn on his tablet computer in parliament, an official said Sunday.
Arifinto, who represents the conservative Islamic Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), was caught on camera on Friday looking at a pornographic image on the tablet, which he held slightly under his table, during a plenary session.
The photograph, first posted on a local news website, was picked up by other

TANGSE - Flash floods blamed on illegal logging killed 13 people and left six missing in Indonesia's Aceh province, officials and a resident said on Friday. Thousands of people had to be evacuated as water surged through villages following hours of heavy rain on Thursday. "We found eight dead bodies and are still searching for six people reportedly missing," local official Muhammad Jafar told AFP in Tangse, a town 180 kilometres (110 miles) southeast of the provincial capital Banda