Australia’s Herald Sun reports, “The governor of an Indonesian island told Australia yesterday that his country was “not a dumping ground” for asylum seekers – and refused permission for an Aussie ship to offload 78 Sri Lankan refugees.
The Oceanic Viking, a Customs vessel, last night remained anchored 10 nautical miles off Bintan [...]
[RIA Novosti]– The Indonesian Navy is planning to arm its new patrol boats with Russian and Chinese missiles, the Antara national news agency reported on Tuesday.
“We will gradually increase the number of patrol boats and arm them with Russian and Chinese manufactured missiles,” the agency quoted Navy Commander Adm. Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno [...]
[The Australian]– Rescue teams are this morning combing desperately through rubble for survivors from yesterday’s earthquake in Indonesia amid fears that the death toll could top 1000.
The powerful earthquake, which struck near the city of Padang on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, has killed between 100 and 200 people, a disaster agency official [...]
Indonesian police stormed an Islamic militant hideout early yesterday in a raid that killed fugitive terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top and three other militants, police said.
Noordin’s body was among four recovered after the early morning raid on a village house in central Java, national police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters, bringing to an end [...]
A police investigation into last month’s Jakarta hotel bombings shows that militants also planned to use snipers to attack Barack Obama’s convoy when the United States president visits Indonesia, an intelligence expert told Reuters.
Authorities were also probing whether the suicide bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels on July 17 received overseas [...]
Many Indonesians breathed easier last week when local television networks announced the arrest of Noordin Mohammad Top, Indonesia’s most-wanted terrorist and suspected organizer of last month’s deadly JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton suicide bombings.
Reports breathlessly announced that Top had been killed during a televised 16-hour siege at his supposed hideout in central Java. Some reports [...]
