International Business News - Indonesia http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Indonesia's central bank raised its key interest rate by a quarter point to 9.5 percent Tuesday, opting to tackle rising inflation as other Asia-Pacific countries cut rates or keep them on hold amid the global credit crunch. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/indonesias-central-bank-raises-key-interest-rate.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:36:35 EDT A volcano in central Indonesia erupted Monday, shooting clouds of smoke and flames into the night sky. Indonesia's volcanology center said Mount Soputan, roughly 1,350 miles (2,160 kilometers) northeast of capital Jakarta on Sulawesi island, billowed smoke plumes as high as 3,200 feet (one kilometer). http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/indonesian-volcano-erupts-spews-flame-and-smoke.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:58:04 EDT Indonesia's key stock index tumbled 10 percent Monday, its biggest one-day drop ever, on worries that fallout from the U.S. credit crisis is spreading around the globe. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/indonesian-stocks-sink-10-pct-biggest-drop-ever.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:55:36 EDT Rescuers were searching Saturday for a missing 2-year-old boy after a packed ferry caught fire and sank in eastern Indonesia, killing at least eight people, an official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080927/boat-sinks-in-eastern-indonesia-leaving-8-dead.htm Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:16:27 EDT Indonesia's Agency for Food and Drug Control has distributed a list of 28 products that may contain tainted Chinese milk and should be pulled from supermarket shelves, an official said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/indonesia-recall-possibly-tainted-food-products.htm Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:55:57 EDT Separatist rebels are being investigated in a string of bombings targeting a U.S. mining giant in Indonesia's restive eastern Papua province, police said Monday. No one was wounded in the blasts, which followed written demands that the company's gold mine be shut. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/indonesia-police-suspect-separatists-in-mine-blast.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:17:52 EDT At least 23 Indonesians were crushed to death Monday while trying to collect $4.25 in cash handouts from a rich family at a charity event marking the Islamic holy month, officials said. Eight others were critically injured in the stampede. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/130689-indonesia-stampede-deaths.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/23-indonesians-dead-in-crush-for-cash-handout.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/23-indonesians-dead-in-crush-for-cash-handout.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:49:31 EDT Residents of a town in eastern Indonesia surged forward to receive $4.25 in handouts from a wealthy family, crushing to death 23 people, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/23-indonesians-dead-in-crush-for-cash-handout.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:09:51 EDT A bomb exploded Sunday near an airport built by a U.S. gold mining giant in Indonesia's restive Papua province, police said. No one was injured and there was little damage. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080914/suspected-bomb-explodes-at-indonesian-airport.htm Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:38:32 EDT Two small bombs exploded early Friday on a road leading to a massive copper and gold mine in eastern Indonesia and a third unexploded mortar was found nearby, police said. No one was injured and there was little damage. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/2-explosions-go-off-near-indonesia-mine.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:24:35 EDT A powerful earthquake rattled northeastern Indonesia on Thursday, briefly triggering a tsunami alert and sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and buildings, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/powerful-earthquake-rattles-northeastern-indonesia.htm Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:28:11 EDT With the dollar a day he earns scrounging for scrap metal and paper, Jumadi can't buy his family beef or even chicken. But until now, the rail-thin scavenger could at least afford soy. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/124958-indonesia-soybean-curse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080907/price-increases-push-us-soy-beyond-reach-of-poor.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080907/price-increases-push-us-soy-beyond-reach-of-poor.htm Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:25:54 EDT With the dollar a day he earns scrounging for scrap metal and paper, Jumadi can't buy his family beef or even chicken. But until now, the rail-thin scavenger could at least afford soy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080907/price-rises-push-us-soy-beyond-reach-of-poor.htm Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:02:41 EDT With the dollar a day he earns scrounging for scrap metal and paper, Jumadi can't buy his family beef or even chicken. But until now, the rail-thin scavenger could at least afford soy. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/124374-indonesia-soybean-curse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/price-increases-push-us-soy-beyond-reach-of-poor.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/price-increases-push-us-soy-beyond-reach-of-poor.htm Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:05:40 EDT A strong earthquake shook central Indonesia on Tuesday, causing tall buildings in the capital to sway and briefly prompting a tsunami alert, authorities and witnesses said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/quake-shakes-central-indonesia-buildings-sway.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:20:38 EDT Indonesia's meteorological agency says a strong undersea earthquake has shaken west Java and has issued a tsunami alert. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6, struck at a depth of roughly 12 miles in the Sunda Strait, about 155 miles northeast of the capital Jakarta, said Fauzi, a government geologist. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/quake-shakes-indonesia-tsunami-alert-issued.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:40:43 EDT Hundreds of Christian theology students have been living in tents since a mob of angry Muslim neighbors stormed their campus last month wielding bamboo spears and hurling Molotov cocktails. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080822/attack-forces-indonesian-christians-off-campus.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:10:31 EDT Police and railway officials say at least nine people have died and dozens were injured when a slow-moving passenger train hit a parked freight locomotive on Indonesia's Sumatra island. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/109922-indonesia-train-crash.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080816/indonesian-train-hits-freight-locomotive-kills-9.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080816/indonesian-train-hits-freight-locomotive-kills-9.htm Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:44:17 EDT Economic growth in Southeast Asia's largest economy is expected to hold steady at just over 6 percent in 2009, Indonesian's president said Friday in his State of the Union address. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/president-indonesian-growth-seen-steady-in-2009.htm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:56 EDT Indonesia's president vowed Friday to begin tackling a national power supply crisis next year through projects to develop alternative energy and expand electricity capacity by more than 30 percent. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/109122-indonesia-power-crisis.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/president-indonesia-to-tackle-power-crisis.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/president-indonesia-to-tackle-power-crisis.htm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:49:35 EDT