RI elected as UN Human Rights Council member
Indonesia was elected as one of the 47-members of the UN Human Rights Council at an election at UN headquarters in New York, Thursday local time or Friday in Indonesian time. During the elections by 192 UN members, Indonesia, which would...

New ministers announced in SBY government
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced Monday that five new figures replaced the existing ministers in his cabinet. Justice and Human Right Minister Hamid Awaluddin was replaced by the House of Representatives faction chairman of...

Indonesia and South Korea to cooperate in EPA farmework
Members of the Indonesian delegation at the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) 40th annual conference here on Friday focused its attention on cooperation in energy, investment and trade in a bilateral meeting with South Korea, the country`s...

'WHO fails to assure bird flu samples not to be used commercially'
Indonesia's health minister has accused the World Health Organization of breaking its promise to assure that the country's bird flu samples would not be used commercially, dragging out a dispute about equal access to a future vaccine. Siti...

RI, South Korea sign billion-dollar rail deal
Two South Korean companies signed an agreement with an Indonesian state firm Monday to build a railway line in Borneo in a deal worth one billion dollars, a report here said.South Korea's POSCO and Canatect Ltd signed a memorandum of...

Foreign tourist arrivals in first quarter 2007 up 12 pct
The number of foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia during the first quarter in 2007 reached 989,492 or up by 12.65 percent compared to that in the same period last year, an official said.Of the overall first-quarter figure, 363,686 were...

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