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JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian court sentenced a man to death on Monday for killing eight people in attacks in the Moluccas islands that sparked fears of sectarian bloodshed in the region, local media reported. The court in the islands' main city of Ambon said that Assep Djaja and his accomplices had carried out what it said were terrorist attacks in two villages in the islands last year and in 2004. Four policemen guarding a Christian enclave surrounded by Muslim villages were...
KUPANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Two days after a ferry sank in heavy seas in Indonesia's east, nearly 40 people were still missing, a rescue official said on Thursday, although estimates of the number of people on the ship have varied widely. The Indonesian navy has rescued more than 100 people since the ferry, traveling from Kupang on Indonesia's side of Timor island to nearby Rote island, ran into trouble on Tuesday night. "We have found another three people stranded on an island...
KUPANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian naval vessels rescued more than 100 people on Wednesday after a ferry sank in heavy seas in the country's east, but dozens could still be missing, port officials said. Two navy ships had picked up 114 people, one port official, Marthen Manu, told Reuters. One person was confirmed dead. While the passenger manifest put the number of people on board at 106, officials said it could have been as high as 160. The ferry was traveling from Kupang on...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian ferry carrying 105 people has gone missing in heavy seas in the country's east and naval vessels had been called in to search for it, a port official said on Wednesday. El Shinta radio station said the vessel had sunk. The port official, Syamsir Siahaan, told El Shinta there were 82 passengers and 23 crew on board. The vessel was traveling from Kupang on Indonesia's side of Timor island to nearby Rote island when officials lost contact with it on...
DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's police chief in Bali expressed frustration on Tuesday at the lack of progress toward finding those behind triple suicide bombings that killed 20 people on the resort island this month. Made Mangku Pastika, who led the successful investigation
By Achmad Sukarsono BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - Suicide bombers are likely to have been behind coordinated blasts in Bali that killed 25 people and wounded more than 100, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official said on Sunday. Police said three bombs tore through restaurants packed with evening diners, two at outdoor seafood eateries on Jimbaran Beach and one at a steak bar at Kuta Beach in an area surrounded by shops and jammed with pedestrians, including children. At least...
By Darren Whiteside BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - Three bomb blasts ripped through popular tourist areas on the famous Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday, killing 25 people including foreigners and wounding nearly 90, officials said. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemned as terrorism the nearly simultaneous blasts, which come almost exactly three years after militants linked to al Qaeda bombed two nightclubs in Bali, killing 202 people, mainly foreign tourists. Police...
LEUPUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) - The first post-tsunami infrastructure project in Indonesia's Aceh province got underway on Thursday with the awarding of an initial contract for a $245 million U.S.-funded coastal road. Large parts of the 240 km (150 miles) west coast road linking the provincial capital Banda Aceh and the city of Meulaboh were destroyed by the massive December 26 waves. As a result, aid agencies and foreign militaries involved in the emergency relief effort were forced to...
MANADO, Indonesia (Reuters) - The world's top gold miner went on trial in Indonesia on Friday, defending charges it spilled toxic waste into a bay, in a case being eyed closely by potential investors in the world's fourth most populous country. In a makeshift court in the capital of North Sulawesi, prosecutors accused the local unit of U.S.-based Newmont Mining Corp. and its American chief executive of causing pollution that made locals living around Buyat Bay sick. A ruling against...
MANADO, Indonesia (Reuters) - The world's top gold miner went on trial in Indonesia on Friday, defending charges it spilled toxic waste into a bay, in a case being eyed closely by potential investors in the world's fourth most populous country. In a makeshift court in the capital of North Sulawesi, prosecutors accused the local unit of U.S.-based Newmont Mining Corp. and its American chief executive of causing pollution that made locals living around Buyat Bay sick. A ruling against...
