JAKARTA -- Indonesia says it will press ahead with plans to develop nuclear power, despite the severe risks highlighted this week as Japan struggles to control a meltdown and radiation leaks at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Ferhat Aziz, a spokesman for Indonesia's Nuclear Energy Agency said nuclear power...

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is the latest political figure to be slapped with corruption allegations, raising questions about how deep the rot goes in a political system that has increasingly failed to deliver on tackling graft, improving inequality and caring for Indonesians at the bottom of the...

The IMF's latest assessment on Indonesia's economy provides a handy thumbs up to Southeast Asia's largest economy. Now if it could just work on its infrastructure

All the talk in the United States of the need for new and improved infrastructure development is particularly familiar in Indonesia, where talk of...

Jakarta, Indonesia may be on its way up, at least in the eyes of Western policymakers. And if one looks at economic indicators -- record-low interest rates, a strong currency and domestic spending, and one of the world's best performing stock indexes -- Indonesia does seem poised for developed world...

Deeper debates are brewing behind a Thai court's decision to seize $1.4 billion of former exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's $2.2 billion family fortune.

After a military-backed coup ousted Thaksin in 2006, the junta that took power froze his family's fortune and accused him of corruption. On Friday the Supreme...

The Indonesian government has retreated from a law aimed at ridding the country's military of its money-making ventures, according to a report from Human Rights Watch released Tuesday. The report criticized the new regulations for failing to dismantle what it called the armed forces' "dangerous" business empire.

The...

Emotional aftershocks struck the world in the wake of the December 26 tsunami that killed nearly 230,000 people across 13 countries. The disaster unleashed an unprecedented outpouring of aid amounting to more than US$7 billion for Indonesia alone.

Five years later, those who witnessed the disaster or took part in...

JAKARTA - Thousands of protestors gathered outside the presidential residence here Wednesday to mark International Anti-Corruption Day by rallying against a series of recent scandals that prove graft is still alive and well in Indonesia.

Some demonstrators waved flags with the name of their organization while others held cardboard signs...

As most Americans were winding down their Thanksgiving festivities, feeling fully satiated from a day of football and turkey, Indonesians were waking to perform their own sacrificial feast, or Idul Adha, an Islamic holiday that commemorates the Prophet Ibrahim's commitment to kill his only son in obedience to God.

Indonesians...

I'm a reporter who likes to run. And I believe it's best done in more chaotic, infrastructurally insufficient cities, where the sound of one's feet hitting crumbled pavement mixes with cacophony - the noise of traffic, construction, the cries of food vendors - and becomes hypnotizing.

Each time I arrive...

JAKARTA - Police dealt a blow to Indonesia's main terrorism network on Thursday after confirming the death of top-ranked Islamic militant Noordin Mohammed Top following a raid on a home in Central Java.

The raid was carried out by Detachment 88, the anti-terror arm of the national police force which...

Indonesia has every reason to be optimistic. In its quarterly report released Monday the World Bank raised its growth forecast for the country's economy from 3.5 percent to 4.3 percent, higher than even the IMF expected. Although the global economy is showing signs of recovery, Indonesia has weathered the...

With elections in Afghanistan just one month away, the United States has ramped up its commitment to securing the country in the hope that a stronger military presence will reduce Taliban threats and increase voter turnout in villages subject to intimidation from insurgents.

About 57,000 of the...